# President of the Regional Council (France)

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 | President | Party | Party positioning | Since |
| Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | Fabrice Pannekoucke | LR | Right | 5 September 2024 |
| Bourgogne-Franche-Comté | Marie-Guite Dufay | PS | Left | 4 January 2016 President of the Regional Council of Franche-Comté from 5 January 2008 until 31 December 2015. |
| Brittany | Loïg Chesnais-Girard | DVG | Left | 22 June 2017 |
| Centre-Val de Loire | François Bonneau | PS | Left | 7 September 2007 |
| Corsica | Marie-Antoinette Maupertuis President of the Corsican Assembly | FaC | Regionalist centre | 1 July 2021 |
| Corsica | Gilles Simeoni President 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 Serville President of the Assembly of French Guiana | Péyi G | Regionalist left | 2 July 2021 |
| Hauts-de-France | Xavier Bertrand | LR | Right | 4 January 2016 |
| Île-de-France | Valérie Pécresse | LR | Right | 18 December 2015 |
| Martinique | Lucien Saliber President of the Assembly of Martinique | DVG | Left | 2 July 2021 |
| Martinique | Serge Letchimy President of the Executive Council of Martinique [fr] | PPM | Regionalist left | 2 July 2021 |
| Mayotte | Ben Issa Ousséni President 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 2016 President 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

| Party | Party | Number of presidents |
| Left | PLR | 1 |
| Left | PS | 5 |
| Left | DVG | 1 |
| Left | Total left | 7 |
| Right | LC | 1 |
| Right | DVD | 1 |
| Right | LR | 6 |
| Right | Total right | 8 |
| Regionalist | Péyi G | 1 |
| Regionalist | PPM | 1 |
| Regionalist | GUSR | 1 |
| Regionalist | FaC | 2 |
| Regionalist | Total regionalists | 5 |

#### By sex

| Sex | Number of presidents |
| Male | 14 |
| Female | 6 |

## Historic presidents
### Current regions
#### Regional Council of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

| Party | Party | President | In office |
| | LR | Laurent Wauquiez | Since 2016 |

#### Regional Council of Brittany

| Party | President | In office |
| CD | René Pleven | 1974–1976 |
| CD, UDF | André Colin | 1976–1978 |
| UDF | Raymond Marcellin | 1978–1986 |
| RPR | Yvon Bourges | 1986–1998 |
| UMP | Josselin de Rohan | 1998–2004 |
| PS | Jean-Yves Le Drian | 2004–2012 |
| PS | Pierrick Massiot | 2012–2015 |
| PS | Jean-Yves Le Drian | 2015–2017 |
| PS | Loïg Chesnais-Girard | Since 2017 |

#### Regional Council of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté

| Party | Party | President | In office |
| | PS | Marie-Guite Dufay | Since 2016 |

#### Regional Council of Centre-Val de Loire

| Party | President | In office |
| RI | Raymond Boisdé | 1974–1976 |
| UDF | Pierre Sudreau | 1976–1979 |
| UDF | Jean Delaneau | 1979–1983 |
| UDF | Daniel Bernardet | 1983–1985 |
| UDF | Maurice Dousset | 1985–1998 |
| UDF | Bernard Harang | 1998 |
| RPR | Lydie Gerbaud | 1998 |
| PS | Michel Sapin | 1998–2000 |
| PS | Jean Germain | 2000 |
| PS | Alain Rafesthain | 2000–2004 |
| PS | Michel Sapin | 2004–2007 |
| PS | Jean Germain | 2007 |
| PS | François Bonneau | Since 2007 |

#### Regional Council of Grand Est

| Party | President | In office |
| LR | Philippe Richert | 2016–2017 |
| UDI | Jean-Luc Bohl | 2017 |
| LR | Jean Rottner | Since 2017 |

#### Regional Council of Guadeloupe

| Party | President | In office |
| FGPS | Pierre Mathieu | 1975–1980 |
| FGPS | Robert Pentier | 1980–1981 |
| UDF | Marcel Esdras | 1981–1982 |
| PCG | Marcel Gargar | 1982–1983 |
| RPR | José Moustache | 1983–1986 |
| FGPS | Félix Proto | 1986–1992 |
| RPR, UMP | Lucette Michaux-Chevry | 1992–2004 |
| FGPS | Victorin Lurel | 2004–2012 |
| FGPS | Josette Borel-Lincertin | 2012–2014 |
| FGPS | Victorin Lurel | 2014–2015 |
| GUSR | Ary Chalus | Since 2015 |

#### Regional Council of Hauts-de-France

| Party | Party | President | In office |
| | LR | Xavier Bertrand | Since 2016 |

#### Regional Council of Île-de-France

| Party | President | In office |
| RPR | Michel Giraud | 1976–1988 |
| RPR | Pierre-Charles Krieg | 1988–1992 |
| RPR | Michel Giraud | 1992–1998 |
| PS | Jean-Paul Huchon | 1998–2015 |
| LR-SL | Valérie Pécresse | Since 2015 |

#### Regional Council of Normandy

| Party | Party | President | In office |
| | LC | Hervé Morin | Since 2016 |

#### Regional Council of Nouvelle-Aquitaine

| Party | Party | President | In office |
| | PS | Alain Rousset | Since 2016 |

#### Regional Council of Occitania

| Party | Party | President | In office |
| | PS | Carole Delga | Since 2016 |

#### Regional Council of Pays de la Loire

| Party | President | In office |
| RPR | Vincent Ansquer | 1974 |
| RPR | Olivier Guichard | 1974–1998 |
| RPR | François Fillon | 1998–2002 |
| UMP | Jean-Luc Harousseau | 2002–2004 |
| PS | Jacques Auxiette | 2004–2015 |
| LR | Bruno Retailleau | 2015–2017 |
| LR | Christelle Morançais | Since 2017 |

#### Regional Council of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

| Party | President | In office |
| PS | Gaston Defferre | 1974–1981 |
| PS | Michel Pezet | 1981–1986 |
| UDF | Jean-Claude Gaudin | 1986–1998 |
| PS | Michel Vauzelle | 1998–2015 |
| LR | Christian Estrosi | 2015–2017 |
| LR, DVD | Renaud Muselier | Since 2017 |

#### Regional Council of Réunion

| Party | President | In office |
| UDF | Marcel Cerneau | 1973–1978 |
| RPR | Yves Barau | 1978–1983 |
| PCR | Mario Hoarau | 1983–1986 |
| UDF | Pierre Lagourgue | 1986–1992 |
| Free Dom | Camille Sudre | 1992–1993 |
| Free Dom | Margie Sudre | 1993–1998 |
| PCR | Paul Vergès | 1998–2010 |
| UMP, LR, OR | Didier Robert | 2010–2021 |
| PLR | Huguette Bello | Since 2021 |

### Collectivities
#### Corsica
##### Regional Council of Corsica (1974–1982)

| Party | Party | President | In office |
| | Radical | François Giacobbi | 1974–1979 |
| | Radical | Jean Filippi | 1979–1982 |

##### Corsican Assembly (since 1982)

| Party | President | In office |
| MRG | Prosper Alfonsi | 1982–1984 |
| RPR | Jean-Paul de Rocca Serra | 1984–1998 |
| UDF | José Rossi | 1998–2004 |
| UMP | Camille de Rocca Serra | 2004–2010 |
| PCF | Dominique Bucchini | 2010–2015 |
| CL | Jean-Guy Talamoni | 2015–2021 |
| FaC | Marie-Antoinette Maupertuis | Since 2021 |

##### Executive Council of Corsica (since 1992)

| Party | President | In office |
| DVD | Jean Baggioni | 1992–2004 |
| UMP | Ange Santini | 2004–2010 |
| DVG | Paul Giacobbi | 2010–2015 |
| FaC | Gilles Simeoni | Since 2015 |

#### French Guiana
##### Regional Council of French Guiana (1974–2015)

| Party | President | In office |
| UDF | Serge Patient | 1974–1980 |
| PSG | Jacques Lony | 1980–1982 |
| PS | Georges Othily | 1982–1992 |
| PSG | Antoine Karam | 1992–2010 |
| DVG | Rodolphe Alexandre | 2010–2015 |

##### Assembly of French Guiana (since 2015)

| Party | Party | President | In office |
| | DVG | Rodolphe Alexandre | Since 2015 |

#### Martinique
##### Regional Council of Martinique (1974–2015)

| Party | President | In office |
| RPR | Camille Petit | 1974–1983 |
| PPM | Aimé Césaire | 1983–1986 |
| PPM | Camille Darsières | 1986–1992 |
| PCM | Émile Capgras | 1992–1998 |
| MIM | Alfred Marie-Jeanne | 1998–2010 |
| PPM | Serge Letchimy | 2010–2015 |

##### Assembly of Martinique (since 2015)

| Party | Party | President | In office |
| | RDM | Claude Lise | 2015–2021 |
| | DVG | Lucien Saliber | Since 2021 |

##### Executive Council of Martinique (since 2015)

| Party | Party | President | In office |
| | MIM | Alfred Marie-Jeanne | 2015–2021 |
| | PPM | Serge Letchimy | Since 2021 |

#### Mayotte
##### Departmental Council of Mayotte

| Party | President | In office |
| UDF | Younoussa Bamana | 1977–1991 |
| DIV | Hamissi Assani | 1991 |
| UDF | Younoussa Bamana | 1991–2004 |
| NÉMA [fr] | Saïd Omar Oili | 2004–2008 |
| UMP | Ahmed Attoumani Douchina | 2008–2011 |
| MDM | Daniel Zaïdani | 2011–2015 |
| UMP, LR | Soibahadine Ibrahim Ramadani | 2015–2021 |
| LR | Ben Issa Ousséni | Since 2021 |

### Former regions
#### Regional Council of Alsace

| Party | President | In office |
| UDR | André Bord | 1973–1977 |
| UDF | Pierre Schielé | 1977–1980 |
| UDF | Marcel Rudloff | 1980–1996 |
| UMP | Adrien Zeller | 1996–2009 |
| UMP | André Reichardt | 2009–2010 |
| UMP | Philippe Richert | 2010–2015 |

#### Regional Council of Auvergne

| Party | President | In office |
| UDF | Jean Morellon | 1974–1977 |
| RPR | Augustin Chauvet | 1977 |
| PS | Maurice Pourchon | 1977–1986 |
| UDF | Valéry Giscard d'Estaing | 1986–2004 |
| PS | Pierre-Joël Bonté | 2004–2006 |
| PS | René Souchon | 2006–2015 |

#### Regional Council of Aquitaine

| Party | President | In office |
| RPR | Jacques Chaban-Delmas | 1974–1979 |
| PS | André Labarrère | 1979–1981 |
| PS | Philippe Madrelle | 1981–1985 |
| RPR | Jacques Chaban-Delmas | 1985–1988 |
| UDF | Jean François-Poncet | 1988 |
| UDF | Jean Tavernier | 1988–1992 |
| RPR | Jacques Valade | 1992–1998 |
| PS | Alain Rousset | 1998–2015 |

#### Regional Council of Burgundy

| Party | President | In office |
| RI | Jean Chamant | 1974–1978 |
| UDF | Marcel Lucotte | 1978–1979 |
| PS | Pierre Joxe | 1979–1982 |
| PS | André Billardon | 1982–1983 |
| CDS | Frédéric Lescure | 1983–1985 |
| UDF | Marcel Lucotte | 1985–1989 |
| UDF | Raymond Janot | 1989–1992 |
| UDF | Jean-Pierre Soisson | 1992–1993 |
| RPR | Jean-François Bazin | 1993–1998 |
| UDF | Jean-Pierre Soisson | 1998–2004 |
| PS | François Patriat | 2004–2015 |

#### Regional Council of Champagne-Ardenne

| Party | President | In office |
| RPR | Jacques Sourdille | 1974–1981 |
| UDF | Bernard Stasi | 1981–1988 |
| RPR | Jean Kaltenbach | 1988–1998 |
| UDF | Jean-Claude Étienne | 1998–2004 |
| PS | Jean-Paul Bachy | 2004–2015 |

#### Regional Council of Franche-Comté

| Party | President | In office |
| UDR | Edgar Faure | 1974–1981 |
| PS | Jean-Pierre Chevènement | 1981–1982 |
| GD | Edgar Faure | 1982–1988 |
| RPR | Pierre Chantelat | 1988–1998 |
| UDF | Jean-François Humbert | 1998–2004 |
| PS | Raymond Forni | 2004–2008 |
| PS | Marie-Guite Dufay | 2008–2015 |

#### Regional Council of Languedoc-Roussillon

| Party | President | In office |
| PS | Francis Vals | 1974 |
| PS | Edgar Tailhades | 1974–1983 |
| PS | Robert Capdeville | 1983–1986 |
| UDF | Jacques Blanc | 1986–2004 |
| PS | Georges Frêche | 2004–2010 |
| PS | Christian Bourquin | 2010–2014 |
| PS | Damien Alary | 2014–2015 |

#### Regional Council of Limousin

| Party | President | In office |
| PS | André Chandernagor | 1974–1981 |
| PS | Louis Longequeue | 1981–1986 |
| PS | Robert Savy | 1986–2004 |
| PS | Jean-Paul Denanot | 2004–2014 |
| PS | Gérard Vandenbroucke | 2014–2015 |

#### Regional Council of Lorraine

| Party | President | In office |
| CNIP, FNRI | Jean Vilmain | 1974–1976 |
| RAD, UDF | Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber | 1976–1978 |
| RPR | Pierre Messmer | 1978–1979 |
| RPR | André Madoux | 1979–1982 |
| DVD | Jean-Marie Rausch | 1982–1992 |
| UDF | Gérard Longuet | 1992–2004 |
| PS | Jean-Pierre Masseret | 2004–2015 |

#### Regional Council of Midi-Pyrénées

| Party | President | In office |
| PS | Alain Savary | 1973–1981 |
| PS | Alex Raymond | 1981–1986 |
| UDF | Dominique Baudis | 1986–1988 |
| UDF | Marc Censi | 1988–1998 |
| PS | Martin Malvy | 1998–2015 |

#### Regional Council of Nord-Pas-de-Calais

| Party | President | In office |
| PS | Pierre Mauroy | 1974–1981 |
| PS | Noël Josèphe | 1981–1992 |
| Les Verts | Marie-Christine Blandin | 1992–1998 |
| PS | Michel Delebarre | 1998–2001 |
| PS | Daniel Percheron | 2001–2015 |

#### Regional Council of Basse-Normandy

| Party | President | In office |
| RI | Michel d'Ornano | 1974 |
| RI | Léon Jozeau-Marigné | 1974–1978 |
| DVD | Paul German | 1978–1982 |
| UDF | Léon Jozeau-Marigné | 1982–1983 |
| UDF | Michel d'Ornano | 1983–1986 |
| UDF | René Garrec | 1986–2004 |
| PS | Philippe Duron | 2004–2008 |
| PS | Laurent Beauvais | 2008–2015 |

#### Regional Council of Haute-Normandy

| Party | President | In office |
| CD | Jean Lecanuet | 1974 |
| RI | André Bettencourt | 1974–1981 |
| PS | Laurent Fabius | 1981–1982 |
| PS | Tony Larue | 1982 |
| RPR | Roger Fossé | 1982–1992 |
| RPR | Antoine Rufenacht | 1992–1998 |
| RPR | Jean-Paul Gauzès | 1998 |
| PS | Alain Le Vern | 1998–2012 |
| PS | Emmanuèle Jeandet-Mengual | 2012–2013 |
| PS | Alain Le Vern | 2013 |
| PS | Emmanuèle Jeandet-Mengual | 2013 |
| PS | Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol | 2013–2015 |

#### Regional Council of Picardy

| Party | President | In office |
| CNIP | Jean Legendre | 1974–1976 |
| UDF | Charles Baur | 1976–1978 |
| DVG | Max Lejeune | 1978–1979 |
| DVD | Jacques Mossion | 1979–1980 |
| PCF | Raymond Maillet | 1980–1981 |
| PS | René Dosière | 1981–1983 |
| PS | Walter Amsallem | 1983–1985 |
| UDF | Charles Baur | 1985–2004 |
| PS | Claude Gewerc | 2004–2015 |

#### Regional Council of Poitou-Charentes

| Party | President | In office |
| | Lucien Grand | 1974–1976 |
| CNIP | Jacques Fouchier | 1976–1978 |
| RPR | Francis Hardy | 1978–1980 |
| UDF | Fernand Chaussebourg | 1980–1981 |
| | Michel Boucher | 1981–1982 |
| PS | Jacques Santrot | 1982 |
| PS | Raoul Cartraud | 1982–1985 |
| UDF | René Monory | 1985–1986 |
| UDF | Louis Fruchard | 1986–1988 |
| UDF | Jean-Pierre Raffarin | 1988–2002 |
| | Dominique de La Martinière | 2002 |
| UMP | Élisabeth Morin-Chartier | 2002–2004 |
| PS | Ségolène Royal | 2004–2014 |
| PS | Jean-François Macaire | 2014–2015 |

#### Regional Council of Rhône-Alpes

| Party | President | In office |
| FNRI, UDF | Paul Ribeyre | 1974–1980 |
| UDF | Michel Durafour | 1980–1981 |
| UDF | Charles Béraudier | 1981–1988 |
| UDF | Charles Millon | 1988–1999 |
| UDF | Anne-Marie Comparini | 1999–2004 |
| PS | Jean-Jack Queyranne | 2004–2015 |