# 1998 Poitou-Charentes regional election, Deux-Sèvres

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

Francoise Gaillard led with 34.1% of the vote, 2.1 points ahead of Michel Becot.

> 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 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Francoise Gaillard | LMA | 47,139 | 34.1% |
| Michel Becot | LDR | 44,277 | 32.0% |
| Jean-Romée Charbonneau | LFN | 11,300 | 8.2% |
| Alain Garcia | LDF | 10,712 | 7.7% |
| Gilles Parnaudeau | LDG | 9,178 | 6.6% |
| Michel Herve | LDG | 9,098 | 6.6% |
| Alain Bernelas | LDV | 6,607 | 4.8% |

Valid votes: 138,311

Turnout: 57.2% (149,059 of 260,568 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/deux-sevres and JSON at https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-poitou-charentes/1998-03-15-general/deux-sevres.json.