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Departmental elections to elect the membership of the departmental councils of France's 100 departments were held on 22 and 29 March 2015 (first and second round). In 2015 for the first time, the term "departmental elections" (French: élections départementales) replaced "cantonal elections" (élections cantonales); as did the term "Departmental Council" (conseil départemental), replacing "General Council" (conseil général).
The right-wing Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) won 27 new departments and lost one, resulting in it holding a majority in 67 departmental councils. 62 candidates were elected for the National Front (FN) nationwide although the party won no departments.
Like the previous cantonal elections, the departmental elections used a two-round system similar to that employed in the country's legislative elections. One change was that the election adopted paired voting known as binomial voting.
Neither the city of Paris, the Lyon Metropolis, nor Martinique and French Guiana took part in this election due to their particular statuses.[clarification needed]
Party | First round | Second round | Total seats | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | |||
Left Front (Front de Gauche) | 962,394 | 4.72 | 1 | 266,896 | 1.44 | 7 | 19 | |
Union of the Left (Union de la Gauche) [Socialist Party and its allies] | 1,667,533 | 8,19 | - | 1,679,890 | 9,09 | - | - | |
Socialist Party (Parti socialiste) | 2,708,427 | 13.30 | 24 | 2,967,883 | 16.06 | 925 | 954 | |
Europe Écologie – Les Verts | 412,729 | 2.03 | 0 | 29,888 | 0.16 | 35 | 35 | |
Communist Party (Parti communiste français) | 269,285 | 1.32 | 5 | 100,413 | 0.54 | 167 | 121 | |
Miscellaneous left (Divers gauche) | 1,383,318 | 6.79 | 27 | 828,537 | 4.48 | 376 | 403 | |
Radical Party of the Left (Parti radical de gauche) | 62,372 | 0.31 | 4 | 64 110 | 0.35 | 59 | 63 | |
Left Party (Parti de gauche) | 12,027 | 0.06 | 0 | 2,498 | 0.01 | 2 | 2 | |
Union for a Popular Movement (Union pour un Mouvement Populaire) | 1,339,412 | 6.57 | 74 | 1,596,391 | 8.64 | 1006 | 1080 | |
Miscellaneous right (Divers droite) | 1,386,466 | 6.81 | 115 | 1,279,623 | 6.92 | 784 | 899 | |
Union of Democrats and Independents (Union des Démocrates Indépendants) | 263,209 | 1.29 | 30 | 247,714 | 1.34 | 334 | 364 | |
Union of the Right (Union de la Droite) [Union pour un Mouvement Populaire and its allies] | 4,254,050 | 20.88 | - | 5,102,317 | 27.61 | - | - | |
National Front (Front national) | 5,141,897 | 25.24 | 8 | 4,108,404 | 22.23 | 54 | 62 | |
Others (Divers) | 271,065 | 1.33 | 4 | 98,781 | 0.53 | 45 | 49 | |
Democratic Movement (Mouvement démocrate) | 72,410 | 0.36 | 1 | 48,038 | 0.26 | 47 | 48 | |
Far-right (Extrême droite) | 13,382 | 0.07 | 0 | 12,851 | 0.07 | 4 | 4 | |
Totals | 21,419,393 | 50.17 | 528 | 20,160,862 | 49.98 | |||
Turnout | ||||||||
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