Regional council of Alsace

The Alsace Regional Council was the Conseil régional of Alsace (France) from 1982 to 2015. As a result of reforms, the administrative région Alsace merged with two other régions to form Grand Est, effective 1 January 2016, at which point the regional councils of Alsace, Lorraine, and Champagne-Ardenne were superseded by the Regional council of Grand Est.

Headquarters of the Alsace Regional Council, completed in 2005

Seats

By department

• 27 councillors for Bas-Rhin
• 20 councillors for Haut-Rhin

By party

Party		seats
•	Union for a Popular Movement	18
	Socialist Party	8
	National Front	8
•	Union for French Democracy	7
	The Greens	4
•	Miscellaneous Right	2

Elections

2004

	Candidate	Party	Votes (Round One)	% (Round One)	Votes (Round Two)	% (Round Two)
	Adrien Zeller (incumbent)	UMP	225,193	34.06%	299,353	43.56%
	Jacques Bigot	PS-Verts	133,038	20.12%	236,709	34.44%
	Patrick Binder	FN	122,860	18.58%	151,187	22.00%
	Robert Spieler	Alsace d'abord	62,253	9.42%	-	-
	Antoine Waechter	MEI	48.949	7.40%	-	-
	Alfred Wahl	PCF-PRG-MRC	24,692	3.73%	-	-
	Patrick Merck	Divers	23,540	3.56%	-	-
	Françoise Ruch	LCR/LO	20,004	3.03%	-	-
	Pascale Grauss	Federalist Party	578	0.09%	-	-
	Total		661,107	100,00%	687,249	100,00%

Past regional councils

1998

Party		seats
	National Front	13
•	Union for French Democracy	9
	Socialist Party	8
•	Rally for the Republic	7
•	Miscellaneous Right	3
	Alsace d'Abord	3
	Women of Alsace	2
	Independent Ecological Movement	1
	The Greens	1

1992

Party		seats
•	Rally for the Republic-Union for French Democracy	20
	National Front	9
	The Greens	6
	Socialist Party	6
	Alsace d'Abord	2
	Women of Alsace	1
	Ecology Generation	3

1986

Party		seats
•	Rally for the Republic-Union for French Democracy	27
	Socialist Party	11
	National Front	7
	The Greens	2

Past presidents

• André Bord (1974–1976)
• Pierre Schiélé (1976–1980)
• Marcel Rudloff (1980–1996)
• Adrien Zeller (1996–2009)
• André Reichardt (2009–2010)
• Philippe Richert (2010–2015)