La Merlatière: AGIR TOUS ENSEMBLE POUR LA MERLATIERE won the town hall in 2026; Marine Le Pen would lead here in 2027
La Merlatière (Vendée, INSEE 85142) has 697 registered voters. Its council has 15 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.
- 697registered voters
- 54%turnout, 2026 round one
- 35.7%Marine Le Pen, 2027 round one here (France: 34.2%)
The municipal election, March 2026
Round one, 15 March · 376 voted, 346 valid votes
- AGIR TOUS ENSEMBLE POUR LA MERLATIERENo label (small commune) 100.0% · 346 · 15 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%.
The 2027 presidential election here, round one
Our national forecast for round one, carried down to La Merlatière from how it voted in 2022.
- Marine Le PenNational Rally 35.7% · France 34.2%
- Édouard PhilippeEnsemble (Macron camp) 19.4% · France 14.3%
- Raphaël GlucksmannSocialists 14.8% · France 13.4%
- Jean-Luc MélenchonFrance Unbowed 11.0% · France 16.8%
- Bruno RetailleauRepublicans 7.2% · France 7.6%
- Nicolas Dupont-AignanSovereigntists 3.2% · France 2.1%
- Éric ZemmourReconquête 3.1% · France 3.8%
- Marine TondelierGreens 3.1% · France 2.9%
- Fabien RousselCommunist Party 1.9% · France 2.0%
- Nathalie ArthaudFar left 0.6% · France 0.6%
In 2022, round one here: Ensemble (Macron camp) 35.1% · National Rally 24.1% · France Unbowed 15.3% · Reconquête 6.1% · Greens 5.0%. 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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