# 2004 Auvergne regional election, first round

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

Valéry Giscard d'Estaing led with 36.4% of the vote, 8.2 points ahead of Pierre-Joël Bonte.

> 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same head of list are marked as advancing; lists with at least 10 percent of the valid votes that did not are marked as withdrawn, whether or not they merged into another list.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

- Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, 36.4% (Advanced)
- Pierre-Joël Bonte, 28.2% (Advanced)
- Louis de Conde, 9.6%

### [Second round](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-auvergne/2004-03-28-runoff/83.md), March 28, 2004

- Pierre-Joël Bonte, 52.7% (Won)
- Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, 47.3% (Won)

| Candidate or party | Party | Votes | Share | Result |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Valéry Giscard d'Estaing | LDR | 215,921 | 36.4% | Advanced |
| Pierre-Joël Bonte | LGA | 167,433 | 28.2% | Advanced |
| Louis de Conde | LFN | 56,874 | 9.6% |  |
| André Chassaigne | LGA | 54,609 | 9.2% |  |
| Yves Gueydon | LVE | 33,272 | 5.6% |  |
| Marie Savre | LXG | 25,389 | 4.3% |  |
| Hugues Auvray | LDD | 20,498 | 3.5% |  |
| Hubert Constancias | LEC | 13,287 | 2.2% |  |
| Claude Jaffres | LXD | 6,108 | 1.0% |  |

Valid votes: 593,391

Turnout: 64.1% (624,664 of 975,066 registered)

## Results by department

Valéry Giscard d'Estaing leads in 4 departments.

| Name | Leader | Share | Margin | Valid votes |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Allier](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-auvergne/2004-03-21-general/83/allier.md) | Valéry Giscard d'Estaing | 32.6% | +8.7 | 148,889 |
| [Cantal](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-auvergne/2004-03-21-general/83/cantal.md) | Valéry Giscard d'Estaing | 47.3% | +21.3 | 74,239 |
| [Haute-Loire](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-auvergne/2004-03-21-general/83/haute-loire.md) | Valéry Giscard d'Estaing | 39.3% | +14.9 | 101,964 |
| [Puy-de-Dôme](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-auvergne/2004-03-21-general/83/puy-de-dome.md) | Valéry Giscard d'Estaing | 34.4% | +1.7 | 268,299 |

New boundaries for 2004. By area, this seat came from [Puy-de-Dôme](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-auvergne/1998-03-15-general/puy-de-dome.md) (31%), [Allier](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-auvergne/1998-03-15-general/allier.md) (29%), [Cantal](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-auvergne/1998-03-15-general/cantal.md) (22%), and [Haute-Loire](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-auvergne/1998-03-15-general/haute-loire.md) (19%).

## This race in other years

- [March 14, 2010](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-auvergne/2010-03-14-general/83.md): Rene Souchon, 59.7%
- March 21, 2004: Pierre-Joël Bonte, 52.7%

## 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-auvergne/2004-03-21-general/83 and JSON at https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-auvergne/2004-03-21-general/83.json.