# 2004 Champagne-Ardenne regional election, first round

[France](https://electionsarchive.com/fr.md) / [Champagne-Ardenne](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-champagne-ardenne.md), March 21, 2004

Jean Paul Bachy led with 27.9% of the vote, 1.3 points ahead of Jean-Claude Etienne.

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head of list are marked as advancing; lists with at least 10 percent of the valid votes that did not are marked as withdrawn, whether or not they merged into another list.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

- Jean Paul Bachy, 27.9% (Advanced)
- Jean-Claude Etienne, 26.7% (Advanced)
- Bruno Subtil, 19.7% (Advanced)

### [Second round](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-champagne-ardenne/2004-03-28-runoff/21.md), March 28, 2004

- Jean Paul Bachy, 41.9% (Won)
- Jean-Claude Etienne, 39.8% (Won)
- Bruno Subtil, 18.3% (Won)

| Candidate or party | Party | Votes | Share | Result |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Jean Paul Bachy | LGA | 141,099 | 27.9% | Advanced |
| Jean-Claude Etienne | LDR | 134,640 | 26.7% | Advanced |
| Bruno Subtil | LFN | 99,592 | 19.7% | Advanced |
| Charles de Courson | LDR | 56,110 | 11.1% | Withdrew |
| Marie Angele Klaine | LVE | 37,937 | 7.5% |  |
| Thomas Rose | LXG | 25,247 | 5.0% |  |
| Jacques Gaillard | LXD | 10,360 | 2.1% |  |

Valid votes: 504,985

Turnout: 58.7% (530,006 of 902,663 registered)

## Results by department

Jean-Claude Etienne leads in 3 departments; Jean Paul Bachy leads in 1 department.

| Name | Leader | Share | Margin | Valid votes |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Ardennes](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-champagne-ardenne/2004-03-21-general/21/ardennes.md) | Jean Paul Bachy | 34.5% | +8.7 | 111,111 |
| [Aube](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-champagne-ardenne/2004-03-21-general/21/aube.md) | Jean-Claude Etienne | 27.2% | +1.1 | 110,605 |
| [Haute-Marne](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-champagne-ardenne/2004-03-21-general/21/haute-marne.md) | Jean-Claude Etienne | 28.1% | +2.0 | 79,028 |
| [Marne](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-champagne-ardenne/2004-03-21-general/21/marne.md) | Jean-Claude Etienne | 26.3% | +0.20 | 204,241 |

New boundaries for 2004. By area, this seat came from [Marne](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-champagne-ardenne/1998-03-15-general/marne.md) (32%), [Haute-Marne](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-champagne-ardenne/1998-03-15-general/haute-marne.md) (24%), [Aube](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-champagne-ardenne/1998-03-15-general/aube.md) (23%), and [Ardennes](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-champagne-ardenne/1998-03-15-general/ardennes.md) (21%).

## This race in other years

- [March 14, 2010](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-champagne-ardenne/2010-03-14-general/21.md): Jean Paul Bachy, 44.3%
- March 21, 2004: Jean Paul Bachy, 41.9%

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