# 2004 Picardy regional election, first round

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

Gilles de Robien led with 32.3% of the vote, 4.8 points ahead of Claude Gewerc.

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head of list are marked as advancing; lists with at least 10 percent of the valid votes that did not are marked as withdrawn, whether or not they merged into another list.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

- Gilles de Robien, 32.3% (Advanced)
- Claude Gewerc, 27.4% (Advanced)
- Michel Guiniot, 22.9% (Advanced)

### [Second round](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-picardie/2004-03-28-runoff/22.md), March 28, 2004

- Claude Gewerc, 45.6% (Won)
- Gilles de Robien, 35.8% (Won)
- Michel Guiniot, 18.7% (Won)

| Candidate or party | Party | Votes | Share | Result |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Gilles de Robien | LDR | 247,425 | 32.3% | Advanced |
| Claude Gewerc | LGA | 210,338 | 27.4% | Advanced |
| Michel Guiniot | LFN | 175,940 | 22.9% | Advanced |
| Maxime Gremetz | LGA | 83,282 | 10.9% | Withdrew |
| Roland Szpirko | LXG | 49,995 | 6.5% |  |

Valid votes: 766,980

Turnout: 63.3% (809,662 of 1,279,094 registered)

## Results by department

Gilles de Robien leads in 2 departments; Claude Gewerc leads in 1 department.

| Name | Leader | Share | Margin | Valid votes |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Aisne](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-picardie/2004-03-21-general/22/aisne.md) | Claude Gewerc | 30.1% | +0.01 | 216,319 |
| [Oise](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-picardie/2004-03-21-general/22/oise.md) | Gilles de Robien | 32.9% | +4.8 | 298,377 |
| [Somme](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-picardie/2004-03-21-general/22/somme.md) | Gilles de Robien | 33.4% | +9.1 | 252,284 |

New boundaries for 2004. By area, this seat came from [Aisne](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-picardie/1998-03-15-general/aisne.md) (38%), [Somme](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-picardie/1998-03-15-general/somme.md) (32%), and [Oise](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-picardie/1998-03-15-general/oise.md) (30%).

## This race in other years

- [March 14, 2010](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-picardie/2010-03-14-general/22.md): Claude Gewerc, 48.3%
- March 21, 2004: Claude Gewerc, 45.6%

## 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-picardie/2004-03-21-general/22 and JSON at https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-picardie/2004-03-21-general/22.json.