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1986 French regional elections

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Field	Value
election_name	1986 French regional elections
country	France
type	parliamentary
next_election	1992 French regional elections
next_year	1992
seats_for_election	26 Regional Presidencies
election_date	16 March 1986
map_image	French regional elections 1986.svg
map_caption	Presidents elected by region

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Regional elections were held in France on 16 March 1986. These were the first regional elections in France. French left-wing parties promised the establishment of regional governments in the 1970s. When the Socialist Party was elected to government in 1981, they implemented territorial reform.

At stake were the presidencies of each of France's 26 régions, which, although lacking legislative autonomy, manage sizeable budgets.

The parliamentary right, led by the conservative Rally for the Republic and the centre-right Union for French Democracy won a landslide, winning 20 of 22 metropolitan regional presidencies. The Socialists only won the Limousin and the Nord-Pas de Calais region.

The election was conducted using the D'Hondt method and a closed list proportional representation, with a threshold of five percent of valid votes being applied regionally.

References

[[Sonia Mazey, Sonia. (1986). "The French regional elections of 16 March 1986". Electoral Studies.
"Chapitre II : Mode de scrutin (Article L338) - Légifrance".

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