Anne Hidalgo of the Socialist Party was elected mayor of Paris, becoming the first woman to hold that position.

Her principal opponent was Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet of the UMP who had finished ahead of Hidalgo in first round of voting on 23 March.

[2] Opinion polls had already predicted, however, that Hidalgo would win in the second round runoff on March 30.

[3] The outgoing mayor was the Socialists' Bertrand Delanoë, who did not run for a third term.

Control of Paris' twenty arrondissements was also decided in the elections.