President of France

List of Presidents of France.

France is the classic example of a mixed presidental-parliamentary system. It has both a President and Prime Minister, both of whom share real power, and can come from different parties (see cohabitation).

The list below follows on from List of French monarchs.

Presidents of France

• Second Republic[?]
  • Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte, (1848-1852)

• Third Republic
  • Adolphe Thiers, 1871-1873 (Thiers became president before the adoption of the Constitution of 1875 so his constitutional position was different to later presidents.)
  • Patrice MacMahon, duc de Magenta, 1873-1879
  • Jules Grévy, 1879-1887
  • Marie François Sadi Carnot, 1887-1894
  • Jean Casimir-Périer, 1894-1895
  • Félix Faure, 1895-1899
  • Emile Loubet, 1899-1906
  • Armand Fallières[?], 1906-1913
  • Raymond Poincaré[?], 1913-1920
  • Paul Deschanel[?], February 18, 1920 - September 21, 1920
  • Alexandre Millerand, 1920-1924
  • Gaston Doumergue[?], 1924-1931
  • Paul Doumer, 1931-1932
  • Albert Lebrun, 1932-1940
• Vichy France
  • Henri Philippe Pétain ("Head of State", not president)
• Provisional Government of the Republic
  • Charles de Gaulle, 1944-1946
  • Félix Gouin[?], Georges Bidault[?] and Léon Blum[?], 1946-1947
• Fourth Republic[?]
  • Vincent Auriol[?], 1947-1954
  • René Coty[?], 1954-1959
• Fifth Republic
  • Charles de Gaulle, 1959-1969
  • Georges Pompidou, 1969-1974
  • Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, 1974-1981
  • François Mitterrand, 1981-1995
  • Jacques Chirac, from 1995

Presidential elections results

French presidential election, 2002

Election results, first ballot (April 21, 2002):
Registered voters : 41 194 689
Number of voters : 29 495 733
Valid votes : 28 498 471

• Jacques Chirac 19,88%
• Jean-Marie Le Pen 16,86%
• Lionel Jospin 16,18%
• François Bayrou[?] 6,84%
• Arlette Laguiller[?] 5,72%
• Jean-Pierre Chevenement[?] 5,33%
• Noël Mamere[?] 5,25%
• Olivier Besancenot[?] 4,25%
• Jean Saint-Josse[?] 4,23%
• Alain Madelin 3,91%
• Robert Hue 3,37%
• Bruno Megret[?] 2,34%
• Christine Taubira[?] 2,32%
• Christine Boutin[?] 1,19%
• Corinne Lepage[?] 1,88%
• Daniel Gluckstein[?] 0,47%

Election results, second ballot :

• Jacques Chirac (RPR) 82.21%
• Jean-Marie Le Pen (FN) 17.71%

See also : Politics of France, List of French prime ministers

External link

• Web page of the President (http://www.elysee.fr/ang/index.shtm)