Pénestin: Christian Mahe's list won the town hall in 2026; Marine Le Pen would lead here in 2027
Pénestin (Morbihan, INSEE 56155) has 2,433 registered voters. Its council has 19 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.
- 2,433registered voters
- 74%turnout, 2026 round one
- 32.3%Marine Le Pen, 2027 round one here (France: 34.2%)
The municipal election, March 2026
Round two, 22 March · 1,840 voted, 1,806 valid votes
- Pénestin 2026, la voix de chacun, l'action de tousLed by Christian Mahe · No label (small commune) 55.9% · 1,009 · 15 seats
- Osons Pénestin osons l'avenirLed by Pascal Puisay · No label (small commune) 44.1% · 797 · 4 seats
Round one, 15 March · 1,809 voted, 1,762 valid votes
- Pénestin 2026, la voix de chacun, l'action de tousNo label (small commune) 43.6% · 769
- Osons Pénestin osons l'avenirNo label (small commune) 43.4% · 764
- Pénestin, citoyenne. Vraiment !No label (small commune) 13.0% · 229
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 Pénestin from how it voted in 2022.
- Marine Le PenNational Rally 32.3% · France 34.2%
- Édouard PhilippeEnsemble (Macron camp) 21.5% · France 14.3%
- Raphaël GlucksmannSocialists 13.4% · France 13.4%
- Jean-Luc MélenchonFrance Unbowed 11.5% · France 16.8%
- Bruno RetailleauRepublicans 9.9% · France 7.6%
- Éric ZemmourReconquête 3.9% · France 3.8%
- Marine TondelierGreens 2.9% · France 2.9%
- Fabien RousselCommunist Party 2.3% · France 2.0%
- Nicolas Dupont-AignanSovereigntists 1.7% · France 2.1%
- Nathalie ArthaudFar left 0.5% · France 0.6%
In 2022, round one here: Ensemble (Macron camp) 36.5% · National Rally 20.0% · France Unbowed 15.2% · Reconquête 7.2% · Republicans 6.1%. 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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