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2001 French cantonal elections

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.

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 cantons).
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.

Change in control

From right to left

Corse-du-Sud (DVG)
Creuse (PS)
Eure (PS)
Isère (PS)
Haute-Saône(PS)
Vaucluse (PS)

From left to right

Allier (DVD)

Results

National results

Votes	% (first round)	Seats (first round)	Votes	% (second round)	Total Seats
PS	2,706,319	22.16%	164	2,306,925	30.60%
Miscellaneous Right	1,953,003	15.99%	163	1,328,604	17.62%
RPR	1,520,072	12.45%	135	1,254,619	16.64%
PCF	1,196,341	9.80%	28	536,901	7.12%
UDF	1,122,055	9.19%	96	850,821	11.28%
FN	847,383	6.94%	0	46,149	0.61%
Miscellaneous Left	823,548	6.74%	61	525,089	6.96%
Les Verts	723,310	5.92%	0	146,057	1.94%
DL	363,922	2.98%	40	275,537	3.65%
MNR	361,565	2.96%	0	10,163	0.13%
RPF	151,489	1.24%	4	93,798	1.24%
PRG	150,695	1.23%	14	100,143	1.33%
Far-Left	76,605	0.65%	1	5,302	0.07%
Ecologists	66,346	0.54%	2	5,713	0.08%
Regionalists	54,321	0.44%	0	8,688	0.12%
Miscellaneous	46,377	0.38%	0	19,655	0.26%
CPNT	44,680	0.37%	1	25,608	0.34%

General council presidents elected

By department

Department	President	Party
01	Ain	Jean Pépin
02	Aisne	Yves Daudigny*
03	Allier	Gérard Dériot*
04	Alpes-de-Haute-Provence	Jean-Louis Bianco
05	Hautes-Alpes	Alain Bayrou
06	Alpes-Maritimes	Charles Ginésy
07	Ardèche	Michel Teston
08	Ardennes	Roger Aubry
09	Ariège	Augustin Bonrepaux*
10	Aube	Philippe Adnot
11	Aude	Marcel Rainaud
12	Aveyron	Jean Puech
13	Bouches-du-Rhône	Jean-Noël Guérini
14	Calvados	Anne d'Ornano
15	Cantal	Vincent Descoeur*
16	Charente	Jacques Bobe
17	Charente-Maritime	Claude Belot
18	Cher	Rémy Pointereau*
19	Corrèze	Jean-Pierre Dupont
2A	Corse-du-Sud	Noël Sarrola*
2B	Haute-Corse	Paul Giacobbi
21	Côte-d'Or	Louis de Broissia
22	Côtes-d'Armor	Claudy Lebreton
23	Creuse	Jean-Jacques Lozach*
24	Dordogne	Bernard Cazeau
25	Doubs	Claude Girard
26	Drôme	Charles Monge*
27	Eure	Jean-Louis Destans*
28	Eure-et-Loir	Martial Taugourdeau
29	Finistère	Pierre Maille
30	Gard	Damien Alary*
31	Haute-Garonne	Pierre Izard
32	Gers	Philippe Martin
33	Gironde	Philippe Madrelle
34	Hérault	André Vezinhet
35	Ille-et-Vilaine	Marie-Joseph Bissonnier*
36	Indre	Louis Pinton
37	Indre-et-Loire	Marc Pommereau*
38	Isère	André Vallini*
39	Jura	Gérard Bailly
40	Landes	Henri Emmanuelli
41	Loir-et-Cher	Michel Dupiot
42	Loire	Pascal Clément
43	Haute-Loire	Jacques Barrot
44	Loire-Atlantique	André Trillard*
45	Loiret	Éric Doligé
46	Lot	Jean Milhau
47	Lot-et-Garonne	Jean François-Poncet
48	Lozère	Jean-Paul Pottier
49	Maine-et-Loire	André Lardeux
50	Manche	Jean-François Le Grand
51	Marne	Albert Vecten
52	Haute-Marne	Bruno Sido
53	Mayenne	Jean Arthuis
54	Meurthe-et-Moselle	Michel Dinet
55	Meuse	Bertrand Pancher*
56	Morbihan	Jean-Charles Cavaillé
57	Moselle	Philippe Leroy
58	Nièvre	Marcel Charmant*
59	Nord	Bernard Derosier
60	Oise	Jean-François Mancel
61	Orne	Gérard Burel
62	Pas-de-Calais	Roland Huguet
63	Puy-de-Dôme	Pierre-Joël Bonte
64	Pyrénées-Atlantiques	Jean-Jacques Lasserre*
65	Hautes-Pyrénées	François Fortassin
66	Pyrénées-Orientales	Christian Bourquin
67	Bas-Rhin	Philippe Richert
68	Haut-Rhin	Constant Georg
69	Rhône	Michel Mercier
70	Haute-Saône	Yves Krattinger*
71	Saône-et-Loire	René Beaumont
72	Sarthe	Roland du Luart
73	Savoie	Hervé Gaymard
74	Haute-Savoie	Ernest Nycollin
75	Paris	Bertrand Delanoë*
76	Seine-Maritime	Charles Revet
77	Seine-et-Marne	Jacques Larché
78	Yvelines	Franck Borotra
79	Deux-Sèvres	Jean-Marie Morisset
80	Somme	Alain Gest
81	Tarn	Thierry Carcenac
82	Tarn-et-Garonne	Jean-Michel Baylet
83	Var	Hubert Falco
84	Vaucluse	Claude Haut*
85	Vendée	Philippe de Villiers
86	Vienne	René Monory
87	Haute-Vienne	Jean-Claude Peyronnet
88	Vosges	Christian Poncelet
89	Yonne	Henri de Raincourt
90	Territoire de Belfort	Christian Proust
91	Essonne	Michel Berson
92	Hauts-de-Seine	Charles Pasqua
93	Seine-Saint-Denis	Robert Clément
94	Val-de-Marne	Christian Favier*
95	Val-d'Oise	François Scellier
971	Guadeloupe	Jacques Gillot*
972	Martinique	Claude Lise
973	Guyane	Joseph Ho-Ten-You
974	Réunion	Jean-Luc Poudroux
975	Saint Pierre et Miquelon	Marc Plantegenest
976	Mayotte	Younoussa Bamana

Sources

E-P

Ministry of the Interior results

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