Nord's 8th constituency
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 Nord's 8th Constituency shown within Nord-Pas-de-Calais | |||
| Deputy |
| ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Department | Nord | ||
| Canton | Roubaix-Centre, Roubaix-Est, Roubaix-Nord | ||
| Voters | 69,044 | ||
The 8th constituency of the Nord is a French legislative constituency in the Nord département.
Description
Nord's 8th constituency covers three of the four cantons of the city of Roubaix with only Roubaix Ouest within Nord's 7th constituency.
Despite electing a candidate from the centre right UDF as recently as 2002 the seat now appears to be safe for the left. The current representative Dominique Baert was expelled from the Socialist Party prior to the 2012 election and faced a Green Party (France) candidate backed by the Socialist Party. He was, however, comfortably re-elected with nearly 70% of the vote but on a very low turnout of only 41%.
Historic Representation
| Election | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1958 | André Diligent | MRP | |
| 1962 | Pierre Herman | UNR | |
| 1967 | Jean Delvainquière | SFIO | |
| 1968 | Pierre Herman | UDR | |
| 1973 | Léonce Clérambeaux | PS | |
| 1978 | Alain Faugaret | PS | |
| 1986 | Proportional representation - no election by constituency | ||
| 1988 | Gérard Vignoble | UDF | |
| 1997 | Dominique Baert | PS | |
| 2002 | Gérard Vignoble | UDF | |
| 2007 | Dominique Baert | PS | |
| 2012 | DVG | ||
Election results
2012
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Miscellaneous left | Dominique Baert | 18,110 | 69.58 | ||
| LV | Slimane Tir | 7,919 | 30.42 | ||
| Turnout | 28,066 | 40.65 | |||
| Miscellaneous left gain from PS | Swing | ||||
Sources
- Official results of French elections from 1998: "Résultats électoraux officiels en France" (in French).
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