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Encyclopedia > Alsace Regional Council

The Alsace Regional Council is the Conseil régional of Alsace (France). It is chaired by Adrien Zeller (as of 2005). It includes 47 members. Capital Strasbourg Area 8,280 km² Regional President Adrien Zeller Population  - 2004 estimate  - 1999 census  - Density 1,793,000 1,734,145 209/km² Arrondissements 13 Cantons 75 Communes 903 Départements Bas-Rhin Haut-Rhin Alsace (French: Alsace; Alsatian/German: Elsass) is a région and also a province... Adrien Zeller (born April 2, 1940) is the president of the conseil régional of Alsace. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

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2004 Elections

First election

Eight lists were deposited for the 2004 elections (final results):

  • LO - LCR : Françoise Ruch (3,03%)
  • PCF - PRG - MRC : Alfred Wahl (3,74%)
  • Les Verts - PS : Jacques Bigot (20,12%)
  • MEI : Antoine Waechter (7,40%)
  • PF : Pascale Grauss (0,09%)
  • UDF - UMP : Adrien Zeller (34,06%)
  • Alsace d'abord : Robert Spieler (9,42%)
  • FN : Patrick Binder (18,58%)
  • Independant : "Lower France" (3,56%)

LO or Lo or lo may stand for: LO, Local Oscillator in a superheterodyne receiver. ... The Revolutionary Communist League (Ligue Communiste Révolutionnaire) (LCR) is a French Trotskyist political party. ... The logo of the PCF. Note the absence of traditional communist imagery such as the hammer and sickle. ... This article is part of or related to the Liberalism series Categories: Politics stubs | Liberal related stubs | Liberal parties | French political parties ... The initials MRC can stand for: Medical Research Council (UK) Medical Research Council (South Africa) This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Les verts (the Greens) is one Green Party of France. ... The emblem of the French Socialist Party The Socialist Party (Parti Socialiste or PS), founded in 1969, is the main opposition party in France. ... The label Federalist refers to two major groups in the history of the United States of America: (1. ... The Union for French Democracy, also known by its French acronym UDF (Union pour la Démocratie Française), is a French center-right political party. ... The Union for a Popular Movement, initially named the Union for a Presidential Majority, and in both cases also known by its French acronym UMP (Union pour un Mouvement Populaire and Union pour la Majorité Présidentielle, respectively) is a French right-wing, conservative political party. ... The Front National (National Front in English; acronym: FN) is a conservative political party in France. ...

Second election

  • Les Verts - PS : Jacques Bigot (34,57%, 12 sièges)
  • UDF - UMP : Adrien Zeller (43,48%, 27 sièges)
  • FN : Patrick Binder (21,95%, 8 sièges)

Previous Councils

1998-2004

Presidency of Adrien Zeller. Distribution of seats:

  • The environmentalists - PS: 9 seats
  • MEI: 1 seat
  • UMP: 19 seats
  • Alsace first: 9 seats
  • FN: 2 seats
  • Miscellaneous: 4 seats
  • Non-registered students: 3 seats

The polls of March 15, 1998 (in percentage of recorded votes): March 15 is the 74th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (75th in Leap years). ... 1998 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ...

  • Extreme left: 31,798 votes - 5,50 %
  • Socialist party: 95,407 votes - 16,49 %
  • Environmentalists: 35,895 votes - 6,21 %
  • Miscellaneous: 80,158 votes - 13,86 %
  • RPR: 37 672 voices - 6,52 %
  • UDF: 155 265 voices - 26,84 %
  • Minor right-wing parties: 23,386 votes - 4,05 %
  • National Front: 119,070 votes - 20,58 %

1992-1998

Presidency of Marcel Rudloff then Adrien Zeller:

  • PS - PCF: 6 seats
  • Environmentalists: 6 seats
  • Ecology Generation: 3 seats
  • Miscellaneous: 1 seat
  • UDF - RPR: 20 seats
  • National Front: 9 seats
  • Alsace d'abord: 2 seats

1986-1992

Presidency of Marcel Rudloff:

  • PS - PCF : 11 seats
  • Les Verts : 2 seats
  • UDF - RPR : 27 seats
  • National Front: 7 seats

Previous Presidents of the Regional Council


  Results from FactBites:
 
French regional elections, 2004 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (492 words)
Regional elections were held in France on March 21 and March 28, 2004.
Since no candidate gained a majority in any region, a second round was held on March 28, in which only candidates who polled more than 10% in the first round were eligible to run (except in Corsica, where the threshold is 5%).
Conservative Alsace is one of only two regions retained by the right.
Article about "Alsace" in the English Wikipedia on 24-Apr-2004 (737 words)
With the decline of the Roman Empire, Alsace became the territory of the Alamanni.
Alsace remained under Frankish control until the Frankish realm was formally dissolved in 843 by virtue of the Treaty of Verdun.
Alsace was merged with Baden and Lorraine with the Saarland.
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