# 1998 Pays de la Loire regional election, Sarthe

[France](https://electionsarchive.com/fr.md) / [Pays de la Loire](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-pays-de-la-loire.md), March 15, 1998

François Fillon led with 49.0% of the vote, 17.8 points ahead of Patrick Delpech.

> Votes by list from the Interior Ministry's 1998 results file by département. Heads of list come from the Sciences Po CDSP file of the same results by constituency, matched to each list by its votes in the département.

| Candidate or party | Party | Votes | Share |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| François Fillon | LDR | 102,252 | 49.0% |
| Patrick Delpech | LMA | 65,031 | 31.1% |
| Jean Claude Barlemont | LFN | 19,980 | 9.6% |
| Yves Cheere | LXG | 12,142 | 5.8% |
| Auguste Huberdeau | LEC | 7,089 | 3.4% |
| Denis Plard | LDV | 2,364 | 1.1% |

Valid votes: 208,858

Turnout: 57.7% (219,750 of 381,142 registered)

## Sources

- [Élections régionales 1998](https://www.data.gouv.fr/datasets/elections-regionales-1998-571487), Ministère de l'Intérieur. License: Public record

Also available as HTML at https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-pays-de-la-loire/1998-03-15-general/sarthe and JSON at https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-pays-de-la-loire/1998-03-15-general/sarthe.json.