Politics of Alsace

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The politics of

Legislative power
is vested in the regional council.

Executive

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

Legislative branch

The Regional Council of Alsace (Conseil régional d'Alsace) is composed of 37 councillors, elected by

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

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

New Centre. One deputy, Éric Straumann, was a UMP dissident.[1]

References

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

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