2001 Paris municipal election

2001 Paris municipal election

11 and 18 March 2001
All 163 members of the Council of Paris 82 seats needed for a majority
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 12 43 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 12 18 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.

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.

Candidates

Jean Tiberi (RPR), incumbent Mayor and member of the National Assembly.
Bertrand Delanoë (PS), Paris Councilor, member of the Senate and former member of the National Assembly.
Philippe Séguin (RPR), member and former president of the National Assembly.
Yves Contassot (LV), Paris Councilor.

General results

Elected mayors

Arrondissement	Incumbent mayor	Party		Elected mayor	Party
Paris	Jean Tiberi		RPR	Bertrand Delanoë		PS
1st	Jean-François Legaret		RPR	Jean-François Legaret		RPR
2nd	Benoîte Taffin		DVD	Jacques Boutault		The Greens
3rd	Pierre Aidenbaum		PS	Pierre Aidenbaum		PS
4th	Lucien Finel		UDF	Dominique Bertinotti		PS
5th	Jean-Charles Bardon		RPR	Jean Tiberi		RPR
6th	Jean-Pierre Lecoq		RPR	Jean-Pierre Lecoq		RPR
7th	Martine Aurillac		RPR	Martine Aurillac		RPR
8th	François Lebel		RPR	François Lebel		RPR
9th	Gabriel Kaspereit		RPR	Jacques Bravo		PS
10th	Tony Dreyfus		PS	Tony Dreyfus		PS
11th	Georges Sarre		MDC	Georges Sarre		MDC
12th	Jean-François Pernin		UDF	Michèle Blumenthal		PS
13th	Jacques Toubon		RPR	Serge Blisko		PS
14th	Lionel Assouad		RPR	Pierre Castagnou		PS
15th	René Galy-Dejean		RPR	René Galy-Dejean		RPR
16th	Pierre-Christian Taittinger		DL	Pierre-Christian Taittinger		DL
17th	Pierre Rémond		RPR	Françoise de Panafieu		RPR
18th	Daniel Vaillant		PS	Annick Lepetit		PS
19th	Roger Madec		PS	Roger Madec		PS
20th	Michel Charzat		PS	Michel Charzat		PS

See also

• 2001 French municipal elections