Pas-de-Calais's 11th constituency
11th constituency of the Pas-de-Calais | |
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Constituency of the National Assembly of France | |
Deputy | |
Department | Pas-de-Calais |
Cantons | Carvin, Courrières, Hénin-Beaumont, Leforest, Montigny-en-Gohelle, Rouvroy |
Registered voters | 89,833 |
The 11th constituency of the Pas-de-Calais is a French legislative constituency in the Pas-de-Calais département. It elects one député to the National Assembly. It has been represented by Marine Le Pen since 2017.
Description
[edit]For the 2012 French legislative election, the constituency attracted nationwide and international attention, as for the first time two candidates from the 2012 French presidential election stood as candidates there: Marine Le Pen of the National Front and Jean-Luc Mélenchon of the Left Front. Since 2007, Le Pen had been an opposition member of the Socialist Party-held town council in Hénin-Beaumont, the largest town in the constituency, while Mélenchon had argued that the Pas-de-Calais is "the birthplace of the workers' movement in France and should not be abandoned to the far-right". Opinion polls a month before the election suggested Le Pen would finish first in the first round, during which the political left was divided among several parties, but she would be beaten by Kemel or Mélenchon in the second round,[1] with the Left Front potentially taking the constituency from the locally embattled Socialists.[2][3][4] The Le Pen–Mélenchon duel attracted international media attention,[5][6][7] including for what it revealed of attitudes and expectations in an area of northern France hit hard by deindustrialisation and unemployment.[8][9][10] The Guardian wrote that, in that regard, "Mélenchon blames what he sees as pernicious free-market capitalism and bankers; Le Pen points the finger at immigrants and Europe".[11]
Previous office-holders
[edit]The seat had traditionally been held by the French Left until 2017. In 1988, Socialist candidate Noël Josèphe had been the only candidate in the second round, which he won unopposed. In 1993, the seat went to the French Communist Party member Rémy Auchedé; Marcel Cabiddu, winning unopposed in the second round, took it back for the Socialists in 1997; he was re-elected in 2002. Upon his death in 2004, the seat went to his suppléante Odette Duriez, who then won the 2007 election.[12]
Election | Member | Party | |
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1986 | Proportional representation – no election by constituency | ||
1988 | Noël Josèphe | PS | |
1993 | Rémy Auchedé | PCF | |
1997 | Marcel Cabiddu | PS | |
2002 | |||
2004 | Odette Duriez | ||
2007 | |||
2012 | Philippe Kemel | ||
2017 | Marine Le Pen | FN | |
2022 | RN | ||
2024 |
Election results
[edit]2024
[edit]Candidate | Party | Alliance | First round | Second round | |||||
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Votes | % | /– | Votes | % | /– | ||||
Marine Le Pen | RN | 32,681 | 58.04 | 4.08 | |||||
Samira Laal | PS | NFP | 14,666 | 26.05 | 2.62 | ||||
Dorian Lamy | UDI | Ensemble | 4,269 | 7.58 | -4.74 | ||||
Michel Lanoy | LR | UDC | 2,676 | 4.75 | new | ||||
Geoffrey Fournier | REC | 813 | 1.44 | new | |||||
Dominique Gai | LO | 786 | 1.40 | -0.11 | |||||
Gautier Weinmann | DVG | 417 | 0.74 | ||||||
Votes | 56,308 | 100.00 | |||||||
Valid votes | 56,308 | 96.86 | -1.17 | ||||||
Blank votes | 1,225 | 2.11 | 0.91 | ||||||
Null votes | 601 | 1.03 | 0.26 | ||||||
Turnout | 58,134 | 61.74 | 19.14 | ||||||
Abstentions | 36,032 | 38.26 | -19.14 | ||||||
Registered voters | 94,166 | ||||||||
Source: [1] | |||||||||
Result | RN HOLD |
2022
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |||
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RN | Marine Le Pen | 21,219 | 53.96 | 7.94 | |||
EELV (NUPÉS) | Marine Tondelier | 9,214 | 23.43 | –5.92 | |||
LREM (Ensemble) | Alexandrine Pintus | 4,846 | 12.32 | –4.11 | |||
Others | N/A | 4,045 | 10.29 | ||||
Turnout | 39,324 | 42.60 | –4.07 | ||||
2nd round result | |||||||
RN | Marine Le Pen | 22,301 | 61.03 | 2.43 | |||
EELV (NUPÉS) | Marine Tondelier | 14,238 | 38.97 | N/A | |||
Turnout | 36,539 | 41.63 | –2.04 | ||||
RN hold |
2017
[edit]Philippe Kemel of the Socialist Party, the incumbent deputy, was defeated in the first round. This left only Marine Le Pen, who finished second by less than half a percentage point in the 2012 election, and Anne Roquet of President Emmanuel Macron's recently created En Marche! party. Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who came in third in the first round of the 2012 election, did not run, instead opting to run for a seat in Bouches-du-Rhône's 4th constituency. He was replaced by Jean-Pierre Carpentier of La France insoumise, a party founded by Mélenchon, and finished in fourth place.
Candidate | Label | First round | Second round | |||
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Votes | % | Votes | % | |||
Marine Le Pen | FN | 19,997 | 46.02 | 22,769 | 58.60 | |
Anne Roquet | REM | 7,141 | 16.43 | 16,084 | 41.40 | |
Philippe Kemel | PS | 4,705 | 10.83 | |||
Jean-Pierre Carpentier | FI | 4,334 | 9.97 | |||
Hervé Poly | PCF | 2,172 | 5.00 | |||
Alexandrine Pintus | LR | 1,818 | 4.18 | |||
Marine Tondelier | ECO | 1,542 | 3.55 | |||
Flore Lataste | EXG | 475 | 1.09 | |||
Rachid Ferahtia | ECO | 456 | 1.05 | |||
Betty Leclercq | DLF | 346 | 0.80 | |||
Aude Lesage | DIV | 215 | 0.49 | |||
Vincent Caflers | EXD | 166 | 0.38 | |||
Jacques Nikonoff | DVG | 85 | 0.20 | |||
Votes | 43,452 | 100.00 | 38,853 | 100.00 | ||
Valid votes | 43,452 | 98.09 | 38,853 | 93.72 | ||
Blank votes | 510 | 1.15 | 1,863 | 3.85 | ||
Null votes | 337 | 0.76 | 1,009 | 2.43 | ||
Turnout | 44,299 | 46.67 | 41,456 | 43.67 | ||
Abstentions | 50,618 | 53.33 | 53,468 | 56.33 | ||
Registered voters | 94,917 | 94,924 | ||||
Source: Ministry of the Interior |
2012
[edit]The Union for a Popular Movement did not present a candidate of its own, and instead endorsed as candidate a member of the Democratic Movement, Jean Urbaniak.[14] Urbaniak officially stood as an independent candidate of the centre-right.[15]
A debate was organised among the five main candidates (Kemel, Le Pen, Mélenchon, Tondelier, and Urbaniak) on the regional edition of the France 3 television channel.[15][16]
Candidate | Party | First round | Second round | ||||||||
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Votes | % | Votes | % | ||||||||
Marine Le Pen | FN | 22,460 | 42.26% | 26,696 | 49.89% | ||||||
Philippe Kemel | PS | 12,609 | 23.72% | 26,814 | 50.11% | ||||||
Jean-Luc Mélenchon | FG | 11,406 | 21.46% | ||||||||
Jean Urbaniak | MoDem | 4,179 | 7.86% | ||||||||
Marine Tondelier | EELV | 849 | 1.60% | ||||||||
Michel Vast | DLR | 488 | 0.92% | ||||||||
Murielle Richet | LT | 331 | 0.62% | ||||||||
Nathalie Hubert | LO | 330 | 0.62% | ||||||||
Séverine Duval | NPA | 177 | 0.33% | ||||||||
Michèle Dessenne | M'PEP–PRCF | 94 | 0.18% | ||||||||
Mohamed Bousnane | AEI | 85 | 0.16% | ||||||||
Rachida Sahraoui | PR | 80 | 0.15% | ||||||||
Pierre Rose | COC62 (POC) | 61 | 0.11% | ||||||||
Daniel Cucchiaro | Ecologist | 0 | 0.00% | ||||||||
Valid votes | 53,149 | 98.20% | 53,510 | 96.10% | |||||||
Spoilt and null votes | 975 | 1.80% | 2,173 | 3.90% | |||||||
Votes cast / turnout | 54,124 | 57.50% | 55,683 | 59.15% | |||||||
Abstentions | 40,011 | 42.50% | 38,452 | 40.85% | |||||||
Registered voters | 94,135 | 100.00% | 94,135 | 100.00% |
2007
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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PS | Odette Duriez | 32,595 | 61.66 | −7.37 | |
UMP | Myriam Wonterghem | 20,265 | 38.34 | n/a | |
Turnout | 55,319 | 57.24 | −3.96 | ||
PS hold | Swing | −7.37 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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PS | Odette Duriez | 18,476 | 33.62 30.16 | 3.46 | |
UMP | Myriam Wonterghem | 14,368 | 26.14 | 12.68 | |
FN | Éric Iorio | 5,201 | 9.46 | −12.01 | |
PCF | Jean Clarisse | 4,805 | 8.74 | N/A | |
UDF | Jean-Philippe Boonaert | 3,385 | 6.16 | −2.85 | |
LCR | Séverine Duval | 1,972 | 3.59 | 2.05 | |
LV | Jacques Switalski | 1,518 | 2.76 | 0.14 | |
MPF | Martine Lefebure Thevenet | 1,295 | 2.36 | 1.24 | |
CPNT | Rosemonde Lefrancq | 1,022 | 1.86 | 0.09 | |
LO | Régis Scheenaerts | 1,010 | 1.84 | −0.42 | |
DVE | Murielle Richet | 1,004 | 1.83 | ||
DVD | Philippe Morin | 906 | 1.65 | N/A | |
Turnout | 56,629 | 58.59 | −2.61 |
2002
[edit]Two candidates stood under the Communist label, including former MP Rémy Auchedé (by now a dissident), but neither was endorsed by the French Communist Party.[12]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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PS | Marcel Cabiddu | 32,078 | 69.03 | ||
FN | Éric Iorio | 14,390 | 30.97 | ||
Turnout | 51,673 | 56.25 | |||
PS hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
PS | Marcel Cabiddu | 16,404 | 30.16 | ||
FN | Éric Iorio | 10,047 | 18.47 | ||
UMP | Myriam Wonterghem Billiaux | 7,322 | 13.46 | ||
Communist | Rémy Auchedé | 6,303 | 11.59 | ||
UDF | Annie Delannoy Jumez | 4,899 | 9.01 | ||
Communist | Muriel Dutrieu | 1,750 | 3.22 | ||
LV | Jacques Switalski | 1,423 | 2.62 | ||
LO | Régis Scheenaerts | 1,229 | 2.26 | ||
CPNT | Chantal Créton | 960 | 1.77 | ||
Other | Cathy Burgeat | 902 | 1.66 | ||
LCR | Séverine Duval | 835 | 1.54 | ||
MNR | Marcel Part | 644 | 1.18 | ||
MPF | Bernadette Dury | 611 | 1.12 | ||
DVD | David Masson | 573 | 1.05 | ||
DVE | Catherine Lebrun | 304 | 0.56 | ||
DVE | Éliane Stegner | 182 | 0.33 | ||
Turnout | 56,223 | 61.20 |
1997
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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PS | Marcel Cabiddu | 17,304 | 28.17 | ||
PCF | Rémy Auchedé* | 17,028 | 27.72 | ||
FN | Eric Iorio | 10,112 | 16.46 | ||
UDF | Dominique Josien | 9,585 | 15.60 | ||
LV | Joseph Pasquier | 3,499 | 5.70 | ||
LO | Frédéric Scheers | 2,317 | 3.77 | ||
DVD | René Beaugrand | 1,591 | 2.59 | ||
Turnout | 64,755 | 74.17 | |||
2nd round result | |||||
PS | Marcel Cabiddu | 34,412 | 100.00 | ||
Turnout | 50,746 | 58.12 | |||
PS gain from PCF |
* Withdrew before the second round
References
[edit]- ^ "Législatives: Mélenchon battrait Le Pen, selon un sondage", Libération, 20 May 2012.
- ^ "Le duel Le Pen - Mélenchon aura bien lieu à Hénin-Beaumont", L'Express, 12 May 2012.
- ^ "M. Mélenchon "nationalise" Hénin-Beaumont", Le Monde, 19 May 2012.
- ^ "A Hénin-Beaumont, le parti de Marine Le Pen joue la carte du "FN de proximité"", Le Monde, 19 May 2012.
- ^ "Wahlkampf in Frankreichs Norden: Duell der Populisten", Der Spiegel, 5 June 2012.
- ^ "Wahlkampf bei den Ch'tis", Die Tagezeitung, 6 June 2012.
- ^ "Le Pen gegen Melenchon - Duell der Fallschirmspringer", Tagesschau, 7 June 2012.
- ^ "Marine Le Pen challenged on home turf", Die Welt, 12 May 2012.
- ^ "France election: Le Pen and Melenchon duel for northern town", BBC News, 8 June 2012.
- ^ "Marine Le Pen and Jean-Luc Mélenchon face off again for French votes", The Telegraph, 3 June 2012.
- ^ "France's champion of the left sends a challenge to Marine Le Pen", The Guardian, 26 May 2012.
- ^ a b "Un bastion de la gauche sur des sables mouvants" Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine, La Voix du Nord.
- ^ "Résultats des élections législatives 2022 dans le Pas-de-Calais". Le Monde.fr (in French). Retrieved 25 November 2022.
- ^ "Sondage : Mélenchon battrait Le Pen à Hénin-Beaumont", Le Monde, 20 May 2012.
- ^ a b "Débat législatives Hénin-Carvin 11ème circonscription Pas-de-Calais", France 3, 2 June 2012.
- ^ "Législatives : âpre débat entre Mélenchon et Le Pen", Le Monde, 2 June 2012.
Further reading
[edit]- "Notes and portraits of the French MPs under the Fifth Republic". National Assembly of France (in French).
- "Pas-de-Calais' 11th constituency : cartography". National Assembly of France (in French).
- "Résultats des élections législatives 2012: Pas de Calais 11ème circonscription" [2012 French legislative elections: Pas-de-Calais' 11th constituency (first round and run-off)]. Minister of the Interior (France) (in French).
- "2007 French legislative elections: Pas-de-Calais' 11th constituency (first round and run-off)". Minister of the Interior (France) (in French).
- "2002 French legislative elections: Pas-de-Calais' 11th constituency (first round and run-off)". Minister of the Interior (France) (in French).