How did Seine-Saint-Denis become a Melenchonist?
In Seine-Saint-Denis, Jean-Luc Mélenchon has always been above his national average in the presidential elections, with 16.99% in 2012, 34.02% in 2017 and 49.09% in 2022. Paoloni Jeremy/Paoloni Jeremy/ABACA DECRYPTION…
How did Seine-Saint-Denis become a Melenchonist?
In Seine-Saint-Denis, Jean-Luc Mélenchon has always been above his national average in the presidential elections, with 16.99% in 2012, 34.02% in 2017 and 49.09% in 2022. Paoloni Jeremy/Paoloni Jeremy/ABACA
DECRYPTION – A year ago, the Nupes won all the seats of deputy, after Jean-Luc Mélenchon had reached the score of 49.09% in the presidential election.
Just a year ago, La France insoumise won nine seats in Seine-Saint-Denisout of a total of twelve deputies, the other three also belonging to Nupes (two PCs and one PS). This success in the legislative elections followed the triumph of Jean-Luc Melenchon in this Ile-de-France department where he obtained his best departmental score: 49.09% in the first round of the presidential election.
Mélenchon at more than 60% in 8 cities
The result of Jean-Luc Mélenchon in Seine-Saint-Denis was impressive in absolute value but also because of his progress in ten years.
If it exceeded 50% April 10, 2022 in three overseas departments, it was in the 9-3 that he achieved his best metropolitan score, with 49.09% of the votes cast. By way of comparison, with a first round score higher than his, Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen capped at less than 40%, with 37.11% in Hauts-de-Seine for the first and 39.27% in the Aisne for the second. Seine-Saint-Denis is certainly a land historically…
