2026 Toulouse municipal election

The 2026 Toulouse municipal election is scheduled to take place on March 15, 2026, to elect the Mayor of Toulouse and the Municipal Council of Toulouse, with an eventual runoff on March 22. This election follows the tenure of Jean-Luc Moudenc, mayor of Toulouse since 2014, who is running for a third consecutive term.

Jean-Luc Moudenc, was elected as mayor in 2014 and reelected in 2020. He also had served as mayor between from 2004 to his defeat in 2020. He was a member of The Republicans (LR) but quit the party in 2022. He is running for a second term with the support of his former party LR but also center-right parties Renaissance (RE) and Horizons (HOR), that also supported him in 2020. Carole Delga declined to be a candidate for the Socialist Party (PS) and instead supported the candidacy of François Briançon. The Ecologists initially considered Régis Godec as their candidate but an agreement was reached with Godec and LE supporting Briançon as mayor.^[1]

The 2026 election will take place with a closed-list system. If no list gets 50% of votes in the first round, a second round takes place. Every list that gets at least 10% of the votes can access the second round. Every list getting above 5% of votes can merge with a list that accessed the second round. Half of the seats are attributed to the list coming first in the last round. The other half are attributed proportionately between the lists that get more than 5%.^[2]

• François Briançon, Municipal Councillor

• Jean-Luc Moudenc, incumbent Mayor

• François Piquemal, Deputy

• Julien Leonardelli, Member of the European Parliament

François Briançon launched his bid announcing that if elected he will support Régis Godec from The Ecologists as president of Toulouse Métropole.