In 2017, in the second round of the legislative elections, the candidates supporting the newly elected president won almost half (49.2%) of the votes cast. Five years later, if the same president obtained the renewal of his mandate for a five-year term, his supporters are disillusioned.
They gather a total of 38.63% of the 20,747,470 votes cast on Sunday June 19, i.e., with just over 8 million votes, a drop of nearly one million votes. Part of the explanation for this decline is that, while La République en Marche (LRM) and the MoDem had qualified 513 of their candidates in the second round, the presidential coalition only succeeded this time in 419 constituencies. . And she was absent in five metropolitan departments.
The New People’s Ecological and Social Union (Nupes), for its part, had succeeded in qualifying its candidates for the second round in 386 constituencies, while its various components, having presented themselves separately in the first round in 2017, had not been able to cross this course only in 142 constituencies. With 6,772,780 votes (32.64%), it therefore recorded a significant increase (more than 4.6 million votes). However, it failed to qualify candidates in ten metropolitan departments.
Deletion of the electoral map
The National Rally (RN) also benefited from a strong increase with 3,589,465 votes collected in the second round (17.3%), or 2 million more than in 2017. The far-right party was present this year in the second round in 208 constituencies, against 118 five years earlier, thus strengthening its territorial presence. Despite this extension of the domain of lepenism, the RN was still absent in 32 metropolitan departments, mainly located in Brittany and Pays de la Loire, in the Southwest and in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
As for the alliance of the two main parties of the parliamentary right, Les Républicains (LR) and the Union of Democrats and Independents (UDI), it continues to plummet, both in percentage (7.27% against 25.17% in 2017) than in votes (just over 1.5 million against 4.5 million five years earlier). A reduction of the order of 3 million of its electoral capital. Translation: the right was absent in the second round in more than half of the departments (51).
Despite this erasure of the electoral map, the candidates of the LR-UDI alliance offer remarkable resistance in the second round duels. While LR had qualified 70 candidates, 60 of them were elected, a ratio of 86%. By way of comparison, this percentage is only 55% for LRM, 43% for the RN or 32% for LFI, as far as the main political components represented at the Palais-Bourbon are concerned.
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