French Senate election, 2008

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French Senate election, 2008
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A third of seats (114) to the French Senate

  First party Second party Third party
  Henri de Raincourt-IMG 3640.jpg Jean-Pierre Bel (2012).JPG Bayrou Bercy 2007-04-18 n35.jpg
Leader Henri de Raincourt Jean-Pierre Bel Michel Mercier
Party UMP PS UDF
Leader's seat Yonne Ariège Rhône
Last election 159 95 30
Seats won 151 116 29
Seat changeDecrease2.svg 8Increase2.svg 21Decrease2.svg 1
President of the Senate before election

Christian Poncelet
UMP

Elected President of the Senate

Gérard Larcher
UMP

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Indirect Senate elections were held for 114 of the 343 seats in the French Senate on 21 September 2008. [1] With this election, the number of senators was increased from 331 to 343; Saint Barthélemy and Saint Martin elected two senators each for the first time. Furthermore, this election was the last to be held under the old system: prior to this election, senators were elected in three classes for nine-year terms. Under the new system instituted in 2011, senators are elected for six-year terms in two classes. [2]

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Contents

New seats

Twelve new seats were filled in this election. They were divided in the following way: 1 new Senator each for the Ain, Alpes-Maritimes, Bouches-du-Rhône, Drôme, Eure-et-Loir, Haute-Garonne, Gironde, Hérault, and Guyane départements and one in French Polynesia.

Ain Department of France

Ain is a department named after the Ain River on the eastern edge of France. It is part of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region and bordered by the rivers Saône and Rhône.

Alpes-Maritimes Department of France in Provence-Alpes-Côte dAzur

Alpes-Maritimes is a department of France located in the extreme southeast corner of the country, near the border with Italy and on the Mediterranean coast. Part of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region, it had a population of 1,080,771 in 2013.

Bouches-du-Rhône Department of France in Provence-Alpes-Côte dAzur

Bouches-du-Rhône is a department in Southern France named after the mouth of the river Rhône. It is the most populous department of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region with 2,019,717 inhabitants in 2016; it has an area of 5,087 km2 (1,964 sq mi). Its INSEE and postal code is 13. Marseille is Bouches-du-Rhône's largest city and prefecture.

The election marked the first time that French Polynesia had two seats in the Senate instead of just one. [3] The President of French Polynesia Gaston Tong Sang and another member of his coalition, Béatrice Vernaudon, a former member of the French National Assembly who lost her seat in June 2007, contested the seats. [3] Former French Polynesian President Gaston Flosse ran for his Tahoeraa Huiraatira Party and teamed up with Richard Tuheiava, a member of the pro-independence party Union for Democracy. [3]

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Béatrice Vernaudon is a French politician born on 27 October 1953 in Papeete, Tahiti, French Polynesia.

System

Electoral college

For the 114 seats up for election, the electoral college was composed of 50,720 elected officials (49,602 in metropolitan France). Of these, 48,453 were local councillors, 178 were MPs, 765 were regional councillors and 1,504 were general councillors.

Electoral college subset of an electoral body, based on a territorial or non-territorial criteria

An electoral college is a set of electors who are selected to elect a candidate to a particular office. Often these represent different organizations, political parties, or entities, with each organization, political party or entity represented by a particular number of electors or with votes weighted in a particular way. The system can ignore the wishes of a general membership.

Election

Two-round system voting system used to elect a single winner where a second round of voting is used if no candidate wins an absolute majority in the first round

The two-round system is a voting method used to elect a single winner, where the voter casts a single vote for their chosen candidate. However, if no candidate receives the required number of votes, then those candidates having less than a certain proportion of the votes, or all but the two candidates receiving the most votes, are eliminated, and a second round of voting is held.

The highest averages method or divisor method is the name for a variety of ways to allocate seats proportionally for representative assemblies with party list voting systems. It requires the number of votes for each party to be divided successively by a series of divisors. This produces a table of quotients, or averages, with a row for each divisor and a column for each party. The nth seat is allocated to the party whose column contains the nth largest entry in this table, up to the total number of seats available.

Panachage is the name given to a procedure provided for in several open list variants of the party-list proportional representation system which gives voters more than one vote for the same ballot and allows them to distribute their votes between individual candidates from different party lists. It is used in elections at all levels in Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, and Switzerland, in congressional elections in Ecuador, El Salvador, and Honduras, as well as in local elections in a majority of German states and in French communes with under 1,000 inhabitants.

Result

e  •  d  
Parties and coalitionsAbbr. 2004 a 2008 ± 2011 ±
Union for a Popular Movement (Union pour un mouvement populaire)UMP15956151–8132–19
Centrist Union-UDF (Union centriste–Union pour la démocratie française)UC-UDF30429–131+2
Socialist Party (Parti socialiste)PS9529116+21131+15
Communist, Republican and Citizen (Communiste, républicain, et citoyen)CRC23323+021–2
Europe Écologie–The Greens (Europe Écologie–Les Verts)VEC0+00+010+10
European Democratic and Social Rally (Rassemblement démocratique et social européen)RDSE17817+016–1
Total UMP, UC-UDF and one RDSE (Right)18960180–9164–16
Total "Presidential Majority" PS, CRC, VEC and all but one RDSE (Left)11832139+21177+38
Non-InscritsNI617+17+0
Total331114343+12348+5
a - Seats up for election (Serie A)
Source: Public Senat

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References

  1. ↑ French Senate Elections 2008
  2. ↑ lefigaro.fr (2008-09-21). "Le Figaro - Politique : Sénat : la droite devrait contenir la poussée de la gauche" (in French). Lefigaro.fr.
  3. 1 2 3 "Tong Sang To Contest French Senate Elections". Pacific Magazine . 2008-08-25. Retrieved 2008-08-26.
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