Epinal: Benoît Jourdain's list won the town hall in 2026; Marine Le Pen would lead here in 2027
Epinal (Vosges, INSEE 88160) has 21,523 registered voters. Its council has 39 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.
- 21,523registered voters
- 49%turnout, 2026 round one
- 32.4%Marine Le Pen, 2027 round one here (France: 34.2%)
The municipal election, March 2026
Round two, 22 March · 10,890 voted, 10,693 valid votes
- CHANGER POUR VOUSLed by Benoît Jourdain · Miscellaneous right 39.9% · 4,270 · 28 seats
- PASSIONNÉMENT ÉPINALLed by Patrick Nardin · Miscellaneous right 37.5% · 4,015 · 7 seats
- EPINAL EN PARTAGELed by Daniela Amiunes · Union of the left 13.0% · 1,391 · 2 seats
- RASSEMBLER POUR EPINALLed by Pierre François · Rassemblement National 9.5% · 1,017 · 2 seats
Round one, 15 March · 10,497 voted, 10,268 valid votes
- PASSIONNÉMENT ÉPINALMiscellaneous right 37.9% · 3,893
- CHANGER POUR VOUSMiscellaneous right 32.2% · 3,310
- EPINAL EN PARTAGEUnion of the left 15.0% · 1,537
- RASSEMBLER POUR EPINALRassemblement National 13.9% · 1,432
- L'ARGENT POUR LES HOPITAUX, LES ECOLES, LES SERVICES PUBLICS, PAS POUR LA GUERREFar left 0.9% · 96
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 Epinal
Epinal is a commune in Vosges with 21,523 registered voters, the largest of the département's 506 communes. At the municipal election of March 2026 48.8% of them voted, fewer than the 59.9% across Vosges, and the list led by Benoît Jourdain won 28 of the council's 39 seats after a second round.
In the first round of the 2022 presidential election the commune voted Ensemble (Macron camp) 29.9%, France Unbowed 24.3%, National Rally 20.4%.
Moved to today's national polls, our projection for the 2027 first round here has Marine Le Pen ahead on 32.4%, with Jean-Luc Mélenchon on 18.5%.
The 2027 presidential election here, round one
Our national forecast for round one, carried down to Epinal from how it voted in 2022.
- Marine Le PenNational Rally 32.4% · France 34.2%
- Jean-Luc MélenchonFrance Unbowed 18.5% · France 16.8%
- Édouard PhilippeEnsemble (Macron camp) 16.2% · France 14.3%
- Raphaël GlucksmannSocialists 13.9% · France 13.4%
- Bruno RetailleauRepublicans 8.2% · France 7.6%
- Éric ZemmourReconquête 3.4% · France 3.8%
- Marine TondelierGreens 3.2% · France 2.9%
- Nicolas Dupont-AignanSovereigntists 2.0% · France 2.1%
- Fabien RousselCommunist Party 1.6% · France 2.0%
- Nathalie ArthaudFar left 0.6% · France 0.6%
In 2022, round one here: Ensemble (Macron camp) 29.9% · France Unbowed 24.3% · National Rally 20.4% · Reconquête 6.5% · Republicans 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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