# 2015 Pays de la Loire regional election, first round

[France](https://electionsarchive.com/fr.md) / [Pays de la Loire](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-pays-de-la-loire.md), December 6, 2015

Bruno Retailleau led with 33.5% of the vote, 7.7 points ahead of Christophe Clergeau.

> The ministry's file by commune and its file by département are separate publications and differ slightly: no total or list's votes here differs from the département result set by up to 40 votes.

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head of list are marked as advancing; lists with at least 10 percent of the valid votes that did not are marked as withdrawn, whether or not they merged into another list.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

- Bruno Retailleau, 33.5% (Advanced)
- Christophe Clergeau, 25.8% (Advanced)
- Pascal Gannat, 21.3% (Advanced)

### [Second round](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-pays-de-la-loire/2015-12-13-runoff/52.md), December 13, 2015

- Bruno Retailleau, 42.7% (Won)
- Christophe Clergeau, 37.6% (Won)
- Pascal Gannat, 19.7% (Won)

| Candidate or party | Party | Votes | Share | Result |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Bruno Retailleau | LUD | 424,951 | 33.5% | Advanced |
| Christophe Clergeau | LUG | 326,764 | 25.8% | Advanced |
| Pascal Gannat | LFN | 270,888 | 21.3% | Advanced |
| Sophie Bringuy | LVEC | 99,253 | 7.8% |  |
| Cécile Bayle de Jessé | LDLF | 51,873 | 4.1% |  |
| Alain Pagano | LCOM | 42,305 | 3.3% |  |
| Eddy Le Beller | LEXG | 18,626 | 1.5% |  |
| Gilles Denigot | LREG | 16,096 | 1.3% |  |
| Alain Parisot | LDIV | 16,022 | 1.3% |  |
| Olivier Terrien | LEXG | 2,164 | 0.2% |  |

Valid votes: 1,268,942

Turnout: 49.97% (1,331,536 of 2,664,791 registered)

## Results by department

Bruno Retailleau leads in 3 departments; Christophe Clergeau leads in 1 department; Pascal Gannat leads in 1 department.

| Name | Leader | Share | Margin | Valid votes |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Loire-Atlantique](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-pays-de-la-loire/2015-12-06-general/52/loire-atlantique.md) | Christophe Clergeau | 30.6% | +1.3 | 468,324 |
| [Maine-et-Loire](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-pays-de-la-loire/2015-12-06-general/52/maine-et-loire.md) | Bruno Retailleau | 33.7% | +8.9 | 260,811 |
| [Mayenne](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-pays-de-la-loire/2015-12-06-general/52/mayenne.md) | Bruno Retailleau | 36.0% | +13.0 | 98,912 |
| [Sarthe](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-pays-de-la-loire/2015-12-06-general/52/sarthe.md) | Pascal Gannat | 29.7% | +4.1 | 186,753 |
| [Vendée](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-pays-de-la-loire/2015-12-06-general/52/vendee.md) | Bruno Retailleau | 45.7% | +24.9 | 254,142 |

## This race in other years

- [June 20, 2021](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-pays-de-la-loire/2021-06-20-general/52.md): Christelle Morançais, 46.4%
- December 6, 2015: Bruno Retailleau, 42.7%
- [March 14, 2010](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-pays-de-la-loire/2010-03-14-general/52.md): Jacques Auxiette, 56.4%
- [March 21, 2004](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-pays-de-la-loire/2004-03-21-general/52.md): Jacques Auxiette, 52.4%

## 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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