French cantonal elections, 2001
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Cantonal elections to elect half the membership of the general councils of France's 100 departments were held on 11 and 18 March 2001. While the left did poorly in the municipal elections
held on the same dates, it emerged as the overall winner in the cantonal elections, gaining control of six departments and losing that of just one.
Ministry of the Interior results
French municipal elections, 2001
Municipal elections were held in France on 11 and 18 March 2001. These elections were marked by a setback for the left and a victory for the right one year before the 2002 presidential election...
held on the same dates, it emerged as the overall winner in the cantonal elections, gaining control of six departments and losing that of just one.
Electoral system
The cantonal elections use a two-round system similar to that employed in the country's legislative elections.- Councillors are elected from single-member constituencies (the cantonsCantons of FranceThe cantons of France are territorial subdivisions of the French Republic's 342 arrondissements and 101 departments.Apart from their role as organizational units in certain aspects of the administration of public services and justice, the chief purpose of the cantons today is to serve as...
). - A candidate securing the votes of at least 25% of the canton's registered voters and more than 50% of the total number of votes actually cast in the first round of voting is thereby elected. If no candidate satisfies these conditions, then a second round of voting is held one week later.
- Entitled to present themselves in the second round are the two candidates who received the highest number of votes in the first round, plus any other candidate or candidates who received the votes of at least 10% of those registered to vote in the canton.
- In the second round, the candidate receiving the highest number of votes is elected.
From right to left
- Corse-du-SudCorse-du-SudCorse-du-Sud is a French département composed of the southern part of the island of Corsica.- History :The department was formed on 15 September 1975, when the Corse department was divided into Haute-Corse and Corse-du-Sud...
(DVG) - CreuseCreuseCreuse is a department in central France named after the Creuse River.-History:Creuse is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on 4 March 1790. It was created from the former province of La Marche....
(PS) - EureEureEure is a department in the north of France named after the river Eure.- History :Eure is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on 4 March 1790...
(PS) - IsèreIsèreIsère is a department in the Rhône-Alpes region in the east of France named after the river Isère.- History :Isère is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on March 4, 1790. It was created from part of the former province of Dauphiné...
(PS) - Haute-SaôneHaute-SaôneHaute-Saône is a French department of the Franche-Comté région, named after the Saône River.- History :The department was created in the early years of the French Revolution through the application of a law dated 22 December 1789, from part of the former province of Franche-Comté...
(PS) - VaucluseVaucluseThe Vaucluse is a department in the southeast of France, named after the famous spring, the Fontaine-de-Vaucluse.- History :Vaucluse was created on 12 August 1793 out of parts of the departments of Bouches-du-Rhône, Drôme, and Basses-Alpes...
(PS)
National results
| Party/Alliance | Votes | % (first round) | Seats (first round) | Votes | % (second round) | Total Seats | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PS Socialist Party (France) The Socialist Party is a social-democratic political party in France and the largest party of the French centre-left. It is one of the two major contemporary political parties in France, along with the center-right Union for a Popular Movement... |
2,706,319 | 22.16% | 164 | 2,306,925 | 30.60% | 494 | |
| Miscellaneous Right Miscellaneous Right Miscellaneous Right in France refers to right-wing candidates that are not member of any large party. They either include small right-wing parties, dissidents expelled from their parties for running against their party's candidate, as well as candidates who were never formal members of a party... |
1,953,003 | 15.99% | 163 | 1,328,604 | 17.62% | 455 | |
| RPR Rally for the Republic The Rally for the Republic , was a French right-wing political party. Originating from the Union of Democrats for the Republic , it was founded by Jacques Chirac in 1976 and presented itself as the heir of Gaullism... |
1,520,072 | 12.45% | 135 | 1,254,619 | 16.64% | 338 | |
| PCF French Communist Party The French Communist Party is a political party in France which advocates the principles of communism.Although its electoral support has declined in recent decades, the PCF retains a large membership, behind only that of the Union for a Popular Movement , and considerable influence in French... |
1,196,341 | 9.80% | 28 | 536,901 | 7.12% | 126 | |
| UDF Union for French Democracy The Union for French Democracy was a French centrist political party. It was founded in 1978 as an electoral alliance to support President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing in order to counterbalance the Gaullist preponderance over the right. This name was chosen due to the title of Giscard d'Estaing's... |
1,122,055 | 9.19% | 96 | 850,821 | 11.28% | 231 | |
| FN | 847,383 | 6.94% | 0 | 46,149 | 0.61% | 0 | |
| Miscellaneous Left Miscellaneous Left Miscellaneous Left in France refers to left-wing candidates that are not member of any large party. They either include small left-wing parties or dissidents expelled from their parties for running against their party's candidate. Numerous DVG candidates are elected at a local level, and a smaller... |
823,548 | 6.74% | 61 | 525,089 | 6.96% | 176 | |
| Les Verts The Greens (France) The Greens were a Green political party to the centre-left of the political spectrum in France. They had officially been in existence since 1984, but their spiritual roots could be traced as far back as René Dumont’s candidacy for the presidency in 1974... |
723,310 | 5.92% | 0 | 146,057 | 1.94% | 12 | |
| DL Liberal Democracy (France) Liberal Democracy was a French political party that advocated conservative liberalism and liberal conservatism, headed by Alain Madelin. The party replaced in 1997 the Republican Party, which was the classical liberal component of the Union for French Democracy .It became independent in 1998,... |
363,922 | 2.98% | 40 | 275,537 | 3.65% | 90 | |
| MNR National Republican Movement The National Republican Movement is a French nationalist political party, created by Bruno Mégret with former Club de l'Horloge alumni, Yvan Blot and Jean-Yves Le Gallou, as a split from Jean-Marie Le Pen's National Front on January 24, 1999.Although political observers have considered the MNR to... |
361,565 | 2.96% | 0 | 10,163 | 0.13% | 0 | |
| RPF | 151,489 | 1.24% | 4 | 93,798 | 1.24% | 18 | |
| PRG Left Radical Party The Radical Party of the Left is a minor social-liberal, and in opposition to its common understanding of its name, a moderate centre-left political party in France advocating radicalism, secularism to its french extend known as laïcité, progressivism, pro-Europeanism, individual freedom and... |
150,695 | 1.23% | 14 | 100,143 | 1.33% | 40 | |
| Far-Left | 76,605 | 0.65% | 1 | 5,302 | 0.07% | 2 | |
| Ecologists | 66,346 | 0.54% | 2 | 5,713 | 0.08% | 3 | |
| Regionalists | 54,321 | 0.44% | 0 | 8,688 | 0.12% | 3 | |
| Miscellaneous | 46,377 | 0.38% | 0 | 19,655 | 0.26% | 4 | |
| CPNT | 44,680 | 0.37% | 1 | 25,608 | 0.34% | 5 | |
Sources
E-PMinistry of the Interior results