# 2004 Limousin regional election, first round

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

Jean-Paul Denanot led with 41.1% of the vote, 17.8 points ahead of Raymond Archer.

> 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same head of list are marked as advancing; lists with at least 10 percent of the valid votes that did not are marked as withdrawn, whether or not they merged into another list.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 Denanot, 41.1% (Advanced)
- Raymond Archer, 23.3% (Advanced)
- Patricia Gibeau, 9.3%

### [Second round](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-limousin/2004-03-28-runoff/74.md), March 28, 2004

- Jean-Paul Denanot, 62.0% (Won)
- Raymond Archer, 38.0% (Won)

| Candidate or party | Party | Votes | Share | Result |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Jean-Paul Denanot | LGA | 140,217 | 41.1% | Advanced |
| Raymond Archer | LDR | 79,531 | 23.3% | Advanced |
| Patricia Gibeau | LFN | 31,736 | 9.3% |  |
| Jean-Claude Deschamps | LDR | 28,169 | 8.3% |  |
| Stephane Lajaumont | LXG | 22,529 | 6.6% |  |
| Jean-Bernard Damiens | LVE | 20,531 | 6.0% |  |
| Jean-Louis Hironde | LCP | 18,133 | 5.3% |  |

Valid votes: 340,846

Turnout: 67.1% (365,949 of 545,565 registered)

## Results by department

Jean-Paul Denanot leads in 3 departments.

| Name | Leader | Share | Margin | Valid votes |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Corrèze](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-limousin/2004-03-21-general/74/correze.md) | Jean-Paul Denanot | 37.1% | +8.5 | 118,534 |
| [Creuse](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-limousin/2004-03-21-general/74/creuse.md) | Jean-Paul Denanot | 39.2% | +16.2 | 57,391 |
| [Haute-Vienne](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-limousin/2004-03-21-general/74/haute-vienne.md) | Jean-Paul Denanot | 44.7% | +25.0 | 164,921 |

New boundaries for 2004. By area, this seat came from [Corrèze](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-limousin/1998-03-15-general/correze.md) (34%), [Creuse](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-limousin/1998-03-15-general/creuse.md) (33%), and [Haute-Vienne](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-limousin/1998-03-15-general/haute-vienne.md) (33%).

## This race in other years

- [March 14, 2010](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-limousin/2010-03-14-general/74.md): Jean-Paul Denanot, 47.9%
- March 21, 2004: Jean-Paul Denanot, 62.0%

## 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-limousin/2004-03-21-general/74 and JSON at https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-limousin/2004-03-21-general/74.json.