Marine Le Pen leads France's 2027 presidential race with 31 to 33 percent support across four candidate scenarios in new polls.
The Elabe polls, conducted on November 12-13 with 1,500 respondents, tested different lineups for the election scheduled for May 2, 2027 . In every scenario, the far-right National Rally leader topped the field. When former Prime Minister Édouard Philippe and Gabriel Attal both run, Le Pen reaches 33 percent . With Philippe and David Lisnard competing, she scores 32.5 percent . In a scenario with François Ruffin, Attal and Lisnard, she gets 32 percent . In scenarios including Olympic judo champion Teddy Riner and Natacha Polony, she gets 31 percent .
Jean-Luc Mélenchon of the radical left placed second in all four scenarios, polling between 17 and 18.5 percent. Raphaël Glucksmann of the Socialist Party scored between 10.5 and 14 percent. Philippe reached 13 percent at most in the scenario with Lisnard, and 9.5 percent when Riner and Polony also ran. The Financial Times on Sunday headlined: "France's once best hope of stopping Marine Le Pen is losing ground" .
The polls follow a November 12 survey that showed Le Pen at 30.5 percent. Riner announced his candidacy on November 11. President Emmanuel Macron has held office since 2017, and Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu has led the government since September 2025.
