# 2015 Burgundy-Franche-Comté regional election, first round

[France](https://electionsarchive.com/fr.md) / [Bourgogne-Franche-Comté](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-bourgogne-franche-comte.md), December 6, 2015

Sophie Montel led with 31.5% of the vote, 7.5 points ahead of François Sauvadet.

> 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same head of list are marked as advancing; lists with at least 10 percent of the valid votes that did not are marked as withdrawn, whether or not they merged into another list.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, added up from the Interior Ministry's results by polling station on data.gouv.fr. The communes of a département add up to the département's result set.

## Rounds

### First round, December 6, 2015

- Sophie Montel, 31.5% (Advanced)
- François Sauvadet, 24.0% (Advanced)
- Marie-Guite Dufay, 23.0% (Advanced)

### [Second round](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-bourgogne-franche-comte/2015-12-13-runoff/27.md), December 13, 2015

- Marie-Guite Dufay, 34.7% (Won)
- François Sauvadet, 32.9% (Won)
- Sophie Montel, 32.4% (Won)

| Candidate or party | Party | Votes | Share | Result |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Sophie Montel | LFN | 303,143 | 31.5% | Advanced |
| François Sauvadet | LUD | 231,069 | 24.0% | Advanced |
| Marie-Guite Dufay | LUG | 221,376 | 23.0% | Advanced |
| Maxime Thiebaut | LDLF | 49,802 | 5.2% |  |
| Nathalie Vermorel | LFG | 44,471 | 4.6% |  |
| Cécile Prudhomme | LVEC | 37,707 | 3.9% |  |
| Christophe Grudler | LMDM | 31,431 | 3.3% |  |
| Julien Gonzalez | LECO | 20,616 | 2.1% |  |
| Claire Rocher | LEXG | 14,518 | 1.5% |  |
| Charles-Henri Gallois | LDIV | 8,835 | 0.9% |  |

Valid votes: 962,968

Turnout: 50.6% (1,009,561 of 1,996,679 registered)

## Results by department

Sophie Montel leads in 7 departments; François Sauvadet leads in 1 department.

| Name | Leader | Share | Margin | Valid votes |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Côte-d'Or](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-bourgogne-franche-comte/2015-12-06-general/27/cote-d-or.md) | François Sauvadet | 30.7% | +3.0 | 180,532 |
| [Doubs](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-bourgogne-franche-comte/2015-12-06-general/27/doubs.md) | Sophie Montel | 31.7% | +5.7 | 180,673 |
| [Haute-Saône](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-bourgogne-franche-comte/2015-12-06-general/27/haute-saone.md) | Sophie Montel | 37.3% | +13.5 | 94,111 |
| [Jura](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-bourgogne-franche-comte/2015-12-06-general/27/jura.md) | Sophie Montel | 29.9% | +6.6 | 93,499 |
| [Nièvre](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-bourgogne-franche-comte/2015-12-06-general/27/nievre.md) | Sophie Montel | 31.4% | +6.9 | 73,227 |
| [Saône-et-Loire](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-bourgogne-franche-comte/2015-12-06-general/27/saone-et-loire.md) | Sophie Montel | 29.0% | +3.9 | 181,357 |
| [Territoire de Belfort](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-bourgogne-franche-comte/2015-12-06-general/27/territoire-de-belfort.md) | Sophie Montel | 34.8% | +14.0 | 45,768 |
| [Yonne](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-bourgogne-franche-comte/2015-12-06-general/27/yonne.md) | Sophie Montel | 36.2% | +13.7 | 113,801 |

## This race in other years

- [June 20, 2021](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-bourgogne-franche-comte/2021-06-20-general/27.md): Marie-Guite Dufay, 42.2%
- December 6, 2015: Marie-Guite Dufay, 34.7%

## Sources

- Shown: [Élections régionales 2015](https://www.data.gouv.fr/datasets/56a0a693c751df54fbade715), Ministère de l'Intérieur. License: Licence Ouverte v1.0
- [Données des élections agrégées](https://www.data.gouv.fr/datasets/donnees-des-elections-agregees), data.gouv.fr. License: Licence Ouverte v2.0

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