Hauts-de-Seine is best known for containing the modern office, cinema and shopping complexLa Défense, one ofGrand Paris's main economic centres and one of Europe's major business districts. Hauts-de-Seine is one of the wealthiest departments in France; it had the highestGDP per capita in France at €107,800 in 2020.[5] Its inhabitants are calledAltoséquanais (masculine) andAltoséquanaises (feminine) in French.
From 1790 to 1968, Hauts-de-Seine was part of the formerdepartment ofSeine.
The Hauts-de-Seine department was created in 1968, from parts of the former departments ofSeine andSeine-et-Oise. Its creation reflected the implementation of a law passed in 1964;Nanterre had already been selected as theprefecture for the new department early in 1965.
In 2016, theDepartmental Council of Hauts-de-Seine voted in favour of a fusion of Hauts-de-Seine andYvelines, its western neighbour. Following a similar vote in Yvelines, anétablissement public interdépartemental was established.[6] The fusion project was abandoned in 2021, but the cooperation between the two departments continues.[7]
1 This group is made up largely of former French settlers, such aspieds-noirs inNorthwest Africa, followed by former colonial citizens who had French citizenship at birth (such as was often the case for the native elite in French colonies), as well as to a lesser extent foreign-born children of French expatriates. A foreign country is understood as a country not part of France in 1999, so a person born for example in 1950 in Algeria, when Algeria was an integral part of France, is nonetheless listed as a person born in a foreign country in French statistics.
2 An immigrant is a person born in a foreign country not having French citizenship at birth. An immigrant may have acquired French citizenship since moving to France, but is still considered an immigrant in French statistics. On the other hand, persons born in France with foreign citizenship (the children of immigrants) are not listed as immigrants.
Hauts-de-Seine and two other small departments (Seine-Saint-Denis andVal-de-Marne) form an inner ring around Paris, known as thePetite Couronne (literal translation: "Little Crown"). Together with the City of Paris, they are included inGreater Paris since 1 January 2016. It is the smallest department in France, followed bySeine-Saint-Denis andVal-de-Marne. It is slightly smaller thanMaldives.
Hauts-de-Seine currently has the fewest number of any communes inMetropolitan France. With only 36 communes, not includingParis which has only one commune, this makes the French department in Metropolitan France with the fewest number of communes.
Hauts-de-Seine is one of France's wealthiest departments and one of Europe's richest areas. Its GDP per capita was €106,800 in 2020, according toEurostat official figures.[5]
In both local and national elections, the department predominantly supportscentre-right political candidates, though the1st and11th constituencies favor the left.
In the 1990s and early 2000s, Hauts-de-Seine received national media attention as the result of acorruption scandal concerning the misuse of public funds provided for the department's housing projects. Implicated were Charles Pasqua, as well as other personalities of theRally for the Republic (RPR) party.
Hauts-de-Seine is governed by a departmental council. Its 46 members are called departmental councillors. The electorate of Hauts-de-Seine usually votes for right-wing parties; there has never been a left-wing majority since the department's inception in 1968.
The departmental council is the deliberative organ of the department. The executive is led by the council president, assisted by vice presidents, in charge of various portfolios. Departmental councillors are elected (two percanton) by the department's inhabitants for six-year terms (no term limits). The president of the Departmental Council isGeorges Siffredi, elected in 2020.
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