The following is a list of current presidents of the regional councils of France.
All regions in metropolitan France are governed by a regional council, with their respective presidents elected by and among their members to lead the executive; the Corsican Assembly is the sole exception, as it controls the Executive Council. In overseas France, the local institutions vary across the five regions.
List Since 2011, the Departmental Council of Mayotte has simultaneously exercised the competencies of a regional council.
Since 2015, the Regional Council of Martinique and the Regional Council of French Guiana have been merged with their respective departmental councils to form a single territorial structure of governance.
List Region Map President Party Party positioning Since Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Fabrice Pannekoucke LRRight 5 September 2024 Bourgogne-Franche-Comté Jérôme Durain PS Left 5 September 2025 Brittany Loïg Chesnais-Girard DVG Left 22 June 2017 Centre-Val de Loire François Bonneau PS Left 7 September 2007Corsica Marie-Antoinette MaupertuisPresident of the Corsican Assembly FaC Regionalist centre 1 July 2021 Gilles SimeoniPresident of the Executive Council of Corsica FaC Regionalist centre 17 December 2015 Grand Est Franck Leroy DVD Right 30 December 2022 Guadeloupe Ary Chalus GUSR Regionalist centre 18 December 2015 French Guiana Gabriel ServillePresident of the Assembly of French Guiana Regionalist left 2 July 2021 Hauts-de-France Xavier Bertrand LR Right 4 January 2016 Île-de-France Valérie Pécresse LR Right 18 December 2015Martinique Lucien SaliberPresident of the Assembly of Martinique DVG Left 2 July 2021 Serge LetchimyPresident of the PPM Regionalist left 2 July 2021 Mayotte Ben Issa OusséniPresident of the Departmental Council of Mayotte LR Right 1 July 2021 Normandy Hervé Morin LC Right 4 January 2016 Nouvelle-Aquitaine Alain Rousset PS Left 4 January 2016President of the Regional Council of Aquitaine from 20 March 1998 until 31 December 2015. Occitania Carole Delga PS Left 4 January 2016 Pays de la Loire Christelle Morançais HOR Right 19 October 2017 Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur Renaud Muselier RE Centre 15 May 2017 Réunion Huguette Bello PLR Regionalist left 2 July 2021
Summary
By party +PartyNumber of presidentsLeftPLR1PS5DVG1Total left7RightLC1DVD1LR6Total right8RegionalistPéyi G1PPM1GUSR1FaC2Total regionalists5
By sex SexNumber of presidentsMale14Female6
Historic presidents
Current regions
Regional Council of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes PartyPresidentIn officeLRLaurent WauquiezSince 2016
Regional Council of Brittany PartyPresidentIn officeCDRené Pleven1974–1976CD, UDFAndré Colin1976–1978UDFRaymond Marcellin1978–1986RPRYvon Bourges1986–1998UMPJosselin de Rohan1998–2004PSJean-Yves Le Drian2004–2012PSPierrick Massiot2012–2015PSJean-Yves Le Drian2015–2017PSLoïg Chesnais-GirardSince 2017
Regional Council of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté PartyPresidentIn officePSMarie-Guite DufaySince 2016
Regional Council of Centre-Val de Loire PartyPresidentIn officeRIRaymond Boisdé1974–1976UDFPierre Sudreau1976–1979UDFJean Delaneau1979–1983UDFDaniel Bernardet1983–1985UDFMaurice Dousset1985–1998UDFBernard Harang1998RPRLydie Gerbaud1998PSMichel Sapin1998–2000PSJean Germain2000PSAlain Rafesthain2000–2004PSMichel Sapin2004–2007PSJean Germain2007PSFrançois BonneauSince 2007
Regional Council of Grand Est PartyPresidentIn officeLRPhilippe Richert2016–2017UDIJean-Luc Bohl2017LRJean RottnerSince 2017
Regional Council of Guadeloupe PartyPresidentIn officeFGPSPierre Mathieu1975–1980FGPSRobert Pentier1980–1981UDFMarcel Esdras1981–1982PCGMarcel Gargar1982–1983RPRJosé Moustache1983–1986FGPSFélix Proto1986–1992RPR, UMPLucette Michaux-Chevry1992–2004FGPSVictorin Lurel2004–2012FGPSJosette Borel-Lincertin2012–2014FGPSVictorin Lurel2014–2015GUSRAry ChalusSince 2015
Regional Council of Hauts-de-France PartyPresidentIn officeLRXavier BertrandSince 2016
Regional Council of Île-de-France PartyPresidentIn officeRPRMichel Giraud1976–1988RPRPierre-Charles Krieg1988–1992RPRMichel Giraud1992–1998PSJean-Paul Huchon1998–2015LR-SLValérie PécresseSince 2015
Regional Council of Normandy PartyPresidentIn officeLCHervé MorinSince 2016
Regional Council of Nouvelle-Aquitaine PartyPresidentIn officePSAlain RoussetSince 2016
Regional Council of Occitania PartyPresidentIn officePSCarole DelgaSince 2016
Regional Council of Pays de la Loire PartyPresidentIn officeRPRVincent Ansquer1974RPROlivier Guichard1974–1998RPRFrançois Fillon1998–2002UMPJean-Luc Harousseau2002–2004PSJacques Auxiette2004–2015LRBruno Retailleau2015–2017LRChristelle MorançaisSince 2017
Regional Council of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur PartyPresidentIn officePSGaston Defferre1974–1981PSMichel Pezet1981–1986UDFJean-Claude Gaudin1986–1998PSMichel Vauzelle1998–2015LRChristian Estrosi2015–2017LR, DVDRenaud MuselierSince 2017
Regional Council of Réunion PartyPresidentIn officeUDFMarcel Cerneau1973–1978RPRYves Barau1978–1983PCRMario Hoarau1983–1986UDFPierre Lagourgue1986–1992Free DomCamille Sudre1992–1993Free DomMargie Sudre1993–1998PCRPaul Vergès1998–2010UMP, LR, ORDidier Robert2010–2021PLRHuguette BelloSince 2021
Collectivities
Corsica
Regional Council of Corsica (1974–1982) PartyPresidentIn officeRadicalFrançois Giacobbi1974–1979RadicalJean Filippi1979–1982
Corsican Assembly (since 1982) PartyPresidentIn officeMRGProsper Alfonsi1982–1984RPRJean-Paul de Rocca Serra1984–1998UDFJosé Rossi1998–2004UMPCamille de Rocca Serra2004–2010PCFDominique Bucchini2010–2015CLJean-Guy Talamoni2015–2021FaCMarie-Antoinette MaupertuisSince 2021
Executive Council of Corsica (since 1992) PartyPresidentIn officeDVDJean Baggioni1992–2004UMPAnge Santini2004–2010DVGPaul Giacobbi2010–2015FaCGilles SimeoniSince 2015
French Guiana
Regional Council of French Guiana (1974–2015) PartyPresidentIn officeUDFSerge Patient1974–1980PSGJacques Lony1980–1982PSGeorges Othily1982–1992PSGAntoine Karam1992–2010DVGRodolphe Alexandre2010–2015
Assembly of French Guiana (since 2015) PartyPresidentIn officeDVGRodolphe AlexandreSince 2015
Martinique
Regional Council of Martinique (1974–2015) PartyPresidentIn officeRPRCamille Petit1974–1983PPMAimé Césaire1983–1986PPMCamille Darsières1986–1992PCMÉmile Capgras1992–1998MIMAlfred Marie-Jeanne1998–2010PPMSerge Letchimy2010–2015
Assembly of Martinique (since 2015) PartyPresidentIn officeRDMClaude Lise2015–2021DVGLucien SaliberSince 2021
Executive Council of Martinique (since 2015) PartyPresidentIn officeMIMAlfred Marie-Jeanne2015–2021PPMSerge LetchimySince 2021
Mayotte
Departmental Council of Mayotte PartyPresidentIn officeUDFYounoussa Bamana1977–1991DIVHamissi Assani1991UDFYounoussa Bamana1991–2004Saïd Omar Oili2004–2008UMPAhmed Attoumani Douchina2008–2011MDMDaniel Zaïdani2011–2015UMP, LRSoibahadine Ibrahim Ramadani2015–2021LRBen Issa OusséniSince 2021
Former regions
Regional Council of Alsace PartyPresidentIn officeUDRAndré Bord1973–1977UDFPierre Schielé1977–1980UDFMarcel Rudloff1980–1996UMPAdrien Zeller1996–2009UMPAndré Reichardt2009–2010UMPPhilippe Richert2010–2015
Regional Council of Auvergne PartyPresidentIn officeUDFJean Morellon1974–1977RPRAugustin Chauvet1977PSMaurice Pourchon1977–1986UDFValéry Giscard d'Estaing1986–2004PSPierre-Joël Bonté2004–2006PSRené Souchon2006–2015
Regional Council of Aquitaine PartyPresidentIn officeRPRJacques Chaban-Delmas1974–1979PSAndré Labarrère1979–1981PSPhilippe Madrelle1981–1985RPRJacques Chaban-Delmas1985–1988UDFJean François-Poncet1988UDFJean Tavernier1988–1992RPRJacques Valade1992–1998PSAlain Rousset1998–2015
Regional Council of Burgundy PartyPresidentIn officeRIJean Chamant1974–1978UDFMarcel Lucotte1978–1979PSPierre Joxe1979–1982PSAndré Billardon1982–1983CDSFrédéric Lescure1983–1985UDFMarcel Lucotte1985–1989UDFRaymond Janot1989–1992UDFJean-Pierre Soisson1992–1993RPRJean-François Bazin1993–1998UDFJean-Pierre Soisson1998–2004PSFrançois Patriat2004–2015
Regional Council of Champagne-Ardenne PartyPresidentIn officeRPRJacques Sourdille1974–1981UDFBernard Stasi1981–1988RPRJean Kaltenbach1988–1998UDFJean-Claude Étienne1998–2004PSJean-Paul Bachy2004–2015
Regional Council of Franche-Comté PartyPresidentIn officeUDREdgar Faure1974–1981PSJean-Pierre Chevènement1981–1982GDEdgar Faure1982–1988RPRPierre Chantelat1988–1998UDFJean-François Humbert1998–2004PSRaymond Forni2004–2008PSMarie-Guite Dufay2008–2015
Regional Council of Languedoc-Roussillon PartyPresidentIn officePSFrancis Vals1974PSEdgar Tailhades1974–1983PSRobert Capdeville1983–1986UDFJacques Blanc1986–2004PSGeorges Frêche2004–2010PSChristian Bourquin2010–2014PSDamien Alary2014–2015
Regional Council of Limousin PartyPresidentIn officePSAndré Chandernagor1974–1981PSLouis Longequeue1981–1986PSRobert Savy1986–2004PSJean-Paul Denanot2004–2014PSGérard Vandenbroucke2014–2015
Regional Council of Lorraine PartyPresidentIn officeCNIP, FNRIJean Vilmain1974–1976RAD, UDFJean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber1976–1978RPRPierre Messmer1978–1979RPRAndré Madoux1979–1982DVDJean-Marie Rausch1982–1992UDFGérard Longuet1992–2004PSJean-Pierre Masseret2004–2015
Regional Council of Midi-Pyrénées PartyPresidentIn officePSAlain Savary1973–1981PSAlex Raymond1981–1986UDFDominique Baudis1986–1988UDFMarc Censi1988–1998PSMartin Malvy1998–2015
Regional Council of Nord-Pas-de-Calais PartyPresidentIn officePSPierre Mauroy1974–1981PSNoël Josèphe1981–1992Les VertsMarie-Christine Blandin1992–1998PSMichel Delebarre1998–2001PSDaniel Percheron2001–2015
Regional Council of Lower Normandy PartyPresidentIn officeRIMichel d'Ornano1974RILéon Jozeau-Marigné1974–1978DVDPaul German1978–1982UDFLéon Jozeau-Marigné1982–1983UDFMichel d'Ornano1983–1986UDFRené Garrec1986–2004PSPhilippe Duron2004–2008PSLaurent Beauvais2008–2015
Regional Council of Upper Normandy PartyPresidentIn officeCDJean Lecanuet1974RIAndré Bettencourt1974–1981PSLaurent Fabius1981–1982PSTony Larue1982RPRRoger Fossé1982–1992RPRAntoine Rufenacht1992–1998RPRJean-Paul Gauzès1998PSAlain Le Vern1998–2012PSEmmanuèle Jeandet-Mengual2012–2013PSAlain Le Vern2013PSEmmanuèle Jeandet-Mengual2013PSNicolas Mayer-Rossignol2013–2015
Regional Council of Picardy PartyPresidentIn officeCNIPJean Legendre1974–1976UDFCharles Baur1976–1978DVGMax Lejeune1978–1979DVDJacques Mossion1979–1980PCFRaymond Maillet1980–1981PSRené Dosière1981–1983PSWalter Amsallem1983–1985UDFCharles Baur1985–2004PSClaude Gewerc2004–2015
Regional Council of Poitou-Charentes PartyPresidentIn officeLucien Grand1974–1976CNIPJacques Fouchier1976–1978RPRFrancis Hardy1978–1980UDFFernand Chaussebourg1980–1981Michel Boucher1981–1982PSJacques Santrot1982PSRaoul Cartraud1982–1985UDFRené Monory1985–1986UDFLouis Fruchard1986–1988UDFJean-Pierre Raffarin1988–2002Dominique de La Martinière2002UMPÉlisabeth Morin-Chartier2002–2004PSSégolène Royal2004–2014PSJean-François Macaire2014–2015
Regional Council of Rhône-Alpes PartyPresidentIn officeFNRI, UDFPaul Ribeyre1974–1980UDFMichel Durafour1980–1981UDFCharles Béraudier1981–1988UDFCharles Millon1988–1999UDFAnne-Marie Comparini1999–2004PSJean-Jack Queyranne2004–2015
See also Politics of France Regions of France Regional council (France)
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