Xavier Bertrand, president of the Hauts-de-France region – Marceau Voituron / SIPA
- A poll dated May 31 shows that the gaps are narrowing between the two favorites.
- Xavier Bertrand wins in all cases but would be more comfortably reelected in the event of a triangular without the LREM list.
The election is getting closer and the gaps are narrowing. A little more than three weeks before the first round of regional elections in Hauts-de-France, the list led by Xavier Bertrand remains at the top of voting intentions but the gap is narrowing with the list of the National Rally led by Sebastien Chenu .
According to an Opinon Way poll for CNews * published on Monday, the outgoing region president (Various right) would collect 33% of the vote in the first round against 32% for the RN candidate. The list of the union of the left and environmentalists led by Karima Delli would come in third position (17%) ahead of the LREM list of Laurent Pietraszewski (11%).
Following are the lists of Debout la France led by José Evrard (4%), the citizens’ party led by Audric Alexandre (2%) and Lutte Ouvrière led by Eric Pecqueur (1%). A quarter of those questioned did not express any intention to vote.
A tight quadrangular, a triangular favorable to Xavier Bertrand
In the second round, in the event of a quadrangular, Xavier Bertrand would win with 36% of the vote against 34% of the vote for Sébastien Chenu followed by Karima Delli (19%) and Laurent Pietraszewski (11%). But in case of triangular, without the LREM list, 44% of respondents would vote for Xavier Bertrand, 35% for Sébastien Chenu and 21% for Karima Delli.
* The OpinionWay survey was conducted among a sample of 1,048 people registered on the electoral rolls in Hauts-de-France, from a sample of 1,126 people representative of the regional population aged 18 and over, according to the quota method. The interviews were carried out by self-administered online questionnaire from May 26 to 29, 2021. The margin of error is 1.5 to 3 points.