# 2004 Franche-Comté regional election, first round

[France](https://electionsarchive.com/fr.md) / [Franche-Comté](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-franche-comte.md), March 21, 2004

Raymond Forni led with 31.3% of the vote, 6.4 points ahead of Jean Francois Humbert.

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head of list are marked as advancing; lists with at least 10 percent of the valid votes that did not are marked as withdrawn, whether or not they merged into another list.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

- Raymond Forni, 31.3% (Advanced)
- Jean Francois Humbert, 24.8% (Advanced)
- Sophie Montel, 18.7% (Advanced)

### [Second round](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-franche-comte/2004-03-28-runoff/43.md), March 28, 2004

- Raymond Forni, 46.8% (Won)
- Jean Francois Humbert, 36.1% (Won)
- Sophie Montel, 17.0% (Won)

| Candidate or party | Party | Votes | Share | Result |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Raymond Forni | LGA | 146,553 | 31.3% | Advanced |
| Jean Francois Humbert | LDR | 116,354 | 24.8% | Advanced |
| Sophie Montel | LFN | 87,407 | 18.7% | Advanced |
| Gerard Faivre | LDR | 36,029 | 7.7% |  |
| Jacques Lancon | LEC | 26,477 | 5.7% |  |
| Christian Driano | LXG | 22,059 | 4.7% |  |
| Evelyne Ternant | LGA | 19,577 | 4.2% |  |
| Marie France Ligney | LXD | 6,914 | 1.5% |  |
| Hervee de Lafond | LDG | 5,975 | 1.3% |  |
| Jean-Philippe Allenbach | LDV | 1,154 | 0.2% |  |

Valid votes: 468,499

Turnout: 63.7% (499,767 of 784,332 registered)

## Results by department

Raymond Forni leads in 4 departments.

| Name | Leader | Share | Margin | Valid votes |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Doubs](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-franche-comte/2004-03-21-general/43/doubs.md) | Raymond Forni | 32.5% | +5.4 | 201,852 |
| [Haute-Saône](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-franche-comte/2004-03-21-general/43/haute-saone.md) | Raymond Forni | 30.2% | +5.7 | 106,616 |
| [Jura](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-franche-comte/2004-03-21-general/43/jura.md) | Raymond Forni | 30.0% | +7.5 | 106,012 |
| [Territoire de Belfort](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-franche-comte/2004-03-21-general/43/territoire-de-belfort.md) | Raymond Forni | 31.3% | +9.8 | 54,019 |

New boundaries for 2004. By area, this seat came from [Haute-Saône](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-franche-comte/1998-03-15-general/haute-saone.md) (33%), [Doubs](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-franche-comte/1998-03-15-general/doubs.md) (32%), [Jura](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-franche-comte/1998-03-15-general/jura.md) (31%), and [Territoire de Belfort](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-franche-comte/1998-03-15-general/territoire-de-belfort.md) (4%).

## This race in other years

- [March 14, 2010](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-franche-comte/2010-03-14-general/43.md): Marie-Guite Dufay, 47.4%
- March 21, 2004: Raymond Forni, 46.8%

## 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-franche-comte/2004-03-21-general/43 and JSON at https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-franche-comte/2004-03-21-general/43.json.