Editing Allier (section)

=== Departmental Council ===

{{main|Departmental Council of Allier}}

The current president of the Departmental Council is Claude Riboulet, elected in 2017.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Delacou|first1=Antoine|title=Claude Riboulet succède à Gérard Dériot à la présidence du conseil départemental de l'Allier|url=http://www.lamontagne.fr/moulins/politique/allier/2017/09/25/claude-riboulet-succede-a-gerard-deriot-a-la-presidence-du-conseil-departemental-de-l-allier_12564770.html|website=Lamontagne.fr|language=fr|date=25 September 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/auvergne-rhone-alpes/allier/moulins/claude-riboulet-succede-gerard-deriot-tete-du-conseil-departemental-allier-1334537.html|title=Claude Riboulet succède à Gérard Dériot à la tête du Conseil départemental de l'Allier|website=France 3|language=fr|date=25 September 2017}}</ref> In the [[2021 French departmental elections|2021 departmental election]], the Departmental Council of Allier was elected as follows:<ref>[https://www.interieur.gouv.fr/Elections/Les-resultats/Departementales/elecresult__departementales-2021/(path)/departementales-2021/003/index.html Résultats des élections départementales 2021: Allier (03)], Ministère de l'intérieur</ref>

{| class=wikitable
!colspan=2| Party || Seats
|-
! style="background-color: {{party color|Miscellaneous Right}}" |
|[[Miscellaneous right]] ||align="right"| 20
|-
! style="background-color: {{party color|Socialist Party (France)}}" |
|[[Socialist Party (France)|Socialist Party]] ||align="right"| 6
|-
! style="background-color: #82A2C6" |
|Centre-right ||align="right"| 4
|-
! style="background-color: {{party color|French Communist Party}}" |
|[[French Communist Party]] ||align="right"| 2
|-
! style="background-color: #b9daff" |
|Right ||align="right"| 2
|-
! style="background-color: {{party color|The Republicans (France)}}" |
|[[The Republicans (France)|The Republicans]] ||align="right"| 2
|-
! style="background-color: {{party color|Left Radical Party}}" |
|[[Left Radical Party]] ||align="right"| 2
|-
|}

In the local elections of March 2008, Allier department was won by a majority of the left. The URB (Republican Union for Bourbonnais, right) had headed the department between 2001 and 2008, with the last year with only one vote majority. From 2008 the left coalition was in control also with a majority of one vote (10 PC, 6 PS, 2 PRG, 18 seats in total), facing 17 councilors from the URB.