Lens: LENS TOUJOURS won the town hall in 2026; Marine Le Pen would lead here in 2027
Lens (Pas-de-Calais, INSEE 62498) has 22,560 registered voters. Its council has 39 seats; the 2026 municipal election was settled in the first round on 15 March. The next municipal elections are in 2032; the presidential election is on 18 April 2027.
- 22,560registered voters
- 51%turnout, 2026 round one
- 51.7%Marine Le Pen, 2027 round one here (France: 34.2%)
The municipal election, March 2026
Round one, 15 March · 11,546 voted, 11,306 valid votes
- LENS TOUJOURSUnion of the left 50.7% · 5,734 · 30 seats
- ENSEMBLE SAUVONS LENS !Rassemblement National 46.5% · 5,256 · 9 seats
- Lutte ouvrière - Le camp des travailleursFar left 2.8% · 316
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 Lens from how it voted in 2022.
- Marine Le PenNational Rally 51.7% · France 34.2%
- Jean-Luc MélenchonFrance Unbowed 15.3% · France 16.8%
- Raphaël GlucksmannSocialists 12.3% · France 13.4%
- Édouard PhilippeEnsemble (Macron camp) 9.8% · France 14.3%
- Bruno RetailleauRepublicans 3.5% · France 7.6%
- Fabien RousselCommunist Party 2.6% · France 2.0%
- Éric ZemmourReconquête 2.1% · France 3.8%
- Marine TondelierGreens 1.2% · France 2.9%
- Nicolas Dupont-AignanSovereigntists 1.1% · France 2.1%
- Nathalie ArthaudFar left 0.5% · France 0.6%
In 2022, round one here: National Rally 39.7% · France Unbowed 22.6% · Ensemble (Macron camp) 20.8% · Reconquête 4.4% · Communist Party 3.2%. 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 Pas-de-Calais
- Liévin21,308 voters · Rassemblement National
- Boulogne-sur-Mer25,930 voters · Socialist
- Arras28,275 voters · Miscellaneous centre
- Hénin-Beaumont17,685 voters · Rassemblement National
- Béthune17,684 voters · UDI
- Bruay-la-Buissière15,653 voters · Rassemblement National
- Carvin13,191 voters · Union of the left
- Avion12,674 voters · Union of the left