2026 Toulouse municipal election
15 March 2026 (first round)
22 March 2026 (second round) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
All 69 members of the Municipal Council 35 seats needed for a majority | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 2026 Toulouse municipal election took place on 15 March 2026, to elect the Mayor of Toulouse and the Municipal Council of Toulouse, with an eventual runoff on 22 March. This election follows the tenure of Jean-Luc Moudenc, mayor of Toulouse since 2014, who is running for a third consecutive term.
Background
Jean-Luc Moudenc, was elected as mayor in 2014 and reelected in 2020. He also had served as mayor between from 2004 to his defeat in 2020. He was a member of The Republicans (LR) but quit the party in 2022. He is running for a second term with the support of his former party LR but also center-right parties Renaissance (RE) and Horizons (HOR), that also supported him in 2020. Carole Delga declined to be a candidate for the Socialist Party (PS) and instead supported the candidacy of François Briançon. The Ecologists initially considered Régis Godec as their candidate but an agreement was reached with Godec and LE supporting Briançon as mayor.[1]
Electoral system and context
The 2026 election will take place with a closed-list system. If no list gets 50% of votes in the first round, a second round takes place. Every list that gets at least 10% of the votes can access the second round. Every list getting above 5% of votes can merge with a list that accessed the second round. Half of the seats are attributed to the list coming first in the last round. The other half are attributed proportionately between the lists that get more than 5%.[2]
Candidates
Socialist Party
- François Briançon, Municipal Councillor
Miscellaneous right
- Jean-Luc Moudenc, incumbent Mayor
La France Insoumise
National Rally
Campaign
François Briançon launched his bid announcing that if elected he will support Régis Godec from The Ecologists as president of Toulouse Métropole.
Polling
First round
| Polling firm | Fieldwork date | Sample size |
Adrada LO |
Piquemal LFI |
Briançon PS |
Moudenc DVD |
Leonardelli RN |
Cottrel REC |
Others |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ifop | 9–18 Feb 2026 | 602 | <0.5% | 23% | 30% | 33% | 7% | 1.5% | 5.5% |
| Cluster17 | 2–5 Feb 2026 | 401 | 0.5% | 19% | 32% | 33% | 8% | 4% | 2.5% |
| Cluster17 | 6–10 Nov 2025 | 765 | 1% | 23% | 30% | 33% | 10% | 3% | — |
Second round
| Polling firm | Fieldwork date | Sample size |
Piquemal LFI |
Briançon PS |
Moudenc DVD |
Leonardelli RN |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ifop | 9–18 Feb 2026 | 602 | 23% | 34% | 37% | 6% |
| 24% | 35% | 41% | — | |||
| — | 53% | 47% | — | |||
| Cluster17 | 6–10 Nov 2025 | 765 | 24% | 30% | 35% | 11% |
| 25% | 31% | 44% | — | |||
| — | 53% | 47% | — |
Results
| Candidate | Party | First round | Second round | Seats | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | Votes | % | Nb. | +/- | |||
| Jean-Luc Moudenc | LR-RE-HOR-UDI-MoDem | 58,462 | 37.23 | |||||
| François Piquemal | LFI | 43,274 | 27.56 | |||||
| François Briançon | PS-LE-PCF-PP | 39,245 | 24.99 | |||||
| Julien Leonardelli | RN-UDR | 8,447 | 5.38 | |||||
| Lambert Meilhac | DVC | 2,648 | 1.69 | |||||
| Arthur Cottrel | REC | 1,953 | 1.24 | |||||
| Vanessa Pedinotti | RP | 1,611 | 1.03 | |||||
| Malena Adrada | LO | 653 | 0.42 | |||||
| Guillaume Scali | NPA-R | 438 | 0.28 | |||||
| Julian Menendez | PT | 290 | 0.18 | |||||
| Registered voters | 281,775 | 56.42 | ||||||
| Abstention | 122,798 | 43.58 | ||||||
| Total votes | 158,977 | 100 | ||||||
| Blank or invalid votes | 1,956 | 1.23 | ||||||
| Valid votes | 157,021 | 98.77 | ||||||
References
- ^ [1]
- ^ "Municipales quel mode de scrutin dans les communes de 1000 hab. et plus". www.vie-publique.fr (in French). 13 March 2026. Retrieved 19 March 2026.