# 2015 Nouvelle-Aquitaine regional election, first round

[France](https://electionsarchive.com/fr.md) / [Nouvelle-Aquitaine](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-nouvelle-aquitaine.md), December 6, 2015

Alain Rousset led with 30.4% of the vote, 3.2 points ahead of Virginie Calmels.

> 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same head of list are marked as advancing; lists with at least 10 percent of the valid votes that did not are marked as withdrawn, whether or not they merged into another list.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, added up from the Interior Ministry's results by polling station on data.gouv.fr. The communes of a département add up to the département's result set.

## Rounds

### First round, December 6, 2015

- Alain Rousset, 30.4% (Advanced)
- Virginie Calmels, 27.2% (Advanced)
- Jacques Colombier, 23.2% (Advanced)

### [Second round](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-nouvelle-aquitaine/2015-12-13-runoff/75.md), December 13, 2015

- Alain Rousset, 44.3% (Won)
- Virginie Calmels, 34.1% (Won)
- Jacques Colombier, 21.7% (Won)

| Candidate or party | Party | Votes | Share | Result |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Alain Rousset | LUG | 628,667 | 30.4% | Advanced |
| Virginie Calmels | LUD | 562,500 | 27.2% | Advanced |
| Jacques Colombier | LFN | 480,621 | 23.2% | Advanced |
| Françoise Coutant | LVEC | 115,782 | 5.6% |  |
| Olivier Dartigolles | LFG | 100,380 | 4.9% |  |
| Yvon Setze | LDLF | 69,276 | 3.3% |  |
| Joseph Boussion | LDVG | 38,315 | 1.9% |  |
| Guillaume Perchet | LEXG | 29,206 | 1.4% |  |
| Nicolas Pereira | LDVG | 24,964 | 1.2% |  |
| William Douet | LDIV | 19,050 | 0.9% |  |

Valid votes: 2,068,761

Turnout: 51.0% (2,175,858 of 4,268,933 registered)

## Results by department

Alain Rousset leads in 6 departments; Virginie Calmels leads in 5 departments; Jacques Colombier leads in 1 department.

| Name | Leader | Share | Margin | Valid votes |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Charente](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-nouvelle-aquitaine/2015-12-06-general/75/charente.md) | Virginie Calmels | 27.9% | +1.2 | 119,716 |
| [Charente-Maritime](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-nouvelle-aquitaine/2015-12-06-general/75/charente-maritime.md) | Virginie Calmels | 28.8% | +1.7 | 226,706 |
| [Corrèze](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-nouvelle-aquitaine/2015-12-06-general/75/correze.md) | Virginie Calmels | 29.5% | +0.57 | 93,988 |
| [Creuse](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-nouvelle-aquitaine/2015-12-06-general/75/creuse.md) | Alain Rousset | 27.3% | +0.07 | 43,176 |
| [Deux-Sèvres](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-nouvelle-aquitaine/2015-12-06-general/75/deux-sevres.md) | Virginie Calmels | 29.2% | +1.5 | 123,540 |
| [Dordogne](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-nouvelle-aquitaine/2015-12-06-general/75/dordogne.md) | Alain Rousset | 32.1% | +7.3 | 162,313 |
| [Gironde](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-nouvelle-aquitaine/2015-12-06-general/75/gironde.md) | Alain Rousset | 33.8% | +6.4 | 510,296 |
| [Haute-Vienne](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-nouvelle-aquitaine/2015-12-06-general/75/haute-vienne.md) | Alain Rousset | 30.0% | +4.2 | 135,623 |
| [Landes](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-nouvelle-aquitaine/2015-12-06-general/75/landes.md) | Alain Rousset | 35.3% | +9.2 | 154,502 |
| [Lot-et-Garonne](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-nouvelle-aquitaine/2015-12-06-general/75/lot-et-garonne.md) | Jacques Colombier | 31.8% | +5.6 | 120,786 |
| [Pyrénées-Atlantiques](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-nouvelle-aquitaine/2015-12-06-general/75/pyrenees-atlantiques.md) | Alain Rousset | 32.8% | +4.5 | 233,043 |
| [Vienne](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-nouvelle-aquitaine/2015-12-06-general/75/vienne.md) | Virginie Calmels | 27.6% | +0.37 | 145,072 |

## This race in other years

- [June 20, 2021](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-nouvelle-aquitaine/2021-06-20-general/75.md): Alain Rousset, 39.5%
- December 6, 2015: Alain Rousset, 44.3%

## Sources

- Shown: [Élections régionales 2015](https://www.data.gouv.fr/datasets/56a0a693c751df54fbade715), Ministère de l'Intérieur. License: Licence Ouverte v1.0
- [Données des élections agrégées](https://www.data.gouv.fr/datasets/donnees-des-elections-agregees), data.gouv.fr. License: Licence Ouverte v2.0

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