European Parliament election, 2004 (France)
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Elections to the European Parliament
European Parliament election, 2004
Elections to the European Parliament were held from 10 June 2004 to 13 June 2004 in the 25 member states of the European Union, using varying election days according to local custom...

 were held in France on 13 June 2004. The opposition Socialist Party
Socialist Party (France)
The Socialist Party is a social-democratic political party in France and the largest party of the French centre-left. It is one of the two major contemporary political parties in France, along with the center-right Union for a Popular Movement...

 made substantial gains, although this was mainly at the expense of minor parties. The governing Union for a Popular Movement
Union for a Popular Movement
The Union for a Popular Movement is a centre-right political party in France, and one of the two major contemporary political parties in the country along with the center-left Socialist Party...

 and Union for French Democracy
Union for French Democracy
The Union for French Democracy was a French centrist political party. It was founded in 1978 as an electoral alliance to support President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing in order to counterbalance the Gaullist preponderance over the right. This name was chosen due to the title of Giscard d'Estaing's...

 also made gains.

Seats

The elections were conducted in seven regional constituencies in metropolitan France
Metropolitan France
Metropolitan France is the part of France located in Europe. It can also be described as mainland France or as the French mainland and the island of Corsica...

, plus an eighth consisting of all overseas departments and territories
Territoire d'outre-mer
The term overseas territory , is an administrative division of France and is currently only applied to the French Southern and Antarctic Lands....

. Allocation of seats was by proportional representation, with closed lists and no preferential voting, using the rule of the highest average, with a threshold of 5% of the votes in each.

ConstituencyDepartementsSeats
Nord-Ouest Lower Normandy, Upper Normandy, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Picardy  12
Ouest Brittany
Brittany
Brittany is a cultural and administrative region in the north-west of France. Previously a kingdom and then a duchy, Brittany was united to the Kingdom of France in 1532 as a province. Brittany has also been referred to as Less, Lesser or Little Britain...

, Pays de la Loire
Pays de la Loire
Pays de la Loire is one of the 27 regions of France. It is one of the regions created in the late 20th century to serve as a zone of influence for its capital, Nantes, one of a handful so-called "balancing metropolises" ¹...

, Poitou-Charentes
Poitou-Charentes
Poitou-Charentes is an administrative region in central western France comprising four departments: Charente, Charente-Maritime, Deux-Sèvres and Vienne. The regional capital is Poitiers.-Politics:The regional council is composed of 56 members...

 
10
Est Alsace
Alsace
Alsace is the fifth-smallest of the 27 regions of France in land area , and the smallest in metropolitan France. It is also the seventh-most densely populated region in France and third most densely populated region in metropolitan France, with ca. 220 inhabitants per km²...

, Burgundy, Champagne-Ardenne
Champagne-Ardenne
Champagne-Ardenne is one of the 27 regions of France. It is located in the northeast of the country, bordering Belgium, and consists of four departments: Aube, Ardennes, Haute-Marne, and Marne. The region is famous for its sparkling white wine . Its rivers, most of which flow west, include the...

, Franche-Comté
Franche-Comté
Franche-Comté the former "Free County" of Burgundy, as distinct from the neighbouring Duchy, is an administrative region and a traditional province of eastern France...

, Lorraine
Lorraine (région)
Lorraine is one of the 27 régions of France. The administrative region has two cities of equal importance, Metz and Nancy. Metz is considered to be the official capital since that is where the regional parliament is situated...

 
10
Sud-Ouest Aquitaine
Aquitaine
Aquitaine , archaic Guyenne/Guienne , is one of the 27 regions of France, in the south-western part of metropolitan France, along the Atlantic Ocean and the Pyrenees mountain range on the border with Spain. It comprises the 5 departments of Dordogne, :Lot et Garonne, :Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Landes...

, Languedoc-Roussillon
Languedoc-Roussillon
Languedoc-Roussillon is one of the 27 regions of France. It comprises five departments, and borders the other French regions of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Rhône-Alpes, Auvergne, Midi-Pyrénées on the one side, and Spain, Andorra and the Mediterranean sea on the other side.-Geography:The region is...

, Midi-Pyrénées
Midi-Pyrénées
Midi-Pyrénées is the largest region of metropolitan France by area, larger than the Netherlands or Denmark.Midi-Pyrénées has no historical or geographical unity...

 
10
Sud-Est Corsica
Corsica
Corsica is an island in the Mediterranean Sea. It is located west of Italy, southeast of the French mainland, and north of the island of Sardinia....

, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur or PACA is one of the 27 regions of France.It is made up of:* the former French province of Provence* the former papal territory of Avignon, known as Comtat Venaissin...

, Rhône-Alpes
Rhône-Alpes
Rhône-Alpes is one of the 27 regions of France, located on the eastern border of the country, towards the south. The region was named after the Rhône River and the Alps mountain range. Its capital, Lyon, is the second-largest metropolitan area in France after Paris...

 
13
Massif-Central – Centre Auvergne
Auvergne (région)
Auvergne is one of the 27 administrative regions of France. It comprises the 4 departments of Allier, Puy de Dome, Cantal and Haute Loire.The current administrative region of Auvergne is larger than the historical province of Auvergne, and includes provinces and areas that historically were not...

, Centre
Centre (France)
Centre is one of the 27 regions of France, located towards the northwest of the actual centre of the country, around the Loire Valley. Its capital is Orléans, although its largest city is Tours.-Features:...

, Limousin
Limousin (région)
Limousin is one of the 27 regions of France. It is composed of three départements: Corrèze, Creuse and the Haute-Vienne.Situated largely in the Massif Central, as of January 1st 2008, the Limousin comprised 740,743 inhabitants on nearly 17 000 km2, making it the second least populated region of...


6
Île-de-France Île-de-France
Île-de-France (région)
Île-de-France is the wealthiest and most populated of the twenty-two administrative regions of France, composed mostly of the Paris metropolitan area....

 
14
Outre-Mer
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French Polynesia
French Polynesia
French Polynesia is an overseas country of the French Republic . It is made up of several groups of Polynesian islands, the most famous island being Tahiti in the Society Islands group, which is also the most populous island and the seat of the capital of the territory...

, Guadeloupe
Guadeloupe
Guadeloupe is an archipelago located in the Leeward Islands, in the Lesser Antilles, with a land area of 1,628 square kilometres and a population of 400,000. It is the first overseas region of France, consisting of a single overseas department. As with the other overseas departments, Guadeloupe...

, French Guiana
French Guiana
French Guiana is an overseas region of France, consisting of a single overseas department located on the northern Atlantic coast of South America. It has borders with two nations, Brazil to the east and south, and Suriname to the west...

, Martinique
Martinique
Martinique is an island in the eastern Caribbean Sea, with a land area of . Like Guadeloupe, it is an overseas region of France, consisting of a single overseas department. To the northwest lies Dominica, to the south St Lucia, and to the southeast Barbados...

, Mayotte
Mayotte
Mayotte is an overseas department and region of France consisting of a main island, Grande-Terre , a smaller island, Petite-Terre , and several islets around these two. The archipelago is located in the northern Mozambique Channel in the Indian Ocean, namely between northwestern Madagascar and...

, New Caledonia
New Caledonia
New Caledonia is a special collectivity of France located in the southwest Pacific Ocean, east of Australia and about from Metropolitan France. The archipelago, part of the Melanesia subregion, includes the main island of Grande Terre, the Loyalty Islands, the Belep archipelago, the Isle of...

, Réunion, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Wallis and Futuna
Wallis and Futuna
Wallis and Futuna, officially the Territory of the Wallis and Futuna Islands , is a Polynesian French island territory in the South Pacific between Tuvalu to the northwest, Rotuma of Fiji to the west, the main part of Fiji to the southwest, Tonga to the southeast,...

 
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Members elected

See MEPs for France 2004 - 2009 for a national list in alphabetical order.

Nord-Ouest
North-West France (European Parliament constituency)
In European elections, North-West France is a constituency of the European Parliament. It consists of the regions of Basse-Normandie, Haute-Normandie, Nord-Pas-de-Calais and Picardie-2009:-2004:...

  • Jean-Louis Bourlanges
    Jean-Louis Bourlanges
    Jean-Louis Bourlanges was a French Member of the European Parliament from 1989 to 2007. He was elected on the Union for French Democracy ticket and sat with the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe group....

     (Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe
    Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe
    The Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe is a transnational alliance between two European political parties: the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party and the European Democratic Party. It has political groups in the European Parliament, the EU Committee of the Regions, the...

    )
  • Jean-Louis Cottigny
    Jean-Louis Cottigny
    Jean-Louis Cottigny is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the north-west of France...

     (Party of European Socialists
    Party of European Socialists
    The Party of European Socialists is a European political party led by Sergei Stanishev, former Prime Minister of Bulgaria. The PES comprises social-democratic national-level political parties primarily from Member state of the European Union, as well as other nations of the European continent. The...

    )
  • Brigitte Douay
    Brigitte Douay
    Brigitte Douay is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the north-west of France. She is a member of the Socialist Party, which is part of the Party of European Socialists, and sits on the Committee on Budgets.She is also a substitute for the Committee on Regional...

     (Party of European Socialists
    Party of European Socialists
    The Party of European Socialists is a European political party led by Sergei Stanishev, former Prime Minister of Bulgaria. The PES comprises social-democratic national-level political parties primarily from Member state of the European Union, as well as other nations of the European continent. The...

    )
  • Hélène Flautre
    Hélène Flautre
    Hélène Flautre is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the North West of France. She is a member of the French Green Party, part of the European Greens. She was first elected in 1999.-References:...

     (Greens-EFA)
  • Jean-Paul Gauzes
    Jean-Paul Gauzès
    Jean-Paul Gauzès is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the North-West of France. He is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement, part of the European People's Party.-References:...

     (European People's Party
    European People's Party
    The European People's Party is a pro-European centre-right European political party. The EPP was founded in 1976 by Christian democratic parties, but later it increased its membership to include conservative parties and parties of other centre-right perspectives.The EPP is the most influential of...

    )
  • Jacky Henin
    Jacky Henin
    Jacky Hénin is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the north-west of France. He is a member of the French Communist Party, which is part of the European United Left–Nordic Green Left group, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on International Trade.He is also...

     (European United Left - Nordic Green Left)
  • Carl Lang
    Carl Lang
    Carl Lang is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the north-west of France. He was member of the National Front from 1978 to 2008; he is currently president and co-founder of the Party of France...

     (Non-Inscrits
    Non-Inscrits
    Non-Inscrits are Members of the European Parliament who do not sit in one of the recognized political groups....

    )
  • Marie-Noëlle Lienemann
    Marie-Noëlle Lienemann
    Marie-Noëlle Lienemann is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the North West of France. She is a member of the Socialist Party, part of the Party of European Socialists. She studied at the École Normale Supérieure de Cachan .-References:...

     (Party of European Socialists
    Party of European Socialists
    The Party of European Socialists is a European political party led by Sergei Stanishev, former Prime Minister of Bulgaria. The PES comprises social-democratic national-level political parties primarily from Member state of the European Union, as well as other nations of the European continent. The...

    )
  • Vincent Peillon
    Vincent Peillon
    Vincent Benoît Camille Peillon is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the north-west of France...

     (Party of European Socialists
    Party of European Socialists
    The Party of European Socialists is a European political party led by Sergei Stanishev, former Prime Minister of Bulgaria. The PES comprises social-democratic national-level political parties primarily from Member state of the European Union, as well as other nations of the European continent. The...

    )
  • Tokia Saïfi
    Tokia Saïfi
    Tokia Afféda Saïfi is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the North-West of France. She is a member of the Radical party and of the Union for a Popular Movement, part of the European People's Party. She is a former member of Ecology Generation.- References :* European...

     (European People's Party
    European People's Party
    The European People's Party is a pro-European centre-right European political party. The EPP was founded in 1976 by Christian democratic parties, but later it increased its membership to include conservative parties and parties of other centre-right perspectives.The EPP is the most influential of...

    )
  • Chantal Simonot
    Chantal Simonot
    Chantal Simonot was a Front National Member of the European Parliament for the north-west of France. Simonot resigned on 1 October 2004 and was replaced by Fernand Le Rachinel on 22 October.-References:...

     (Non-Inscrits
    Non-Inscrits
    Non-Inscrits are Members of the European Parliament who do not sit in one of the recognized political groups....

    )
  • Henri Weber
    Henri Weber
    Henri Weber is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the north-west of France. He is a member of the Socialist Party , which is part of the Party of European Socialists, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Culture and Education.Weber was born in Leninabad,...

     (Party of European Socialists
    Party of European Socialists
    The Party of European Socialists is a European political party led by Sergei Stanishev, former Prime Minister of Bulgaria. The PES comprises social-democratic national-level political parties primarily from Member state of the European Union, as well as other nations of the European continent. The...

    )

Ouest

  • Marie-Hélène Aubert
    Marie-Hélène Aubert
    Marie-Hélène Aubert is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the West of France. She is a member of the French Green Party, part of the European Greens. Aubert is a Vice Chair of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly.-References:...

     (Greens-EFA)
  • Roselyne Bachelot-Narquin
    Roselyne Bachelot-Narquin
    Roselyne Bachelot-Narquin, generally known as Roselyne Bachelot , is a French politician, current Minister of Solidarities and Social Cohesion, and a member of the Union for a Popular Movement, which is part of the European People's PartyShe was the French Minister for Health and Sports until 14...

     (European People's Party
    European People's Party
    The European People's Party is a pro-European centre-right European political party. The EPP was founded in 1976 by Christian democratic parties, but later it increased its membership to include conservative parties and parties of other centre-right perspectives.The EPP is the most influential of...

    )
  • Philippe de Villiers
    Philippe de Villiers
    Viscount Philippe Le Jolis de Villiers de Saintignon, known as Philippe de Villiers, born on 25 March 1949, is a French politician. He was the Mouvement pour la France nominee for the French presidential election of 2007. He received 2.23% of the vote, putting him in sixth place. As only the top...

     (Independence and Democracy
    Independence and Democracy
    The Independence/Democracy Group in the European Parliament was a group of eurosceptic and eurorealist political parties in the 2004-2009 term of the European Parliament. It collapsed following the 2009 European elections after losing many of its MEPs....

    )
  • Ambroise Guellec
    Ambroise Guellec
    Ambroise Guellec is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for Western France. He is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement, which is part of the European People's Party, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Regional Development.He is a substitute for the...

     (European People's Party
    European People's Party
    The European People's Party is a pro-European centre-right European political party. The EPP was founded in 1976 by Christian democratic parties, but later it increased its membership to include conservative parties and parties of other centre-right perspectives.The EPP is the most influential of...

    )
  • Stéphane Le Foll
    Stéphane Le Foll
    Stéphane Le Foll is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the West of France. He is a member of the Socialist Party, part of the Party of European Socialists, and was first elected in 2004....

     (Party of European Socialists
    Party of European Socialists
    The Party of European Socialists is a European political party led by Sergei Stanishev, former Prime Minister of Bulgaria. The PES comprises social-democratic national-level political parties primarily from Member state of the European Union, as well as other nations of the European continent. The...

    )
  • Philippe Morillon
    Philippe Morillon
    Philippe Morillon is a former French general and was a Member of the European Parliament until 2009. He was elected on the Union for French Democracy ticket with the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe group...

     (Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe
    Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe
    The Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe is a transnational alliance between two European political parties: the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party and the European Democratic Party. It has political groups in the European Parliament, the EU Committee of the Regions, the...

    )
  • Bernard Poignant
    Bernard Poignant
    Bernard Poignant is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the west of France...

     (Party of European Socialists
    Party of European Socialists
    The Party of European Socialists is a European political party led by Sergei Stanishev, former Prime Minister of Bulgaria. The PES comprises social-democratic national-level political parties primarily from Member state of the European Union, as well as other nations of the European continent. The...

    )
  • Marie-Line Reynaud
    Marie-Line Reynaud
    Marie-Line Reynaud is a French politician who is a deputy to the National Assembly of France for the second division of Charente départment. She was first elected in 1997, lost her seat in 2002, but regained it in 2007...

     (Party of European Socialists
    Party of European Socialists
    The Party of European Socialists is a European political party led by Sergei Stanishev, former Prime Minister of Bulgaria. The PES comprises social-democratic national-level political parties primarily from Member state of the European Union, as well as other nations of the European continent. The...

    )
  • Yannick Vaugrenard
    Yannick Vaugrenard
    Yannick Vaugrenard is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the west of France...

     (Party of European Socialists
    Party of European Socialists
    The Party of European Socialists is a European political party led by Sergei Stanishev, former Prime Minister of Bulgaria. The PES comprises social-democratic national-level political parties primarily from Member state of the European Union, as well as other nations of the European continent. The...

    )
  • Bernadette Vergnaud
    Bernadette Vergnaud
    Bernadette Vergnaud is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the west of France...

     (Party of European Socialists
    Party of European Socialists
    The Party of European Socialists is a European political party led by Sergei Stanishev, former Prime Minister of Bulgaria. The PES comprises social-democratic national-level political parties primarily from Member state of the European Union, as well as other nations of the European continent. The...

    )

Est

  • Jean Marie Beaupuy (Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe
    Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe
    The Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe is a transnational alliance between two European political parties: the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party and the European Democratic Party. It has political groups in the European Parliament, the EU Committee of the Regions, the...

    )
  • Joseph Daul
    Joseph Daul
    Joseph Daul is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the East of France. He is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement , a member-party of the European People's Party...

     (European People's Party
    European People's Party
    The European People's Party is a pro-European centre-right European political party. The EPP was founded in 1976 by Christian democratic parties, but later it increased its membership to include conservative parties and parties of other centre-right perspectives.The EPP is the most influential of...

    )
  • Bruno Gollnisch
    Bruno Gollnisch
    Bruno Gollnisch is a French academic and politician, a member of the National Front far-right party, and a member of the European Parliament. He was chairman of the European Parliamentary group 'Identity, Tradition, Sovereignty' in 2007, which was dissolved in November 2007 following the...

     (Non-Inscrits
    Non-Inscrits
    Non-Inscrits are Members of the European Parliament who do not sit in one of the recognized political groups....

    )
  • Natalie Griesbeck
    Natalie Griesbeck
    Natalie Griesbeck is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the East of France. She is a member of the Democratic Movement , part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe....

     (Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe
    Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe
    The Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe is a transnational alliance between two European political parties: the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party and the European Democratic Party. It has political groups in the European Parliament, the EU Committee of the Regions, the...

    )
  • Benoît Hamon
    Benoît Hamon
    Benoît Hamon is a French politician, member of the Socialist Party , part of the Party of European Socialists. He was Member of the European Parliament for the East of France from 2004 to 2009. He was national secretary for Europe in the French socialist party. At present, he is spokesman...

     (Party of European Socialists
    Party of European Socialists
    The Party of European Socialists is a European political party led by Sergei Stanishev, former Prime Minister of Bulgaria. The PES comprises social-democratic national-level political parties primarily from Member state of the European Union, as well as other nations of the European continent. The...

    )
  • Adeline Hazan
    Adeline Hazan
    Adeline Hazan is a French politician, Member of the European Parliament for the east of France, and mayor of Reims since March 2008....

     (Party of European Socialists
    Party of European Socialists
    The Party of European Socialists is a European political party led by Sergei Stanishev, former Prime Minister of Bulgaria. The PES comprises social-democratic national-level political parties primarily from Member state of the European Union, as well as other nations of the European continent. The...

    )
  • Marie-Anne Isler-Béguin (Greens-EFA)
  • Véronique Mathieu
    Véronique Mathieu
    Véronique Mathieu is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the East of France. She is a member of the Radical Party, associated to the Union for a Popular Movement, part of the European People's Party.-References:...

     (European People's Party
    European People's Party
    The European People's Party is a pro-European centre-right European political party. The EPP was founded in 1976 by Christian democratic parties, but later it increased its membership to include conservative parties and parties of other centre-right perspectives.The EPP is the most influential of...

    )
  • Pierre Moscovici
    Pierre Moscovici
    Pierre Moscovici is a French politician, a member of the Departmental Council of Doubs and a Member of the French Parliament. He is a member of the French Socialist Party ; part of the Party of European Socialists...

     (Party of European Socialists
    Party of European Socialists
    The Party of European Socialists is a European political party led by Sergei Stanishev, former Prime Minister of Bulgaria. The PES comprises social-democratic national-level political parties primarily from Member state of the European Union, as well as other nations of the European continent. The...

    )
  • Catherine Trautmann
    Catherine Trautmann
    Catherine Trautmann is a former Minister of Culture of France and now Member of the European Parliament for the East of France.She was elected as mayor of Strasbourg in 1989, re-elected in 1995, then defeated in 2001....

     (Party of European Socialists
    Party of European Socialists
    The Party of European Socialists is a European political party led by Sergei Stanishev, former Prime Minister of Bulgaria. The PES comprises social-democratic national-level political parties primarily from Member state of the European Union, as well as other nations of the European continent. The...

    )

Sud-Ouest

  • Kader Arif
    Kader Arif
    Kader Arif, is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the south-west of France. He is a member of the Socialist Party, which is part of the Party of European Socialists, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on International Trade.He is also a substitute for the...

     (Party of European Socialists
    Party of European Socialists
    The Party of European Socialists is a European political party led by Sergei Stanishev, former Prime Minister of Bulgaria. The PES comprises social-democratic national-level political parties primarily from Member state of the European Union, as well as other nations of the European continent. The...

    )
  • Françoise Castex
    Françoise Castex
    Françoise Castex is a French politician andMember of the European Parliamentfor the South West of Francewith the Socialist Party,part of the Socialist Group and sits on...

     (Party of European Socialists
    Party of European Socialists
    The Party of European Socialists is a European political party led by Sergei Stanishev, former Prime Minister of Bulgaria. The PES comprises social-democratic national-level political parties primarily from Member state of the European Union, as well as other nations of the European continent. The...

    )
  • Jean-Marie Cavada
    Jean-Marie Cavada
    Jean-Marie Cavada is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Ile de France....

     (Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe
    Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe
    The Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe is a transnational alliance between two European political parties: the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party and the European Democratic Party. It has political groups in the European Parliament, the EU Committee of the Regions, the...

    )
  • Christine de Veyrac
    Christine de Veyrac
    Christine de Veyrac is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the south-west of France...

     (European People's Party
    European People's Party
    The European People's Party is a pro-European centre-right European political party. The EPP was founded in 1976 by Christian democratic parties, but later it increased its membership to include conservative parties and parties of other centre-right perspectives.The EPP is the most influential of...

    )
  • Alain Lamassoure
    Alain Lamassoure
    Alain Lamassoure is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the south-west of France. He is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement, which is part of the European People's Party, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Budgets.He is a substitute for the...

     (European People's Party
    European People's Party
    The European People's Party is a pro-European centre-right European political party. The EPP was founded in 1976 by Christian democratic parties, but later it increased its membership to include conservative parties and parties of other centre-right perspectives.The EPP is the most influential of...

    )
  • Anne Laperrouze
    Anne Laperrouze
    Anne Laperrouze is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the south-west of France...

     (Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe
    Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe
    The Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe is a transnational alliance between two European political parties: the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party and the European Democratic Party. It has political groups in the European Parliament, the EU Committee of the Regions, the...

    )
  • Jean-Claude Martinez
    Jean-Claude Martinez
    Jean-Claude Martinez is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the south-west of France. He was a member of the Front National, and was among the Non-Inscrits until the 2007 formation of the Identity, Tradition, Sovereignty Group in the European Parliament...

     (Non-Inscrits
    Non-Inscrits
    Non-Inscrits are Members of the European Parliament who do not sit in one of the recognized political groups....

    )
  • Robert Navarro
    Robert Navarro
    Robert Navarro is a French politician and French Senator representing Hérault. He is a member of the Socialist Party , which is part of the Party of European Socialists....

     (Party of European Socialists
    Party of European Socialists
    The Party of European Socialists is a European political party led by Sergei Stanishev, former Prime Minister of Bulgaria. The PES comprises social-democratic national-level political parties primarily from Member state of the European Union, as well as other nations of the European continent. The...

    )
  • Gérard Onesta
    Gérard Onesta
    Gérard Onesta is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the South West of France.He is a member of the French Green Party, part of the European Greens. On 20 July 2004 he was re-elected a Member of the European Parliament, and he was elected four times one of its...

     (Greens-EFA)
  • Béatrice Patrie
    Béatrice Patrie
    Béatrice Patrie is a French former judge and Member of the European Parliament for the South West of France. She is a member of the Socialist Party, part of the Party of European Socialists.-References:...

     (Party of European Socialists
    Party of European Socialists
    The Party of European Socialists is a European political party led by Sergei Stanishev, former Prime Minister of Bulgaria. The PES comprises social-democratic national-level political parties primarily from Member state of the European Union, as well as other nations of the European continent. The...

    )

Sud-Est

  • Jean-Luc Bennahmias
    Jean-Luc Bennahmias
    Jean-Luc Bennahmias is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the south-east of France. He is a member of the Democratic Movement , and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Employment and Social Affairs.He is also a substitute for the Committee on Culture and...

     (Greens-EFA)
  • Guy Bono
    Guy Bono
    Guy Bono is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the south-east of France...

     (Party of European Socialists
    Party of European Socialists
    The Party of European Socialists is a European political party led by Sergei Stanishev, former Prime Minister of Bulgaria. The PES comprises social-democratic national-level political parties primarily from Member state of the European Union, as well as other nations of the European continent. The...

    )
  • Marie-Arlette Carlotti
    Marie-Arlette Carlotti
    Marie-Arlette Carlotti is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the south-east of France...

     (Party of European Socialists
    Party of European Socialists
    The Party of European Socialists is a European political party led by Sergei Stanishev, former Prime Minister of Bulgaria. The PES comprises social-democratic national-level political parties primarily from Member state of the European Union, as well as other nations of the European continent. The...

    )
  • Thierry Cornillet
    Thierry Cornillet
    Thierry Cornillet is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the south-east of France. He is a member of the Union for French Democracy, which is part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Development...

     (Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe
    Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe
    The Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe is a transnational alliance between two European political parties: the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party and the European Democratic Party. It has political groups in the European Parliament, the EU Committee of the Regions, the...

    )
  • Claire Gibault
    Claire Gibault
    right|thumb|200px|Claire Gibault at a rally for François Bayrou, centrist candidate in the 2007 French presidential electionClaire Gibault is a French conductor and politician and a Member of the European Parliament for the south-east of France...

     (Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe
    Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe
    The Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe is a transnational alliance between two European political parties: the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party and the European Democratic Party. It has political groups in the European Parliament, the EU Committee of the Regions, the...

    )
  • Françoise Grossetête
    Françoise Grossetête
    Françoise Grossetête is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the South-East of France. She is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement; part of the European People's Party.-Member:...

     (European People's Party
    European People's Party
    The European People's Party is a pro-European centre-right European political party. The EPP was founded in 1976 by Christian democratic parties, but later it increased its membership to include conservative parties and parties of other centre-right perspectives.The EPP is the most influential of...

    )
  • Jean-Marie Le Pen
    Jean-Marie Le Pen
    Jean-Marie Le Pen is a French far right-wing and nationalist politician who is founder and former president of the Front National party. Le Pen has run for the French presidency five times, most notably in 2002, when in a surprise upset he came second, polling more votes in the first round than...

     (Non-Inscrits
    Non-Inscrits
    Non-Inscrits are Members of the European Parliament who do not sit in one of the recognized political groups....

    )
  • Patrick Louis
    Patrick Louis
    Patrick Louis is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the south-east of France...

     (Independence and Democracy
    Independence and Democracy
    The Independence/Democracy Group in the European Parliament was a group of eurosceptic and eurorealist political parties in the 2004-2009 term of the European Parliament. It collapsed following the 2009 European elections after losing many of its MEPs....

    )
  • Michel Rocard
    Michel Rocard
    Michel Rocard is a French politician, member of the Socialist Party . He served as Prime Minister under François Mitterrand from 1988 to 1991, during which he created the Revenu minimum d'insertion , a social minimum welfare program for indigents, and led the Matignon Accords regarding the status...

     (Party of European Socialists
    Party of European Socialists
    The Party of European Socialists is a European political party led by Sergei Stanishev, former Prime Minister of Bulgaria. The PES comprises social-democratic national-level political parties primarily from Member state of the European Union, as well as other nations of the European continent. The...

    )
  • Martine Roure
    Martine Roure
    Martine Roure is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the south-east of France. She is a member of the Socialist Party, which is part of the Party of European Socialists, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs.She is...

     (Party of European Socialists
    Party of European Socialists
    The Party of European Socialists is a European political party led by Sergei Stanishev, former Prime Minister of Bulgaria. The PES comprises social-democratic national-level political parties primarily from Member state of the European Union, as well as other nations of the European continent. The...

    )
  • Lydia Schenardi
    Lydia Schenardi
    Lydia Schenardi is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the south-east of France. She is a member of the Front National, and is therefore a Non-Inscrit in the European Parliament...

     (Non-Inscrits
    Non-Inscrits
    Non-Inscrits are Members of the European Parliament who do not sit in one of the recognized political groups....

    )
  • Ari Vatanen
    Ari Vatanen
    Ari Pieti Uolevi Vatanen is a Finnish rally driver turned politician and Member of the European Parliament 1999–2009. Vatanen won the World Rally Championship drivers' title in 1981 and the Paris Dakar Rally four times....

     (European People's Party
    European People's Party
    The European People's Party is a pro-European centre-right European political party. The EPP was founded in 1976 by Christian democratic parties, but later it increased its membership to include conservative parties and parties of other centre-right perspectives.The EPP is the most influential of...

    )
  • Dominique Vlasto
    Dominique Vlasto
    Dominique Vlasto is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the south-east of France. She is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement, which is part of the European People's Party, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Industry, Research and Energy.She is a...

     (European People's Party
    European People's Party
    The European People's Party is a pro-European centre-right European political party. The EPP was founded in 1976 by Christian democratic parties, but later it increased its membership to include conservative parties and parties of other centre-right perspectives.The EPP is the most influential of...

    )

Massif-Central – Centre
Loire, Massif Central (European Parliament constituency)
In European elections, Massif central–Centre is a constituency of the European Parliament. It consists of the regions of Auvergne, Centre and Limousin.-2009:For the 2009 election, five MEPs were elected from the constituency:-2004:...

  • Bernadette Bourzai
    Bernadette Bourzai
    Bernadette Bourzai is a French politician and Member of the Senate of France representing the Department of Corrèze....

     (Party of European Socialists
    Party of European Socialists
    The Party of European Socialists is a European political party led by Sergei Stanishev, former Prime Minister of Bulgaria. The PES comprises social-democratic national-level political parties primarily from Member state of the European Union, as well as other nations of the European continent. The...

    )
  • Marie-Hélène Descamps
    Marie-Hélène Descamps
    Marie-Hélène Descamps is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for Central France. She is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement, part of the European People's Party.-References:...

     (European People's Party
    European People's Party
    The European People's Party is a pro-European centre-right European political party. The EPP was founded in 1976 by Christian democratic parties, but later it increased its membership to include conservative parties and parties of other centre-right perspectives.The EPP is the most influential of...

    )
  • Janelly Fourtou
    Janelly Fourtou
    Janelly Fourtou is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for central France. She is a member of the Union for French Democracy, which is part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Petitions and its Committee on...

     (Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe
    Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe
    The Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe is a transnational alliance between two European political parties: the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party and the European Democratic Party. It has political groups in the European Parliament, the EU Committee of the Regions, the...

    )
  • Catherine Guy-Quint
    Catherine Guy-Quint
    Catherine Guy-Quint is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for central France. She is a member of the Socialist Party, which is part of the Party of European Socialists, and sits on the Committee on Budgets.She is also chair of the delegation to the EU–Bulgaria Joint...

     (Party of European Socialists
    Party of European Socialists
    The Party of European Socialists is a European political party led by Sergei Stanishev, former Prime Minister of Bulgaria. The PES comprises social-democratic national-level political parties primarily from Member state of the European Union, as well as other nations of the European continent. The...

    )
  • Brice Hortefeux
    Brice Hortefeux
    Brice Hortefeux is a French politician he was Minister of the Interior, Overseas Territories and Territorial collectivities...

     (European People's Party
    European People's Party
    The European People's Party is a pro-European centre-right European political party. The EPP was founded in 1976 by Christian democratic parties, but later it increased its membership to include conservative parties and parties of other centre-right perspectives.The EPP is the most influential of...

    )
  • André Laignel
    André Laignel
    André Laignel is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for Central France. He is a member of the Socialist Party, part of the Party of European Socialists.- Notes and References :...

     (Party of European Socialists
    Party of European Socialists
    The Party of European Socialists is a European political party led by Sergei Stanishev, former Prime Minister of Bulgaria. The PES comprises social-democratic national-level political parties primarily from Member state of the European Union, as well as other nations of the European continent. The...

    )

Île-de-France
Île-de-France (European Parliament constituency)
In European elections, Île-de-France is a constituency of the European Parliament. It consists of the region of Île-de-France.-2009:-2004:Brackets indicate the number of votes per seat won....

  • Pervenche Berès
    Pervenche Bérès
    Pervenche Berès is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Île-de-France. She is a member of the Socialist Party; part of the Party of European Socialists. On 28 July 2004 she was elected Chair of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs.-References:...

     (Party of European Socialists
    Party of European Socialists
    The Party of European Socialists is a European political party led by Sergei Stanishev, former Prime Minister of Bulgaria. The PES comprises social-democratic national-level political parties primarily from Member state of the European Union, as well as other nations of the European continent. The...

    )
  • Paul-Marie Coûteaux
    Paul-Marie Coûteaux
    Paul-Marie Coûteaux is the son of André Couteaux and a French politician, writer, and former Member of the European Parliament for Ile-de-France with the Mouvement pour la France, Member of the Bureau of the Independence and Democracy and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign...

     (Independence and Democracy
    Independence and Democracy
    The Independence/Democracy Group in the European Parliament was a group of eurosceptic and eurorealist political parties in the 2004-2009 term of the European Parliament. It collapsed following the 2009 European elections after losing many of its MEPs....

    )
  • Marielle de Sarnez
    Marielle de Sarnez
    Marielle de Sarnez is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Île-de-France. She is a member of the MoDem, vice-chair of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Culture and Education.She is also substitute for...

     (Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe
    Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe
    The Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe is a transnational alliance between two European political parties: the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party and the European Democratic Party. It has political groups in the European Parliament, the EU Committee of the Regions, the...

    )
  • Harlem Désir
    Harlem Désir
    Harlem Désir is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Île-de-France since 1999. He is a member of the Socialist Party, part of the Party of European Socialists....

     (Party of European Socialists
    Party of European Socialists
    The Party of European Socialists is a European political party led by Sergei Stanishev, former Prime Minister of Bulgaria. The PES comprises social-democratic national-level political parties primarily from Member state of the European Union, as well as other nations of the European continent. The...

    )
  • Anne Ferreira
    Anne Ferreira
    Anne Ferreira is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Île-de-France. She is a member of the Socialist Party, which is part of the Party of European Socialists, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety.She is a...

     (Party of European Socialists
    Party of European Socialists
    The Party of European Socialists is a European political party led by Sergei Stanishev, former Prime Minister of Bulgaria. The PES comprises social-democratic national-level political parties primarily from Member state of the European Union, as well as other nations of the European continent. The...

    )
  • Nicole Fontaine
    Nicole Fontaine
    Nicole Fontaine is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Île-de-France. She is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement, part of the European People's Party...

     (European People's Party
    European People's Party
    The European People's Party is a pro-European centre-right European political party. The EPP was founded in 1976 by Christian democratic parties, but later it increased its membership to include conservative parties and parties of other centre-right perspectives.The EPP is the most influential of...

    )
  • Patrick Gaubert
    Patrick Gaubert
    Patrick Gaubert is a French politician and was a Member of the European Parliament for the Île-de-France through 2009. He is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement, which is part of the European People's Party, and was vice-chair of the European Parliament's Committee on Civil Liberties,...

     (European People's Party
    European People's Party
    The European People's Party is a pro-European centre-right European political party. The EPP was founded in 1976 by Christian democratic parties, but later it increased its membership to include conservative parties and parties of other centre-right perspectives.The EPP is the most influential of...

    )
  • Marine Le Pen
    Marine Le Pen
    Marine Le Pen is a French politician, a lawyer by profession and the president of the Front National since 16 January 2011...

     (Non-Inscrits
    Non-Inscrits
    Non-Inscrits are Members of the European Parliament who do not sit in one of the recognized political groups....

    )
  • Bernard Lehideux
    Bernard Lehideux
    Bernard Lehideux is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Île-de-France. He is a member of the Union for French Democracy, which is part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Employment and Social...

     (Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe
    Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe
    The Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe is a transnational alliance between two European political parties: the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party and the European Democratic Party. It has political groups in the European Parliament, the EU Committee of the Regions, the...

    )
  • Alain Lipietz
    Alain Lipietz
    Alain Lipietz is a French engineer, economist and politician, a Member of the European Parliament, and a member of the French Green Party.-Education:...

     (Greens-EFA)
  • Gilles Savary
    Gilles Savary
    Gilles Savary is a French politician and former Member of the European Parliament for the Île-de-France...

     (Party of European Socialists
    Party of European Socialists
    The Party of European Socialists is a European political party led by Sergei Stanishev, former Prime Minister of Bulgaria. The PES comprises social-democratic national-level political parties primarily from Member state of the European Union, as well as other nations of the European continent. The...

    )
  • Pierre Schapira
    Pierre Schapira
    Pierre Lionel Georges Schapira is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Île-de-France...

     (Party of European Socialists
    Party of European Socialists
    The Party of European Socialists is a European political party led by Sergei Stanishev, former Prime Minister of Bulgaria. The PES comprises social-democratic national-level political parties primarily from Member state of the European Union, as well as other nations of the European continent. The...

    )
  • Jacques Toubon
    Jacques Toubon
    Jacques Toubon is a right-wing French politician who held several major national and Parisian offices.-Political career:Governmental functionsMinister of Culture : 1993–1995....

     (European People's Party
    European People's Party
    The European People's Party is a pro-European centre-right European political party. The EPP was founded in 1976 by Christian democratic parties, but later it increased its membership to include conservative parties and parties of other centre-right perspectives.The EPP is the most influential of...

    )
  • Francis Wurtz
    Francis Wurtz
    Francis Wurtz was a French Member of the European Parliament from 1979 till 2009. Elected in the Île-de-France constituency on the French Communist Party ticket, he sits with the European United Left - Nordic Green Left group, and is its current President...

     (European United Left - Nordic Green Left)

Outre-mer

  • Jean-Claude Fruteau
    Jean-Claude Fruteau
    Jean-Claude Fruteau is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for France's "outre mer"...

     (Party of European Socialists
    Party of European Socialists
    The Party of European Socialists is a European political party led by Sergei Stanishev, former Prime Minister of Bulgaria. The PES comprises social-democratic national-level political parties primarily from Member state of the European Union, as well as other nations of the European continent. The...

    )
  • Margie Sudre
    Margie Sudre
    Margie Sudre is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for France's "Outre-mer"....

     (European People's Party
    European People's Party
    The European People's Party is a pro-European centre-right European political party. The EPP was founded in 1976 by Christian democratic parties, but later it increased its membership to include conservative parties and parties of other centre-right perspectives.The EPP is the most influential of...

    )
  • Paul Vergès
    Paul Vergès
    Paul Vergès is a Réunionese politician. Vergès founded the Communist Party of Réunion in 1959, a party which he led until he retired in 1993...

     (European United Left - Nordic Green Left)
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