Charente-Maritime's 4th constituency explained

4th constituency of
Charente-Maritime
Map:Charente-Maritime-Position.svg
Member-Type:Incumbent deputy
Member:Pascal Markowsky
Member-Party:RN
Department:Charente-Maritime
Canton:Archiac, Cozes, Gémozac, Jonzac, Mirambeau, Montendre, Montguyon, Montlieu-la-Garde, Pons, Royan-Est, Saint-Genis-de-Saintonge, and the communes of Colombiers and La Jard in Saintes-Est
Voters:89,894 (2017)

The 4th constituency of Charente-Maritime (French: Quatrième 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.

Description

The constituency is made up of 11 whole (pre-2015) cantons – those of Archiac, Cozes, Gémozac, Jonzac, Mirambeau, Montendre, Montguyon, Montlieu-la-Garde, Pons, Royan-Est, and Saint-Genis-de-Saintonge – plus two communes (Colombiers and La Jard) belonging to a twelfth: that of Saintes-Est.

At the time of the 1999 census (which was the basis for the most recent redrawing of constituency boundaries, carried out in 2010) the 4th constituency had a total population of 101,987.

Deputies

ElectionMemberParty
1958André BégouinCNIP
1962Daniel DaviaudPRV
1967
1968Louis JoanneUDR
1973Louis JoanneRI
1978Philippe MarchandPS
1981
1986Proportional representation – no election by constituency
1988Philippe MarchandPS
1993Dominique BussereauUDF
1997
2002UMP
2007
2012
2017Raphaël GérardLREM
2022RE
2024Pascal MarkowskyRN

Election results

2024

CandidatePartyAllianceFirst roundSecond round
Votes%+/–Votes%+/–
Pascal MarkowskyRN45.21+19.4450.74
Raphaël GérardREENS27.95+0.3649.26
Danièle DessellesLFINFP17.40-2.33
Céline DrouillardLR8.33-6.45
Olivier TripelonLO1.12-0.47
Valid votes96.96-0.2494.59
Blank votes2.11+0.223.95
Null votes0.94+0.021.46
Turnout68.80+18.4769.10
Abstentions31.20-18.4730.90
Registered voters
Source: Minstry of the Interior,[1] Le Monde[2] [3]
ResultRN GAIN FROM RE

2022

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2017

CandidateLabelFirst roundSecond round
Votes%Votes%
Raphaël GérardREM33.8551.29
Loic GirardLR22.2048.71
Isabelle TexierFN16.99
Lucie KirchnerFI11.97
Fabienne Dugas-RaveneauPS5.70
Laurence MarcillaudECO2.68
Benoît BiteauPRG1.85
Éric DeviseDLF1.76
Pascal PellerinPCF1.28
Valerie BarraudEXG0.85
Ingrid ChrismannDIV0.67
Philippe DavrilDVG0.20
Votes100.00100.00
Valid votes97.5188.70
Blank votes1.717.48
Null votes0.783.83
Turnout50.7444.18
Abstentions49.2655.82
Registered voters
Source: Ministry of the Interior

2012

|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;"! colspan="2" rowspan="2" style="text-align:left;" | Candidate! rowspan="2" colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" | Party! colspan="2" | 1st round! colspan="2" | 2nd round|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;"! width="75" | Votes! width="30" | %! width="75" | Votes! width="30" | %|-| style="color:inherit;background-color:" || style="text-align:left;" | Dominique Bussereau| style="text-align:left;" | Union for a Popular Movement| UMP| | 40.01%| | 52.15%|-| style="color:inherit;background-color:" || style="text-align:left;" | Fabienne Dugas-Raveneau| style="text-align:left;" | Socialist Party| PS| | 35.41%| | 47.85%|-| style="color:inherit;background-color:" || style="text-align:left;" | Tony Lambert| style="text-align:left;" | Front National| FN| | 13.57%| colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" ||-| style="color:inherit;background-color:" || style="text-align:left;" | Jean-Yves Boiffier| style="text-align:left;" | Left Front| FG| | 4.23%| colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" ||-| style="color:inherit;background-color:" || style="text-align:left;" | Jean-Luc Guerbois| style="text-align:left;" | Europe Ecology – The Greens| EELV| | 2.43%| colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" ||-| style="color:inherit;background-color:" || style="text-align:left;" | Valérie Verduzier| style="text-align:left;" | Centrist| CEN| | 1.55%| colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" ||-| style="color:inherit;background-color:" || style="text-align:left;" | Laure Serra| style="text-align:left;" | Miscellaneous Right| DVD| | 1.02%| colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" ||-| style="color:inherit;background-color:" || style="text-align:left;" | Martine Gantner| style="text-align:left;" | Miscellaneous Right| DVD| | 0.74%| colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" ||-| style="color:inherit;background-color:" || style="text-align:left;" | Valérie Baraud| style="text-align:left;" | Far Left| EXG| | 0.68%| colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" ||-| style="color:inherit;background-color:" || style="text-align:left;" | Stéphane Hays| style="text-align:left;" | Other| AUT| | 0.36%| colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" ||-| colspan="8" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"||- style="font-weight:bold"| colspan="4" style="text-align:left;" | Total| | 100%| | 100%|-| colspan="8" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"||-| colspan="4" style="text-align:left;" | Registered voters| | style="color:inherit;background-color:#E9E9E9;"|| | style="color:inherit;background-color:#E9E9E9;"||-| colspan="4" style="text-align:left;" | Blank/Void ballots| | 1.00%| | 1.84%|-| colspan="4" style="text-align:left;" | Turnout| | 59.38%| | 60.33%|-| colspan="4" style="text-align:left;" | Abstentions| | 40.62%| | 39.67%|-| colspan="8" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"||- style="font-weight:bold"| colspan="6" style="text-align:left;" | Result| colspan="2" style="background-color:" | UMP HOLD|}

2002

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1997

Sources

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Publication des candidatures et des résultats aux élections - Législatives 2024 . 23 June 2024 . Ministry of Interior.
  2. Web site: Découvrez la liste des candidats aux élections législatives 2024 dans votre circonscription . 19 June 2024 . 22 June 2023 . Le Monde.
  3. Web site: Map of the results of the first round of the legislative elections 2024 . 30 June 2024 . 30 June 2024 . Le Monde.
  4. Web site: Résultats des élections législatives 2022 en Charente-Maritime . 2022-08-26 . Le Monde.fr . fr-FR.