# 2004 Languedoc-Roussillon regional election, first round

[France](https://electionsarchive.com/fr.md) / [Languedoc-Roussillon](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-languedoc-roussillon.md), March 21, 2004

Georges Freche led with 36.3% of the vote, 12.1 points ahead of Jacques Blanc.

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head of list are marked as advancing; lists with at least 10 percent of the valid votes that did not are marked as withdrawn, whether or not they merged into another list.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

- Georges Freche, 36.3% (Advanced)
- Jacques Blanc, 24.2% (Advanced)
- Alain Jamet, 17.2% (Advanced)

### [Second round](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-languedoc-roussillon/2004-03-28-runoff/91.md), March 28, 2004

- Georges Freche, 51.2% (Won)
- Jacques Blanc, 33.1% (Won)
- Alain Jamet, 15.7% (Won)

| Candidate or party | Party | Votes | Share | Result |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Georges Freche | LGA | 387,214 | 36.3% | Advanced |
| Jacques Blanc | LDR | 258,287 | 24.2% | Advanced |
| Alain Jamet | LFN | 183,031 | 17.2% | Advanced |
| Marc Dufour | LDR | 60,822 | 5.7% |  |
| Alain Esclope | LCP | 53,316 | 5.0% |  |
| Georges Fandos | LEC | 51,089 | 4.8% |  |
| David Hermet | LXG | 50,065 | 4.7% |  |
| Christian Lacour | LRG | 13,538 | 1.3% |  |
| Elisabeth Pascal | LXD | 8,627 | 0.8% |  |

Valid votes: 1,065,989

Turnout: 65.8% (1,117,041 of 1,697,434 registered)

## Results by department

Georges Freche leads in 4 departments; Jacques Blanc leads in 1 department.

| Name | Leader | Share | Margin | Valid votes |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Aude](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-languedoc-roussillon/2004-03-21-general/91/aude.md) | Georges Freche | 41.9% | +19.3 | 155,559 |
| [Gard](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-languedoc-roussillon/2004-03-21-general/91/gard.md) | Georges Freche | 33.3% | +10.0 | 278,267 |
| [Hérault](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-languedoc-roussillon/2004-03-21-general/91/herault.md) | Georges Freche | 38.6% | +15.2 | 409,746 |
| [Lozère](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-languedoc-roussillon/2004-03-21-general/91/lozere.md) | Jacques Blanc | 52.3% | +27.2 | 41,925 |
| [Pyrénées-Orientales](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-languedoc-roussillon/2004-03-21-general/91/pyrenees-orientales.md) | Georges Freche | 33.6% | +11.2 | 180,492 |

New boundaries for 2004. By area, this seat came from [Aude](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-languedoc-roussillon/1998-03-15-general/aude.md) (23%), [Hérault](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-languedoc-roussillon/1998-03-15-general/herault.md) (22%), [Gard](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-languedoc-roussillon/1998-03-15-general/gard.md) (21%), [Lozère](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-languedoc-roussillon/1998-03-15-general/lozere.md) (19%), and [Pyrénées-Orientales](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-languedoc-roussillon/1998-03-15-general/pyrenees-orientales.md) (15%).

## This race in other years

- [March 14, 2010](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-languedoc-roussillon/2010-03-14-general/91.md): Georges Freche, 54.2%
- March 21, 2004: Georges Freche, 51.2%

## Sources

- [Élections régionales 2004](https://www.data.gouv.fr/datasets/536993a5a3a729239d204258), Ministère de l'Intérieur. License: Licence Ouverte v1.0

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