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Cholet: Isabelle Leroy's list won the town hall in 2026; Marine Le Pen would lead here in 2027

Cholet (Maine-et-Loire, INSEE 49099) has 37,526 registered voters. Its council has 45 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.

The municipal election, March 2026

Round two, 22 March · 21,533 voted, 21,134 valid votes

  1. Cholet, un nouveau jourLed by Isabelle Leroy · Miscellaneous centre 47.2% · 9,972 · 33 seats
  2. CHOLET PASSIONLed by Gilles Bourdouleix · Miscellaneous right 30.4% · 6,429 · 7 seats
  3. Cholet CitoyenneLed by Franck Loiseau · Union of the left 22.4% · 4,733 · 5 seats

Round one, 15 March · 20,843 voted, 20,501 valid votes

  1. Cholet, un nouveau jourMiscellaneous centre 36.4% · 7,459
  2. CHOLET PASSIONMiscellaneous right 28.0% · 5,736
  3. Cholet CitoyenneUnion of the left 19.1% · 3,909
  4. CHOLET C'EST VOUSMiscellaneous centre 8.5% · 1,741
  5. Décidons Ensemble!Miscellaneous left 3.6% · 741
  6. Osez l'avenir ! Agissons EnsembleMiscellaneous 2.7% · 555
  7. Lutte ouvrière - Le camp des travailleursFar left 1.8% · 360

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 Cholet

Cholet is a commune in Maine-et-Loire with 37,526 registered voters, the 2nd largest of the département's 176 communes. At the municipal election of March 2026 55.5% of them voted, close to the 56.5% across Maine-et-Loire, and the list led by Isabelle Leroy won 33 of the council's 45 seats after a second round.

In the first round of the 2022 presidential election the commune voted Ensemble (Macron camp) 38.2%, France Unbowed 19.5%, National Rally 15.5%. Ensemble (Macron camp) did 11 points better here than across France.

Moved to today's national polls, our projection for the 2027 first round here has Marine Le Pen ahead on 26.1%, with Édouard Philippe on 22.7%.

The 2027 presidential election here, round one

Our national forecast for round one, carried down to Cholet from how it voted in 2022.

  1. Marine Le PenNational Rally 26.1% · France 34.2%
  2. Édouard PhilippeEnsemble (Macron camp) 22.7% · France 14.3%
  3. Raphaël GlucksmannSocialists 15.7% · France 13.4%
  4. Jean-Luc MélenchonFrance Unbowed 14.6% · France 16.8%
  5. Bruno RetailleauRepublicans 9.0% · France 7.6%
  6. Marine TondelierGreens 4.5% · France 2.9%
  7. Éric ZemmourReconquête 2.8% · France 3.8%
  8. Nicolas Dupont-AignanSovereigntists 2.2% · France 2.1%
  9. Fabien RousselCommunist Party 1.7% · France 2.0%
  10. Nathalie ArthaudFar left 0.6% · France 0.6%

In 2022, round one here: Ensemble (Macron camp) 38.2% · France Unbowed 19.5% · National Rally 15.5% · Greens 6.6% · Republicans 5.5%. 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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