Elections in Réunion

Réunion

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Elections in Réunion gives information on elections and election results in Réunion.

Réunion elects on regional/départemental level a legislature. The legislature consists out of two councils with diverging powers. The Regional Council (Conseil régional) has 45 members, elected for a four year term by proportional representation. The General Council (Conseil général) has members elected for a six year term in single seat-constituencies. Reunion has a multi-party system, with numerous parties in which no one party often has a chance of gaining power alone, and parties must work with each other to form coalition governments.

Most recent elections

2004 regional elections

	Candidate	Party	Votes (Round One)	% (Round One)	Votes (Round Two)	% (Round Two)
	Paul Vergès	PCR	94,531	34.48%	135,706	44.85%
	Alain Bénard	UMP	70,375	25.67%	99,315	32.82%
	Michel Vergoz	PS-Green	43,625	15.91%	67,570	22.33%
	Nadia Ramassamy	Miscellaneous right-wing	16,625	6.06%	-	-
	Edmond Lauret	Miscellaneous right-wing	9,818	3.58%	-	-
	Gilbert Gérard	Coll'Air	5,849	2.13%	-	-
	Albert Ramassamy	Miscellaneous left-wing	4,784	1.74%	-	-
	Daniel Jatob	Free Dom	4,761	1.74%	-	-
	Lubin Budel	Independent	4,696	1.71%	-	-
	Jean-Yves Payet	LO-MARON	4,249	1.55%	-	-
	Georges Arhiman	Independent	4,015	1.46%	-	-
	Vincent Defaud	Federalist	3,738	1.36%	-	-
	Marie-Claude Law-Waï	Independent	2,769	1.01%	-	-
	Giraud Payet	PS dissident	2,402	0.88%	-	-
	Aniel Boyer	Mouvman Parnouminm	1,925	0.70%	-	-
	Total		274,162	100.00%	302,591	100.00%

Seats

Party		seats
•	Communist Party of Réunion	27
	Union for a Popular Movement	11
	Socialist Party	7

Past elections

1998 regional elections

Party		seats
	Miscellaneous Right	9
	Union for French Democracy	8
•	Communist Party of Réunion	7
•	Socialist Party	7
•	Miscellaneous Left	5
•	Free Dom	5
	Rally for the Republic	4

1992 regional elections

Party		seats
•	Miscellaneous Right	13
•	Union for French Democracy	10
	Communist Party of Réunion	9
•	Rally for the Republic	7
	Socialist Party	3
	Miscellaneous Left	3

1986 regional elections

Party		seats
•	Rally for the Republic-Union for French Democracy	18
	Communist Party of Réunion	13
	Others	8
	Socialist Party	6

See also

• Electoral calendar
• Electoral system