# 2004 Lower Normandy regional election, first round

[France](https://electionsarchive.com/fr.md) / [Basse-Normandie](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-basse-normandie.md), March 21, 2004

Rene Garrec led with 28.7% of the vote, 4.8 points ahead of Philippe Duron.

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head of list are marked as advancing; lists with at least 10 percent of the valid votes that did not are marked as withdrawn, whether or not they merged into another list.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

- Rene Garrec, 28.7% (Advanced)
- Philippe Duron, 23.9% (Advanced)
- Fernand Le Rachinel, 14.0% (Advanced)

### [Second round](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-basse-normandie/2004-03-28-runoff/25.md), March 28, 2004

- Philippe Duron, 46.2% (Won)
- Rene Garrec, 40.0% (Won)
- Fernand Le Rachinel, 13.8% (Won)

| Candidate or party | Party | Votes | Share | Result |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Rene Garrec | LDR | 172,050 | 28.7% | Advanced |
| Philippe Duron | LGA | 143,095 | 23.9% | Advanced |
| Fernand Le Rachinel | LFN | 83,742 | 14.0% | Advanced |
| Philippe Augier | LDR | 55,436 | 9.3% |  |
| Alain Tourret | LGA | 50,105 | 8.4% |  |
| Didier Vergy | LCP | 31,376 | 5.2% |  |
| Christine Coulon | LXG | 28,888 | 4.8% |  |
| Jérémy Folly | LDG | 17,586 | 2.9% |  |
| Etienne Adam | LXG | 16,268 | 2.7% |  |

Valid votes: 598,546

Turnout: 61.5% (634,167 of 1,030,747 registered)

## Results by department

Rene Garrec leads in 2 departments; Philippe Duron leads in 1 department.

| Name | Leader | Share | Margin | Valid votes |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Calvados](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-basse-normandie/2004-03-21-general/25/calvados.md) | Philippe Duron | 26.2% | +0.74 | 272,042 |
| [Manche](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-basse-normandie/2004-03-21-general/25/manche.md) | Rene Garrec | 30.5% | +7.4 | 201,509 |
| [Orne](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-basse-normandie/2004-03-21-general/25/orne.md) | Rene Garrec | 33.0% | +12.9 | 124,995 |

New boundaries for 2004. By area, this seat came from [Orne](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-basse-normandie/1998-03-15-general/orne.md) (34%), [Manche](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-basse-normandie/1998-03-15-general/manche.md) (34%), and [Calvados](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-basse-normandie/1998-03-15-general/calvados.md) (32%).

## This race in other years

- [March 14, 2010](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-basse-normandie/2010-03-14-general/25.md): Laurent Beauvais, 57.2%
- March 21, 2004: Philippe Duron, 46.2%

## 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-basse-normandie/2004-03-21-general/25 and JSON at https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-basse-normandie/2004-03-21-general/25.json.