Macron at the head of a breath
Emmanuel Macron imposes justice (31.84%) ahead of Jean-Luc Mélenchon (31.06%) in Lyon. Marine Le Pen (8.97%) completes the podium. Yannick Jadot comes next (7.67%) followed by Éric Zemmour (7.65%), Valérie Pécresse (5.57%), Anne Hidalgo (2.03%), Fabien Roussel (1.63%), Jean Lassalle (1.45%), Nicolas Dupont-Aignan (1.18%), Philippe Poutou (0.60%) and finally Nathalie Arthaud (0.35%).
During the Third Republic, Lyon was very left-leaning. During the Fourth Republic, Lyon became centrist and gradually slid to the right of the political spectrum. Lyon’s centrist tendency was reinforced until the 2000s, going so far as to qualify the city of Lyon “the capital of the UDF”as The world qualified him at the time.
Traditionally bourgeois, the city of Lyon has long been governed by the right. But the working-class communes in the south and east of Lyon with an industrial tendency are more left-leaning, as is the case, for example, of Villeurbanne or Vénissieux which, since 1944, have been governed by communist mayors. PS MP Hélène Geoffroy was put an end to 70 years of communist municipalities in the commune of Vaulx-en-Velin.
During the municipal elections of 1983 and 1989, the center-right and the right collected all the votes, the left was non-existent. But the divisions of the centre-right and the departure of Raymond Barre require the rise of the centre-left with Gérard Collomb, former member of the socialist party who will become mayor of Lyon in 2001. Subsequently, Gérard Collomb will join Emmanuel Macron for the presidential election of 2017, when he joined the party of La République en Marche, before becoming his Minister of the Interior. In Lyon, the far-right electorate seems weak.
In 2017, this city voted in the first round for Emmanuel Macron (30.31%). François Fillon (23.41%) was then positioned in second position, followed by Jean-Luc Mélenchon (22.84%) and Benoît Hamon (9.12%). Marine Le Pen was only in fifth position, winning 8.86% of the vote. In the second round of the presidential election, the vote of Lyonnais turned to Emmanuel Macron at 84.11% with a participation rate of 75.88%. Marine Le Pen only obtained 15.89% of the vote.
More recently, at the municipal elections, this city elected ecologist Grégory Doucet who therefore succeeds Gérard Collomb.