President of the Regional Council (France)

The following is a list of current presidents of the regional councils of France.

Political party of the presidents of the regional councils after the 2021 election:
  Socialist Party (PS)
  Miscellaneous left (DVG)
  The Republicans (LR)
  The Centrists (LC)
  Miscellaneous right (DVD)
  Regionalist parties (REG)

All regions in metropolitan France are governed by a regional council, with their respective presidents elected by and among their members to lead the executive; the Corsican Assembly is the sole exception, as it controls the Executive Council. In overseas France, the local institutions vary across the five regions.

List

Since 2011, the Departmental Council of Mayotte has simultaneously exercised the competencies of a regional council.

Since 2015, the Regional Council of Martinique and the Regional Council of French Guiana have been merged with their respective departmental councils to form a single territorial structure of governance.

List

Region	Map	President		Party		Party positioning	Since
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes		Fabrice Pannekoucke			LR	Right	5 September 2024
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté		Marie-Guite Dufay			PS	Left	4 January 2016 President of the Regional Council of Franche-Comté from 5 January 2008 until 31 December 2015.
Brittany		Loïg Chesnais-Girard			DVG	Left	22 June 2017
Centre-Val de Loire		François Bonneau			PS	Left	7 September 2007
Corsica		Marie-Antoinette Maupertuis President of the Corsican Assembly			FaC	Regionalist centre	1 July 2021
		Gilles Simeoni President of the Executive Council of Corsica			FaC	Regionalist centre	17 December 2015
Grand Est		Franck Leroy			DVD	Right	30 December 2022
Guadeloupe		Ary Chalus			GUSR	Regionalist centre	18 December 2015
French Guiana		Gabriel Serville President of the Assembly of French Guiana			Péyi G	Regionalist left	2 July 2021
Hauts-de-France		Xavier Bertrand			LR	Right	4 January 2016
Île-de-France		Valérie Pécresse			LR	Right	18 December 2015
Martinique		Lucien Saliber President of the Assembly of Martinique			DVG	Left	2 July 2021
		Serge Letchimy President of the Executive Council of Martinique [fr]			PPM	Regionalist left	2 July 2021
Mayotte		Ben Issa Ousséni President of the Departmental Council of Mayotte			LR	Right	1 July 2021
Normandy		Hervé Morin			LC	Right	4 January 2016
Nouvelle-Aquitaine		Alain Rousset			PS	Left	4 January 2016 President of the Regional Council of Aquitaine from 20 March 1998 until 31 December 2015.
Occitania		Carole Delga			PS	Left	4 January 2016
Pays de la Loire		Christelle Morançais			HOR	Right	19 October 2017
Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur		Renaud Muselier			RE	Centre	15 May 2017
Réunion		Huguette Bello			PLR	Regionalist left	2 July 2021

Summary

By party

Party		Number of presidents
Left	PLR	1
	PS	5
	DVG	1
	Total left	7
Right	LC	1
	DVD	1
	LR	6
	Total right	8
Regionalist	Péyi G	1
	PPM	1
	GUSR	1
	FaC	2
	Total regionalists	5

By sex

Sex	Number of presidents
Male	14
Female	6

Historic presidents

Current regions

Regional Council of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

Party		President	In office
	LR	Laurent Wauquiez	Since 2016

Regional Council of Brittany

Party		President	In office
	CD	René Pleven	1974–1976
	CD, UDF	André Colin	1976–1978
	UDF	Raymond Marcellin	1978–1986
	RPR	Yvon Bourges	1986–1998
	UMP	Josselin de Rohan	1998–2004
	PS	Jean-Yves Le Drian	2004–2012
	PS	Pierrick Massiot	2012–2015
	PS	Jean-Yves Le Drian	2015–2017
	PS	Loïg Chesnais-Girard	Since 2017

Regional Council of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté

Party		President	In office
	PS	Marie-Guite Dufay	Since 2016

Regional Council of Centre-Val de Loire

Party		President	In office
	RI	Raymond Boisdé	1974–1976
	UDF	Pierre Sudreau	1976–1979
	UDF	Jean Delaneau	1979–1983
	UDF	Daniel Bernardet	1983–1985
	UDF	Maurice Dousset	1985–1998
	UDF	Bernard Harang	1998
	RPR	Lydie Gerbaud	1998
	PS	Michel Sapin	1998–2000
	PS	Jean Germain	2000
	PS	Alain Rafesthain	2000–2004
	PS	Michel Sapin	2004–2007
	PS	Jean Germain	2007
	PS	François Bonneau	Since 2007

Regional Council of Grand Est

Party		President	In office
	LR	Philippe Richert	2016–2017
	UDI	Jean-Luc Bohl	2017
	LR	Jean Rottner	Since 2017

Regional Council of Guadeloupe

Party		President	In office
	FGPS	Pierre Mathieu	1975–1980
	FGPS	Robert Pentier	1980–1981
	UDF	Marcel Esdras	1981–1982
	PCG	Marcel Gargar	1982–1983
	RPR	José Moustache	1983–1986
	FGPS	Félix Proto	1986–1992
	RPR, UMP	Lucette Michaux-Chevry	1992–2004
	FGPS	Victorin Lurel	2004–2012
	FGPS	Josette Borel-Lincertin	2012–2014
	FGPS	Victorin Lurel	2014–2015
	GUSR	Ary Chalus	Since 2015

Regional Council of Hauts-de-France

Party		President	In office
	LR	Xavier Bertrand	Since 2016

Regional Council of Île-de-France

Party		President	In office
	RPR	Michel Giraud	1976–1988
	RPR	Pierre-Charles Krieg	1988–1992
	RPR	Michel Giraud	1992–1998
	PS	Jean-Paul Huchon	1998–2015
	LR-SL	Valérie Pécresse	Since 2015

Regional Council of Normandy

Party		President	In office
	LC	Hervé Morin	Since 2016

Regional Council of Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Party		President	In office
	PS	Alain Rousset	Since 2016

Regional Council of Occitania

Party		President	In office
	PS	Carole Delga	Since 2016

Regional Council of Pays de la Loire

Party		President	In office
	RPR	Vincent Ansquer	1974
	RPR	Olivier Guichard	1974–1998
	RPR	François Fillon	1998–2002
	UMP	Jean-Luc Harousseau	2002–2004
	PS	Jacques Auxiette	2004–2015
	LR	Bruno Retailleau	2015–2017
	LR	Christelle Morançais	Since 2017

Regional Council of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

Party		President	In office
	PS	Gaston Defferre	1974–1981
	PS	Michel Pezet	1981–1986
	UDF	Jean-Claude Gaudin	1986–1998
	PS	Michel Vauzelle	1998–2015
	LR	Christian Estrosi	2015–2017
	LR, DVD	Renaud Muselier	Since 2017

Regional Council of Réunion

Party		President	In office
	UDF	Marcel Cerneau	1973–1978
	RPR	Yves Barau	1978–1983
	PCR	Mario Hoarau	1983–1986
	UDF	Pierre Lagourgue	1986–1992
	Free Dom	Camille Sudre	1992–1993
	Free Dom	Margie Sudre	1993–1998
	PCR	Paul Vergès	1998–2010
	UMP, LR, OR	Didier Robert	2010–2021
	PLR	Huguette Bello	Since 2021

Collectivities

Corsica

Regional Council of Corsica (1974–1982)

Party		President	In office
	Radical	François Giacobbi	1974–1979
	Radical	Jean Filippi	1979–1982

Corsican Assembly (since 1982)

Party		President	In office
	MRG	Prosper Alfonsi	1982–1984
	RPR	Jean-Paul de Rocca Serra	1984–1998
	UDF	José Rossi	1998–2004
	UMP	Camille de Rocca Serra	2004–2010
	PCF	Dominique Bucchini	2010–2015
	CL	Jean-Guy Talamoni	2015–2021
	FaC	Marie-Antoinette Maupertuis	Since 2021

Executive Council of Corsica (since 1992)

Party		President	In office
	DVD	Jean Baggioni	1992–2004
	UMP	Ange Santini	2004–2010
	DVG	Paul Giacobbi	2010–2015
	FaC	Gilles Simeoni	Since 2015

French Guiana

Regional Council of French Guiana (1974–2015)

Party		President	In office
	UDF	Serge Patient	1974–1980
	PSG	Jacques Lony	1980–1982
	PS	Georges Othily	1982–1992
	PSG	Antoine Karam	1992–2010
	DVG	Rodolphe Alexandre	2010–2015

Assembly of French Guiana (since 2015)

Party		President	In office
	DVG	Rodolphe Alexandre	Since 2015

Martinique

Regional Council of Martinique (1974–2015)

Party		President	In office
	RPR	Camille Petit	1974–1983
	PPM	Aimé Césaire	1983–1986
	PPM	Camille Darsières	1986–1992
	PCM	Émile Capgras	1992–1998
	MIM	Alfred Marie-Jeanne	1998–2010
	PPM	Serge Letchimy	2010–2015

Assembly of Martinique (since 2015)

Party		President	In office
	RDM	Claude Lise	2015–2021
	DVG	Lucien Saliber	Since 2021

Executive Council of Martinique (since 2015)

Party		President	In office
	MIM	Alfred Marie-Jeanne	2015–2021
	PPM	Serge Letchimy	Since 2021

Mayotte

Departmental Council of Mayotte

Party		President	In office
	UDF	Younoussa Bamana	1977–1991
	DIV	Hamissi Assani	1991
	UDF	Younoussa Bamana	1991–2004
	NÉMA [fr]	Saïd Omar Oili	2004–2008
	UMP	Ahmed Attoumani Douchina	2008–2011
	MDM	Daniel Zaïdani	2011–2015
	UMP, LR	Soibahadine Ibrahim Ramadani	2015–2021
	LR	Ben Issa Ousséni	Since 2021

Former regions

Regional Council of Alsace

Party		President	In office
	UDR	André Bord	1973–1977
	UDF	Pierre Schielé	1977–1980
	UDF	Marcel Rudloff	1980–1996
	UMP	Adrien Zeller	1996–2009
	UMP	André Reichardt	2009–2010
	UMP	Philippe Richert	2010–2015

Regional Council of Auvergne

Party		President	In office
	UDF	Jean Morellon	1974–1977
	RPR	Augustin Chauvet	1977
	PS	Maurice Pourchon	1977–1986
	UDF	Valéry Giscard d'Estaing	1986–2004
	PS	Pierre-Joël Bonté	2004–2006
	PS	René Souchon	2006–2015

Regional Council of Aquitaine

Party		President	In office
	RPR	Jacques Chaban-Delmas	1974–1979
	PS	André Labarrère	1979–1981
	PS	Philippe Madrelle	1981–1985
	RPR	Jacques Chaban-Delmas	1985–1988
	UDF	Jean François-Poncet	1988
	UDF	Jean Tavernier	1988–1992
	RPR	Jacques Valade	1992–1998
	PS	Alain Rousset	1998–2015

Regional Council of Burgundy

Party		President	In office
	RI	Jean Chamant	1974–1978
	UDF	Marcel Lucotte	1978–1979
	PS	Pierre Joxe	1979–1982
	PS	André Billardon	1982–1983
	CDS	Frédéric Lescure	1983–1985
	UDF	Marcel Lucotte	1985–1989
	UDF	Raymond Janot	1989–1992
	UDF	Jean-Pierre Soisson	1992–1993
	RPR	Jean-François Bazin	1993–1998
	UDF	Jean-Pierre Soisson	1998–2004
	PS	François Patriat	2004–2015

Regional Council of Champagne-Ardenne

Party		President	In office
	RPR	Jacques Sourdille	1974–1981
	UDF	Bernard Stasi	1981–1988
	RPR	Jean Kaltenbach	1988–1998
	UDF	Jean-Claude Étienne	1998–2004
	PS	Jean-Paul Bachy	2004–2015

Regional Council of Franche-Comté

Party		President	In office
	UDR	Edgar Faure	1974–1981
	PS	Jean-Pierre Chevènement	1981–1982
	GD	Edgar Faure	1982–1988
	RPR	Pierre Chantelat	1988–1998
	UDF	Jean-François Humbert	1998–2004
	PS	Raymond Forni	2004–2008
	PS	Marie-Guite Dufay	2008–2015

Regional Council of Languedoc-Roussillon

Party		President	In office
	PS	Francis Vals	1974
	PS	Edgar Tailhades	1974–1983
	PS	Robert Capdeville	1983–1986
	UDF	Jacques Blanc	1986–2004
	PS	Georges Frêche	2004–2010
	PS	Christian Bourquin	2010–2014
	PS	Damien Alary	2014–2015

Regional Council of Limousin

Party		President	In office
	PS	André Chandernagor	1974–1981
	PS	Louis Longequeue	1981–1986
	PS	Robert Savy	1986–2004
	PS	Jean-Paul Denanot	2004–2014
	PS	Gérard Vandenbroucke	2014–2015

Regional Council of Lorraine

Party		President	In office
	CNIP, FNRI	Jean Vilmain	1974–1976
	RAD, UDF	Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber	1976–1978
	RPR	Pierre Messmer	1978–1979
	RPR	André Madoux	1979–1982
	DVD	Jean-Marie Rausch	1982–1992
	UDF	Gérard Longuet	1992–2004
	PS	Jean-Pierre Masseret	2004–2015

Regional Council of Midi-Pyrénées

Party		President	In office
	PS	Alain Savary	1973–1981
	PS	Alex Raymond	1981–1986
	UDF	Dominique Baudis	1986–1988
	UDF	Marc Censi	1988–1998
	PS	Martin Malvy	1998–2015

Regional Council of Nord-Pas-de-Calais

Party		President	In office
	PS	Pierre Mauroy	1974–1981
	PS	Noël Josèphe	1981–1992
	Les Verts	Marie-Christine Blandin	1992–1998
	PS	Michel Delebarre	1998–2001
	PS	Daniel Percheron	2001–2015

Regional Council of Basse-Normandy

Party		President	In office
	RI	Michel d'Ornano	1974
	RI	Léon Jozeau-Marigné	1974–1978
	DVD	Paul German	1978–1982
	UDF	Léon Jozeau-Marigné	1982–1983
	UDF	Michel d'Ornano	1983–1986
	UDF	René Garrec	1986–2004
	PS	Philippe Duron	2004–2008
	PS	Laurent Beauvais	2008–2015

Regional Council of Haute-Normandy

Party		President	In office
	CD	Jean Lecanuet	1974
	RI	André Bettencourt	1974–1981
	PS	Laurent Fabius	1981–1982
	PS	Tony Larue	1982
	RPR	Roger Fossé	1982–1992
	RPR	Antoine Rufenacht	1992–1998
	RPR	Jean-Paul Gauzès	1998
	PS	Alain Le Vern	1998–2012
	PS	Emmanuèle Jeandet-Mengual	2012–2013
	PS	Alain Le Vern	2013
	PS	Emmanuèle Jeandet-Mengual	2013
	PS	Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol	2013–2015

Regional Council of Picardy

Party		President	In office
	CNIP	Jean Legendre	1974–1976
	UDF	Charles Baur	1976–1978
	DVG	Max Lejeune	1978–1979
	DVD	Jacques Mossion	1979–1980
	PCF	Raymond Maillet	1980–1981
	PS	René Dosière	1981–1983
	PS	Walter Amsallem	1983–1985
	UDF	Charles Baur	1985–2004
	PS	Claude Gewerc	2004–2015

Regional Council of Poitou-Charentes

Party		President	In office
		Lucien Grand	1974–1976
	CNIP	Jacques Fouchier	1976–1978
	RPR	Francis Hardy	1978–1980
	UDF	Fernand Chaussebourg	1980–1981
		Michel Boucher	1981–1982
	PS	Jacques Santrot	1982
	PS	Raoul Cartraud	1982–1985
	UDF	René Monory	1985–1986
	UDF	Louis Fruchard	1986–1988
	UDF	Jean-Pierre Raffarin	1988–2002
		Dominique de La Martinière	2002
	UMP	Élisabeth Morin-Chartier	2002–2004
	PS	Ségolène Royal	2004–2014
	PS	Jean-François Macaire	2014–2015

Regional Council of Rhône-Alpes

Party		President	In office
	FNRI, UDF	Paul Ribeyre	1974–1980
	UDF	Michel Durafour	1980–1981
	UDF	Charles Béraudier	1981–1988
	UDF	Charles Millon	1988–1999
	UDF	Anne-Marie Comparini	1999–2004
	PS	Jean-Jack Queyranne	2004–2015

See also

• Politics of France
• Regions of France
• Regional council (France)

External links

• Rulers.org
• Worldstatesmen.org