Nord's 15th constituency
The 15th constituency of the Nord is a French legislative constituency in the Nord département.
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 Nord's 15th Constituency shown within Nord-Pas-de-Calais | |||
| Deputy |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Department | Nord | ||
| Cantons | Bailleul-Nord-Est, Bailleul-Sud-Ouest, Cassel, Hazebrouck-Nord, Hazebrouck-Sud, Merville, Steenvoorde | ||
| Registered voters | 95,226 | ||
Description
Nord's 15th constituency includes the large towns of Bailleul and Hazebrouck in the north east of the department.
The constituency swang between left and right from 1988 to 2017 having previously been dominated by the French Communist Party throughout the 1960s and 1970s. Jean-Pierre Allossery of the PS gained the seat at the 2012 French legislative election from the conservative Union for a Popular Movement. It was part of the La République En Marche! landslide win in the 2017 French legislative election, but the deputy, Jennifer de Temmerman, left the party and in May 2020, she was one of the 17 initial members of the new Ecology Democracy Solidarity group in the National Assembly.
Historic Representation
| Election | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1958 | Georges Sarazin | UNR | |
| 1962 | Arthur Ramette | PCF | |
| 1973 | Georges Hage | PCF | |
| 1986 | Proportional representation - no election by constituency | ||
| 1988 | Maurice Sergheraert | Independent | |
| 1993 | Marie-Fanny Gournay | RPR | |
| 1997 | Jean Delobel | PS | |
| 2002 | Françoise Hostalier | UMP | |
| 2012 | Jean-Pierre Allossery | PS | |
| 2017 | Jennifer de Temmerman | REM | |
| 2020 | EDS | ||
Election results
2017
| Candidate | Label | First round | Second round | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | Votes | % | |||
| Jennifer de Temmerman | REM | 13,764 | 28.08 | 24,519 | 60.69 | |
| Pascal Prince | FN | 10,095 | 20.59 | 15,881 | 39.31 | |
| Jean-Pierre Bataille | LR | 7,951 | 16.22 | |||
| Hervé Walraeve | FI | 6,018 | 12.28 | |||
| Bruno Ficheux | UDI | 5,305 | 10.82 | |||
| Michel Labitte | PS | 3,326 | 6.79 | |||
| Guillaume Fache | ECO | 1,219 | 2.49 | |||
| Luc Dubois | EXG | 615 | 1.25 | |||
| Gautier Leclaire | ECO | 500 | 1.02 | |||
| Clotilde Poilly | DIV | 226 | 0.46 | |||
| Votes | 49,019 | 100.00 | 40,400 | 100.00 | ||
| Valid votes | 49,019 | 97.58 | 40,400 | 90.06 | ||
| Blank votes | 856 | 1.70 | 3,033 | 6.76 | ||
| Null votes | 360 | 0.72 | 1,426 | 3.18 | ||
| Turnout | 50,235 | 52.40 | 44,859 | 46.79 | ||
| Abstentions | 45,633 | 47.60 | 51,013 | 53.21 | ||
| Registered voters | 95,868 | 95,872 | ||||
| Source: Ministry of the Interior | ||||||
Sources
- Official results of French elections from 1998: "Résultats électoraux officiels en France" (in French).