The regional elections of 1998 saw fourteen metropolitan regions out of twenty-two gained by the line, including five in which the president of the district council was elected with the support of the National front.

List presidents of area after the elections

• Alsace: Adrien Zeller (UDF)
• Aquitanian: Alain Rousset (PS)
• Auvergne: Valery Giscard d'Estaing (UDF)
• Burgundy: Jean-Pierre Soisson (UDF, with the assistance of the FN)
• Brittany: Josselin de Rohan (RPR)
• the Champagne-Ardennes: Jean-Claude Etienne (RPR)
• Corsica: Jose Rossi (RPR)
• Franche-Comté: Jean-François Humbert (UDF)
• Guadeloupe: Lucette Michaux-Chevry (RPR)
• Guyana: Antoine Karam (PSG)
• Ile-de-France: Jean-Paul Huchon (PS)
• Languedoc-Roussillon: Jacques Blanc (UDF, with the assistance of the FN)
• the Limousin: Robert Savy (PS)
• Lorraine: Gerard Longuet (RPR)
• Martinique: Alfred Marie-Jeanne (MIM)
• the Midday-Pyrenees: Martin Malvy (PS)
• North-Not of Calais: Michel Delebarre (PS)
• Basse-Normandie: Rene Garrec (UDF)
• High-Normandy: Alain Le Vern (PS)
• Country of the Loire: Francois Fillon (RPR)
• Picardy: Charles Baur (UDF, with the assistance of the FN)
• Poitou-Charentes: Jean-Pierre Raffarin (UDF)
• Provence-Alp-Coast of Azure: Michel Vauzelle (PS)
• Meeting: Paul Vergès (PCR)
• the Rhone-Alps: Charles Million (UDF, with the assistance of the FN)