The great voters of the Côte-d’Or appointed their representatives to the Senate this Sunday, September 27. They chose stability: Alain Houpert, Anne-Catherine Loisier and François Patriat are re-elected. Updated with reactions.
The vote of the electors took place this Sunday, September 27, 2020 at the Judicial City of Dijon. Six lists were in the running (read our article). The vote ended at 5:30 p.m. and was followed by the count.
At 8 p.m., the Interior Ministry communicated the details of the results. Two candidates from the right and center union list, Alain Houpert (Les Républicains) and Anne-Catherine Loisier (center), as well as the candidate from the list supported by the presidential majority, François Partriat (La République Working).
The results
Out of 1,609 votes cast, the union list of the right and the center led by Alain Houpert received 701 votes or 43.57%, thus improving its score in 2014 (665 votes, 41.23% and 2 seats in 2014). Having obtained more than double the votes than the third, this first list provides two seats.
The list led by François Patriat receives 428 votes or 26.60%, down compared to 2014 when the candidate campaigned with the Socialist Party label (550 votes, 34.10%, 1 seat in 2014).
With 321 votes and 19.95%, it is a disappointment for Colette Popard, candidate who led a list supported by the Socialist Party and who counted on a campaign carried out in each canton to convince the large voters. Note that the lists of Colette Popard and François Patriat total more votes than the list of Alain Houpert.
First of the “small lists”, the members of Europe Écologie Les Verts, led by Catherine Hervieu, improved the 2014 result by more than doubling the number of votes: 104 or 6.46%. Added together, the lists of Colette Popard and Catherine Hervieu could perhaps have been on par with the list of the presidential majority.
List supported by the National Rally led by Franck Gaillard: 38 votes or 2.36%, i.e. less than the Front National list in 2014.
List supported by the Communist Party led by Jean-Paul Rommel: 17 votes or 1.06%, i.e. less than the Front de Gauche list in 2014.
The reactions
As soon as the results were known, the president of the Association of Mayors of the Côte-d’Or, Ludovic Rochette (LR), proposed to the re-elected senators to “meet soon the board of directors of the AMF 21”.
Among the reactions communicated on Twitter, Emmanuel Bichot (LR) addresses his “warm congratulations” to Alain Houpert and Anne-Catherine Loisier and his “republican congratulations” to François Patriat.
The deputy Didier Paris (LREM) hails “a very fine political victory for the presidential majority and for a man who has always known how to put his convictions at the service of the public interest and of the French”.
Member of Parliament Fadila Khattabi (LREM) applauds the “victory” of François Patriat who “by virtue of his personality and his investment in the service of the French was able to convince the elected officials of Côte-d’Or to trust him again”.
Member of Parliament Yolaine de Courson (EDS) congratulates François Patriat, “an elected official from the field and experience appreciated by all well beyond his political affiliation”.
General Delegate of The Republic On the move, Stanislas Guérini congratulates François Patriat in particular, whose election bears witness to “the support of local elected representatives in the policy of the Government”.
The mayor of Chevigny-Saint-Sauveur Guillmaume Ruet (LR) congratulates the three elected officials and calls on the Senate to “defend the projects carried by the Côte-d’Or territories”.
To the three senators, Sylvain Comparot (Dijon l’Avenir Ensemble) addresses “all [ses] wishes for success in the service of our territory ”.
Karine Savina (Generation Ecology) addresses her “Republican congratulations” to the three elected officials and salutes the “beautiful campaign” of Catherine Hervieu, considering that “the green wave is very present”.
Arnaud Guvenatam (La France Insoumise) sees in the results “a slap in the face for the Socialist Party” and underlines the separate lists of the PS and EELV: “in doing so, they allow the running to have a reelected senator”.
Nora El Mesdadi (Modem) sends her “sincere congratulations” to the three elected officials.
Valérie Grandet (LR) congratulates the three elected officials and hopes that they will be able to “carry loud and clear the voice of the Côte d’Or in the Senate to make it shine and make me even more attractive”.
Rémi Delatte’s reaction
“As at the national level, the senatorial elections of today in Côte-d’Or have confirmed the maintenance of the current situation, by renewing all the outgoing ones.
I want to congratulate all the elected senators. Their re-election is proof of their commitment to our territory.
But it also marks a strong anchoring of the right and the center in our municipalities. Far from the maneuvers of devices, intrigues and narrow partisan contingencies, it is on the ground, through proximity and concern for authenticity that our political family of the right and the center will be able, tomorrow, to amplify this dynamic and confirm its vocation to govern our country through crises. ”
Rémi DELATTE
Deputy for Côte-d’Or
Jean-Christophe Tardivon
Alain Houpert (The Republicans)
Anne-Catherine Loisier (center)
François Patriat (The Republic On The Move)
All results
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