Union for a Popular Movement leadership election, 2004

Union for a Popular Movement leadership election

28 November 2004 (2004-11-28)



Candidate	Nicolas Sarkozy	Nicolas Dupont-Aignan	Christine Boutin
Party	UMP	DLR	UMP
Popular vote	60 266	6 443	4 121
Percentage	85.09%	9.10%	5.82%

President before election

Alain Juppé

Elected President

Nicolas Sarkozy

The 2004 Union for a Popular Movement leadership election was held on November 28, 2004 to elect the leadership of the French Union for a Popular Movement (Union pour un mouvement populaire, UMP). The congress was organized after the UMP's first president, Alain Juppé, was forced to resign from the party's presidency following his conviction in a corruption scandal.

Nicolas Sarkozy, the finance minister and main intraparty rival of incumbent President Jacques Chirac easily won the UMP's presidency and thereafter focused the party machinery on his candidacy in the 2007 presidential election.

Presidential candidates

Candidates seeking to run for the party presidency needed to win the endorsements of at least 3% of party members. Each candidate created a "ticket" with two other party members for the offices of vice-president and secretary-general of the UMP.

Nicolas Sarkozy: Minister of the Economy, Finances and Industry; mayor of Neuilly-sur-Seine (ex-RPR)
- Candidate for vice president: Jean-Claude Gaudin, mayor of Marseille and Senator for the Bouches-du-Rhône (ex-DL)
- Candidate for secretary-general: Pierre Méhaignerie, mayor of Vitré and deputy of the Ille-et-Vilaine's 5th constituency (ex-UDF)

Nicolas Dupont-Aignan: mayor of Yerres and deputy for the Essonne's 8th constituency; leader of Arise the Republic (DLR) (ex-RPR)
- Candidate for vice president: Élisabeth Laithier (ex-RPR)
- Candidate for secretary-general: Rachid Kaci, founder of The Free Right (ex-DL)

Christine Boutin: deputy for the Yvelines' 10th constituency, leader of the Forum of Social Republicans (FRS) (ex-UDF)
- Candidate for vice president: Jean-Bernard Milliard (ex-DL)
- Candidate for secretary-general: Vincent You (ex-RPR)

Results

UMP leadership election results^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	UMP	Nicolas Sarkozy / Jean-Claude Gaudin and Pierre Méhaignerie	60 266	85.09
	DLR	Nicolas Dupont-Aignan / Élisabeth Laithier and Rachid Kaci	6 443	9.10
	UMP	Christine Boutin / Jean-Bernard Milliard and Vincent You	4 121	5.82

References

↑ France-politique.fr

Union for a Popular Movement

Presidents	Alain Juppé (2002–2004) Nicolas Sarkozy (2004–2007) Jean-François Copé (2012–2014) Nicolas Sarkozy (2014–)

Secretaries-General	Philippe Douste-Blazy (2002–2004) Pierre Méhaignerie (2004–2007) Patrick Devedjian (2007–2008) Xavier Bertrand (2008-2010) Jean-François Copé (2010-2012) Michèle Tabarot (2012-) with Valérie Pécresse and Marc-Philippe Daubresse (January 2013-present)

Vice Presidents	Jean-Claude Gaudin (2002-2007) Jean-Claude Gaudin, Pierre Méhaignerie, Jean-Pierre Raffarin (2007-2012) Luc Chatel (2012-) plus with Laurent Wauquiez, Jean-Claude Gaudin, Christian Estrosi, Brice Hortefeux, Roger Karoutchi, Gérard Longuet and Henri de Raincourt (Jan 2013-) plus with Hubert Falco, Rachida Dati, Hervé Gaymard, Christian Kert, Jean-François Lamour, Jean-Paul Fournier, Jean-Pierre Audy, Guillaume Peltier, Jean Leonetti, Thierry Mariani, Patrick Ollier and Bernard Perrut (Feb 2013-)

Prime Ministers	Jean-Pierre Raffarin (2002-2005) Dominique de Villepin (2005-2007) François Fillon (2007-2012)

Presidential candidates	Jacques Chirac (2002) Nicolas Sarkozy (2007) Nicolas Sarkozy (2012)

Congresses	2002 2004 2012

Movements	The Strong Right The Social Right Modern and Humanist France Gaullism, a way forward for France The Popular Right

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