Charente-Maritime's 5th constituency
 constituency | |
 Constituency in department | |
 Charente-Maritime in France | |
| Incumbent deputy | Didier Quentin LR |
|---|---|
| Department | Charente-Maritime |
| Cantons | Le Château-d'Oléron, Marennes, Royan-Ouest, Saint-Agnant, Saint-Pierre-d'Oléron, Saint-Porchaire, Saujon, Tonnay-Charente, La Tremblade |
| Registered voters | 111,434 (2017) |
The 5th constituency of Charente-Maritime (French: Cinquième 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 nine (pre-2015) cantons: those of Le Château-d'Oléron, Marennes, Royan-Ouest, Saint-Agnant, Saint-Pierre-d'Oléron, Saint-Porchaire, Saujon, Tonnay-Charente, and La Tremblade.
At the time of the 1999 census (which was the basis for the most recent redrawing of constituency boundaries, carried out in 2010) the 5th constituency had a total population of 112,002.
Deputies[]
| Election | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1958 | André Lacaze | CNIP | |
| 1962 | UNR | ||
| 1967 | UD-VeR | ||
| 1968 | UDR | ||
| 1973 | UDR | ||
| 1978 | RPR | ||
| 1981 | RPR | ||
| 1986 | Proportional representation – no election by constituency | ||
| 1988 | RPR | ||
| 1993 | RPR | ||
| 1997 | Didier Quentin | RPR | |
| 2002 | Didier Quentin | UMP | |
| 2007 | Didier Quentin | UMP | |
| 2012 | Didier Quentin | UMP | |
| 2017 | Didier Quentin | LR | |
Election results[]
2007[]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UMP | Didier Quentin | 31,884 | 53.51 | ||
| PRG | Vincent Barraud | 10,798 | 18.12 | ||
| MoDem | Alexis Blanc | 4,790 | 8.04 | ||
| FN | Elise Somprou | 2,345 | 3.94 | ||
| LMR | Jean-Louis Jaulin | 1,993 | 3.34 | ||
| LV | Nicole Kentzel | 1,983 | 3.33 | ||
| EXG | Marie Dolores Delgado | 1,803 | 3.03 | ||
| PCF | Jacques Guiard | 1,647 | 2.76 | ||
| MPF | Claude Meunier | 1,142 | 1.92 | ||
| Independent | Patrick Vaisse | 637 | 1.07 | ||
| EXG | Marouani Ben Hadj Salem | 383 | 0.64 | ||
| Independent | Alain Ignacimouttou | 185 | 0.31 | ||
| Majority | 21,086 | 35.39 | |||
| Turnout | 60,808 | 60.52 | |||
| 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 | % | ||||
| Didier Quentin | Union for a Popular Movement | UMP | 25,925 | 41.68% | 32,697 | 53.99% | |
| Pascal Ferchaud | Radical Party of the Left | PRG | 21,637 | 34.79% | 27,866 | 46.01% | |
| Jean-Marc de Lacoste Lareymondie | Front National | FN | 8,769 | 14.10% | |||
| Jacques Guiard | Left Front | FG | 2,340 | 3.76% | |||
| Laurence Marcillaud | Europe Ecology – The Greens | EELV | 1,272 | 2.05% | |||
| Michel Renault | Centrist | CEN | 957 | 1.54% | |||
| Sylvie Moreau | Ecologist | ECO | 608 | 0.98% | |||
| Pascale Lequeux | Ecologist | ECO | 361 | 0.58% | |||
| Anne Bernon | Far Left | EXG | 327 | 0.53% | |||
| Total | 62,196 | 100% | 60,563 | 100% | |||
| Registered voters | 106,006 | 105,996 | |||||
| Blank/Void ballots | 811 | 0.77% | 1,604 | 1.51% | |||
| Turnout | 63,007 | 59.44% | 62,167 | 58.65% | |||
| Abstentions | 42,999 | 40.56% | 43,829 | 41.35% | |||
| Result | UMP HOLD | ||||||
2017[]
| Candidate | Label | First round | Second round | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | Votes | % | |||
| Didier Quentin | LR | 12,933 | 23.78 | 23,151 | 54.89 | |
| Gérard Potennec | DIV | 11,415 | 20.99 | 19,024 | 45.11 | |
| Séverine Werbrouck | FN | 8,444 | 15.53 | |||
| Mickael Vallet | PS | 7,355 | 13.52 | |||
| Geoffrey Lebreton Perez | FI | 4,936 | 9.08 | |||
| DIV | 3,509 | 6.45 | ||||
| Stéphanie Muzard | ECO | 1,327 | 2.44 | |||
| Thierry Gille | DIV | 1,206 | 2.22 | |||
| Maurice Montangon | DLF | 863 | 1.59 | |||
| Jacques Guiard | PCF | 569 | 1.05 | |||
| Stéphane Theas | ECO | 444 | 0.82 | |||
| Audrey Jean | DIV | 396 | 0.73 | |||
| Béatrice Machillot | DIV | 234 | 0.43 | |||
| Khamssa Rahmani | EXG | 229 | 0.42 | |||
| Pierre Duponchel | DIV | 214 | 0.39 | |||
| Julien Millot | DIV | 208 | 0.38 | |||
| Patrice Guillory | DIV | 67 | 0.12 | |||
| Gilles Geirnaert | DVG | 36 | 0.07 | |||
| Rémi Lefèvre | DIV | 2 | 0.00 | |||
| Votes | 54,387 | 100.00 | 42,175 | 100.00 | ||
| Valid votes | 54,387 | 97.93 | 42,175 | 88.03 | ||
| Blank votes | 782 | 1.41 | 3,919 | 8.18 | ||
| Null votes | 370 | 0.67 | 1,816 | 3.79 | ||
| Turnout | 55,539 | 49.83 | 47,910 | 42.99 | ||
| Abstentions | 55,914 | 50.17 | 63,524 | 57.01 | ||
| Registered voters | 111,453 | 111,434 | ||||
| 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 5th constituency (first round and run-off), Minister of the Interior
Categories:
- French legislative constituencies of Charente-Maritime