New Caledonia's 1st constituency

The 1st constituency of New Caledonia is a French legislative constituency in New Caledonia.

1st constituency of New Caledonia

French National Assembly constituency
Deputy	Phillipe Dunoyer DVD
Department	New Caledonia
Cantons	Loyalty Islands, communes of Nouméa and Île des Pins
Registered voters	116,984

Between 1958 and 1962, the constituency represented the entirety of the New Hebrides condominium and the constituency represented the entirety of New Caledonia until a redistricting in 1978 created the 2nd constituency. Between 1978 and a new redistricting in 1986, the first constituency represented the Kanak-populated eastern shore of the main island in addition to the Loyalty Islands. Since 1986, the constituency is composed of the Caldoche-populated loyalist stronghold of Nouméa and the strongly nationalist Kanak-populated Loyalty Islands. Due to this makeup in which loyalist-voting Nouméa far outnumbers the sparsely populated islands, the constituency is strongly loyalist.

Deputies

Election		Member	Party
	1988	Jacques Lafleur	RPCR
	1993
	1997
	2002
	2007	Gaël Yanno	RPCR
	2012	Sonia Lagarde	UDI Caledonia Together
	2017	Phillipe Dunoyer	DVD

Election results

2017

Candidate		Label	First round		Second round
			Votes	%	Votes	%
	Philippe Dunoyer	DVD	7,780	27.88	17,744	59.15
	Sonia Backès	DVD	4,821	17.27	12,256	40.85
	Gaël Yanno	DVD	4,425	15.86
	Bernard Deladrière	LR	3,921	14.05
	Charles Washetine	REG	2,820	10.10
	Lina Balmelli	FN	1,884	6.75
	Louis Manta	FI	659	2.36
	Germaine Nemia-Bishop	REG	389	1.39
	Alain Descombels	DVD	367	1.32
	Philippe Gras	DVD	342	1.23
	Macate Wenehoua	REG	297	1.06
	Michel Hanocque	DIV	203	0.73
Votes			27,908	100.00	30,000	100.00
Valid votes			27,908	96.58	30,000	92.70
Blank votes			753	2.61	1,703	5.26
Null votes			234	0.81	660	2.04
Turnout			28,895	33.94	32,363	38.01
Abstentions			56,253	66.06	52,783	61.99
Registered voters			85,148		85,146
Source: Ministry of the Interior

2012

2012 legislative election in New Caledonia's 1st constituency

Candidate		Party	First round		Second round
			Votes	%	Votes	%
	Gaël Yanno	UMP	10,880	30.96%	14,811	46.07%
	Sonia Lagarde	DVD	9,405	26.76%	17,340	53.93%
	Robert-Wienie Xowie		5,905	16.80%
	Isabelle Lafleur	DVD	3,697	10.52%
	Pierre Aube	FN	1,743	4.96%
	Stéphane Henocque	??	1,616	4.60%
	Michel Jorda	PS	1,272	3.62%
	Richard Sio	FG	627	1.78%
Valid votes			35,145	98.27%	32,151	91.67%
Spoilt and null votes			620	1.73%	2,922	8.33%
Votes cast / turnout			35,765	46.78%	35,073	45.90%
Abstentions			40,688	53.22%	41,333	54.10%
Registered voters			76,453	100.00%	76,406	100.00%

2007

Legislative Election 2007: New Caledonia 1st - 2nd round

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	UMP	Gaël Yanno	26,732	69.21
	FLNKS	Charles Washetine	11,891	30.79
Turnout			38,623	57.73
	UMP hold		Swing

Sources

• Official results of French elections from 1998: "Résultats électoraux officiels en France" (in French).