# 1998 Rhône-Alpes regional election, Drôme

[France](https://electionsarchive.com/fr.md) / [Rhône-Alpes](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-rhone-alpes.md), March 15, 1998

Roger Leron led with 35.2% of the vote, 9.8 points ahead of Thierry Cornillet.

> 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 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Roger Leron | LMA | 57,278 | 35.2% |
| Thierry Cornillet | LDR | 41,365 | 25.4% |
| Joel Cheval | LFN | 32,105 | 19.7% |
| Aimé Chaleon | LDF | 8,278 | 5.1% |
| Gilbert Gateau | LDV | 7,757 | 4.8% |
| Philippe Grigri | LEC | 7,141 | 4.4% |
| Alain Terno | LXG | 6,903 | 4.2% |
| Eric Sauze | LXD | 1,968 | 1.2% |

Valid votes: 162,795

Turnout: 59.8% (177,681 of 297,085 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-rhone-alpes/1998-03-15-general/drome and JSON at https://electionsarchive.com/fr/region-rhone-alpes/1998-03-15-general/drome.json.