France Municipal elections 2020 — Results
Election day: March 15, 2020
- Independent / unaffiliated lists: 25.90%
- Miscellaneous right: 17.51%
- Miscellaneous left: 14.98%
Turnout: 44.66%
About this election
The electoral system
French municipal elections use two systems depending on commune size. In communes of fewer than 1,000 inhabitants, councillors are elected by a simple two-round vote with panachage (voters may mix candidates). In communes of 1,000 or more, voting is by two-round closed list with a majority bonus: a list winning an absolute majority in the first round takes half the seats plus a proportional share of the rest; otherwise lists above 10% (with mergers possible for those above 5%) contest a run-off, where the winning list receives half the seats and the remainder are shared proportionally. The councils then elect the mayor.
Compiled and reviewed from official results by ElectioMap. See our data methodology.
In numbers
- 8.39 points separated Independent / unaffiliated lists from Miscellaneous right.
- The top two shared 43.41% of the vote between them, and 3 lists cleared 5%.
Calculated from the official figures on this page and from the other elections of this type in our archive.
Understanding this election
- D’Hondt vs Sainte-Laguë — how a divisor formula turns vote shares into seats
- How Electoral Systems Work Around the World — first-past-the-post, proportional and mixed systems, with real numbers
- How a Constituency Map Gets Built — what happens when no boundary file matches the districts