A first one year tendency from the ballot? More than one in two French, SOP (56%) wishes to see its current mayor re-elected in the next 2026 municipal elections, according to an IFOP/Oust-France survey published on Sunday, May 11.
“In the question,” would you like that at the end of your mandate in 2026, its mayor is re -elected if it represents themselves “, 56 % of respondents respond” yes “,” says this survey conducted with 1,500 people.
This survey indicates that this desire for stability varies according to the size of the municipality: the “desire for the choice” is 64% in municipalities of less than 3,500 inhabitants, 61% in those of less than 20,000 inhabitants and 46% in the largest cities.
The figure is particularly high among the voters of the presidential majority (76% of the reborn supporters) and the right (68% of the supporters LR).
A “choice darker than 2020”
The 2026 municipal elections promise to be stricter than the previous ones, even according to another IFOP survey, because “the conditions of the voting, in the midst of a Covid crisis, had favored the outgoing,” says the IFOP in his study.
The left mayors leave “with a less comfortable base than their right -wing competitors and the center” since the priority issues (security, finance) by the population are “favorable for the parties located to the right of the political spectrum,” the study emphasizes.
On the mayors, about 42% of them want to represent despite the difficulties, according to a survey conducted by Martial Foucault, professor of Sciences Po.
In fact, the study reveals that “the intentions of outgoing mayors”, carried out with more than 5,000 mayors, indicate that 42% of those questioned wish to be represented in March 2026, a rate “according to previous mandates”, while 28% surrender and that 30% are undecided.
Source: BFM TV
