Finistère's 5th constituency

The 5th constituency of Finistère is a French legislative constituency in the Finistère département. Like the other 576 French constituencies, it elects one MP using the two-round system, with a run-off if no candidate receives over 50% of the vote in the first round.

5th constituency of Finistère

French National Assembly constituency
Constituency in department
Finistère in France
Deputy	Graziella Melchior REM
Department	Finistère
Cantons	Guipavas, Landerneau, Landivisiau, Lannilis, Lesneven, Plouescat

Historic representation

Election		Member	Party
	1988	Charles Miossec	RPR
	2002	Jacques Le Guen	UMP
	2007
	2012	Chantal Guittet	PS
	2017	Graziella Melchior	LREM

Election results

2017

Candidate		Label	First round		Second round
			Votes	%	Votes	%
	Graziella Melchior	REM	18,624	35.78	20,957	53.89
	Patrick Leclerc	DVD	11,207	21.53	17,930	46.11
	Chantal Guittet	PS	7,795	14.97
	Pascale Marchand	FI	5,382	10.34
	Renée Thomaïdis	FN	3,464	6.65
	Rosalie Salaün	ECO	1,777	3.41
	Marcel Berrou	REG	1,474	2.83
	Jean-Paul Barré	DLF	671	1.29
	Pierre-Yves Liziar	PCF	583	1.12
	Maxime Bernas	REG	357	0.69
	Odile Croguennoc	DVG	267	0.51
	Françoise Chauveau	EXG	253	0.49
	Dorian Floch	DIV	203	0.39
Votes			52,057	100.00	38,887	100.00
Valid votes			52,057	98.66	38,887	89.75
Blank votes			520	0.99	3,380	7.80
Null votes			186	0.35	1,063	2.45
Turnout			52,763	55.84	43,330	45.86
Abstentions			41,731	44.16	51,161	54.14
Registered voters			94,494		94,491
Source: Ministry of the Interior[1]

2012

2012 legislative election in Finistere's 5th constituency[2]

Candidate		Party	First round		Second round
			Votes	%	Votes	%
	Chantal Guittet	PS	23,069	41.97%	30,761	57.10%
	Jacques Le Guen	UMP	19,534	35.54%	23,107	42.90%
	Eric Dechamps	FN	3,766	6.85%
	Gaëlle Rolland-Chapelain	EELV	3,188	5.80%
	Isabelle Mazelin	FG	2,417	4.40%
	Alain Somme	MoDem	2,130	3.88%
	Michael Lo Verso	JB (BNAFET)	377	0.69%
	Françoise Chauveau	LO	289	0.53%
	Marie-Cécile Jacq	PP	191	0.35%
Valid votes			54,961	98.66%	53,868	97.55%
Spoilt and null votes			748	1.34%	1,353	2.45%
Votes cast / turnout			55,709	61.13%	55,221	60.60%
Abstentions			35,422	38.87%	35,904	39.40%
Registered voters			91,131	100.00%	91,125	100.00%

2007

Legislative Election 2007: Finistère's 5th constituency

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	UMP	Jacques Le Guen	28,002	49.08
	PS	Chantal Guittet	16,026	28.09
	MoDem	Emmanuel Morucci	5,026	8.81
	LV	Christophe Winckler	2,572	4.51
	EXG	Yannick Herve	2,164	3.79
	Others	N/A	3,266
Turnout			57,713	65.00
2nd round result
	UMP	Jacques Le Guen	29,760	54.80
	PS	Chantal Guittet	24,549	45.20
Turnout			55,364	62.35
	UMP hold

2002

Legislative Election 2002: Finistère's 5th constituency

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	UMP	Jacques Le Guen	29,415	51.99
	PS	Jean-Pierre Thomin	17,503	30.94
	LV	Gerard Borvon	2,878	5.09
	FN	Bernard Pacreau	2,589	4.58
	PCF	Isabelle Mazelin	1,222	2.16
	Others	N/A	2,969
Turnout			57,409	67.89
	UMP hold

1997

Legislative Election 1997: Finistère's 5th constituency

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	RPR	Charles Miossec	23,523	43.03
	PS	Jean-Pierre Thomin	16,530	30.24
	FN	Bernard Pacreau	4,375	8.00
	LV	Gérard Borvon	3,139	5.74
	PCF	Ronan Tanguy	2,534	4.64
	DVD	Marie-FRance Cosnard	1,751	3.20
	GE	Bernard Bruillot	1,637	2.99
	DIV	Annaig Louis	1,180	2.16
Turnout			57,148	71.55
2nd round result
	RPR	Charles Miossec	30,884	54.29
	PS	Jean-Pierre Thomin	25,998	45.71
Turnout			59,213	74.15
	RPR hold

References

1. "Résultats des élections législatives 2017" [Results of 2017 Legislative Election] (in French). Ministry of the Interior.
2. "Résultats des élections législatives 2012" [Results of 2012 Legislative Election] (in French). Ministry of the Interior.

Sources

• Official results of French elections from 1998: "Résultats électoraux officiels en France" (in French). Archived from the original on 2011-12-20.