Jean-Louis Tourenne (born 1944 in La Mézière) is a French politician and the former

President of the general council In France, the President of the Departmental Council (French: ''Président du Conseil départemental'') is the locally elected head of the departmental council, the assembly governing a department in France. The position is elected by the depart ...

Ille-et-Vilaine Ille-et-Vilaine (; br, Il-ha-Gwilen) is a department of France, located in the region of Brittany in the northwest of the country. It is named after the two rivers of the Ille and the Vilaine. It had a population of 1,079,498 in 2019.

. He is a member of the

Socialist Party Socialist Party is the name of many different political parties around the world. All of these parties claim to uphold some form of socialism, though they may have very different interpretations of what "socialism" means. Statistically, most of t ...

. He became the first PS

since 1848 following the

2004 French cantonal elections Cantonal elections to elect half the membership of the general councils of France's 100 departments were held on 21 and 28 March 2004. These elections coincided with the left's landslide in the regional elections held at the same time and also r ...

, when the left gained the department from the right. He was reelected in 2011.Cantonales : Tourenne réélu, symbole d'un PS conforté
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1944 births Living people Socialist Party (France) politicians Senators of Ille-et-Vilaine Politicians from Brittany People from Ille-et-Vilaine French Senators of the Fifth Republic {{France-politician-Socialist-stub