US EditionSocialist frontrunner Emmanuel Grégoire elected Paris mayor, exit polls say
Emmanuel Grégoire won with about 52% in the runoff, continuing 25 years of Socialist leadership amid a low 48.1% turnout, signaling left resilience before 2027 presidential race.
- On March 22, 2026, Emmanuel Grégoire, Socialist candidate and mayor-elect, won Paris's runoff, succeeding outgoing mayor Hidalgo.
- Post-First-Round maneuvers narrowed the race, as Rachida Dati's list merged with Pierre-Yves Bournazel and Sarah Knafo withdrew, leaving three main candidates.
- Exit polls and provisional counts placed Grégoire at about 51, Dati at 37, and Chikirou at 12.5%, with turnout at 5 pm over 48%, according to the Ministry of the Interior.
- Claiming victory, Grégoire cycled to City Hall where Hidalgo greeted him and presented 'the key of Paris'; Dati conceded defeat after partial results.
- With nearly 96% of municipalities concluded, the result deepens leftist control in Paris after 25 years and is seen as a test ahead of the 2027 presidential race.
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The French left won the Paris mayor’s race, one of a number of blows to far-right and center-right challengers in nationwide municipal polls. Emmanuel Grégoire won just over 50% of the vote, a result that Le Monde characterized as “the left’s greatest victory in Paris since 2001,” while Marine Le Pen’s National Rally — which had targeted a number of southern cities — suffered several defeats, though it made inroads in smaller towns and said it w…
A big party last night in Paris for the elected mayor, the socialist Emmanuel Grégoire, who crossed the city in "Velib" the bike in sharing symbol of the Hidalgo years. And it is the outgoing mayor, also socialist, Anne Hidalgo, to welcome in the general emotion the new mayor in front of the "Hotel de Ville." Hidalgo wished good work to his successor claiming the socialist victory against the offense of the right. Then the hug between the two, t…
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