Hauts-de-Seine's 11th constituency

11th constituency of Hauts-de-Seine

French National Assembly
constituency

Deputy
 Julie Sommaruga
PS
Department Hauts-de-Seine
Canton Bagneux, Malakoff, Montrouge
Voters 67,356

The 11th constituency of the Hauts-de-Seine is a French legislative constituency in the Hauts-de-Seine département.

Description

Hauts-de-Seine's 11th constituency sits the south of the department bordered to the north by Paris and to the east by Val-de-Marne.

The seat has always elected left meaning deputies generally from the French Communist Party with the exceptions of the 1988 and 2012 elections. In the first round of the 2012 election Julie Sommaruga of the PS narrowly beat the incumbent communist deputy Marie-Hélène Amiable forcing her withdrawal from the second round in line with the national agreement between the two parties.

Historic Representative

ElectionMemberParty
1967 Guy Ducoloné PCF
1986 Proportional representation – no election by constituency
1988 Philippe Bassinet PS
1993 Janine Jambu PCF
2007 Marie-Hélène Amiable PCF
2012 Julie Sommaruga PS

Election results

2012

Legislative Election 2012: Hauts-de-Seine 9th - 2nd round
Party Candidate Votes % ±
PS Julie Sommaruga 23,242 64.22
NC Jean-Loup Metton 12,950 35.78
Turnout 37,480 55.64
PS gain from PCF Swing

Sources

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