Espelette: EZPELETA ZUEKIN won the town hall in 2026; Marine Le Pen would lead here in 2027
Espelette (Pyrénées-Atlantiques, INSEE 64213) has 1,865 registered voters. Its council has 19 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.
- 1,865registered voters
- 72%turnout, 2026 round one
- 29.1%Marine Le Pen, 2027 round one here (France: 34.2%)
The municipal election, March 2026
Round one, 15 March · 1,334 voted, 1,290 valid votes
- EZPELETA ZUEKINNo label (small commune) 51.4% · 663 · 15 seats
- EZPELETA BIHOTZEANNo label (small commune) 48.6% · 627 · 4 seats
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 Espelette
Espelette is a commune in Pyrénées-Atlantiques with 1,865 registered voters, the 50th largest of the département's 545 communes. At the municipal election of March 2026 71.5% of them voted, more than the 62.5% across Pyrénées-Atlantiques, and EZPELETA ZUEKIN won 15 of the council's 19 seats in the first round.
In the first round of the 2022 presidential election the commune voted Ensemble (Macron camp) 26.8%, Others 15.9%, France Unbowed 15.9%. Others did 13 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 29.1%, with Édouard Philippe on 16.5%.
The 2027 presidential election here, round one
Our national forecast for round one, carried down to Espelette from how it voted in 2022.
- Marine Le PenNational Rally 29.1% · France 34.2%
- Édouard PhilippeEnsemble (Macron camp) 16.5% · France 14.3%
- Raphaël GlucksmannSocialists 15.6% · France 13.4%
- Jean-Luc MélenchonFrance Unbowed 13.9% · France 16.8%
- Bruno RetailleauRepublicans 7.5% · France 7.6%
- Marine TondelierGreens 4.6% · France 2.9%
- Éric ZemmourReconquête 4.5% · France 3.8%
- Nathalie ArthaudFar left 3.2% · France 0.6%
- Nicolas Dupont-AignanSovereigntists 2.7% · France 2.1%
- Fabien RousselCommunist Party 2.5% · France 2.0%
In 2022, round one here: Ensemble (Macron camp) 26.8% · Others 15.9% · France Unbowed 15.9% · National Rally 14.6% · Reconquête 7.1%. 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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