National Rally (RN) polls 2026: 34.7% average & trends in France

Key issues & ideology

The RN combines nationalism with a statist economic programme often described as welfare chauvinism: generous social protection reserved for French citizens. It demands sharp reductions in immigration, including asylum restrictions, deportations of foreign criminals and the abolition of state medical aid for undocumented migrants, alongside a constitutional priority for French nationals in housing, jobs and benefits.

Voters asking "who is National Rally?" or "what does National Rally stand for?" find the party classified here as anti-immigration, eurosceptic, national conservatism — positioning that explains both its ceiling near 34.7% and where further recovery must come from.

Pollster breakdown: how the 34.7% average is built

The table below shows the verified readings behind the headline (Ifop, Harris Interactive, Odoxa — each row names its pollster so the source is fully transparent). Accredited houses tracked for France include Ifop, Ipsos, Elabe, Odoxa, Harris Interactive, OpinionWay — see Methodology for inclusion rules.

Ideology

The RN combines nationalism with a statist economic programme often described as welfare chauvinism: generous social protection reserved for French citizens. It demands sharp reductions in immigration, including asylum restrictions, deportations of foreign criminals and the abolition of state medical aid for undocumented migrants, alongside a constitutional priority for French nationals in housing, jobs and benefits. On law and order it proposes tougher sentencing, more police and the expulsion of foreign offenders. Economically it defends pensions, public services and purchasing power, having abandoned earlier neoliberal flirtations and its former call to leave the euro, now favouring a Europe of nations that repatriates sovereignty while keeping the single currency. The party presents secularism (laicite) as a weapon against Islamism, supporting bans on visible religious symbols in more public spaces. Analysts place it on the radical right: nativist and authoritarian on culture, protectionist and interventionist on economics, distinct from both the liberal right and the left.

Voter demographics

The RN electorate is disproportionately working-class: blue-collar workers, clerical employees, the unemployed and voters with vocational or no qualifications form its core. It dominates in the deindustrialised north and east, the Mediterranean south and rural peripheries marked by factory closures and declining public services — the France described as peripheral. Age patterns have shifted dramatically: once the party of older protest voters, it now polls strongly among voters under 35, with Bardella and the particular appeal to young men. The RN remains weaker among university graduates, senior executives, teachers and residents of Paris and the largest cities, though it has grown steadily among women, closing much of the historic gender gap. Abstention is the party and the main rival: its voters turn out less reliably than those of the left or centre, making mobilisation decisive. Second-generation immigrant voters occasionally support the RN on security and secularism grounds, but the party and the weakest scores remain in diverse banlieues.