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.
- 37,526registered voters
- 56%turnout, 2026 round one
- 26.1%Marine Le Pen, 2027 round one here (France: 34.2%)
The municipal election, March 2026
Round two, 22 March · 21,533 voted, 21,134 valid votes
- Cholet, un nouveau jourLed by Isabelle Leroy · Miscellaneous centre 47.2% · 9,972 · 33 seats
- CHOLET PASSIONLed by Gilles Bourdouleix · Miscellaneous right 30.4% · 6,429 · 7 seats
- 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
- Cholet, un nouveau jourMiscellaneous centre 36.4% · 7,459
- CHOLET PASSIONMiscellaneous right 28.0% · 5,736
- Cholet CitoyenneUnion of the left 19.1% · 3,909
- CHOLET C'EST VOUSMiscellaneous centre 8.5% · 1,741
- Décidons Ensemble!Miscellaneous left 3.6% · 741
- Osez l'avenir ! Agissons EnsembleMiscellaneous 2.7% · 555
- 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%.
The 2027 presidential election here, round one
Our national forecast for round one, carried down to Cholet from how it voted in 2022.
- Marine Le PenNational Rally 26.1% · France 34.2%
- Édouard PhilippeEnsemble (Macron camp) 22.7% · France 14.3%
- Raphaël GlucksmannSocialists 15.7% · France 13.4%
- Jean-Luc MélenchonFrance Unbowed 14.6% · France 16.8%
- Bruno RetailleauRepublicans 9.0% · France 7.6%
- Marine TondelierGreens 4.5% · France 2.9%
- Éric ZemmourReconquête 2.8% · France 3.8%
- Nicolas Dupont-AignanSovereigntists 2.2% · 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) 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 →
Communes of a similar size in Maine-et-Loire
- Sèvremoine19,617 voters · Miscellaneous right
- Saumur18,874 voters · Miscellaneous left
- Beaupréau-en-Mauges18,047 voters · Miscellaneous
- Chemillé-en-Anjou16,398 voters · Miscellaneous centre
- Angers93,106 voters · Miscellaneous centre
- Mauges-sur-Loire14,546 voters · Miscellaneous right
- Loire-Authion13,230 voters · Miscellaneous centre
- Orée d'Anjou13,041 voters · Miscellaneous