Politics
| Year | National winner | Runner-up |
|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 47.38% 921,256 | 52.62% 1,023,056 |
| 2002 | 88.56% 1,523,388 | 11.44% 196,712 |
| 1995 | 50.44% 858,100 | 49.56% 843,169 |
| 1988 | 55.10% 929,363 | 44.90% 757,417 |
| 1981 | 48.95% 796,769 | 51.05% 831,034 |
| 1974 | 56.54% 781,563 | 43.46% 600,678 |
| 1969 | 63.95% 692,280 | 36.05% 390,240 |
| 1965 | 63.15% 806,958 | 36.85% 470,839 |
Brittany is administered by the Regional Council of Brittany.
The region was a traditionally conservative and Christian democratic region, with the notable exception of the department of Côtes-d'Armor, a longtime stronghold of the political left. However, the whole of Brittany has recently been moving towards the left, in 2004 electing Jean-Yves Le Drian as its first Socialist regional president, and in the 2007 presidential election voting for Socialist Ségolène Royal. The centrist candidate François Bayrou also polled relatively highly in the region and Fougères elected a MoDem deputy to the National Assembly (he has since joined the pro-UMP New Centre. The French Communist Party's support is largely concentrated in the south-west of the Côtes-d'Armor and north-west of Morbihan. The Greens and other environmentalist parties have traditionally been strong in the region, especially in urban areas such as Rennes or Quimper. The region was one of the few which voted "Yes" to the European constitution in the 2005 referendum, and Brittany continues, along with Alsace, to be a strongly pro-European region.
The Socialist Party controls three general councils (Ille-et-Vilaine, Côtes-d'Armor, and Finistère), while the centrist MoDem controls that of Morbihan, in a coalition with the right.
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