# 2004 Burgundy regional election, first round

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

Francois Patriat led with 36.0% of the vote, 14.2 points ahead of Jean-Pierre Soisson.

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head of list are marked as advancing; lists with at least 10 percent of the valid votes that did not are marked as withdrawn, whether or not they merged into another list.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

- Francois Patriat, 36.0% (Advanced)
- Jean-Pierre Soisson, 21.8% (Advanced)
- Pierre Jaboulet Vercherre, 15.8% (Advanced)

### [Second round](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-bourgogne/2004-03-28-runoff/26.md), March 28, 2004

- Francois Patriat, 52.5% (Won)
- Jean-Pierre Soisson, 32.1% (Won)
- Pierre Jaboulet Vercherre, 15.4% (Won)

| Candidate or party | Party | Votes | Share | Result |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Francois Patriat | LGA | 240,445 | 36.0% | Advanced |
| Jean-Pierre Soisson | LDR | 145,428 | 21.8% | Advanced |
| Pierre Jaboulet Vercherre | LFN | 105,270 | 15.8% | Advanced |
| François Sauvadet | LDR | 86,674 | 13.0% | Withdrew |
| Julien Gonzalez | LEC | 34,810 | 5.2% |  |
| Jacqueline Lambert | LXG | 26,191 | 3.9% |  |
| Joël Mekhantar | LDG | 17,214 | 2.6% |  |
| Claude Moreau | LXD | 11,701 | 1.8% |  |
| Claude Dassié | LDD | 0 | 0.0% |  |

Valid votes: 667,733

Turnout: 62.0% (704,897 of 1,136,336 registered)

## Results by department

Francois Patriat leads in 3 departments; Jean-Pierre Soisson leads in 1 department.

| Name | Leader | Share | Margin | Valid votes |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Côte-d'Or](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-bourgogne/2004-03-21-general/26/cote-d-or.md) | Francois Patriat | 37.9% | +18.4 | 202,849 |
| [Nièvre](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-bourgogne/2004-03-21-general/26/nievre.md) | Francois Patriat | 40.4% | +20.8 | 98,443 |
| [Saône-et-Loire](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-bourgogne/2004-03-21-general/26/saone-et-loire.md) | Francois Patriat | 36.9% | +14.1 | 228,076 |
| [Yonne](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-bourgogne/2004-03-21-general/26/yonne.md) | Jean-Pierre Soisson | 29.5% | +0.89 | 138,365 |

New boundaries for 2004. By area, this seat came from [Côte-d'Or](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-bourgogne/1998-03-15-general/cote-d-or.md) (28%), [Saône-et-Loire](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-bourgogne/1998-03-15-general/saone-et-loire.md) (27%), [Yonne](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-bourgogne/1998-03-15-general/yonne.md) (24%), and [Nièvre](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-bourgogne/1998-03-15-general/nievre.md) (22%).

## This race in other years

- [March 14, 2010](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-bourgogne/2010-03-14-general/26.md): Francois Patriat, 52.7%
- March 21, 2004: Francois Patriat, 52.5%

## 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-bourgogne/2004-03-21-general/26 and JSON at https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-bourgogne/2004-03-21-general/26.json.