Angers: Christophe Béchu's list won the town hall in 2026; Jean-Luc Mélenchon would lead here in 2027
Angers (Maine-et-Loire, INSEE 49007) has 93,106 registered voters. Its council has 59 seats; the 2026 municipal election went to a second round on 22 March. The next municipal elections are in 2032; the presidential election is on 18 April 2027.
- 93,106registered voters
- 53%turnout, 2026 round one
- 21.4%Jean-Luc Mélenchon, 2027 round one here (France: 16.8%)
The municipal election, March 2026
Round two, 22 March · 46,454 voted, 45,102 valid votes
- Angers pour VousLed by Christophe Béchu · Miscellaneous centre 59.0% · 26,624 · 47 seats
- Demain AngersLed by Romain Laveau · Union of the left 41.0% · 18,478 · 12 seats
Round one, 15 March · 49,799 voted, 49,075 valid votes
- Angers pour VousMiscellaneous centre 49.5% · 24,281
- Demain AngersUnion of the left 28.7% · 14,088
- ANGERS POPULAIREFrance Unbowed 8.2% · 4,023
- Rassemblement pour AngersRassemblement National 7.9% · 3,888
- Angers 2026Miscellaneous 3.9% · 1,936
- Lutte ouvrière - Le camp des travailleursFar left 0.9% · 445
- NPA Révolutionnaires-ANGERS ouvrière et révolutionnaireFar left 0.8% · 414
Official results, Ministère de l'Intérieur. Lists are labelled with the ministry's political "nuance"; lists in small communes carry none. The list that comes first takes half the seats as a bonus, and the rest are shared in proportion among lists over 5%.
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About Angers
Angers is a commune in Maine-et-Loire with 93,106 registered voters, the largest of the département's 176 communes. At the municipal election of March 2026 53.5% of them voted, fewer than the 56.5% across Maine-et-Loire, and the list led by Christophe Béchu won 47 of the council's 59 seats after a second round.
In the first round of the 2022 presidential election the commune voted Ensemble (Macron camp) 33.4%, France Unbowed 27.2%, National Rally 11.5%. National Rally did 12 points worse here than across France.
Moved to today's national polls, our projection for the 2027 first round here has Jean-Luc Mélenchon ahead on 21.4%, with Marine Le Pen on 21.2%.
The 2027 presidential election here, round one
Our national forecast for round one, carried down to Angers from how it voted in 2022.
- Jean-Luc MélenchonFrance Unbowed 21.4% · France 16.8%
- Marine Le PenNational Rally 21.2% · France 34.2%
- Édouard PhilippeEnsemble (Macron camp) 19.3% · France 14.3%
- Raphaël GlucksmannSocialists 16.2% · France 13.4%
- Bruno RetailleauRepublicans 8.5% · France 7.6%
- Marine TondelierGreens 6.1% · France 2.9%
- Éric ZemmourReconquête 3.2% · France 3.8%
- Nicolas Dupont-AignanSovereigntists 1.7% · France 2.1%
- Fabien RousselCommunist Party 1.7% · France 2.0%
- Nathalie ArthaudFar left 0.6% · France 0.6%
In 2022, round one here: Ensemble (Macron camp) 33.4% · France Unbowed 27.2% · National Rally 11.5% · Greens 8.3% · Reconquête 5.9%. Each political family moves by its national change since 2022 (half uniform, half proportional), scaled so that every commune adds up to our national forecast. The national forecast →
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