DEPARTMENTAL ELECTIONS IN FRANCE TO ELECT A PRESIDENT OF EXECUTIVE COUNCIL

USPA NEWS - In France, there are 101 departments, 96 belonging to the 22 regions of France. Since the elections of this year 2015, the county councilors are elected by majority vote binomial, as part of a male-female parity.The departmental elections were held the last two on 22 and 29 March 2015 in two rounds.

The entire Board is renewed every six years, and renewal to take place at the same time as the regional elections. Regional vote that will take place in December due to the implementation of a redistricting regions (Will be effective from 2016). Indeed it is new since the arrival of the arrival of Francois Hollande to power in 2012, that one of its reforms is to redraw French regions to reduce the number of regions from 22 to 13.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MODE OF DEPARTMENTAL ELECTIONS---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a historical tradition since the Act of 22 December 1789, just after the French Revolution requiring the creation in each department of an assembly composed of 36 elected members, called "the department council". This status will evolve over time until universal suffrage in 1848 is adpoted ... The councilors then depended on townships to (2011) then be elected by majority vote in both rounds. Since 2008, parity was introduced since 2015, the general counsel is, departmental advisor. The departmental councilors will be elected in 2054 cantons from this reform.-------------------------------------------------------------- EXCEPTIONS LAND------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The city of Paris, is both a town and considered a department managed by the council of Paris, so that the capital is not affected by these departmental elections. The city Lyon also has a special status in both department and local authority and operated by a city council.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For overseas territories, (DOM TOM) Martinique and French Guyana, general and regional councils in January 2016 will merge. They are therefore not concerned by these elections.-------------------------Source : www.interieur.gouv.fr, cartes-france.fr