Originally scheduled for Sunday, March 22, 2020, the second round of municipal elections, which concerned about 5,000 municipalities, took place on Sunday, June 28, 2020 (except in Guyana).
This second round of municipal elections, held more than three months after the first round due to the health crisis, is marked by a record abstention rate for a municipal election. The first round of municipal elections on 15 March 2020, held on the eve of the lockdown, had already been marked by a very high abstention rate (55.3%) (read more about Vie-publique.fr).
