Corsican territorial election, 2017

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63 seats in the Corsican Assembly
32 seats needed for a majority

Turnout

52.10%

7.56% (first round)
52.55%

14.48% (second round)

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Gilles Simeoni	Jean-Martin Mondoloni	Jean-Charles Orsucci
Party	PaC (FC–CL)	Regionalist right	REM
Last election	24 seats	0 seats	0 seats
Seats before	24	0	0
Seats after	41	10	6
Seat change	17	10	6
1st round %	54,212 45.36%	17,891 14.97%	13,455 11.26%
2nd round %	67,253 56.46%	21,784 18.29%	15,080 12.66%

	Fourth party	Fifth party	Sixth party

Leader	Valérie Bozzi	Paul-Félix Benedetti	Jacques Casamarta
Party	DVD (LR support)	Rinnovu	CI–PCF
Last election	11 seats	0 seats	Prima a Corsica
Seats before	11	0	3
Seats after	6	0	0
Seat change	5		3
1st round %	15,265 12.77%	7,996 6.69%	6,787 5.68%
2nd round %	14,990 12.59%	Eliminated (no alliance)	Eliminated (no alliance)

	Seventh party

Leader	Charles Giacomi
Party	FN
Last election	4 seats
Seats before	4
Seats after	0
Seat change	4
1st round %	3,917 3.28%
2nd round %	Eliminated

President of the Executive Council before election

Gilles Simeoni
FC (PaC)

Elected President of the Executive Council

Gilles Simeoni
FC (PaC)

The 2017 Corsican territorial elections were held on 3 and 10 December 2017 to elect 63 members of the Corsican Assembly who in turn will determine the composition of the Executive Council of Corsica. The elections, held only two years after the 2015 territorial elections, were called as a result of the planned creation of a single collectivity within Corsica resulting from the mergers of two departments (Haute-Corse and Corse-du-Sud) and the existing territorial collectivity of Corsica.

The nationalist alliance Pè a Corsica between autonomist Femu a Corsica and separatist Corsica Libera won an outright majority of seats in the assembly under the list led by Gilles Simeoni.

Territorial elections to elect the Corsican Assembly were held on 3 and 10 December as a result of the creation of a single collectivity replacing the existing departments of Haute-Corse and Corse-du-Sud and the existing territorial collectivity of Corsica on 1 January 2018. While the creation of a territorial collectivity was rejected by voters in Corsica in a 2003 referendum, the 42 of 51 members of the Corsican Assembly voted in support of a proposal to create a single territorial collectivity on 12 December 2014, with the support of the national government. The initiative was pushed by nationalists on the island, who won a majority of seats in the 2015 territorial elections, who argued that the division of Corsica into separate departments produced "nests of clientelism".

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