Finistère's 6th constituency

The 6th 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.

6th constituency of Finistère

French National Assembly constituency
Constituency in department
Finistère in France
Deputy	Richard Ferrand REM
Department	Finistère
Cantons	Carhaix-Plouguer, Châteaulin, Châteauneuf-du-Faou, Crozon, Daoulas, Le Faou, Huelgoat, Ouessant, Pleyben

Historic representation

Election		Member	Party
	1988	Jean-Yves Cozan	UDF
	1997	Kofi Yamgnane	PS
	2002	Christian Ménard	UMP
	2007
	2012	Richard Ferrand	PS
	2017		LREM

Election results

2017

Candidate		Label	First round		Second round
			Votes	%	Votes	%
	Richard Ferrand	REM	17,230	33.93	20,991	56.53
	Gaëlle Nicolas	LR	9,193	18.10	16,140	43.47
	Christian Troadec	REG	7,047	13.88
	Jean-Michel Lucas	FI	5,855	11.53
	Nathanaël Legeard	ECO	4,360	8.59
	Patrick Le Fur	FN	3,523	6.94
	Lionel Chabrol	DIV	773	1.52
	Maxime Paul	PCF	711	1.40
	Sophie Rossigneux	DLF	584	1.15
	Bernard Fehringer	DIV	405	0.80
	Robert Béra	DVG	307	0.60
	Élisabeth Piro	EXG	292	0.58
	Catherine Carpentier	DIV	264	0.52
	Jean Queinnec	EXD	233	0.46
Votes			50,777	100.00	37,131	100.00
Valid votes			50,777	97.83	37,131	86.22
Blank votes			770	1.48	4,327	10.05
Null votes			355	0.68	1,607	3.73
Turnout			51,902	58.14	43,065	48.24
Abstentions			37,372	41.86	46,204	51.76
Registered voters			89,274		89,269
Source: Ministry of the Interior

2012

2012 legislative election in Finistere's 6th constituency

Candidate		Party	First round		Second round
			Votes	%	Votes	%
	Richard Ferrand	PS	18,300	32.29%	31,965	58.36%
	Dominique Cap	UMP	15,733	27.76%	22,807	41.64%
	Christian Troadec	PS dissident–MBP	11,286	19.92%
	Marie-Anne Haas	FN	4,312	7.61%
	Noëlle Péoc'h	FG	2,999	5.29%
	Jocelyne Leclerc	EELV	2,118	3.74%
	Marie Laurent	PCD	636	1.12%
	André Ménesguen	NPA	556	0.98%
	Sophie Rossigneux	DLR	540	0.95%
	Élisabeth Piro	LO	188	0.33%
Valid votes			56,668	98.79%	54,772	96.79%
Spoilt and null votes			695	1.21%	1,814	3.21%
Votes cast / turnout			57,363	64.17%	56,586	63.33%
Abstentions			32,033	35.83%	32,769	36.67%
Registered voters			89,396	100.00%	89,355	100.00%

2007

Legislative Election 2007: Finistère's 6th constituency

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	UMP	Christian Ménard	24,659	41.39
	PS	Richard Ferrand	15,050	25.26
	DVG	Christian Troadec	7,393	12.41
	MoDem	Catherine Le Moan	5,224	8.77
	EXG	Matthieu Guillemot	2,208	3.71
	DVE	Danielle Lemoine	1,216	2.04
	Others	N/A	3,834
Turnout			60,434	68.13
2nd round result
	UMP	Christian Ménard	29,903	50.19
	PS	Richard Ferrand	29,673	49.81
Turnout			61,127	68.92
	UMP hold

2002

Legislative Election 2002: Finistère's 6th constituency

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PS	Kofi Yamgnane	18,668	31.16
	UMP	Christian Ménard	14,662	24.48
	DVG	Christian Troadec	6,759	11.28
	DVD	Jean-Yves Cozan	6,167	10.29
	DVD	Dominique Cap	5,673	9.47
	FN	Marie-Anne Haas	2,685	4.48
	LV	Serge Borvon	1,411	2.36
	PCF	Claudine Laporte	1,251	2.09
	Others	N/A	2,629
Turnout			60,686	70.87
2nd round result
	UMP	Christian Ménard	30,031	50.14
	PS	Kofi Yamgnane	29,865	49.86
Turnout			61,428	71.75
	UMP gain from PS

1997

Legislative Election 1997: Finistère's 6th constituency

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PS	Kofi Yamgnane	21,115	36.66
	UDF	Jean-Yves Cozan	20,255	35.10
	PCF	Daniel Créoff	5,594	9.69
	FN	Eric Calmejane	4,842	8.39
	GE	Robert Beby	2,484	4.30
	Regionalist	Christian Pierre	1,848	3.20
	DVD	Georges Nieto	1,526	2.64
Turnout			60,117	72.32
2nd round result
	PS	Kofi Yamgnane	33,649	53.75
	UDF	Jean-Yves Cozan	28,957	46.25
Turnout			65,677	79.03
	PS gain from UDF

Sources

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