With a few exceptions, indecision was in order in the Hérault before this second round of the legislative elections. The postponement of the votes of the eliminated (RN or Together!) seems to have finally served the candidates of Nupes, who had achieved the grand slam by qualifying their nine candidates in the second round. Three elected for Nupes, three for Together! two for the National Rally and Emmanuelle Ménard (DVD) close to this party, we are witnessing a fragmentation of the electorate between the different political forces in the department.
The breakthrough of the RN. In its duels with Nupes, the National Rally largely benefited from the postponement of the votes of the voters who had chosen the candidates of Ensemble in the first round! It is particularly spectacular in the 7th district, that of Sète, where Aurélien Lopez-Liguori ousted the communist Gabriel Blasco (Nupes), by nearly 20 points. Even Sète only gave a majority of… 12 votes to the Nupes candidate. In the most rural constituency of the department, the fifth, the RN candidate Stéphanie Glazy also won largely against the mayor of Capestang Pierre Polard.
La Nupes without reserve. The Nupes had qualified its nine candidates. But the popular union in the first round deprived it of a reserve of votes. After having taken the lead almost everywhere, the candidates of Jean-Luc Mélenchon show a record far from living up to their expectations in the Hérault. With the exception of the second 100% Montpellier constituency where the advance of Nathalie Oziol (LFI) ensured him a red carpet to succeed Muriel Ressiguier (LFI), Nupes struggled to confirm its dynamic. Largely in the lead in the first round, Sébastien Rome and Sylvain Carrière nevertheless managed to maintain a lead of a few hundred votes over the RN candidates, sufficient to sit in the National Assembly.
Together ! save the furniture. After the berezina of the first round (three outgoing deputies eliminated and four lost constituencies), the presidential majority finally retained three seats, the three in Montpellier constituencies. But it is outside the prefecture of Hérault that the outgoing deputies Patricia Mirallès and Patrick Vignal have had their fill of votes to ensure their re-election. On the 3rd, that of Coralie Dubost, the mayor of Saint-Clément-de-Rivière Laurence Cristol won by more than 2,000 votes in front of Julie Mignacca, the only EELV candidate dubbed by Nupes in the department.
Emmanuelle Ménard untouchable. The outgoing deputy (DVD) had struck a blow by approaching 50% of the votes cast in the first round. The deputy close to the National Rally, was very largely re-elected with 69.83% of the votes against her opponent from Nupes. As in the first round, the participation rate (43.30%) was particularly low.
Languedoc and Roussillon, new bastions of the RN. Aude, Pyrénées-Orientales and Gard largely carried the National Rally at the top of the vote. Marine Le Pen’s party even achieves the grand slam in Aude and Pyrénées-Orientales. In total, these three departments send to the Bourbon palace eleven RN deputies out of the thirteen seats to be filled. With the two deputies from Hérault, Languedoc and Roussillon asserted themselves from election to election as strongholds of the party in France.
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