# 1998 Picardy regional election, Somme

[France](https://electionsarchive.com/fr.md) / [Picardie](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-picardie.md), March 15, 1998

Francis Lecul led with 31.19% of the vote, 0.56 points ahead of Alain Gest.

> 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 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Francis Lecul | LMA | 75,850 | 31.2% |
| Alain Gest | LDR | 74,489 | 30.6% |
| Raynald Brasseur | LFN | 31,228 | 12.8% |
| Michel Blondin | LDV | 21,388 | 8.8% |
| Raymond Hallard | LXG | 16,567 | 6.8% |
| Christophe Porquier | LEC | 10,544 | 4.3% |
| Hubert Delarue | LEC | 7,298 | 3.0% |
| Jean-Claude Masse | LDV | 5,859 | 2.4% |

Valid votes: 243,223

Turnout: 65.9% (258,866 of 392,975 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-picardie/1998-03-15-general/somme and JSON at https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-picardie/1998-03-15-general/somme.json.