# 1998 Poitou-Charentes regional election, Charente-Maritime

[France](https://electionsarchive.com/fr.md) / [Poitou-Charentes](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-poitou-charentes.md), March 15, 1998

Philippe Marchand led with 41.0% of the vote, 9.3 points ahead of Francoise Clerc.

> 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 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Philippe Marchand | LMA | 88,333 | 41.0% |
| Francoise Clerc | LDR | 68,211 | 31.7% |
| Jean-Francois Galvaire | LFN | 25,592 | 11.9% |
| Gérard Fontenay | LDV | 18,457 | 8.6% |
| Claude Meunier | LDF | 14,846 | 6.9% |

Valid votes: 215,439

Turnout: 56.5% (227,397 of 402,674 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-poitou-charentes/1998-03-15-general/charente-maritime and JSON at https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-poitou-charentes/1998-03-15-general/charente-maritime.json.