Elections in French Guiana

French Guiana elects a legislature on the regional and departmental level. The legislature consists of two councils with diverging powers. The Regional Council (Conseil régional) has 31 members, elected for a four-year term by proportional representation. The General Council (Conseil général) has members elected for a six-year term in single-seat constituencies. French Guiana has a multi-party system, with numerous parties in which no one party often has a chance of gaining power alone, and parties must work with each other to form coalition governments.

Last elections

2004 Regional Elections

Candidate	Party	Votes (Round One)	% (Round One)	Votes (Round Two)	% (Round Two)
Antoine Karam	PSG	6,087	22.45%	11,380	37.24%
Léon Bertrand	UMP	6,595	24.32%	9,650	31.58%
Georges Othily	FDG	5,238	19.31%	9,529	31.18%
Christiane Taubira	Walwari-PRG	4,875	17.98%	-	-
Maurice Pindard	MDES	1,777	6.55%	-	-
Brigitte Wyngaarde	The Greens	1,316	4.85%	-	-
Gladys Robin	Miscellaneous	700	2.58%	-	-
Léon Jean-Baptiste-Edouard	PSG dissident	531	1.96%	-	-
Total		27,119	100.00%	30,559	100.00%

Seats

Party		seats
•	Guianese Socialist Party	29
	Union for a Popular Movement	7
	Walwari	7

Past elections

1998 Regional election

Party		seats
•	Guianese Socialist Party	11
	Democratic Forces of Guiana	9
	Rally for the Republic	6
	Decolonization and Social Emancipation Movement	3
	Walwari	2

1992 Regional election

Party		seats
•	Guianese Socialist Party	26
	Miscellaneous Right	3
	Rally for the Republic	2

1986 Regional election

Party		seats
•	Guianese Socialist Party	15
	Rally for the Republic	9
	Miscellaneous Left	4
	Decolonization and Social Emancipation Movement	3