Following the end of the 9-year terms of 127 "series C" senators, indirect

senatorial A senate is a deliberative assembly, often the upper house or chamber of a bicameral legislature. The name comes from the ancient Roman Senate (Latin: ''Senatus''), so-called as an assembly of the senior (Latin: ''senex'' meaning "the e ...

elections were held in France on September 26, 2004. This was the last renewal of serie C senators- following the electoral reform, senators are not elected by thirds to nine-year terms but by halves to six-year terms. Since 2001, 10 seats had been added to Senate. This election elected Senators from 28 departments on the mainland (115 seats including 107 incumbents and 8 new seats), 2 from Guadeloupe and

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(5 seats including 4 incumbents and one new seat), 2 from overseas territories,

Mayotte Mayotte (; french: Mayotte, ; Shimaore: ''Maore'', ; Kibushi: ''Maori'', ), officially the Department of Mayotte (french: Département de Mayotte), is an overseas department and region and single territorial collectivity of France. It is loca ...

and

Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon Saint Pierre and Miquelon (), officially the Territorial Collectivity of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon (french: link=no, Collectivité territoriale de Saint-Pierre et Miquelon ), is a self-governing territorial overseas collectivity of France in t ...

(3 seats including 2 incumbents and one new seat), and 4 senators representing French citizens abroad. The 117 incumbents were divided in the following way: * 65 from the

Union for a Popular Movement The Union for a Popular Movement (french: link=no, Union pour un mouvement populaire, ; UMP, ) was a centre-right List of political parties in France, political party in France that was one of the two major party, major contemporary political pa ...

(UMP) group * 23 from the

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group * 11 from the Communiste, Républicain et Citoyen group * 10 from the Union Centriste-Union for French Democracy * 7 from the Rassemblement démocratique et social européen * 1 miscellaneous from the MPF

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