Election Name: | 2004 Union for a Popular Movement leadership election |
Country: | France |
Type: | presidential |
Ongoing: | no |
Previous Election: | 2002 Union for a Popular Movement leadership election |
Previous Year: | 2002 |
Next Election: | 2012 Union for a Popular Movement leadership election |
Next Year: | 2012 |
Candidate1: | Nicolas Sarkozy |
Party1: | Union for a Popular Movement |
Popular Vote1: | 60,266 |
Percentage1: | 85.09% |
Candidate2: | Nicolas Dupont-Aignan |
Party2: | Arise the Republic |
Popular Vote2: | 6,443 |
Percentage2: | 9.10% |
Candidate3: | Christine Boutin |
Party3: | Union for a Popular Movement |
Popular Vote3: | 4,121 |
Percentage3: | 5.82% |
President | |
Before Election: | Alain Juppé |
After Election: | 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.
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.
Minister of the Economy, Finances and Industry; mayor of Neuilly-sur-Seine (ex-RPR)
mayor of Yerres and deputy for the Essonne's 8th constituency; leader of Arise the Republic (DLR) (ex-RPR)
deputy for the Yvelines' 10th constituency, leader of the Forum of Social Republicans (FRS) (ex-UDF)