Charente-Maritime's 4th constituency
 constituency | |
 Constituency in department | |
 Charente-Maritime in France | |
| Incumbent deputy | |
|---|---|
| Department | Charente-Maritime |
| Cantons | Archiac, Cozes, Gémozac, Jonzac, Mirambeau, Montendre, Montguyon, Montlieu-la-Garde, Pons, Royan-Est, Saint-Genis-de-Saintonge, and the communes of Colombiers and La Jard in Saintes-Est |
| Registered voters | 89,894 (2017) |
The 4th constituency of Charente-Maritime (French: Quatrième circonscription de la Charente-Maritime) is one of five electoral districts in the department of Charente-Maritime, each of which returns one deputy to the French National Assembly in elections using the two-round system, with a run-off if no candidate receives more than 50% of the vote in the first round.
Description[]
The constituency is made up of 11 whole (pre-2015) cantons – those of Archiac, Cozes, Gémozac, Jonzac, Mirambeau, Montendre, Montguyon, Montlieu-la-Garde, Pons, Royan-Est, and Saint-Genis-de-Saintonge – plus two communes (Colombiers and La Jard) belonging to a twelfth: that of Saintes-Est.
At the time of the 1999 census (which was the basis for the most recent redrawing of constituency boundaries, carried out in 2010) the 4th constituency had a total population of 101,987.
Deputies[]
| Election | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1958 | CNIP | ||
| 1962 | Parti Radical | ||
| 1967 | Parti Radical | ||
| 1968 | UDR | ||
| 1973 | RI | ||
| 1978 | Philippe Marchand | PS | |
| 1981 | Philippe Marchand | PS | |
| 1986 | Proportional representation – no election by constituency | ||
| 1988 | Philippe Marchand | PS | |
| 1993 | Dominique Bussereau | UDF | |
| 1997 | Dominique Bussereau | UDF | |
| 2002 | Dominique Bussereau | UMP | |
| 2007 | Dominique Bussereau | UMP | |
| 2012 | Dominique Bussereau | UMP | |
| 2017 | Raphaël Gérard | REM | |
Election results[]
2007[]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UMP | Dominique Bussereau | 26,322 | 51.73 | ||
| PS | Régine Joly | 12,161 | 23.90 | ||
| MoDem | Céline Alleaume | 3,471 | 6.82 | ||
| FN | Bernard Roy | 1,936 | 3.80 | ||
| LMR | Chantal Thomazeau | 1,630 | 3.20 | ||
| EXG | Lino Piva | 1,113 | 2.19 | ||
| LV | Danièle Lot | 982 | 1.93 | ||
| PCF | Jean-Marc Langlais | 923 | 1.93 | ||
| MPF | Séverine Werbrouck | 723 | 1.42 | ||
| DVG | Alain Girard | 371 | 0.73 | ||
| EXG | Christophe Bruneteau | 371 | 0.73 | ||
| ECO | Françoise Doucet | 353 | 0.69 | ||
| Independent | Jack Lionet | 281 | 0.55 | ||
| DVD | Grégory Couillaud | 250 | 0.49 | ||
| Majority | 14,161 | 27.83 | |||
| Turnout | 52,695 | 61.42 | |||
| UMP hold | Swing | ||||
2012[]
Results in the Charente-Maritime's five constituencies in 2012 : pale pink (Miscellaneous left), pink (PS), blue (UMP)
| Candidate | Party | 1st round | 2nd round | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | Votes | % | ||||
| Dominique Bussereau | Union for a Popular Movement | UMP | 20,485 | 40.01% | 26,740 | 52.15% | |
| Fabienne Dugas-Raveneau | Socialist Party | PS | 18,129 | 35.41% | 24,540 | 47.85% | |
| Tony Lambert | Front National | FN | 6,946 | 13.57% | |||
| Jean-Yves Boiffier | Left Front | FG | 2,168 | 4.23% | |||
| Jean-Luc Guerbois | Europe Ecology – The Greens | EELV | 1,243 | 2.43% | |||
| Valérie Verduzier | Centrist | CEN | 795 | 1.55% | |||
| Laure Serra | Miscellaneous Right | DVD | 524 | 1.02% | |||
| Martine Gantner | Miscellaneous Right | DVD | 379 | 0.74% | |||
| Valérie Baraud | Far Left | EXG | 348 | 0.68% | |||
| Stéphane Hays | Other | AUT | 182 | 0.36% | |||
| Total | 51,199 | 100% | 51,280 | 100% | |||
| Registered voters | 87,692 | 87,675 | |||||
| Blank/Void ballots | 873 | 1.00% | 1,617 | 1.84% | |||
| Turnout | 52,072 | 59.38% | 52,897 | 60.33% | |||
| Abstentions | 35,620 | 40.62% | 34,778 | 39.67% | |||
| Result | UMP HOLD | ||||||
2017[]
| Candidate | Label | First round | Second round | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | Votes | % | |||
| Raphaël Gérard | REM | 15,055 | 33.85 | 18,070 | 51.29 | |
| Loic Girard | LR | 9,872 | 22.20 | 17,159 | 48.71 | |
| Isabelle Texier | FN | 7,556 | 16.99 | |||
| Lucie Kirchner | FI | 5,324 | 11.97 | |||
| Fabienne Dugas-Raveneau | PS | 2,536 | 5.70 | |||
| Laurence Marcillaud | ECO | 1,194 | 2.68 | |||
| Benoît Biteau | PRG | 824 | 1.85 | |||
| Éric Devise | DLF | 782 | 1.76 | |||
| Pascal Pellerin | PCF | 568 | 1.28 | |||
| Valerie Barraud | EXG | 379 | 0.85 | |||
| Ingrid Chrismann | DIV | 298 | 0.67 | |||
| Philippe Davril | DVG | 88 | 0.20 | |||
| Votes | 44,476 | 100.00 | 35,229 | 100.00 | ||
| Valid votes | 44,476 | 97.51 | 35,229 | 88.70 | ||
| Blank votes | 780 | 1.71 | 2,969 | 7.48 | ||
| Null votes | 357 | 0.78 | 1,521 | 3.83 | ||
| Turnout | 45,613 | 50.74 | 39,719 | 44.18 | ||
| Abstentions | 44,282 | 49.26 | 50,175 | 55.82 | ||
| Registered voters | 89,895 | 89,894 | ||||
| Source: Ministry of the Interior | ||||||
References[]
Sources[]
- Notes and portraits of the French MPs under the Fifth Republic, French National Assembly
- 2012 French legislative elections: Charente-Maritime's 4th constituency (first round and run-off), Minister of the Interior
Categories:
- French legislative constituencies of Charente-Maritime