# 2004 Alsace regional election, first round

[France](https://electionsarchive.com/fr.md) / [Alsace](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-alsace.md), March 21, 2004

Adrien Zeller led with 34.1% of the vote, 13.9 points ahead of Jacques Bigot.

> No list won an absolute majority, so no seats were allocated in this round. Lists that stood again in the second round under the same head of list are marked as advancing; lists with at least 10 percent of the valid votes that did not are marked as withdrawn, whether or not they merged into another list.

> Results by region from the Interior Ministry's results file. The ministry's figures by département, loaded as a second result set, add up exactly to these totals.

> Results by commune from the Interior Ministry's results file for the election, which the ministry published separately from its file by département.

## Rounds

### First round, March 21, 2004

- Adrien Zeller, 34.1% (Advanced)
- Jacques Bigot, 20.1% (Advanced)
- Patrick Binder, 18.6% (Advanced)

### [Second round](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-alsace/2004-03-28-runoff/42.md), March 28, 2004

- Adrien Zeller, 43.6% (Won)
- Jacques Bigot, 34.4% (Won)
- Patrick Binder, 22.0% (Won)

| Candidate or party | Party | Votes | Share | Result |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Adrien Zeller | LDR | 225,227 | 34.1% | Advanced |
| Jacques Bigot | LGA | 133,057 | 20.1% | Advanced |
| Patrick Binder | LFN | 122,873 | 18.6% | Advanced |
| Robert Spieler | LXD | 62,259 | 9.4% |  |
| Antoine Waechter | LEC | 48,950 | 7.4% |  |
| Alfred Wahl | LDG | 24,695 | 3.7% |  |
| Patrick Merck | LDV | 23,544 | 3.6% |  |
| Francoise Ruch | LXG | 20,005 | 3.0% |  |
| Pascale Grauss | LDV | 578 | 0.1% |  |

Valid votes: 661,188

Turnout: 59.5% (698,006 of 1,173,598 registered)

## Results by department

| Name | Leader | Share | Margin | Valid votes |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Bas-Rhin](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-alsace/2004-03-21-general/42/bas-rhin.md) | Adrien Zeller | 36.3% | +15.6 | 386,404 |
| [Haut-Rhin](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-alsace/2004-03-21-general/42/haut-rhin.md) | Adrien Zeller | 30.9% | +10.4 | 274,784 |

New boundaries for 2004. By area, this seat came from [Bas-Rhin](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-alsace/1998-03-15-general/bas-rhin.md) (58%) and [Haut-Rhin](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-alsace/1998-03-15-general/haut-rhin.md) (42%).

## This race in other years

- [March 14, 2010](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-alsace/2010-03-14-general/42.md): Philippe Richert, 46.2%
- March 21, 2004: Adrien Zeller, 43.6%

## Sources

- [Élections régionales 2004](https://www.data.gouv.fr/datasets/536993a5a3a729239d204258), Ministère de l'Intérieur. License: Licence Ouverte v1.0

Also available as HTML at https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-alsace/2004-03-21-general/42 and JSON at https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-alsace/2004-03-21-general/42.json.