List of presidents of departmental councils (France)

In France, the President of the Departmental Council (French: Président du Conseil départemental) is the locally elected head of the departmental council, the assembly governing a department in France. The position is elected by the departmental councillors from among their number. If there is a tie, the councillor senior of age is elected.

Current political majority in each departmental council:

  French Communist Party

  Socialist Party

  Miscellaneous left

  Radical Party of the Left

  Democratic Movement

  Union of Democrats and Independents

  The Republicans

  Miscellaneous right

As per Articles L1111-1 to L7331-3 of the General code of local and regional authorities, the responsibilities of the President of the Departmental Council include:^[1][2]

• Chairing the departmental authorities
• Preparing and implementing the council's decisions
• Collection of tax revenues
• Representing the department in legal cases

History

In 1833, a law was enacted that gave each canton (subdivision of a department) representation of a councillor (Conseiller général).^[3]

As a result of the decentralisation of government (Deferre law), the election criteria were redefined in 1982 and the President of the Departmental Council took over executive powers from the centrally-appointed prefect.^[4]

Women presidents

Term	Name	Department	References
1970–1982	Évelyne Baylet	Tarn-et-Garonne	[5]
1982–1985	Lucette Michaux-Chevry	Guadeloupe	[6]
1985–1994	Janine Bardou [fr]	Lozère	[7]
1991–2011	Anne d'Ornano	Calvados	[8]
1998–2004	Marisol Touraine	Indre-et-Loire	[9][10]
2004–2015	Marie-Françoise Pérol-Dumont	Haute-Vienne	[11][12]
2004–2017	Nassimah Dindar	Réunion	[13]
2008–2011	Claude Roiron [fr]	Indre-et-Loire	[14]
2008–2011	Josette Durrieu	Hautes-Pyrénées	[15]
2010–present	Hermeline Malherbe-Laurent	Pyrénées-Orientales	[16]
2011–2015	Josette Manin	Martinique	[17]
2014–present	Anne Hidalgo	Paris	[18]

List of the presidents of the departmental councils

#	Département (or collectivity)	President	Party	Since	Ref.
01	Ain	Jean Deguerry	The Republicans	2017	[19]
02	Aisne	Nicolas Fricoteaux	Union of Democrats and Independents	2015	[20]
03	Allier	Claude Riboulet	Union of Democrats and Independents	2017	[21]
04	Alpes-de-Haute-Provence	Éliane Barreille	The Republicans	2021	[22]
05	Hautes-Alpes	Jean-Marie Bernard	The Republicans	2015	[23]
06	Alpes-Maritimes	Charles-Ange Ginésy	The Republicans	2017	[24]
07	Ardèche	Olivier Amrane	The Republicans	2021	[25]
08	Ardennes	Noël Bourgeois	The Republicans	2017	[26]
09	Ariège	Christine Téqui	Socialist Party	2021	[27]
10	Aube	Philippe Pichery	Miscellaneous Right	2017	[28]
11	Aude	Hélène Sandragné	Socialist Party	2021	[29]
12	Aveyron	Arnaud Viala	The Republicans	2017	[30]
13	Bouches-du-Rhône	Martine Vassal	The Republicans	2015	[31]
14	Calvados	Jean-Léonce Dupont	Union of Democrats and Independents	2011	[32]
15	Cantal	Bruno Faure	The Republicans	2017	[33]
16	Charente	Philippe Bouty	Miscellaneous Right	2015	[34]
17	Charente-Maritime	Sylvie Marcilly	Miscellaneous Right	2021	[35]
18	Cher	Jacques Fleury	The Republicans	2021	[36]
19	Corrèze	Pascal Coste	The Republicans	2015	[37]
21	Côte-d'Or	François Sauvadet	Union of Democrats and Independents	2008	[38]
22	Côtes-d'Armor	Christian Coail	The Republicans	2015	[39]
23	Creuse	Valérie Simonet	The Republicans	2015	[40]
24	Dordogne	Germinal Peiro	Socialist Party	2015	[41]
25	Doubs	Christine Bouquin	Miscellaneous Right	2015	[42]
26	Drôme	Marie-Pierre Mouton	The Republicans	2017	[43]
27	Eure	Alexandre Rassaërt	Miscellaneous right	2022	[44]
28	Eure-et-Loir	Christophe Le Dorven	The Republicans	2021	[45]
29	Finistère	Maël de Calan	Union of the Centre and Right	2021	[46]
30	Gard	Françoise Laurent-Perrigot	Socialist Party	2021	[47]
31	Haute-Garonne	Sébastien Vincini	Socialist Party	2022	[48]
32	Gers	Philippe Dupouy	Socialist Party	2022	[49]
33	Gironde	Jean-Luc Gleyze	Socialist Party	2015	[50]
34	Hérault	Kléber Mesquida	Socialist Party	2015	[51]
35	Ille-et-Vilaine	Jean-Luc Chenut	Socialist Party	2015	[52]
36	Indre	Marc Fleuret	The Republicans	2021	[53]
37	Indre-et-Loire	Jean-Gérard Paumier	Union of the Centre and Right	2016	[54]
38	Isère	Jean-Pierre Barbier	The Republicans	2015	[55]
39	Jura	Clément Pernot	Miscellaneous Right	2015	[56]
40	Landes	Xavier Fortinon	Socialist Party	2017	[57]
41	Loir-et-Cher	Philippe Gouet	Union of Democrats and Independents	2021	[58]
42	Loire	George Ziegler	The Republicans	2021	[59]
43	Haute-Loire	Marie-Agnès Petit	The Republicans	2014	[60]
44	Loire-Atlantique	Michel Ménard	Socialist Party	2021	[61]
45	Loiret	Marc Gaudet	Miscellaneous right	2017	[62]
46	Lot	Serge Rigal	Miscellaneous left	2014	[63]
47	Lot-et-Garonne	Sophie Borderie	Socialist Party	2015	[64]
48	Lozère	Sophie Pantel	Socialist Party	2015	[65]
49	Maine-et-Loire	Florence Dabin	Miscellaneous Right	2021	[66]
50	Manche	Jean Morin	Miscellaneous Right	2021	[67]
51	Marne	Christian Bruyen	Miscellaneous Right	2017	[68]
52	Haute-Marne	Nicolas Lacroix	The Republicans	2017	[69]
53	Mayenne	Olivier Richefou	Centrist Alliance	2014	[70]
54	Meurthe-et-Moselle	Chaynesse Khirouni	Socialist Party	2021	[71]
55	Meuse	Jérôme Dumont	Miscellaneous Right	2021	[72]
56	Morbihan	David Lappartient	Union of the Centre and Right	2021	[73]
57	Moselle	Patrick Weiten	Miscellaneous Right	2011	[74]
58	Nièvre	Fabien Bazin	Socialist Party	2021	[75]
59	Nord	Christian Poiret	Socialist Party	2015	[76]
60	Oise	Nadège Lefebvre	The Republicans	2017	[77]
61	Orne	Christophe de Balorre	The Republicans	2017	[78]
62	Pas-de-Calais	Jean-Claude Leroy	Socialist Party	2015	[79]
63	Puy-de-Dôme	Lionel Chauvin	The Republicans	2021	[80]
64	Pyrénées-Atlantiques	Jean-Jacques Lasserre	Democratic Movement	2015	[81]
65	Hautes-Pyrénées	Michel Pélieu	Radical Party of the Left	2011	[82]
66	Pyrénées-Orientales	Hermeline Malherbe-Laurent	Miscellaneous Left	2010	[16]
69	Rhône	Christophe Guilloteau	The Republicans	2015	[83]
69M	Lyon	Bruno Bernard	Europe Ecology - The Greens	2020	[84]
70	Haute-Saône	Yves Krattinger	Socialist Party	2001	[85]
71	Saône-et-Loire	André Accary	The Republicans	2015	[86]
72	Sarthe	Dominique Le Mèner	The Republicans	2015	[87]
73	Savoie	Hervé Gaymard	The Republicans	2008	[88]
74	Haute-Savoie	Martial Saddier	The Republicans	2021	[89]
75	Paris	Anne Hidalgo	Socialist Party	2014	[18]
76	Seine-Maritime	Bertrand Bellanger	Renaissance	2021	[90]
77	Seine-et-Marne	Jean-François Parigi	The Republicans	2021	[91]
78	Yvelines	Pierre Bédier	The Republicans	2014	[92]
79	Deux-Sèvres	Coralie Dénoues	Miscellaneous Right	2021	[93]
80	Somme	Stéphane Haussoulier	Miscellaneous Right	2020	[94]
81	Tarn	Christophe Ramond	Socialist Party	2015	[95]
82	Tarn-et-Garonne	Michel Weill	Socialist Party	2021	[96]
83	Var	Marc Giraud	The Republicans	2015	[97]
84	Vaucluse	Dominique Santoni	The Republicans	2021	[98]
85	Vendée	Alain Leboeuf	The Republicans	2021	[99]
86	Vienne	Alain Pichon	Miscellaneous Right	2021	[100]
87	Haute-Vienne	Jean-Claude Leblois	Socialist Party	2015	[101]
88	Vosges	François Vannson	The Republicans	2015	[102]
89	Yonne	Patrick Gendraud	The Republicans	2017	[103]
90	Territoire de Belfort	Florian Bouquet	The Republicans	2015	[104]
91	Essonne	François Durovray	The Republicans	2015	[105]
92	Hauts-de-Seine	Georges Siffredi	The Republicans	2021	[106]
93	Seine-Saint-Denis	Stéphane Troussel	Socialist Party	2012	[107]
94	Val-de-Marne	Olivier Capitanio	The Republicans	2021	[108]
95	Val-d’Oise	Marie-Christine Cavecchi	The Republicans	2017	[109]
971	Guadeloupe	Guy Losbar	United Guadeloupe, Socialism and Realities	2021	[110]
972	Martinique	Serge Letchimy	Martinican Progressive Party	2021	[111]
973	Guyane	Alain Tien-Liong	Decolonization and Social Emancipation Movement	2008
974	Réunion	Cyrille Melchior	Miscellaneous Left	2017	[112]
975	Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon (overseas collectivity)	Bernard Briand	Archipelago Tomorrow	2021	[113]
976	Mayotte	Ben Issa Ousseni	The Republicans	2021	[114]

Allowance

The president of a department council has a maximum allowance of €5,441 per month, the vice-presidents has a maximum allowance of €128.83-725.44, members of the standing committee have maximum allowances of €672.65-927.13, and departmental advisors have maximum allowances of €1,501-2,626 per month.^[115]