# 2008 Sorbiers municipal election

[France](https://electionsarchive.com/fr.md) / [Sorbiers](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/sorbiers-42.md), March 9, 2008

Turnout: 3,823 of 5,732 registered voters (66.7%). +0.26 points since 2001.

## [Municipal council of Sorbiers](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/sorbiers-42/2008-03-09-local/conseil-municipal.md)

Raymond Joassard won 23 of the 29 seats, with 54.8% of the vote.

| Candidate or party | Party | Votes | Share | Seats |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Raymond Joassard | LUG | 2,037 | 54.8% | 23 |
| Jean-Yves Robert | LDVD | 1,350 | 36.3% | 5 |
| Simonne Hube | LMC | 333 | 9.0% | 1 |

## Contests

- [2008 Sorbiers municipal election, first round](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/sorbiers-42/2008-03-09-local/conseil-municipal.md)

## Party system indices

[How these indices are computed](https://electionsarchive.com/indices.md)

| Chamber | Effective parties by votes | Effective parties by seats | Gallagher index | Loosemore–Hanby index | Volatility | Nationalization |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Municipal council of Sorbiers | 2.28 | 1.52 | 22.3 | 24.6 |  |  |

- From 3,720 votes and 29 seats.

Also available as HTML at https://electionsarchive.com/fr/sorbiers-42/2008-03-09-local and JSON at https://electionsarchive.com/fr/sorbiers-42/2008-03-09-local.json.