Ariège's 1st constituency

1st constituency of Ariège
French National Assembly ; constituency
	The two constituencies of Ariège
	Ariège in France
Deputy
	Bénédicte Taurine; FI
Department	Ariège
Cantons	Ax-les-Thermes, La Bastide-de-Sérou, Les Cabannes, Castillon-en-Couserans, Foix-Rural, Foix-Ville, Lavelanet, Massat, Oust, Quérigut, Tarascon-sur-Ariège, Varilhes, Vicdessos
Registered voters	70,373

The 1st constituency of Ariège is a French legislative constituency in the Ariège département.

Deputies[]

Election		Member	Party
	1958	Jean Durroux	SFIO
	1962	Gilbert Faure	SFIO
	1967		FGDS
	1968		FGDS
	1973		PS
	1978		PS
	1981	Augustin Bonrepaux	PS
1986		Proportional representation - no election by constituency
	1988	Augustin Bonrepaux	PS
	1993
	1997
	2002
	2007	Frédérique Massat	PS
	2012	Frédérique Massat	PS
	2017	Bénédicte Taurine	FI

Candidate		Label	First round		Second round
Candidate		Label	Votes	%	Votes	%
	Jérôme Azema	REM	9,478	31.35	12,633	49.72
	Bénédicte Taurine	FI	6,125	20.26	12,776	50.28
	Martine Esteban	PS	4,093	13.54
	Laurence Lefort	FN	3,618	11.97
	Éric Donzé	DIV	2,197	7.27
	Marie-Noëlle Samarcq	LR	1,616	5.34
	Florence Cortès	ECO	1,275	4.22
	José Navarro	PCF	929	3.07
	Jean-François Astier	ECO	416	1.38
	Robin Cassan	DIV	258	0.85
	Gisèle Lapeyre	EXG	231	0.76

Votes			30,236	100.00	25,409	100.00

Valid votes			30,236	96.71	25,409	88.80
Blank votes			699	2.24	2,041	7.13
Null votes			329	1.05	1,163	4.06
Turnout			31,264	55.11	28,613	50.44
Abstentions			25,471	44.89	28,118	49.56
Registered voters			56,735		56,731

Source: Ministry of the Interior^[1]

Won in the first round.

Legislative Election 2012: Ariège's 1st
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	PS	Frédérique Massat	17,791	51.69
	UMP	Nicole Gerona	5,449	15.83
	FN	Jacques Warnke	3,765	10.94
	FG	Michel Larive	3,744	10.88
	LV	Pascale Aoura	1,907	5.54
	Center	Joël Rausa	622	1.81
	EXG	Céline Bara	544	1.58
	ECO	Solange Fontaneau	211	0.61
	EXG	Janine Lasserre	205	0.60
	EXG	Gisèle Lapeyre	182	0.53
Turnout			35,176	62.08
	PS hold		Swing

Summary of the 10 June and 17 June 2007 French legislative in Ariège’s 1st Constituency election results^[2]
Candidate		Party		1st round		2nd round
Candidate		Party		Votes	%	Votes	%
	Frédérique Massat	Socialist Party	PS	15,823	44.66%	22,236	65.91%
	Jacqueline Rouge	Union for a Popular Movement	UMP	8,614	24.31%	11,500	34.09%
	Lyliane Cassan	Communist	COM	2,419	6.83%
	Patrick Pont	Democratic Movement	MoDem	2,311	6.52%
	Denis Seel	Far Left	EXG	1,274	3.60%
	Marc Saracino	The Greens	VEC	1,174	3.31%
	Jean-Luc Fernandez	Hunting, Fishing, Nature, Traditions	CPNT	1,098	3.10%
	Josette Zammit	National Front	FN	948	2.68%
	José Serrano	Movement for France	MPF	752	2.12%
	Sylvie Grizon	Divers	DIV	446	1.26%
	Didier Soulet	Far Left	EXG	243	0.69%
	Thierry Cuviller	Far Right	EXD	168	0.47%
	Véronique Bucaille	Majorité Présidentielle		163	0.46%

Total				35,433	100%	33,736	100%

Registered voters				56,045		56,037
Blank/Void ballots				1,061	2.91%	1,797	5.06%
Turnout				36,494	65.12%	35,533	63.41%
Abstentions				19,551	34.88%	20,504	36.59%

Result						PS HOLD