Overview
- Official results put Stéphanie Rist at 33.9% and Tiffanie Rabault at 27.2% after the Jan. 18 first round.
- Voters return on Jan. 25 for a head-to-head that will decide the Loiret 1st constituency seat.
- Left and Green candidate Ghislaine Kounowski missed the second round by 11 votes after falling short of the 12.5% of registered-voters threshold, with abstention around 70.6%.
- The by-election followed Rist’s substitute, Stéphane Chouin, refusing to take her National Assembly seat after her appointment as health minister in October.
- Rist has pledged to resign from the government if defeated and said she would cede the Assembly seat to new substitute Marie-Philippe Lubet if she wins.