Nord's 9th constituency

9th constituency of the Nord
French National Assembly ; constituency
	Nord's 9th Constituency shown within Nord-Pas-de-Calais
Deputy
	Valérie Petit; REM
Department	Nord
Cantons	Lille-Nord-Est (part), Marcq-en-Barœul, Tourcoing-Sud.
Registered voters	89,257

The 9th constituency of the Nord is a French legislative constituency in the Nord département.

Description[]

Nord's 9th constituency includes the north east of Lille and the south of Tourcoing as well as the suburb of Marcq-en-Barœul, which lies between the two. The canton of was only added in the 2010 redistricting of French legislative constituencies.

Politically the seat was entirely consistent in its support until 2017 of the Gaullist right since the inception of the 5th Republic.

Historic Representation[]

Election		Member	Party
	1958		UNR
	1967		UNR
	1968		UDR
	1978		RPR
1986		Proportional representation - no election by constituency
	1988		RPR
	1997		RPR
	2002		UMP
	2007	Bernard Gérard	UMP
	2017	Valérie Petit	REM

Election results[]

2017[]

Candidate		Label	First round		Second round
Candidate		Label	Votes	%	Votes	%
	Valérie Petit	REM	16,999	39.18	18,281	52.06
	Bernard Gérard	LR	11,047	25.46	16,837	47.94
	Céleste Van Isterdael	FI	4,963	11.44
	Valérie Talpaert	FN	3,340	7.70
		ECO	2,058	4.74
	Denis Tonnel	DVD	1,322	3.05
	Isabelle Jouny	PRG	1,279	2.95
	Martine Roussel-Vanhée	PCF	646	1.49
	Jérôme Garcia	DVD	474	1.09
	Jean-Luc Landru	DLF	427	0.98
	Réjane Doré	EXD	233	0.54
	Catherine Hermary	DIV	221	0.51
	Maryline Mouchoux	EXG	209	0.48
	Sofia Djeddi	DVG	140	0.32
	Bastien Denoyelle	DIV	33	0.08

Votes			43,391	100.00	35,118	100.00

Valid votes			43,391	98.81	35,118	92.28
Blank votes			366	0.83	2,110	5.54
Null votes			158	0.36	829	2.18
Turnout			43,915	47.93	38,057	41.54
Abstentions			47,700	52.07	53,561	58.46
Registered voters			91,615		91,618

Source: Ministry of the Interior

2012[]

Legislative Election 2012: Nord's 9th constituency
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	UMP	Bernard Gérard	22,282	47.71
	PRG	Jacques Mutez	11,848	25.37
	FN	Jean-François Bloc	4,776	10.23
	FG	Martine Roussel-Vanhee	2,412	5.16
	MoDem	Mariette Bontinck	1,279	2.74

	Others	N/A	2,058
Turnout			46,702	52.32
2nd round result
	UMP	Bernard Gérard	26,377	61.21
	PRG	Jacques Mutez	16,718	38.79
Turnout			43,095	48.28
	UMP hold

2007[]

Legislative Election 2007: Nord's 9th constituency
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	UMP	Bernard Gérard	23,643	60.20
	PS	Maryse Brimont	6,144	15.65
	MoDem	Anne Collot	3,728	9.49
	FN	Frédéric Butez	1,612	4.10
	LV	Daniel Compere	1,105	2.81
	PCF	Martine Roussel	810	2.06

	Others	N/A	2,229
Turnout			39,754	56.90
	UMP hold

2002[]

Legislative Election 2002: Nord's 9th constituency
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	UMP	Patrick Delnatte	22,061	56.41
	PS	Sylvie Boudry	7,169	18.33
	FN	Simone Bonnave	5,109	13.06
	LV	Olivier Descamps	908	2.32

	Others	N/A	3,859
Turnout			39,702	60.63
	UMP hold

1997[]

Legislative Election 1997: Nord's 9th constituency
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	RPR	Patrick Delnatte	17,099	42.66
	PRG	Colette Huvenne	9,428	23.52
	FN	Michel Ximenes	7,598	18.96
	DVD	Elisabeth Bourgois	1,982	4.94
	GE	Etienne Forest	1,479	3.69
	UDF	Jean-Pierre Lemai*	959	2.39
	ECO	Gérard Wozniak	915	2.28

	Others	N/A	622
Turnout			41,746	64.89
2nd round result
	RPR	Patrick Delnatte	25,814	63.83
	PRG	Colette Huvenne	14,630	36.17
Turnout			42,540	66.13
	RPR hold

* UDF dissident

Sources[]

Official results of French elections from 1998: "Résultats électoraux officiels en France" (in French).