2015 Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardie regional election

Élections_régionales_de_2015_en_Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardie December 2015 gov December 2015 2015 Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardie regional election Hauts-de-France parliamentary 2010 French regional elections 2010 2021 French regional elections 2021 All 170 Regional Councillors 6 and 13 December 2015 First round Percentage Second round Percentage 160x160px 116 Xavier Bertrand The Republicans (France) 558,420 24.97% 1,389,340 57.8% 160x160px Pierre de Saintignon Socialist Party (France) 0 405,199 18.1% Withdrew Withdrew 160x160px Marine Le Pen National Front (France) 54 909,035 40.6% 1,015,662 42.2% President of the Regional Council Position created Xavier Bertrand The Republicans (France) Élections régionales de 2015 en Nord Pas de Calais Picardie.svg The first Regional Elections of Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardie were held on 6 and 13 December 2015. At stake were the Regional Council of Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardie. These elections were the first to be held for the redrawn regions- the 27 regions of France were amalgamated into 18, this went into effect on 1 January 2016.La carte à 13 régions définitivement adoptée, Le Monde, 17 December 2014, accessed 2 January 2015http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichTexte.do?cidTexte=JORFTEXT000030109622&categorieLien=id LOI n° 2015–29 du 16 janvier 2015 relative à la délimitation des régions, aux élections régionales et départementales et modifiant le calendrier électoral – Legifrance 13 December 2015 The former regions of Nord-Pas-de-Calais and Picardy were merged and became the region of Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardie, later named Hauts-de-France. Voting system The regional elections are held in direct universal suffrage using proportional representation lists. The election is held over two rounds, with majority bonus. The lists must be gender balanced by alternatively have a male candidate and a female candidate from the top to the bottom of the list. Only lists with as many candidates as available seatsalso compulsory in French municipal elections in every departement of the region may compete. Following the 1999 and 2003 electoral reforms, with a first implementation in 2004, a two-round runoff voting system is used to elect the regional presidents.https://uk.ambafrance.org/French-regional-elections-results French regional elections results France in the United Kingdom - La France au Royaume-Uni en 2017-09-19 https://web.archive.org/web/20170919234041/https://uk.ambafrance.org/French-regional-elections-results 2017-09-19 dead If no party gets at least 50% of the vote in the first round, a second round is held, which any party who got at least 10% in the first round may enter. Lists that obtain at least 5% of the vote in the first round may merge in the second round with a 'qualified list', which includes candidates from each merged list. At the decisive round (first round if a list won 50%, the second round if not), the leading list receives a premium of 25% of the seats while the remaining seats are distributed among all lists who received at least 5% of votes. Thus, the majority bonus allows a leading list to have an absolute majority of seats in the Regional Council from one third of votes in the second round. The seats are distributed among the lists at the regional level but within each list, seats are allocated by departmental branch in proportion to the number of votes in each department. In the regional council there are 170 members, and they are elected in the 5 departments(17 members for Aisne, 25 for Oise, 18 for the Somme, 76 for the Nord and 44 for Pas-de-Calais Opinion polls Opinion_polling_for_the_French_regional_elections,_2015#Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardie Results France uses a two-round runoff system to elect the regional presidencies, and as such not all seats contested will see a candidate elected in the first round. First round The first round election was held on 6 December 2015. List Votes Votes %Socialist Party (France) 405,199 18.1French Communist Party 119,081 5.3Europe Ecology – The Greens 107,993 4.8Total left-wing28,27 The Republicans (France) 558,420 24.97France Arise 53,359 2.39Nous Citoyens 30,319 1.36Total right-wing28.72National Front (France) 909,035 40.64Total far-right40.64Lutte Ouvrière 39,041 1.75Popular Republican Union 14,345 0.64Total 2,322,851 100Registered voters/turnout 4,237,839 54.81 450x450px Second round Runoff elections were held on 13 December 2015 in regions where no candidate was able to win outright in the first round. After the first round, the Front National achieve nearly 41% of the votes and the Socialist candidate decided to withdraw his list from competing in the second round, in an attempt to block Marine Le Pen and the Front National from becoming the majority party in the second round due to split opposition from the centre-left and centre-right blocs.Alberts Jennifer Face au FN, le PS choisit le "barrage républicain" contre l'avis de ses candidats https://france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/hauts-de-france/elections-regionales-le-socialiste-pierre-de-saintignon-appelle-voter-xavier-bertrand-au-2nd-tour-877423.html France 3 Toutes Régions 9 December 2015 French The result was a disappointment for the Front National, which was unable to win any of the regional presidencies, including Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardie, in the face of concerted tactical voting. However, they managed to increase their share of the vote from the first round.France's far-right National Front loses a round, but they will be back https://www.economist.com/news/europe/21683995-tactical-manoeuvring-mainstream-left-and-right-blocks-marine-le-pen-winning-regional 14 December 2015 The Economist 13 December 2015 Of the 12 regions in mainland France, 7 were won by the Republicans and 5 were retained by the Socialists.http://www.lemonde.fr/elections-regionales-2015/article/2015/12/13/les-resultats-des-elections-region-par-region_4831146_4640869.html Elections régionales : les résultats, région par région Le Monde.fr Lemonde.fr 13 December 2015 2018-06-13 List Votes Votes % Seats Seats %Union of the Right 57.7711668.24National Front42.235431.76Total 2,595,417 100 170 100Registered voters/turnout 4,237,939 61.24 Distribution by departments Constituency LR FN % S % S Aisne 53.8 9 46.2 5 Oise 55.9 15 44.1 7 Somme 56.4 11 43.6 5 Nord 61.8 52 38.2 21 Pas-de-Calais 54.1 29 45.9 16 Total 57.8 116 42.2 54 References External links Results Content in this edit is translated from the existing French Wikipedia article at :fr:Élections régionales de 2015 en Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardie; see its history for attribution. 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