Meuse's 2nd constituency
 constituency | |||
 Meuse's 2nd Constituency shown within Lorraine. | |||
| Deputy |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Department | Meuse | ||
| Cantons | Charny-sur-Meuse, Clermont-en-Argonne, Damvillers, Dun-sur-Meuse, Étain, Fresnes-en-Woëvre, Montfaucon, Montmédy, Souilly, Spincourt, Stenay, Varennes-en-Argonne, Verdun-Centre, Verdun-Est, Verdun-Ouest | ||
| Registered voters | 61,296 | ||
The 2nd constituency of Meuse is a French legislative constituency in the Meuse département.
Description[]
The 2nd constituency of Meuse covers the northern portion of the department. It includes the town of Verdun infamous for its role in the First World War.
From 1988 until 2017 the seat has been held by Jean-Louis Dumont, a former mayor of Verdun, of the Socialist Party. However, between 1993 and 1997 when it was held by of the Gaullist RPR.
Historic Representation[]
| Election | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | Proportional representation – no election by constituency | ||
| 1988 | Jean-Louis Dumont | PS | |
| 1993 | RPR | ||
| 1997 | Jean-Louis Dumont | PS | |
| 2002 | |||
| 2007 | |||
| 2012 | |||
| 2017 | Émilie Cariou | REM | |
| May 2020 | EDS | ||
| December 2020 | ND | ||
Election results[]
2017[]
| Candidate | Label | First round | Second round | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | Votes | % | |||
| Émilie Cariou | REM | 7,777 | 27.10 | 14,969 | 62.76 | |
| Éric Vilain | FN | 5,349 | 18.64 | 8,881 | 37.24 | |
| Jérôme Dumont | DVD | 5,181 | 18.05 | |||
| Pierre Regent | LR | 3,500 | 12.20 | |||
| Jean-Louis Dumont | PS | 2,848 | 9.92 | |||
| Michaël Clément | FI | 2,000 | 6.97 | |||
| François-Xavier Franceschini | PCF | 842 | 2.93 | |||
| Yves Dhyvert | ECO | 810 | 2.82 | |||
| Marcel Périn | EXG | 257 | 0.90 | |||
| Maryse Vasseur | DIV | 134 | 0.47 | |||
| Votes | 28,698 | 100.00 | 23,850 | 100.00 | ||
| Valid votes | 28,698 | 97.87 | 23,850 | 89.78 | ||
| Blank votes | 462 | 1.58 | 2,025 | 7.62 | ||
| Null votes | 162 | 0.55 | 690 | 2.60 | ||
| Turnout | 29,322 | 48.64 | 26,565 | 44.07 | ||
| Abstentions | 30,957 | 51.36 | 33,709 | 55.93 | ||
| Registered voters | 60,279 | 60,274 | ||||
| Source: Ministry of the Interior | ||||||
2012[]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PS | Jean-Louis Dumont | 12,581 | 35.86 | ||||
| UMP | Claude Leonard | 9,089 | 25.91 | ||||
| FN | Gilbert Prot | 5,821 | 16.59 | ||||
| DVD | Julien Didry | 4,865 | 13.87 | ||||
| FG | Eric Bernardi | 1,421 | 4.05 | ||||
| EELV | Dominique Ronga | 909 | 2.59 | ||||
| Others | N/A | 397 | |||||
| Turnout | 35,083 | 57.23 | |||||
| 2nd round result | |||||||
| PS | Jean-Louis Dumont | 17,286 | 51.53 | ||||
| UMP | Claude Leonard | 16,257 | 48.47 | ||||
| Turnout | 33,543 | 54.72 | |||||
| PS hold | |||||||
Sources[]
- French Interior Ministry results website: "Résultats électoraux officiels en France" (in French).
Categories:
- French legislative constituencies of Meuse