Overview

• Official results from the prefecture show Carbonnel at 52.06% against Socialist Cathie Bourdoncle at 47.94%.
• The contest followed Brigitte Barèges’s July ineligibility for irregular campaign financing; Carbonnel had been her substitute and former parliamentary assistant.
• Éric Ciotti and Marine Le Pen praised the result as a victory for a united right, and Jordan Bardella cast the UDR–RN alliance as the credible governing alternative.
• LR leader Bruno Retailleau urged voters to give “no vote to the left,” and vote transfers from LR’s Bernard Pécou (17.55%) and an RN dissident (7.34%) shaped the runoff dynamics.
• The result does not alter the balance of power in the National Assembly, though the campaign drew national figures and underscored the right’s ongoing realignment.