2001 Paris municipal election

2001 Paris municipal election

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All 163 members of the Council of Paris
  Majority party Minority party
 
Leader Bertrand Delanoë Philippe Séguin
Party PS RPR
Leader's seat 18th Arrondissement Did not stand
Last election 46.46%, 58 seats 36.17%, 99 seats
Seats won 69 56
Seat change Increase12 Decrease43
Popular vote 298 899 228,273
Percentage 49.60% 36.07%

  Third party Fourth party
 
Leader Jean Tiberi Yves Contassot
Party RPR dissenters The Greens
Leader's seat Did not stand 3rd Arrondissement
Last election Did not exist 3.77%, 5 seats
Seats won 12 23
Seat change Increase12 Increase18
Popular vote 77,715 46,883
Percentage 12.31% 12.35%

Results of arrondissement mayoral elections

Mayor before election

Jean Tiberi
RPR

Mayor-Elect

Bertrand Delanoë
PS

The 2001 Paris Municipal Elections were held on the 11th and 18 March 2001, alongside many other municipal elections throughout France, to elect the Mayor of Paris. Incumbent Mayor Jean Tiberi faced Bertrand Delanoë of the Socialist Party, a Paris councilor and member of the Senate. Tiberi also faced a challenger from the right in Philippe Séguin, the former president of France's National Assembly due to Tiberi having split off from the RPR to form his own dissident faction within the Council of Paris. Tiberi also faced green city councilor Yves Contassot. Due to the division within the RPR, the center-right vote was split which allowed Delanoë's Socialists to come to power for the first time since an independent Paris Mayorship has been re-established in 1977.[1][2]

Control for the Mayorships of Paris's 20 arrondissements was also in play. The Socialist Party won 11 arrondissement mayorships, the two RPR factions together 8, and The Greens 1.

  1. ^ Liste Jean Tiberi, RPR dissident.
  2. ^ "Socialists win in Paris elections". 19 March 2001.