Lorient: Fabrice Loher's list won the town hall in 2026; Marine Le Pen would lead here in 2027
Lorient (Morbihan, INSEE 56121) has 38,265 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.
- 38,265registered voters
- 55%turnout, 2026 round one
- 29.0%Marine Le Pen, 2027 round one here (France: 34.2%)
The municipal election, March 2026
Round two, 22 March · 21,688 voted, 21,209 valid votes
- Nous LorientaisLed by Fabrice Loher · Miscellaneous centre 45.3% · 9,606 · 33 seats
- L'Union des forces de gauche, écologistes et citoyennesLed by Damien Girard · Union of the left 42.7% · 9,046 · 10 seats
- Rassembler LorientLed by Théo Thomas · Rassemblement National 12.1% · 2,557 · 2 seats
Round one, 15 March · 21,186 voted, 20,825 valid votes
- Nous LorientaisMiscellaneous centre 35.4% · 7,380
- Lorient en CommunUnion of the left 23.2% · 4,830
- Lorient ensemble avec Gaëlle Le StradicMiscellaneous left 19.0% · 3,962
- Rassembler LorientRassemblement National 15.8% · 3,293
- Lorient autrement! Ecologique et populaireFrance Unbowed 5.2% · 1,074
- Lutte ouvrière - le camp des travailleursFar left 1.4% · 286
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 Lorient
Lorient is a commune in Morbihan with 38,265 registered voters, the 2nd largest of the département's 248 communes. At the municipal election of March 2026 55.4% of them voted, fewer than the 61.6% across Morbihan, and the list led by Fabrice Loher 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) 30.3%, France Unbowed 25%, National Rally 17.8%. National Rally did 6 points worse here than across France.
Moved to today's national polls, our projection for the 2027 first round here has Marine Le Pen ahead on 29%, with Jean-Luc Mélenchon on 19.1%.
The 2027 presidential election here, round one
Our national forecast for round one, carried down to Lorient from how it voted in 2022.
- Marine Le PenNational Rally 29.0% · France 34.2%
- Jean-Luc MélenchonFrance Unbowed 19.1% · France 16.8%
- Édouard PhilippeEnsemble (Macron camp) 16.6% · France 14.3%
- Raphaël GlucksmannSocialists 15.4% · France 13.4%
- Bruno RetailleauRepublicans 7.0% · France 7.6%
- Marine TondelierGreens 5.1% · France 2.9%
- Éric ZemmourReconquête 3.0% · France 3.8%
- Fabien RousselCommunist Party 2.5% · France 2.0%
- Nicolas Dupont-AignanSovereigntists 1.8% · France 2.1%
- Nathalie ArthaudFar left 0.6% · France 0.6%
In 2022, round one here: Ensemble (Macron camp) 30.3% · France Unbowed 25.0% · National Rally 17.8% · Greens 7.3% · Reconquête 5.6%. 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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- Auray10,377 voters · Miscellaneous centre
- Guidel9,773 voters · Miscellaneous left
- Pontivy9,656 voters · Miscellaneous right
- Saint-Avé9,642 voters · Miscellaneous left