Charente-Maritime's 5th constituency
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.
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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) |
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 | |
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1958 | André Lacaze | CNIP | |
1962 | Jean de Lipkowski | UNR | |
1967 | Jean de Lipkowski | UD-VeR | |
1968 | Jean de Lipkowski | UDR | |
1973 | Jean de Lipkowski | UDR | |
1978 | Jean de Lipkowski | RPR | |
1981 | Jean de Lipkowski | RPR | |
1986 | Proportional representation – no election by constituency | ||
1988 | Jean de Lipkowski | RPR | |
1993 | Jean de Lipkowski | 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 | % | ±% | |
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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 | ||
CPNT | 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
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Candidate | Party | 1st round | 2nd round | ||||
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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 | |||
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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 | |||
Christian Gerin | 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 |