Le Mans: Stéphane Le Foll's list won the town hall in 2026; Marine Le Pen would lead here in 2027
Le Mans (Sarthe, INSEE 72181) has 91,945 registered voters. Its council has 55 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.
- 91,945registered voters
- 51%turnout, 2026 round one
- 27.6%Marine Le Pen, 2027 round one here (France: 34.2%)
The municipal election, March 2026
Round two, 22 March · 44,344 voted, 43,427 valid votes
- LE MANS NOUS RASSEMBLELed by Stéphane Le Foll · Socialist 50.1% · 21,739 · 42 seats
- Union pour Le MansLed by Marietta Karamanli · Miscellaneous left 21.6% · 9,372 · 6 seats
- Rassemblement pour Le MansLed by Victoria De Vigneral · Rassemblement National 16.2% · 7,040 · 4 seats
- LE MANS NOUVEAU CAPLed by Olivier Sasso · Miscellaneous right 12.1% · 5,276 · 3 seats
Round one, 15 March · 47,303 voted, 46,371 valid votes
- LE MANS NOUS RASSEMBLESocialist 43.6% · 20,215
- Union pour Le MansMiscellaneous left 17.9% · 8,281
- Rassemblement pour Le MansRassemblement National 15.1% · 7,013
- LE MANS NOUVEAU CAPMiscellaneous right 14.0% · 6,494
- LE MANS, VILLE HUMAINEFrance Unbowed 7.0% · 3,249
- Révolution Permanente - Reprendre Le Mans aux politiciens professionnelsFar left 1.6% · 764
- Lutte Ouvrière - Le Camp des TravailleursFar left 0.8% · 355
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 Le Mans
Le Mans is a commune in Sarthe with 91,945 registered voters, the largest of the département's 350 communes. At the municipal election of March 2026 51.4% of them voted, fewer than the 55.4% across Sarthe, and the list led by Stéphane Le Foll won 42 of the council's 55 seats after a second round.
In the first round of the 2022 presidential election the commune voted Ensemble (Macron camp) 30.2%, France Unbowed 26.5%, National Rally 16.8%. National Rally did 7 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 27.6%, with Jean-Luc Mélenchon on 20.3%.
The 2027 presidential election here, round one
Our national forecast for round one, carried down to Le Mans from how it voted in 2022.
- Marine Le PenNational Rally 27.6% · France 34.2%
- Jean-Luc MélenchonFrance Unbowed 20.3% · France 16.8%
- Édouard PhilippeEnsemble (Macron camp) 16.4% · France 14.3%
- Raphaël GlucksmannSocialists 15.6% · France 13.4%
- Bruno RetailleauRepublicans 8.1% · France 7.6%
- Marine TondelierGreens 4.4% · France 2.9%
- Éric ZemmourReconquête 3.1% · France 3.8%
- Fabien RousselCommunist Party 2.3% · France 2.0%
- Nicolas Dupont-AignanSovereigntists 1.6% · France 2.1%
- Nathalie ArthaudFar left 0.6% · France 0.6%
In 2022, round one here: Ensemble (Macron camp) 30.2% · France Unbowed 26.5% · National Rally 16.8% · Greens 6.4% · Reconquête 5.9%. 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 Sarthe
- La Flèche10,334 voters · Rassemblement National
- Sablé-sur-Sarthe7,782 voters · Miscellaneous right
- Allonnes6,844 voters · Communist
- La Ferté-Bernard5,862 voters · Miscellaneous centre
- Changé5,718 voters · Miscellaneous left
- Coulaines5,122 voters · Socialist
- Arnage4,392 voters · Socialist
- Montval-sur-Loir4,231 voters · Miscellaneous right