2001 French cantonal elections

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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.

## Electoral system

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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

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### From right to left

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

### From left to right

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* Allier (DVD)

## Results

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### National results

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Party/Alliance  | Votes  | % (first round)  | Seats (first round)  | Votes  | % (second round)  | Total Seats

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| PS | 2,706,319  | 22.16%  | 164  | 2,306,925  | 30.60%  | 494
| Miscellaneous Right | 1,953,003  | 15.99%  | 163  | 1,328,604  | 17.62%  | 455
| RPR | 1,520,072  | 12.45%  | 135  | 1,254,619  | 16.64%  | 338
| PCF | 1,196,341  | 9.80%  | 28  | 536,901  | 7.12%  | 126
| UDF | 1,122,055  | 9.19%  | 96  | 850,821  | 11.28%  | 231
| FN | 847,383  | 6.94%  | 0  | 46,149  | 0.61%  | 0
| Miscellaneous Left | 823,548  | 6.74%  | 61  | 525,089  | 6.96%  | 176
| Les Verts | 723,310  | 5.92%  | 0  | 146,057  | 1.94%  | 12
| DL | 363,922  | 2.98%  | 40  | 275,537  | 3.65%  | 90
| MNR | 361,565  | 2.96%  | 0  | 10,163  | 0.13%  | 0
| RPF | 151,489  | 1.24%  | 4  | 93,798  | 1.24%  | 18
| PRG | 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

## General council presidents elected

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### By department

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General Council Presidents elected in 2001  Department | President  | Party

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

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