Overview
- Carbonnel secured 52.06% against Socialist Cathie Bourdoncle, according to near-final figures from the prefecture.
- A counting error at Montauban’s polling station No. 1 affecting 43 ballots required a correction and delayed the official proclamation to about 9:15 p.m.
- Éric Ciotti, Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella hailed the outcome, as left‑wing leaders criticized LR president Bruno Retailleau’s call to give “no voice to the left.”
- Analyses cite decisive transfers from RN dissident Brigitte Poma’s first‑round voters and part of LR candidate Bernard Pécou’s electorate.
- The vacancy followed Brigitte Barèges’s ineligibility ruling, and the department now continues to have two RN/UDR‑aligned deputies.