CARDS – Who is the leading candidate in your neighborhood? Who will be the mayor of your district or sector? Find the detailed results of the municipal elections in Paris, Lyon and Marseille.
This is the biggest change in these 2026 municipal elections. Paris, Lyon and Marseille now elect their city councilors by universal suffrage. The vote for district councils – or sector councils in Marseille –, which previously served to appoint the mayor, is certainly maintained, but it is coupled with an election common to the entire city which thus allows citizens to directly choose their chief magistrate.
Paris, Lyon, Marseille: the results of municipal elections by district
Emmanuel Grégoire, in the lead in Paris with 37.98%, also leads the way in the central districts (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 9 and 10e), from the east (11, 12, 13 and 20e) et du nord (18 et 19e). Her rival, Rachida Dati, obtained 25.46% of the votes and moved into first position in the West (14, 15, 16 and 17e) as in the other bastions of the right (6, 7 and 8e).
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In Lyon, the surprise is immense since the favorite of the polls, Jean-Michel Aulas, finishes just behind the outgoing mayor, the ecologist Grégory Doucet: 36.78% against 37.26%. The former president of Olympique Lyonnais outdistances his opponent in the 2 and 6th arrondissements, more traditionally favorable to the right, but also in the 5, 8 and 9th arrondissements. The green councilor wins in the 1st, 3rd, 4th and 7th arrondissements.
Finally, in the Marseille city, the outgoing left-wing mayor, Benoît Payan, is in the lead, just ahead of Franck Allisio (RN) – 36.70% against 35.02%. The current councilor is in first position on 1is in the 7th arrondissement as well as in the 14e15e et 16e arrondissements, the “northern districts”. His Lepenist rival dominates him on the 8the in the 13th arrondissement, further east of Marseille.
Paris, Lyon, Marseille: the results of the elections for district or sector councils
The results for the district or sector councils generally follow the same trend. In the capital, however, if the 5th arrondissement chose the candidate of the Union of the Left, Emmanuel Grégoire, at the municipal level, it placed the outgoing mayor, Florence Berthout (Union in the center) in the lead during the other election. Same thing for the 9th arrondissement and Delphine Bürkli (Union on the right). In Paris, three district mayors were elected in the first round: Rachida Dati in the 7the and Jérémy Redler in the 16e for the right and Jérôme Coumet in the 13e for the left.
Of the sixteen Parisian sectors – the first four arrondissements of the capital being united under the label “Paris Center” – the left had won nine in June 2020, compared to six for the right and one for the center. In Marseille, five sectors had been won by the united left but three by Les Républicains. Finally, in the capital of Gaul, seven districts out of nine had fallen into the hands of the left and the ecologists and two into that of the right.
