French senatorial elections of 2004

Following the end of the nine years mandates of the senators of the series C, a senatorial election was organized the September 26th 2004 in order to renew one the third of the members of the senate.

It was the last renewal of the series C. Following the reform of the electoral code of 2004, the senators are not more elected per third for nine years, but per half for six years.

127 senators were elected or re-elected (whose 10 seats created by the electoral reform, increasing the full number of senators from 321 to 331), and the poll then related to 28 metropolitan departments (either 115 outgoing seats including 107 and 8 created), 2 overseas departments (Guadeloupe and Martinique, or 5 senators including 4 outgoing and 1 seat created), 2 communities of Overseas (Saint-Pierre-and-Miquelon and Mayotte for 3 seats including 2 outgoing and 1 created) and 4 senators of the French established out of France.

On the 117 outgoing ones, one counted:

  • 65 of the group of the UMP: 60 members of the group, 2 related (1 old gaullist of the various RPR and 1 right-hand side) and 3 attached (2 various right-hand side and 1 old gaullist of the RPR)
  • 23 of the socialist group: 22 members of the related group and 1 democratic Rassemblement inhabitant of Martinique
  • 11 of the group Communiste, Républicain and Citizen. On the 9 representing itself,
  • 10 of the group of the Union centrist-UDF
  • 7 of the group of the democratic and social Gathering European: 6 members of the group (2 radical lefts, 2 UDF, 1 radical valoisien of the UMP and 1 inhabitant of Guadeloupe of GUSR) and 1 attached (1 dissident of [[Party progressist inhabitant of Martinique]]). * 1 nonrelated: [[Philippe Darniche]] ([[Movement for France|MPF]]) Following the elections, on 127 entering, one a: * 56 candidates of [[Union for a popular movement]]: 30 outgoing re-elected (on the 65 outgoing ones, 28 were not represented, the 2 connected and 3 attached, and 7 were not re-elected) and 26 new senators (including 2 on the 10 seats created: 1 in [[Vaucluse]] and 1 with [[Mayotte]]; 2 of the 7 outgoing ones beaten were replaced by new UMP elected officials; as regards the 28 seats in which UMP leaving were not represented, 21 was preserved by UMP; finally, UMP gained 1 seat of senator of the French established out of France). With that 3 other elected officials are added on right lists various (1 on the 10 seats created, in [[Yvelines]], and 2 others replacing of the senators UMP who did not represent themselves) adhered to the group and still two others are affiliated there (of which [[Charles Pasqua]], re-elected in [[Hauts-de-Seine]] with the detriment of a member of the official list of UMP). That is to say a total of 61 UMP elected officials or related, on 65 outgoing, with 4 gained seats (that of the senators established out of France and 3 among the 10 posts of senators created), but 8 lost. Part of the senators of the series C were chosen by drawing lot to belong to future series 1 (a six years current mandate until 2010), and the other part for future series 2 (a nine years mandate until 2013). To note the exceptional choice one year prolongation of the mandates of all the senators of the period 2004-2007: following a too great number of elections in 2007 (five envisaged, is nine turns distributed for seven displacements), them [[French Municipal elections of 2008|municipal elections]] were pushed back at the year 2008, involving with them [[the French Cantonal elections of 2008|cantonal elections]] and thus the senatorial ones; he was regarded as not very republican making earlier elect senators by an electoral college mainly elected seven years. The senators elected into 2004 are thus elected until at least 2011, in 2014 at the maximum. ==Résultats== {{Election of the Senate French 2004}} {{Elections in France under the Fifth Republic}} [[Category: Election in 2004|France]] [[Category: French senatorial elections
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