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Rivesaltes: Julien Potel's list won the town hall in 2026; Marine Le Pen would lead here in 2027

Rivesaltes (Pyrénées-Orientales, INSEE 66164) has 6,702 registered voters. Its council has 29 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.

The municipal election, March 2026

Round two, 22 March · 4,630 voted, 4,542 valid votes

  1. RIVESALTES, L'AVENIR EN GRANDLed by Julien Potel · Rassemblement National 44.8% · 2,037 · 21 seats
  2. UN NOUVEL ELAN POUR RIVESALTESLed by Amélie Parraud · Miscellaneous 35.4% · 1,607 · 5 seats
  3. RIVESALTES A VENIRLed by Laurianne Rawcliffe · Union of the left 19.8% · 898 · 3 seats

Round one, 15 March · 4,451 voted, 4,356 valid votes

  1. RIVESALTES, L'AVENIR EN GRANDRassemblement National 30.9% · 1,344
  2. UN NOUVEL ELAN POUR RIVESALTESMiscellaneous 27.4% · 1,192
  3. RIVESALTES A VENIRUnion of the left 16.9% · 736
  4. RIVESALTES UNE TERRE, DES LIENSMiscellaneous right 14.8% · 645
  5. JOËL DIAGOMiscellaneous left 10.1% · 439

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 Rivesaltes

Rivesaltes is a commune in Pyrénées-Orientales with 6,702 registered voters, the 12th largest of the département's 226 communes. At the municipal election of March 2026 66.4% of them voted, more than the 61.5% across Pyrénées-Orientales, and the list led by Julien Potel won 21 of the council's 29 seats after a second round.

In the first round of the 2022 presidential election the commune voted National Rally 32.9%, France Unbowed 20.7%, Ensemble (Macron camp) 20.3%. National Rally did 10 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 46%, with Jean-Luc Mélenchon on 14.6%.

The 2027 presidential election here, round one

Our national forecast for round one, carried down to Rivesaltes from how it voted in 2022.

  1. Marine Le PenNational Rally 46.0% · France 34.2%
  2. Jean-Luc MélenchonFrance Unbowed 14.6% · France 16.8%
  3. Raphaël GlucksmannSocialists 13.2% · France 13.4%
  4. Édouard PhilippeEnsemble (Macron camp) 10.0% · France 14.3%
  5. Bruno RetailleauRepublicans 4.7% · France 7.6%
  6. Éric ZemmourReconquête 4.4% · France 3.8%
  7. Fabien RousselCommunist Party 2.8% · France 2.0%
  8. Nicolas Dupont-AignanSovereigntists 2.0% · France 2.1%
  9. Marine TondelierGreens 1.7% · France 2.9%
  10. Nathalie ArthaudFar left 0.6% · France 0.6%

In 2022, round one here: National Rally 32.9% · France Unbowed 20.7% · Ensemble (Macron camp) 20.3% · Reconquête 8.2% · Others 4.3%. 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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