2015 French regional elections

none 2015 French regional elections France parliamentary 2010 French regional elections 2010 2021 French regional elections 2021 All 17 regional presidenciesAll 1,757 regional councillorsAll 153 territorial councillors 6 and 13 December 2015 Regions won Change First round Second round Nicolas Sarkozy February 2015.jpg 120 120 150 0 0 Nicolas Sarkozy The Republicans (France) 7 + 1 (UDI) 5 5,785,07326.65% 0.63 10,127,19640.24% 4.87 Jean-Christophe Cambadélis 2007 (cropped).jpg 120 120 150 0 0 Jean-Christophe Cambadélis Socialist Party (France) 5 + 1 (GUSR) + 1 (GR) 15 5,019,72323.12% 6.02 7,263,56728.86% 20.66 Le Pen, Marine-9586 (cropped).jpg 120 120 150 0 0 Marine Le Pen National Front (France) 0 6,018,67227.73% 16.31 6,820,14727.10% 17.93 French regional elections 2015 2nd Round.svg Second round results by region. #0066cc The Republicans and Union of Democrats and Independents #ff8080 Socialist Party #ffcc33 Regionalists #ffc0c0 Miscellaneous left Regional elections were held in France on 6 and 13 December 2015. At stake were the regional councils in metropolitan and overseas France including the Corsican Assembly and inaugural seats in the Assembly of French Guiana and Assembly of Martinique, all for a six-year term. The Departmental Council of Mayotte, which also exercises the powers of a region, was the only region not participating in this election, having already been renewed on 2 April 2015. There were 18 regional presidencies at stake, with 13 in mainland France and Corsica, as well as 5 overseas. Though they do not have legislative autonomy, these territorial collectivities manage sizable budgets. Moreover, regional elections are often taken as a mid-term opinion poll. 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 election saw a huge swing away from the centre-left Socialist Party, as well as a small swing to the centre-right Republicans. However, there was a double-digit swing to the right-wing National Rally in both the first round and the second round. Despite this, National Rally did not win any regional presidencies. 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. Before 2004, lists could be presented only at the departement level, allowing smaller parties (e.g. Hunting, Fishing, Nature, Tradition, Alsace d'abord, Lutte Ouvrière, Revolutionary Communist League) to be represented as such in the regional councils and thus forcing major parties to enter into negotiations to rule some regions. 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 departement branch in proportion to the number of votes in each department. Opinion polls Opinion polling for the French regional elections, 2015 National results January 2016 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 %Union of the Left (France) 5,019,723 23.12Europe Ecology – The Greens 1,440,226 6.63Left Front (France) 541,409 2.49Miscellaneous left 401,517 1.85French Communist Party 337,390 1.55Socialist Party (France) 62,070 0.29Radical Party of the Left 4,227 0.02Total left-wing35.96 Union of the Right 5,785,073 26.65France Arise 827,262 3.81Miscellaneous right 142,836 0.66Democratic Movement (France) 85,450 0.39The Republicans (France) 42,346 0.20Union of Democrats and Independents 1,818 0.01Total right-wing31.72National Front (France) 6,018,672 27.73 Miscellaneous far-right 34,061 0.16Total far-right27.89 Miscellaneous far-left 334,140 1.54 Regionalists 273,431 1.26Popular Republican Union 189,046 0.87 Miscellaneous ecologists 127,451 0.59 Miscellaneous other 39,883 0.18Total 22,609,602 100Registered voters/turnout 45,298,641 49.91 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 Socialist Party withdrew its lists in the regions of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur and Hauts-de-France, where they finished in third place, in an attempt to block the Front National from winning seats in the second round due to split opposition from the centre-left and centre-right blocs.Siraud Mathilde Face au FN, le PS choisit le "barrage républicain" contre l'avis de ses candidats http://www.lefigaro.fr/politique/le-scan/decryptages/2015/12/06/25003-20151206ARTFIG00171-face-au-fn-les-strategies-a-geometrie-variable-des-candidats-ps.php Le Figaro 6 December 2015 7 December 2015 fr However, despite instructions from the party, the Socialist candidate chose to maintain his list in the region of Le Grand-Est, which similarly had them in third and the FN with a sizable lead after the first round.Régionales/Grand-Est: Masseret (PS) maintient sa liste http://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-actu/2015/12/07/97001-20151207FILWWW00149-regionalesgrand-est-masseret-ps-maintient-sa-liste.php Le Figaro 7 December 2015 7 December 2015 fr The result was a disappointment for the Front National, which was unable to win any of the regional presidencies in the face of concerted tactical voting. However, in both the north and the south, 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 13 December 2015 List Votes Votes % Seats Seats %Union of the Right40.6381842.83Union of the Left (France) 7,263,567 29.14 520 27.23Miscellaneous left 622,382 2.50 144 7.54Socialist Party (France) 18,288 0.07 13 0.68Total left-wing31.7167735.45National Front27.3635818.74Regionalists0.29572.98Total 24,924,409 100 1914 100Registered voters/turnout 44,832,737 58.44 By region The following table shows regional presidents before and after the elections, with merged regions shown alongside the region taking effect in 2016. The candidates on the left were the incumbents, whereas the candidates on the right were those elected (or re-elected) to the new regions. In the case of Corsica and Martinique, multiple presidencies were at stake. Region President Before Party Region President After Party Alsace Philippe Richert LR Grand Est Philippe Richert LR Champagne-Ardenne Jean-Paul Bachy DVG Lorraine Jean-Pierre Masseret PS Aquitaine Alain Rousset PS Nouvelle-Aquitaine Alain Rousset PS Limousin Gérard Vandenbroucke PS Poitou-Charentes Jean-François Macaire PS Auvergne René Souchon PS Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Laurent Wauquiez LR Rhône-Alpes Jean-Jack Queyranne PS Burgundy François Patriat PS Bourgogne-Franche-Comté Marie-Guite Dufay PS Franche-Comté Marie-Guite Dufay PS Brittany Pierrick Massiot PS Brittany Jean-Yves Le Drian PS Centre-Val de Loire François Bonneau PS Centre-Val de Loire François Bonneau PS Corsica Assembly Dominique Bucchini PCF Corsica Assembly Jean-Guy Talamoni CL Executive Council Paul Giacobbi DVG Executive Council Gilles Simeoni FC French Guiana Regional Council Rodolphe Alexandre GR French Guiana Assembly Rodolphe Alexandre GR General Council Alain Tien-Liong MDES Guadeloupe Victorin Lurel PS Guadeloupe Ary Chalus GUSR Île-de-France Jean-Paul Huchon PS Île-de-France Valérie Pécresse LR Languedoc-Roussilon Damien Alary PS Occitania (administrative region) Carole Delga PS Midi-Pyrénées Martin Malvy PS Réunion Didier Robert LR Réunion Didier Robert LR Martinique Regional Council Serge Letchimy PPM Martinique Assembly Claude Lise RDM General Council Josette Manin BPM Executive Council Alfred Marie-Jeanne MIM Nord-Pas-de-Calais Daniel Percheron PS Hauts-de-France Xavier Bertrand LR Picardy Claude Gewerc PS Lower Normandy Laurent Beauvais PS Normandy Hervé Morin UDI Upper Normandy Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol PS Pays de la Loire Jacques Auxiette PS Pays de la Loire Bruno Retailleau LR Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Michel Vauzelle PS Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Christian Estrosi LR The following table shows each major party's performance by region. The bolded candidates received the most votes, and were thus elected president of their respective regions. Region Union of the Right Union of the Left National Front RegionalistsAuvergne-Rhône-Alpes Laurent Wauquiez 1,201,528 (40.61%) Jean-Jack Queyranne 1,089,791 (36.84%) Christophe Boudot 667,084 (22.55%) Bourgogne-Franche-Comté François Sauvadet 382,177 (32.89%) Marie-Guite Dufay 402,941 (34.68%) Sophie Montel 376,902 (32.44%) Brittany Marc Le Fur 387.836 (29.72%) Jean-Yves Le Drian 670,754 (51.41%) Gilles Pennelle 246,177 (18.87%) Centre-Val de Loire Philippe Vigier 355,475 (34.58%) François Bonneau 364,211 (35.43%) Philippe Loiseau 308,422 (30.0%) Corsica José Rossi 40,480 (27.07%) Paul Giacobbi 42,607 (28.09%) Christophe Canioni 13,599 (9.09%) Gilles Simeoni 52,839 (35.34%)French Guiana Rodolphe Alexandre 21,163 (54.55%) Alain Tien-Liong 17,361 (45.45%)Grand Est Philippe Richert 1,060,029 (48.4%) Jean-Pierre Masseret 339,749 (15.51%) Florian Philippot 790,141 (36.08%) Guadeloupe Victorin Lurel 72,721 (42.48) Ary ChalusWhilst not strictly a regionalist platform, Ary Chalus' list included a combination of local parties, socialists and conservative dissidents opposed to the list of the Socialist Party and its allies. 98,464 (57.42%)Hauts-de-France Xavier Bertrand 1,389,316 (57.7%) Withdrew Marine Le Pen 1,015,649 (42.23%) Île-de-France Valérie Pécresse 1,629,249 (43.8%) Claude Bartolone 1,569,093 (42.18%) Wallerand de Saint-Just 521,383 (14.02%) Martinique Serge Letchimy 70,776 (45.86%) Alfred Marie-Jeanne 83,541 (54.14%)Normandy Hervé Morin 495,591 (36.43%) Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol 490,840 (36.08%) Nicolas Bay 374,089 (27.5%) Nouvelle-Aquitaine Virginie Calmels 798,142 (34.06%) Alain Rousset 1,037,330 (44.27%) Jacques Colombier 507,660 (21.67%) Occitanie Dominique Reynié 520,011 (21.32%) Carole Delga 1,092,969 (48.81%) Louis Aliot 826,023 (33.87%) Pays de la Loire Bruno Retailleau 620,245 (42.7%) Christophe Clergeau 545,637 (37.56%) Pascal Gannat 286,723 (19.74%) Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Christian Estrosi 1,073,485 (54.78%) Withdrew Marion Maréchal 886,147 (45.22%) Réunion Didier Robert 173,592 (52.69%) Huguette Bello 155,896 (47.31%) References External links Full results 2015 Category:2015 elections in France