2020 Allier municipal elections explained

Election Date:	15 March 2020 and 28 June 2020
Previous Election:	2014 Allier municipal election
Previous Year:	2014
Next Election:	2026 Allier municipal election
Next Year:	2026
Type:	mayoral
Ongoing:	no
Flag Image:	Drapeau fr département Allier.svg

The 2020 Allier municipal elections took place on 15 March 2020, with a second round of voting initially expected for 22 March 2020. Like the rest of France, the second round was initially suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic. On 22 May, Prime Minister Édouard Philippe announced that the second round of voting would take place on the 28th of June.

Incumbent and elected mayors

In 2020, only 32 communes in Allier had a second round of elections, with the majority being decided with a single round absolute majority.^[1]

Aside from Bourbon-l'Archambault, candidates on the left were not able to recover communes lost in the previous elections, such as in Bellerive-sur-Allier, Cosne-d'Allier, Cusset, Gannat, Varennes-sur-Allier and Vendat. The left was consoled with a victory in Commentry. The right easily retained its position in the four largest communes of the department, despite a perilous four-way second round in Montluçon.

Party!Second round (Yes/No)!Elected mayor! colspan="2"

Party	Ref.
Abrest	2,931	Patrick Montagner		DVG	Yes	Romain Lopez		DVD
Avermes	3,966	Alain Denizot		PS	No	Alain Denizot		PS
Bellerive-sur-Allier	8,500	François Sennepin		DVD	No	François Sennepin		DVD	^[2]
Bourbon-l'Archambault	2,559	Anne Leclercq		DVD	No	Jacky Belien		PCF
Commentry	6,239	Fernand Spaccaferri		DVD	No	Sylvain Bourdier		DVG	^[3]
Cosne-d'Allier	2,039	Martial Sanlias		DVD	No	Marie Carré		DVD	^[4]
Creuzier-le-Vieux	3,304	Christian Bertin		DVG	No	Hadrien Fayet		DVG
Cusset	12,661	Jean-Sébastien Laloy		LR	No	Jean-Sébastien Laloy		LR	^[5]
Désertines	4,422	Christian Sanvoisin		PCF	No	Christian Sanvoisin		PCF	^[6]
Domérat	8,780	Marc Malbet		PS	No	Pascale Lescurat		PS	^[7]
Dompierre-sur-Besbre	3,040	Pascal Vernisse		DVG	No	Michel Brunner		PS	^[8]
Gannat	5,832	Véronique Pouzadoux		LR	No	Véronique Pouzadoux		DVD
Huriel	2,646	Stéphane Abranowitch		DVG	No	Stéphane Abranowitch		DVG	^[9]
Lapalisse	3,123	Jacques de Chabannes		PRG	No	Jacques de Chabannes		PRG
Lurcy-Lévis	1,893	Claude Vanneau		DVD	No	Patrick Combemorel		DVD
Montluçon	35,653	Frédéric Laporte		LR	Yes	Frédéric Laporte		LR
Moulins	19,664	Pierre-André Périssol		LR	Yes	Pierre-André Périssol		LR
Néris-les-Bains	2,553	Alain Chapy		DVD	No	Alain Chapy		DVD
Prémilhat	2,458	Bernard Pozzoli		PS	No	Bernard Pozzoli		PS	^[10]
Saint-Germain-des-Fossés	3,656	Élisabeth Albert-Cuisset		DVD	No	Élisabeth Albert-Cuisset		DVD
Saint-Pourçain-sur-Sioule	5,160	Emmanuel Ferrand		LR	No	Emmanuel Ferrand		LR
Saint-Victor	2,098	Jean-Pierre Guérin		DVD	No	Jean-Pierre Guérin		DVD
Saint-Yorre	2,561	Joseph Kuchna		PCF	No	Joseph Kuchna		PCF
Varennes-sur-Allier	3,561	Roger Litaudon		DVD	No	Roger Litaudon		DVD
Vendat	2,216	Jean-Marc Germanangue		DVD	No	Jean-Marc Germanangue		DVD
Vichy	24,166	Frédéric Aguilera		LR	No	Frédéric Aguilera		LR	^[11]
Yzeure	13,088	Pascal Perrin		PS	No	Pascal Perrin		PS	^[12]

Results by number of mayors elected

Party!Incumbent mayors!Elected mayors!Change

	Miscellaneous right	10	10
	The Republicans	6	5	1
Total right		16	5	1
	Socialist Party	4	5	1
	French Communist Party	2	3	1
	Miscellaneous left	4	3	1
	Radical Party of the Left	1	1
Total left		11	12	1
Total		27

Results

Department wide

Voter turnout

Participation rate in the 2020 Allier municipal elections ^[13] !Participation rate!First round!Difference from 2014!Second round!Difference from 2014!Difference between the two rounds

At 12h	25.35 %	0.67	28.12 %	0.28	2.77
At 17h	48.03 %	6.82	Not counted
Final	49.98 %	18.36	44.57 %	26.61	5.41

General results

! colspan="4"

Communes with list-based elections(more than 1,000 inhabitants)	Communes with majority-vote elections(less than 1,000 inhabitants)				All communes
First round		Second round		First round		Second round		First round		Second round
Votes	%	Votes	%	Votes	%	Votes	%	Votes	%	Votes	%
Valid votes	73,681	94.39	16,410	97.09	45,038	96.67	4,229	95.70	118,719	95.24	20,639	96.80
White votes	1,393	1.78	233	1.38	432	0.93	102	2.31	1,825	1.46	335	1.57
Rejected votes	2,990	3.83	259	1.53	1,121	2.41	88	1.99	4,111	3.30	347	1.63
Total	78,064	100	16,902	100	46,591	100	4,419	100	124,655	100	21,321	100
Abstentions	94,610	54.79	23,449	58.11	30,159	39.30	3,063	40.94	124,769	50.02	26,512	55.43
Registered voters - voter turnout	172,674	45.21	40351	41.89	76,750	60.70	7,482	59.06	249,424	49.98	47,833	44.57

Communes with more than 1,000 inhabitants

Electoral list! colspan="3"

First round	Second round			Total seats		+/-
Votes	%	Seats(municipal council)	Votes	%	Seats(municipal council)			%
	Miscellaneous right	DVD	10,614	14.41	131	3,671	22.37	10	141	10.63	462
	The Republicans	LR	9,781	13.27	53	4,961	30.23	51	104	7.84	104
	Miscellaneous left	DVG	9,696	13.16	91	3,589	21.87	8	99	7.47	281
	Socialist Party	PS	5,182	7.03	57	0	0.00	0	57	4.30	28
	Union of the Left	UG	2,026	2.75	3	1,008	6.14	3	6	0.45	62
		EXG	1,084	1.47	2	0	0.00	0	2	0.15	2
	Union of Democrats and Independents	UDI	1,047	1.42	7	0	0.00	0	7	0.53	4
	French Communist Party	PCF	623	0.85	3	0	0.00	0	3	0.23	15
	National Rally	RN	560	0.76	1	0	0.00	0	1	0.08	2
	Miscellaneous centre	DVC	528	0.72	2	0	0.00	0	2	0.15	New
	Independent	DIV	423	0.57	2	0	0.00	0	2	0.15	5
	Europe Ecology – The Greens	VEC	381	0.52	2	0	0.00	0	2	0.15	2
	La République En Marche!	LREM	350	0.48	0	0	0.00	0	0	0.00	New
	No label		31,386	42.60	832	3,181	19.38	68	900	67.87	New
Total			73,681	100	1,186	16,410	100	140	1,326	100	17

Results in communes with more than 3,000 inhabitants

• Incumbent mayor: Patrick Montagner (DVD)
• 23 seats to be elected to the conseil municipal (population in 2017: 2,931 residents)
• 2 seats to be elected to the conseil communautaire (CA Vichy Communauté)

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Leader		List	First round		Second round		Seats
			Votes	%	Votes	%	CM	CC
	Romain Lopez	DVD	526	42.08	716	57.23	18	2
	Abrest Dynamique
	Patrick Montagner	DVD	432	34.56	535	42.76	5	0
	Continuer d'Agir pour Réussir
	Philippe Basmadjian	DVG	292	23.36	Withdrew
	Abrest Deux Rives
Valid votes			1,250	97.66	1,251	97.13
White votes			12	0.94	21	1.63
Rejected votes			18	1.41	16	1.24
Total			1,280	100	1,288	100	23	2
Abstentions			958	42.81	960	42.70
Registered voters - voter turnout			2,238	57.19	2,248	57.30

• Incumbent mayor: Alain Denizot (PS)
• 27 seats to be elected to the conseil municipal (population in 2017: 3,966 residents)
• 4 seats to be elected to the conseil communautaire (CA Moulins Communauté)

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Leader		List	First round		Seats
			Votes	%	CM	CC
	Alain Denizot	PS-PCF-EELV	953	75.81	24	4
	Avec Vous pour l'Avenir
	Alain Didtsch	DVD	304	24.18	3	0
	Vivons Avermes
Valid votes			1,257	96.03
White votes			18	1.38
Rejected votes			34	2.60
Total			1,309	100	27	4
Abstentions			1,765	57.42
Registered voters - voter turnout			3,074	42.58

• Incumbent mayor: François Sennepin (DVD)
• 29 seats to be elected to the conseil municipal (population in 2017: 8,500 residents)
• 6 seats to be elected to the conseil communautaire (CA Vichy Communauté)

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Leader		List	First round		Seats
			Votes	%	CM	CC
	François Sennepin	DVD-LR	1,409	56.24	24	6
	Bellerive attractive
	Guillaume Desmoules	PS-PCF	458	18.28	2	0
	Bellerive autrement
	Bruno Bonjean	EELV	381	15.20	2	0
	Naturellement Bellerive
	Grégory Chambon	DVD	257	10.25	1	0
	Bellerivez-vous
Valid votes			2,505	96.94
White votes			32	1.24
Rejected votes			47	1.82
Total			2,584	100	29	6
Abstentions			3,451	57.18
Registered voters - voter turnout			6,035	42.82

• Incumbent mayor: Anne Leclercq (DVD)
• 23 seats to be elected to the conseil municipal (population in 2017: 2,559 residents)
• 8 seats to be elected to the conseil communautaire (CC du Bocage Bourbonnais)

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Leader		List	First round		Seats
			Votes	%	CM	CC
	Jacky Belien	PCF	773	68.46	20	7
	Ensemble pour Bourbon
	Annick Leclercq	DVD	356	31.53	3	1
	Bourbon Demain avec vous vers l'Avenir
Valid votes			1,129	95.52
White votes			17	1.44
Rejected votes			36	3.05
Total			1,182	100	23	8
Abstentions			679	36.49
Registered voters - voter turnout			1,861	63.51

• Incumbent mayor: Fernand Spaccaferri (UDI)
• 29 seats to be elected to the conseil municipal (population in 2017: 6,239 residents)
• 12 seats to be elected to the conseil communautaire (CC Commentry Montmarault Néris Communauté)

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Leader		List	First round		Seats
			Votes	%	CM	CC
	Sylvain Bourdier	PCF-PS-EÉLV	1,124	51.77	22	9
	Commentry pour Tous
	Fernand Spaccaferri	UDI-LR	1,047	48.22	7	3
	Pour Commentry Évidemment
Valid votes			2,171	95.26
White votes			34	1.49
Rejected votes			74	3.25
Total			2,279	100	29	12
Abstentions			2,425	51.55
Registered voters - voter turnout			4,704	48.45

• Incumbent mayor: Martial Sanlias (DVD)
• 19 seats to be elected to the conseil municipal (population in 2017: 2,039 residents)
• 3 seats to be elected to the conseil communautaire (CC Commentry Montmarault Néris Communauté)

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Leader		List	First round		Seats
			Votes	%	CM	CC
	Marie Carré	DVD	550	62.64	16	2
	Ensemble Continuons pour Cosne
	Gilles Bidaud	PCF-PS-EÉLV	328	37.35	3	1
	À Gauche pour Cosne et son avenir
Valid votes			878	94.92
White votes			17	1.84
Rejected votes			30	3.24
Total			925	100	19	3
Abstentions			621	40.17
Registered voters - voter turnout			1,546	59.83

• Incumbent mayor: Christian Bertin (DVG)
• 23 seats to be elected to the conseil municipal (population in 2017: 3,304 residents)
• 2 seats to be elected to the conseil communautaire (CA Vichy Communauté)

• Incumbent mayor: Jean-Sebastien Laloy (LR)
• 33 seats to be elected to the conseil municipal (population in 2017: 12,661 residents)
• 10 seats to be elected to the conseil communautaire (CA Vichy Communauté)

• Incumbent mayor: Christian Sanvoisin (PCF)
• 27 seats to be elected to the conseil municipal (population in 2017: 4,422 residents)
• 4 seats to be elected to the conseil communautaire (CA Montluçon Communauté)

• Incumbent mayor: Marc Malbet (PS)
• 29 seats to be elected to the conseil municipal (population in 2017: 8,780 residents)
• 8 seats to be elected to the conseil communautaire (CA Montluçon Communauté)

• Incumbent mayor: Pascal Vernisse (DVG)
• 23 seats to be elected to the conseil municipal (population in 2017: 3,040 residents)
• 7 seats to be elected to the conseil communautaire (CC Entr'Allier Besbre et Loire)

• Incumbent mayor: Véronique Pouzadoux (LR)
• 29 seats to be elected to the conseil municipal (population in 2017: 5,832 residents)
• 13 seats to be elected to the conseil communautaire (CC Saint-Pourçain Sioule Limagne)

• Incumbent mayor: Stéphane Abranowitch (DVG)
• 23 seats to be elected to the conseil municipal (population in 2017: 2,646 residents)
• 8 seats to be elected to the conseil communautaire (CC du Pays d'Huriel)

• Incumbent mayor: Jacques de Chabannes (PRG)
• 23 seats to be elected to the conseil municipal (population in 2017: 3,123 residents)
• 11 seats to be elected to the conseil communautaire (CC du Pays d'Huriel)

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Leader		List	First round		Seats
			Votes	%	CM	CC
	Jacques de Chabannes	PRG-PS-PCF	677	100	23	11
	Continuons à construire l'avenir
Valid votes			677	85.70
White votes			26	3.29
Rejected votes			87	11.01
Total			790	100	23	11
Abstentions			1,329	62.72
Registered voters - voter turnout			2,119	37.28

• Incumbent mayor: Claude Vanneau (DVD)
• 19 seats to be elected to the conseil municipal (population in 2017: 1,893 residents)
• 2 seats to be elected to the conseil communautaire (CA Moulins Communauté)

• Incumbent mayor: Frédéric Laporte (LR)
• 39 seats to be elected to the conseil municipal (population in 2017: 35,653 residents)
• 30 seats to be elected to the conseil communautaire (CA Montluçon Communauté)

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Leader		List	First round		Second round		Seats
			Votes	%	Votes	%	CM	CC
	Frédéric Laporte	LR	2,212	27.03	2,654	31.45	26	20
	Montluçon ensemble liste ouverte
	Frédéric Kott	PS diss.-PCF	1,597	19.51	2,361	28.10	5	4
	Tout pour Montluçon
	Joseph Roudillon	DVD	1,737	21.22	2,194	26.00	5	4
	Pour Montluçon, Changeons la donne
	Sylvie Sartirano	MR-LREM-DVD	1,257	15.36	1,218	14.43	3	2
	Montluçon dès Demain
	Stéphanie Charret	FI	544	6.64	Eliminated in first round
	En 2020 tournons la page
	Jean-François Jarrige	LREM	350	4.27
	Ensemble vers le Grand Montluçon
	Mathieu Bogros	PS	345	4.21
	Réinventons Montluçon
	Jean-François Reul	LO	141	1.72
	Lutte Ouvrière - Faire entendre le camp des travailleurs
Valid votes			8,183	95.15	8,437	96.56
White votes			116	1.35	136	1.56
Rejected votes			301	3.50	165	1.89
Total			8,600	100	8,738	100	39	30
Abstentions			13,951	61.86	13,189	61.26
Registered voters - voter turnout			22,551	38.14	22,557	38.74

• Incumbent mayor: Pierre-André Périssol (LR)
• 33 seats to be elected to the conseil municipal (population in 2017: 19,664 residents)
• 20 seats to be elected to the conseil communautaire (CA Moulins Communauté)

• Incumbent mayor: Alain Chapy (DVD)
• 23 seats to be elected to the conseil municipal (population in 2017: 2,553 residents)
• 5 seats to be elected to the conseil communautaire (CC Commentry Montmarault Néris Communauté)

• Incumbent mayor: Bernard Pozzoli (PS)
• 19 seats to be elected to the conseil municipal (population in 2017: 2,458 residents)
• 2 seats to be elected to the conseil communautaire (CA Montluçon Communauté)

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Leader		List	First round		Seats
			Votes	%	CM	CC
	Bernard Pozzoli	PS	644	100	19	2
	Prémilhat Toujours
Valid votes			644	92.13
White votes			20	2.86
Rejected votes			35	5.01
Total			699	100	19	2
Abstentions			1,162	62.44
Registered voters - voter turnout			1,861	37.56

• Incumbent mayor: Élisabeth Albert-Cuisset (DVD)
• 27 seats to be elected to the conseil municipal (population in 2017: 3,656 residents)
• 3 seats to be elected to the conseil communautaire (CA Vichy Communauté)

• Incumbent mayor: Emmanyek Ferrand (LR)
• 29 seats to be elected to the conseil municipal (population in 2017: 5,160 residents)
• 11 seats to be elected to the conseil communautaire (CC Saint-Pourçain Sioule Limagne)

• Incumbent mayor: Jean-Pierre Guérin (DVD)
• 19 seats to be elected to the conseil municipal (population in 2017: 2,098 residents)
• 2 seats to be elected to the conseil communautaire (CA Montluçon Communauté)

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Leader		List	First round		Seats
			Votes	%	CM	CC
	Jean-Pierre Guérin	DVD	687	100	19	2
	Union pour la Défense des Intérêts de Saint-Victor
Valid votes			687	91.60
White votes			24	3.20
Rejected votes			39	5.20
Total			750	100	19	2
Abstentions			874	53.82
Registered voters - voter turnout			1,624	46.18

• Incumbent mayor: Joseph Kuchna (PCF)
• 23 seats to be elected to the conseil municipal (population in 2017: 2,561 residents)
• 2 seats to be elected to the conseil communautaire (CA Vichy Communauté)

• Incumbent mayor: Roger Litaudon (DVD)
• 27 seats to be elected to the conseil municipal (population in 2017: 3,561 residents)
• 8 seats to be elected to the conseil communautaire (CC Entr'Allier Besbre et Loire)

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Leader		List	First round		Seats
			Votes	%	CM	CC
	Roger Litaudon	DVD	781	100	27	8
	Unis pour Varennes
Valid votes			781	78.89
White votes			87	8.79
Rejected votes			122	12.32
Total			990	100	27	8
Abstentions			1,670	62.78
Registered voters - voter turnout			2,660	37.22

• Incumbent mayor: Jean-Marc Germanangue (DVD)
• 19 seats to be elected to the conseil municipal (population in 2017: 2,216 residents)
• 1 seats to be elected to the conseil communautaire (CA Vichy Communauté)

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Leader		List	First round		Seats
			Votes	%	CM	CC
	Jean-Marc Germanangue	DVD	558	100	19	1
	Ensemble pour Vendat
Valid votes			558	81.82
White votes			63	9.24
Rejected votes			61	8.94
Total			682	100	19	1
Abstentions			1,140	62.57
Registered voters - voter turnout			1,822	37.43

• Incumbent mayor: Frédéric Aguilera (LR)
• 35 seats to be elected to the conseil municipal (population in 2017: 24,166 residents)
• 20 seats to be elected to the conseil communautaire (CA Vichy Communauté)

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Leader		List	First round		Seats
			Votes	%	CM	CC
	Frédéric Aguilera	LR-LREM	4,356	74.10	31	18
	Vichy Passionnément
	Isabelle Réchard	PRG-EÉLV-PCF-PS	962	16.36	3	1
	Vichy c'est vous
	Jean-Pierre Sigaud	RN	560	9.52	1	1
	Vichy Bleu Marine
Valid votes			5,878	9.52
White votes			44	0.72
Rejected votes			161	2.65
Total			6,083	100	35	20
Abstentions			11,315	65.04
Registered voters - voter turnout			17,398	34.96

• Incumbent mayor: Pascal Perrin (PS)
• 33 seats to be elected to the conseil municipal (population in 2017: 13,088 residents)
• 13 seats to be elected to the conseil communautaire (CA Moulins Communauté)

See also

• 2020 French municipal elections

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