Marine Le Pen, Manuel Bompard, Adrien Quatennens… Nine candidates are not elected despite having exceeded 50% of the votes cast

Of the 577 legislative constituencies, fourteen candidates exceeded the symbolic bar of 50% of the vote. However, only five of them were actually elected in the first round. Indeed, the electoral code provides that to be elected in the first round, it is necessary to obtain the majority of the votes cast with a number of votes corresponding to at least 25% of the registered voters of the constituency.

Nine candidates thus obtained in the first round the votes of more than 50% of the voters who went to the polls without however obtaining a seat in the Palais-Bourbon. This is the case of the candidate of the National Rally, Marine Le Pen, as well as eight candidates of Nupes. The most eloquent example is that of Stéphane Peu, in the 2^e constituency of Seine-Saint-Denis, which obtained 62.85% of the votes cast, representing only 20.1% of registered voters, more than two-thirds of voters having shunned the ballot boxes (67.21%).

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Six of these candidates are in the inner suburbs of the Paris conurbation, including four in Seine-Saint-Denis, the metropolitan department with one of the highest abstentions (61.07%):

• Mathilde Panot (LFI-Nupes): 54.84% of the votes cast (24.02% of those registered) in the 10^e constituency of Val-de-Marne (55.16% abstention)
• Eric Coquerel (LFI-Nupes): 53.79% of the votes cast (20.24% of those registered) in the 1^re constituency of Seine-Saint-Denis (61.6% abstention)
• Stephane Little (PCF-Nupes): 62.85% of the votes cast (20.1% of those registered) in the 2^e constituency of Seine-Saint-Denis (67.21% abstention)
• Bastien Lachaud (LFI-Nupes): 56.61% of the votes cast (22.03% of those registered) in the 6^e constituency of Seine-Saint-Denis (60.19% abstention)
• Aurelie Found (LFI-Nupes): 53.53% of the votes cast (22.23% of those registered) in the 9^e constituency of Seine-Saint-Denis (57.5% abstention)
• Elsa Faucillon (PCF-Nupes): 54.26% of the votes cast (20.08% of those registered) in the 1^re constituency of Hauts-de-Seine (61.78% abstention)

There are also two candidates in this very favorable tie situation in Hauts-de-France:

• Marine Le Pen (RN): 53.96% of the votes cast (22.53% of those registered) in the 11^e constituency of Pas-de-Calais with 57.4% abstention)
• Adrien Quatennens (LFI-Nupes): 52.05% of the votes cast (23.36% of those registered) in the 1^re Northern constituency with 54.35% abstention

Finally, a candidate finds himself in this situation in Marseille:

• Manuel Bompard (LFI-Nupes): 56.04% of the votes cast (21.36% of those registered) in the 4^e constituency of Bouches-du-Rhône with 61.17% abstention

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Romain Imbach