2008 Lyon municipal election

May 2019 noref (GreenC bot) February 2022 Municipal and mayoral elections were held in Lyon in March 2008, at the same time as other municipal elections. The then-current mayor of Lyon Gérard Collomb (PS) should have faced UMP candidate Dominique Perben and MoDem candidate Christophe Geourjon, who finally chose to join the Perben list. Azouz Begag declined to seek the MoDem nomination. Another MoDem candidate was selected by François Bayrou a month before the elections as head of the MoDem list to replace Geourjon and other defectors both to the UMP-led and the PS-led lists. In the 2001 French municipal elections, the Socialist Gérard Collomb won the country's second largest city from the UDF. Lyon had been considered a stronghold for the centrist UDF in previous years. In 2008, former UMP Transportation Minister Dominique Perben tried to win back the city. Surprisingly, the two highly presumed candidates for the centrist MoDem and the far-right National Front, Azouz Begag and Bruno Gollnisch respectively both announced their intentions not to stand. Two nationalist right-wing parties, the MPF and the DLC (led by Charles Millon), made agreements with Dominique Perben, who inserted their candidates on his list. Subsequently, former right-wing mayor Michel Noir openly distanced himself from Perben, most notably in a February interview with the Lyon daily Le Progrès. For the same reason, François Bayrou decided to maintain a separate MoDem list and not to support the Perben list. Polls indicated that Collomb had approval nearing 90% and was favored to win an easy re-election. Results 1st Arrondissement Municipal election 2008: 1st Arrondissement Socialist Party (France) Nathalie Perrin-Gilbert 5,919 58.69% Union for a Popular Movement Fabienne Levy 1,868 18.52% Revolutionary Communist League (France) Sophie Divry 1,324 13.13% Democratic Movement (France) Christophe Cédat 629 6.24% National Front (France) Anne Sigrist 221 2.19% Workers' Struggle Arlette Couzon 124 1.23% 10,219 Socialist Party (France) The Greens (France) 2nd Arrondissement Municipal election 2008: 2nd Arrondissement Union for a Popular Movement Denis Broliquier 4,655 45.82% Socialist Party (France) Nadine Gelas 3,924 38.62% Democratic Movement (France) Anne Pellet 804 7.91% National Front (France) Pascal Marion 436 4.29% Far left Frédéric Chambat 341 3.36% 10,350 Union for a Popular Movement Denis Broliquier 5,537 58.19% Socialist Party (France) Nadine Gelas 3,978 41.81% 9,676 Union for a Popular Movement 3rd Arrondissement Municipal election 2008: 3rd Arrondissement Socialist Party (France) Thiery Philip 15,467 52.82% Union for a Popular Movement Dominique Perben 8,790 30.02% Democratic Movement (France) Eric Lafond 2,147 7.33% Revolutionary Communist League (France) Gilbert Dumas 1,685 5.75% National Front (France) Alain Niviere 1,191 4.07% 29,727 Socialist Party (France) Union for a Popular Movement See also 2008 French municipal elections 2008 Paris municipal election 2008 Marseille municipal election Lyon municipal election Lyon municipal election Category:Municipal elections in France