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Politics of Alsace

The politics of Alsace, France, takes place in a framework of a presidential representative democracy, whereby the President of the Regional Council is the head of government, and of a pluriform multi-party system. Legislative power is vested in the regional council.

Executive

See also: List of presidents of Alsace

The executive of the region is led by the President of the Regional Council.

Legislative branch

Main article: Alsace Regional Council

The Regional Council of Alsace (Conseil régional d'Alsace) is composed of 37 councillors, elected by proportional representation in a two-round system. The winning list in the second round is automatically entitled to a quarter of the seats. The remainder of the seats are allocated through proportional representation with a 5% threshold.

The Council is elected for a six-year term.

Current composition

Party seats
• Union for a Popular Movement 18
Socialist Party 8
National Front 8
• Union for French Democracy 7
The Greens 4
• Miscellaneous Right 2

Elections

Main article: Elections in Alsace

Other elections

Presidential runoff elections results
Year Regional winner Runner-up
2007 65.50% 641,319 34.50% 337,780
2002 78.63% 686,758 21.37% 186,661
1995 58.26% 463,391 41.74% 331,973
1988 50.88% 424,626 49.12% 409,929
1981 62.88% 518,413 37.12% 306,043
1974 65.32% 474,364 34.68% 251,834
1969 65.75% 376,821 34.25% 196,269
1965 77.37% 502,971 22.63% 147,147

In the 2007 legislative election, thirteen out of the sixteen Alsatian deputies were from the UMP, one was from the opposition PS, and one was from the UMP's coalition partner, the New Centre. One deputy, Éric Straumann, was a UMP dissident.

References

  1. "Election Resources on the Internet: Presidential and Legislative Elections in France - Results Lookup". electionresources.org.

External links

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