The three outgoing deputies from Pas-de-Calais, Marne and Charente, who contested partial legislative elections on Sunday, took the lead after the first round, in a context of strong abstention.
In the 1st Charente constituency, which includes the Angouleme prefecture, the margin is again very narrow (42 votes difference) between the presidential majority candidate and Horizons spokesman Thomas Mesnier (35.54% of the votes cast). and the representative of Nupes, the Insoumis René Pilato (35.36%), after a first round marked by a very low participation (28.76%).
The key will be the transfer of the RN votes, which gathered 14.8% of the votes on Sunday. In last year’s runoff, the emergency doctor beat René Pilato by just 24 votes.
Duel Together-RN on the Marne
In the second constituency of the Marne, which includes several cantons of Reims, the outgoing RN member Anne-Sophie Frigout is in first place with 34.80% of the vote (+12.82 points compared to the first round in June). . The candidate of the united presidential majority Laure Miller also advances, and manages to climb to the second round, with 30.0% of the votes (+8.77 points).
In June, she was eliminated in the first round, her electorate split between her and former MP Aina Kuric (several center), who was running as a dissident and has since withdrawn.
Coming third (16.17%), the Nupes candidate Victorien Pâté was eliminated. In this constituency, 76% of voters did not go to the polls.
The Nupes candidate largely in the lead in Pas-de-Calais
In the 8th constituency of Pas-de-Calais (Saint-Omer and surroundings) the outgoing deputy Bertrand Petit (linked to the PS and invested by Nupes, after presenting a dissident candidacy in June) is far ahead with 46.14 % of the votes (+23.60 points compared to June), against the candidate RN Auguste Evrard (23.97, -3.49 points), in a first round also marked by a strong abstention (70.39%). The presidential majority candidate, Benoît Potterie (Horizons), with a score of 21.17%, is eliminated.
In June, the voices of the left were divided in the first round between Bertrand Petit (22.54%) and the former Nupes candidate Simon Roussel (15.75%), who this time did not present his candidacy.
In the second round, the socialist had won with 55.82% of the votes, which allowed the left to reconquer that old stronghold, in a department where six of the twelve constituencies had been won by the RN.
Source: BFM TV
