# 2004 Upper Normandy regional election, first round

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

Alain Le Vern led with 38.9% of the vote, 17.7 points ahead of Antoine Rufenacht.

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head of list are marked as advancing; lists with at least 10 percent of the valid votes that did not are marked as withdrawn, whether or not they merged into another list.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

- Alain Le Vern, 38.9% (Advanced)
- Antoine Rufenacht, 21.1% (Advanced)
- Dominique Chaboche, 15.9% (Advanced)

### [Second round](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-haute-normandie/2004-03-28-runoff/23.md), March 28, 2004

- Alain Le Vern, 52.7% (Won)
- Antoine Rufenacht, 32.7% (Won)
- Dominique Chaboche, 14.6% (Won)

| Candidate or party | Party | Votes | Share | Result |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Alain Le Vern | LGA | 281,320 | 38.9% | Advanced |
| Antoine Rufenacht | LDR | 153,089 | 21.1% | Advanced |
| Dominique Chaboche | LFN | 115,183 | 15.9% | Advanced |
| Hervé Morin | LDR | 90,505 | 12.5% | Withdrew |
| Christine Poupin | LXG | 40,434 | 5.6% |  |
| Bernard Frau | LEC | 30,202 | 4.2% |  |
| Philippe Fouche-Saillenfest | LXD | 13,124 | 1.8% |  |

Valid votes: 723,857

Turnout: 62.0% (756,714 of 1,219,975 registered)

## Results by department

| Name | Leader | Share | Margin | Valid votes |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Eure](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-haute-normandie/2004-03-21-general/23/eure.md) | Alain Le Vern | 32.4% | +11.7 | 222,426 |
| [Seine-Maritime](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-haute-normandie/2004-03-21-general/23/seine-maritime.md) | Alain Le Vern | 41.7% | +18.4 | 501,431 |

New boundaries for 2004. By area, this seat came from [Seine-Maritime](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-haute-normandie/1998-03-15-general/seine-maritime.md) (51%) and [Eure](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-haute-normandie/1998-03-15-general/eure.md) (49%).

## This race in other years

- [March 14, 2010](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-haute-normandie/2010-03-14-general/23.md): Alain Le Vern, 55.1%
- March 21, 2004: Alain Le Vern, 52.7%

## 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-haute-normandie/2004-03-21-general/23 and JSON at https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-haute-normandie/2004-03-21-general/23.json.