Jura's 3rd constituency

3rd constituency of Jura

French National Assembly
constituency

Jura's 3rd Constituency shown within Franche-Comté.

Deputy

Jean-Marie Sermier
UMP

Department

Jura

Canton

Arbois, Chaussin, Chemin, Dampierre, Dole-Nord-Est, Dole-Sud-Ouest, Gendrey, Montbarrey, Montmirey-le-Château, Rochefort-sur-Nenon, Salins-les-Bains, Villers-Farlay.

Voters

68,319

The 3rd constituency of Jura is a French legislative constituency in the Jura département.

Description

The 3rd constituency of Jura covers the north of the department and includes its largest town Dole.

Whilst now held comfortably by the UMP the seat has historically swung between left and right. Between 1997 and 2002 the seat was held by Dominique Voynet the Green candidate in the 2007 French presidential election.

Historic Representation

Election		Member	Party
1986		Proportional representation – no election by constituency
	1988	Jean-Pierre Santa-Cruz	PS
	1993	Gilbert Barbier	UDF
	1997	Dominique Voynet	Les Verts
	2002	Jean-Marie Sermier	UMP

Election results

2012

Legislative Election 2012: Jura's' 1st Constituency 2nd round
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	UMP	Jean-Marie Sermier	22,303	53.17
	PS	Sylvie Laroche	19,641	46.83
Turnout			43,367	63.48
	UMP hold		Swing

Sources

Official results of French elections from 2002: "Résultats électoraux officiels en France" (in French).

Constituencies in Franche-Comté (12)

Doubs (5)	Doub's 1st Doub's 2nd Doubs' 3rd Doubs' 4th Doubs' 5th

Haute-Saône (2)	Haute-Saône's 1st Haute-Saône's 2nd

Jura (3)	Jura's 1st Jura's 2nd Jura's 3rd

Territoire-de-Belfort (2)	Territoire-de-Belfort's 1st Territoire-de-Belfort's 2nd

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