# 2004 Poitou-Charentes regional election, first round

[France](https://electionsarchive.com/fr.md) / [Poitou-Charentes](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-poitou-charentes.md), March 21, 2004

Ségolène Royal led with 46.3% of the vote, 13.4 points ahead of Elisabeth Morin.

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head of list are marked as advancing; lists with at least 10 percent of the valid votes that did not are marked as withdrawn, whether or not they merged into another list.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

- Ségolène Royal, 46.3% (Advanced)
- Elisabeth Morin, 32.9% (Advanced)
- Jean-Romée Charbonneau, 10.5% (Advanced)

### [Second round](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-poitou-charentes/2004-03-28-runoff/54.md), March 28, 2004

- Ségolène Royal, 55.1% (Won)
- Elisabeth Morin, 36.2% (Won)
- Jean-Romée Charbonneau, 8.7% (Won)

| Candidate or party | Party | Votes | Share | Result |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ségolène Royal | LGA | 350,467 | 46.3% | Advanced |
| Elisabeth Morin | LDR | 249,373 | 32.9% | Advanced |
| Jean-Romée Charbonneau | LFN | 79,484 | 10.5% | Advanced |
| Gérard Fontenay | LCP | 43,645 | 5.8% |  |
| Claude Quemar | LXG | 34,221 | 4.5% |  |

Valid votes: 757,190

Turnout: 64.7% (795,996 of 1,230,442 registered)

## Results by department

Ségolène Royal leads in 4 departments.

| Name | Leader | Share | Margin | Valid votes |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Charente](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-poitou-charentes/2004-03-21-general/54/charente.md) | Ségolène Royal | 47.1% | +17.6 | 154,149 |
| [Charente-Maritime](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-poitou-charentes/2004-03-21-general/54/charente-maritime.md) | Ségolène Royal | 43.0% | +10.0 | 253,381 |
| [Deux-Sèvres](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-poitou-charentes/2004-03-21-general/54/deux-sevres.md) | Ségolène Royal | 50.8% | +16.3 | 164,337 |
| [Vienne](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-poitou-charentes/2004-03-21-general/54/vienne.md) | Ségolène Royal | 46.0% | +11.8 | 185,323 |

New boundaries for 2004. By area, this seat came from [Vienne](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-poitou-charentes/1998-03-15-general/vienne.md) (27%), [Charente-Maritime](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-poitou-charentes/1998-03-15-general/charente-maritime.md) (26%), [Deux-Sèvres](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-poitou-charentes/1998-03-15-general/deux-sevres.md) (23%), and [Charente](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-poitou-charentes/1998-03-15-general/charente.md) (23%).

## This race in other years

- [March 14, 2010](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-poitou-charentes/2010-03-14-general/54.md): Ségolène Royal, 60.6%
- March 21, 2004: Ségolène Royal, 55.1%

## 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-poitou-charentes/2004-03-21-general/54 and JSON at https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-poitou-charentes/2004-03-21-general/54.json.