Lyon: Grégory Doucet's list won the town hall in 2026; Jean-Luc Mélenchon would lead here in 2027
Lyon (Rhône, INSEE 69123) has 321,176 registered voters. Its council has 73 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.
- 321,176registered voters
- 65%turnout, 2026 round one
- 25.2%Jean-Luc Mélenchon, 2027 round one here (France: 16.8%)
The municipal election, March 2026
Round two, 22 March · 212,182 voted, 206,642 valid votes
- POUR VIVRE LYON, L'UNION DE LA GAUCHE ET DES ECOLOGISTES AVEC GREGORY DOUCETLed by Grégory Doucet · Miscellaneous left 50.7% · 104,702 · 46 seats
- Coeur LyonnaisLed by Jean-Michel Aulas · Miscellaneous centre 49.3% · 101,940 · 27 seats
Round one, 15 March · 207,217 voted, 204,259 valid votes
- POUR VIVRE LYON, L'UNION DE LA GAUCHE ET DES ECOLOGISTES AVEC GREGORY DOUCETUnion of the left 37.4% · 76,318
- Coeur LyonnaisMiscellaneous centre 36.8% · 75,134
- Faire Mieux Pour Lyon - La France InsoumiseFrance Unbowed 10.4% · 21,273
- Retrouver LyonUnion of the far right 7.1% · 14,451
- LYON AVEC VOUS !Miscellaneous left 3.6% · 7,426
- LYON C'EST MAINTENANTMiscellaneous centre 3.5% · 7,214
- Lutte ouvrière - Le camp des travailleursFar left 0.5% · 1,082
- NPA - Révolutionnaires - Lyon, ouvrière et révolutionnaireFar left 0.5% · 1,041
- Lyon pour les travailleursFar left 0.2% · 320
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 Lyon from how it voted in 2022.
- Jean-Luc MélenchonFrance Unbowed 25.2% · France 16.8%
- Édouard PhilippeEnsemble (Macron camp) 18.4% · France 14.3%
- Marine Le PenNational Rally 18.2% · France 34.2%
- Raphaël GlucksmannSocialists 15.5% · France 13.4%
- Bruno RetailleauRepublicans 9.4% · France 7.6%
- Marine TondelierGreens 5.6% · France 2.9%
- Éric ZemmourReconquête 4.4% · France 3.8%
- Fabien RousselCommunist Party 1.5% · France 2.0%
- Nicolas Dupont-AignanSovereigntists 1.3% · France 2.1%
In 2022, round one here: Ensemble (Macron camp) 31.8% · France Unbowed 31.1% · National Rally 9.0% · Greens 7.7% · Reconquête 7.7%. 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 Rhône
- Villeurbanne88,141 voters · Union of the left
- Vénissieux31,434 voters · France Unbowed
- Saint-Priest30,887 voters · Les Républicains
- Caluire-et-Cuire30,411 voters · Les Républicains
- Vaulx-en-Velin26,209 voters · France Unbowed
- Oullins-Pierre-Bénite24,164 voters · Les Républicains
- Meyzieu23,898 voters · Miscellaneous centre
- Bron23,191 voters · Les Républicains