Bessenay: Bessenay ensemble won the town hall in 2026; Marine Le Pen would lead here in 2027
Bessenay (Rhône, INSEE 69021) has 1,727 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.
- 1,727registered voters
- 70%turnout, 2026 round one
- 32.6%Marine Le Pen, 2027 round one here (France: 34.2%)
The municipal election, March 2026
Round one, 15 March · 1,209 voted, 1,169 valid votes
- Bessenay ensembleNo label (small commune) 50.7% · 593 · 15 seats
- S'unir pour notre avenirNo label (small commune) 49.3% · 576 · 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 Bessenay
Bessenay is a commune in Rhône with 1,727 registered voters, the 118th largest of the département's 266 communes. At the municipal election of March 2026 70% of them voted, more than the 56.7% across Rhône, and Bessenay ensemble 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) 26.1%, France Unbowed 21.8%, National Rally 21.3%.
Moved to today's national polls, our projection for the 2027 first round here has Marine Le Pen ahead on 32.6%, with Jean-Luc Mélenchon on 15.9%.
The 2027 presidential election here, round one
Our national forecast for round one, carried down to Bessenay from how it voted in 2022.
- Marine Le PenNational Rally 32.6% · France 34.2%
- Jean-Luc MélenchonFrance Unbowed 15.9% · France 16.8%
- Raphaël GlucksmannSocialists 13.9% · France 13.4%
- Édouard PhilippeEnsemble (Macron camp) 13.3% · France 14.3%
- Bruno RetailleauRepublicans 9.8% · France 7.6%
- Marine TondelierGreens 4.9% · France 2.9%
- Nicolas Dupont-AignanSovereigntists 4.0% · France 2.1%
- Éric ZemmourReconquête 2.7% · France 3.8%
- Fabien RousselCommunist Party 2.2% · France 2.0%
- Nathalie ArthaudFar left 0.7% · France 0.6%
In 2022, round one here: Ensemble (Macron camp) 26.1% · France Unbowed 21.8% · National Rally 21.3% · Greens 7.2% · Republicans 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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