Martinique's 3rd constituency
The 3rd constituency of Martinique is a French legislative constituency in the Martinique département. It consists of the commune of Fort-de-France, the capital of Martinique. In all elections of the 5th republic, except for 2002, it has returned a member of the Martinican Progressive Party.
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| Department | Martinique | ||
Deputies
| Election | Member | Party | Notes | |
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| 1958 | Aimé Césaire | PPM | ||
| 1962 | ||||
| 1967 | ||||
| 1968 | ||||
| 1973 | ||||
| 1978 | ||||
| 1981 | ||||
| 1986 | Proportional representation - no election by constituency | |||
| 1988 | Aimé Césaire | PPM | ||
| 1993 | Camille Darsières | |||
| 1997 | ||||
| 2002 | Pierre-Jean Samot | Build the Martinique Country | election invalidated by the Constitutional Council, February 2003 | |
| 2003 | Philippe Edmond-Mariette | substitute for Samot | ||
| 2007 | Serge Letchimy | PPM | ||
| 2012 | ||||
| 2017 | ||||
Election results
2017
| Candidate | Label | First round | Second round | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | Votes | % | |||
| Serge Letchimy | PPM | 11,092 | 60.17 | 15,114 | 73.94 | |
| Françis Carole | REG | 3,057 | 16.58 | 5,326 | 26.06 | |
| Max Orville | MoDem | 985 | 5.34 | |||
| Miguel Laventure | DVD | 708 | 3.84 | |||
| Nathalie Jos | DVG | 483 | 2.62 | |||
| Thierry Renard | FI | 463 | 2.51 | |||
| Marie-France Toul | DVG | 344 | 1.87 | |||
| Kaylan Fagour | DIV | 308 | 1.67 | |||
| Ghislaine Joachim-Arnaud | EXG | 302 | 1.64 | |||
| Matthieu Gama | DIV | 222 | 1.20 | |||
| Marie-Jeanne Jeanville | FN | 173 | 0.94 | |||
| Alain Limery | REG | 169 | 0.92 | |||
| Cyril de Virginy | DIV | 68 | 0.37 | |||
| Marie-Gabrielle Marguerite | UDI | 60 | 0.33 | |||
| Votes | 18,434 | 100.00 | 20,440 | 100.00 | ||
| Valid votes | 18,434 | 96.10 | 20,440 | 94.17 | ||
| Blank votes | 446 | 2.33 | 729 | 3.36 | ||
| Null votes | 302 | 1.57 | 537 | 2.47 | ||
| Turnout | 19,182 | 29.33 | 21,706 | 33.19 | ||
| Abstentions | 46,214 | 70.67 | 43,693 | 66.81 | ||
| Registered voters | 65,396 | 65,399 | ||||
| Source: Ministry of the Interior | ||||||
2012
In the National Assembly election system, a candidate is elected in the first round if he or she obtains an absolute majority of the vote in his or her constituency and the votes of at least one quarter of all registered voters in the constituency. If many voters abstain, an absolute majority of the vote may thus not be enough, although this rarely happens. In the 2012 election, this constituency provided a surprising example of this. Incumbent MP Serge Letchimy of the Martinican Progressive Party received 63.29% of the vote, but narrowly failed to be immediately elected due to a very low turnout (30.67%).[1]
| Candidate | Party | First round | Second round | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | Votes | % | ||||||||
| Serge Letchimy | PPM | 11,713 | 63.29% | 15,188 | 70.24% | ||||||
| Francis Carole | DVG | 3,580 | 19.34% | 6,434 | 29.76% | ||||||
| Miguel Laventure | DVD | 1,373 | 7.42% | ||||||||
| Georges Virassamy | UMP | 824 | 4.45% | ||||||||
| Ghislaine Joachim-Arnaud | Combat ouvrier | 653 | 3.53% | ||||||||
| Lina Georget | FN | 211 | 1.14% | ||||||||
| Thierry Lésel | MoDem | 145 | 0.78% | ||||||||
| Richard Jean-Marie | DVG | 8 | 0.04% | ||||||||
| Marie-Jeanne Jeanville | DVG | 0.00% | |||||||||
| Valid votes | 18,507 | 94.57% | 21,622 | 93.24% | |||||||
| Spoilt and null votes | 1,062 | 5.43% | 1,568 | 6.76% | |||||||
| Votes cast / turnout | 19,569 | 29.73% | 23,190 | 35.07% | |||||||
| Abstentions | 46,245 | 70.27% | 42,927 | 64.93% | |||||||
| Registered voters | 65,814 | 100.00% | 66,117 | 100.00% | |||||||