Pau: Jérôme Marbot's list won the town hall in 2026; Marine Le Pen would lead here in 2027
Pau (Pyrénées-Atlantiques, INSEE 64445) has 48,691 registered voters. Its council has 53 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.
- 48,691registered voters
- 55%turnout, 2026 round one
- 25.7%Marine Le Pen, 2027 round one here (France: 34.2%)
The municipal election, March 2026
Round two, 22 March · 27,092 voted, 26,323 valid votes
- NOUVELLE ÈRELed by Jérôme Marbot · Union of the left 42.4% · 11,174 · 38 seats
- NOUS AIMONS PAULed by François Bayrou · Miscellaneous centre 41.1% · 10,830 · 11 seats
- L'ESPÉRANCE POUR PAULed by Margaux Taillefer · Rassemblement National 16.4% · 4,319 · 4 seats
Round one, 15 March · 26,759 voted, 26,164 valid votes
- NOUS AIMONS PAUMiscellaneous centre 33.8% · 8,851
- NOUVELLE ÈREUnion of the left 26.3% · 6,884
- L'ESPÉRANCE POUR PAURassemblement National 16.3% · 4,255
- PAU, C'EST VOUS !Miscellaneous 8.7% · 2,288
- PAU INSOUMISE ECOLOGISTE ET CITOYENNEFrance Unbowed 7.0% · 1,841
- ARRAOU AVEC VOUSMiscellaneous 6.2% · 1,610
- LUTTE OUVRIERE - LE CAMP DES TRAVAILLEURSFar left 1.7% · 435
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 Pau
Pau is a commune in Pyrénées-Atlantiques with 48,691 registered voters, the largest of the département's 545 communes. At the municipal election of March 2026 55% of them voted, fewer than the 62.5% across Pyrénées-Atlantiques, and the list led by Jérôme Marbot won 38 of the council's 53 seats after a second round.
In the first round of the 2022 presidential election the commune voted Ensemble (Macron camp) 29.7%, France Unbowed 25%, National Rally 14.4%. National Rally did 9 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 25.7%, with Jean-Luc Mélenchon on 20%.
The 2027 presidential election here, round one
Our national forecast for round one, carried down to Pau from how it voted in 2022.
- Marine Le PenNational Rally 25.7% · France 34.2%
- Jean-Luc MélenchonFrance Unbowed 20.0% · France 16.8%
- Raphaël GlucksmannSocialists 17.3% · France 13.4%
- Édouard PhilippeEnsemble (Macron camp) 16.8% · France 14.3%
- Bruno RetailleauRepublicans 7.4% · France 7.6%
- Marine TondelierGreens 4.2% · France 2.9%
- Éric ZemmourReconquête 3.9% · France 3.8%
- Fabien RousselCommunist Party 2.3% · France 2.0%
- Nicolas Dupont-AignanSovereigntists 1.8% · France 2.1%
In 2022, round one here: Ensemble (Macron camp) 29.7% · France Unbowed 25.0% · National Rally 14.4% · Reconquête 7.1% · Others 6.3%. 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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- Anglet34,205 voters · Miscellaneous right
- Biarritz23,809 voters · Miscellaneous centre
- Saint-Jean-de-Luz12,159 voters · Union of the right
- Hendaye10,513 voters · Union of the left
- Lons9,744 voters · Les Républicains
- Billère8,837 voters · Miscellaneous left
- Urrugne8,612 voters · Miscellaneous centre