Nearly half of the Upper House (170 seats out of 348) is renewed this Sunday during the senatorial elections, the only national election – except in the event of dissolution before then – before the European elections of June 2024 and the municipal elections of 2026 79,000 voters are called to the polls on Sunday for this indirect election. A vote without much suspense to reshuffle a Senate dominated by a majority of the right and the center, little worried by a dispersed presidential camp.
In detail, the ballot concerns 38 metropolitan departments – those between Indre-et-Loire and the Pyrénées-Orientales and the eight departments of Île-de-France -, six overseas territories (Guadeloupe, Martinique , Mayotte, Réunion, New Caledonia and Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon), as well as twelve seats for French people established outside France. The other 178 will be put back into play in 2026.