title: Regional Council of Alsace
text: # Regional Council of Alsace
  
  The Regional Council of Alsace (French: Conseil régional d'Alsace, Alsatian: Regionalrööt vum Elsass) was the regional council of the French region of Alsace from 1982 to 2015. As a result of reforms, the administrative region of Alsace merged with two other regions to form Grand Est, effective 1 January 2016, at which point the regional councils of Alsace, Lorraine, and Champagne-Ardenne were superseded by the Regional Council of Grand Est.
  
  ## Composition (by party)
  
  ### 2004
  
  | Party | Seats |
  | - | - |
  | Union for a Popular Movement | 18 |
  | Socialist Party | 8 |
  | National Front | 8 |
  | Union for French Democracy | 7 |
  | The Greens | 4 |
  | Miscellaneous right | 2 |
  
  ### 1998
  
  | Party | Seats |
  | - | - |
  | National Front | 13 |
  | Union for French Democracy | 9 |
  | Socialist Party | 8 |
  | Rally for the Republic | 7 |
  | Miscellaneous right | 3 |
  | Alsace d'Abord | 3 |
  | Femmes d'Alsace | 2 |
  | Independent Ecological Movement | 1 |
  | The Greens | 1 |
  
  ### 1992
  
  | Party | Seats |
  | - | - |
  | Rally for the Republic-Union for French Democracy | 20 |
  | National Front | 9 |
  | The Greens | 6 |
  | Socialist Party | 6 |
  | Alsace d'Abord | 2 |
  | Femmes d'Alsace | 1 |
  | Ecology Generation | 3 |
  
  ### 1986
  
  | Party | Seats |
  | - | - |
  | Rally for the Republic-Union for French Democracy | 27 |
  | Socialist Party | 11 |
  | National Front | 7 |
  | The Greens | 2 |
  
  ## Former presidents
  
  * André Bord (1974–1976)
  * Pierre Schiélé (1976–1980)
  * Marcel Rudloff (1980–1996)
  * Adrien Zeller (1996–2009)
  * André Reichardt (2009–2010)
  * Philippe Richert (2010–2015)
  