Presidential in Toulouse: the gossip of a day in the polling stations
Behind the scenes of the polling stations in Toulouse and the rest of the Haute-Garonne department, hide a few nuggets, anecdotes and records. Overview the day after the first round.
The mysterious office 1A
It is the smallest of the 265 Toulouse polling stations, attached to the town hall. The mysterious office 1A has only 23 registered voters. Only two spoke, the two for Emmanuel Macron. As a result, it is also the least civic with a record abstention rate of 91.30%! This office 1A is dedicated to persons domiciled in Toulouse but currently detained (in prison) or to French nationals living abroad or to soldiers in external operations but domiciled in Toulouse. A possibility offered following a legislative amendment that appeared two years ago. In office 71 of the André-Daste school, in Empalot, the least civic after 1A, less than one in two voters came to vote (55.84% abstention). This office, which has only 77 registered members, is dedicated to the inhabitants of the island of Ramier.
The largest office in Toulouse
It is office 130 at the Fontaine-Bayonne school in the Cartoucherie district, which has 1,920 registered students. An office boosted recently, it seems, by the new inhabitants of the neighboring eco-district. It is the same in the offices of the Guillaumet school, which received the contribution of new inhabitants of the Montaudran district. Office 239, with 1663 subscribers, is thus the second most populated in Toulouse.
82% for Melenchon
Jean-Luc Mélenchon came out on top in 210 Toulouse offices out of 265, eliminating only 55 offices at Macron. In 2017, in the first round, Mélenchon had won 158 offices, Macron 80 and Fillon 23. Valérie Pécresse did not win any. Office 102 of the Didier-Daurat school in La Reynerie is the one that voted the most for the candidate of the Insoumis, with 82.19% of the votes cast. but only 53.81% of those registered expressed their views. Mélenchon collected 406 votes in this office out of 918 registered.
He wanted to vote with a lettuce leaf
At the Capitol, a voter tried to put a leaf of lettuce in an envelope to vote green, maybe. The assessors of the town hall present in the committee room of the town hall prevented it, citing a security reason. This facetious voter perhaps wanted to be indicated by this unusual vote that, according to him, all the candidates were only telling stories…
100% Macron
The presidential candidate obtained his best score, in Toulouse, in office 147 of the Fleurance school, in Saint-Martin-du-Touch, with 42.41% of the votes cast, or 391 votes out of 1146 registered and 922 cast. . Except of course the famous office 1A where, with 2 votes out of 2 voters, Emmanuel Macron obtained the unbeatable result of 100% of the votes cast!
The most civic
In office 224 of the Armand-Leygue school, in Côte-Pavée, 965 of the 1139 registered voters came to slip a ballot into the ballot box, ie 84.72% of voters. It was Macron who came out on top with 349 votes, or nearly 37% of the votes cast. This is also where Pécresse made his second best score (12.06%), just behind office 63 of the Fabre school, in Les Carmes (12.38% of the votes cast).
The most Lassalle
After his success with the young people of Place Saint-Pierre during his visit to Toulouse during this campaign, one would have thought that it was in this festive district that the atypical candidate destroyed his best score in Toulouse. It was in office 145 of the Littré school group, in the Toulouse “village” of Saint-Martin-du-Touch, that the former mayor of Lourdios-Ichère made his best score, with 41 votes or 4.84% votes cast. But the candidate defender of the rural world comes first in several small towns of Volvestre and Comminges in particular.
Le Pen at the top
Marine Le Pen won 23.84% (180 votes) of the votes cast in office 252 of the Anatole-France school group, in the Pont des Demoiselles district, with only 16 votes less than Emmanuel Macron (25.96% ). An office where the very right-handed Eric Zemmour collected nearly 13% of the votes cast. The candidate of the National Rally, who has not reached the 10% mark in Toulouse (9.55%) achieves her best scores in peripheral communes of Haute-Garonne, rural (more than 43% in Labastide-Paumès, not far from the Gers) or ex-workers (29% in Villemur-sur-Tarn).
The most Z
The Reconquest candidate scored his highest in office 63 at the Fabre school in Les Carmes with 16.24% (101 votes) of the votes cast, ahead of Valérie Pécresse (12.38%) and Marine Le Pen (7 %). In the Comminges, Eric Zemmour shares the lead, tied with Melenchon, in the small village of Razecueillé, 53 registered voters, with exactly 20% of the votes cast, or 9 votes.
deadliest
It is also in the Fabre school, in Les Carmes, which houses six offices in the city center, that a voter died of a heart attack in one of the polling stations, this Sunday, April 10, despite the intervention of the emergency services. .
The greenest sea bream
The candidate Europe Ecologie Les Verts Yannick Jadot collected his best score in Toulouse in office 4 of the Lakanal school, in La Daurade, in the heart of the hypercentre, with 12.50% of the votes cast.