Nord's 12th constituency

The 12th constituency of the Nord is a French legislative constituency in the Nord département.

12th constituency of the Nord

French National Assembly constituency
Nord's 12th Constituency shown within Nord-Pas-de-Calais
Deputy	Anne-Laure Cattelot REM
Department	Nord
Cantons	Avesnes-sur-Helpe-Sud, Berlaimont, Carnières, Hautmont, Landrecies, Le Quesnoy-Est, Le Quesnoy-Ouest, Solesmes
Registered voters	93,678

Description

Following the 2010 redistricting of French legislative constituencies Nord's 12th Constituency was effectively created as a new seat covering the areas once occupied by the 22nd and 24th constituencies in the east of the department.

Christian Bataille of the Socialist Party won the seat comfortably in the second round beating the National Front candidate by 7,000 votes.

Historic Representation

Election		Member	Party
	2012	Christian Bataille	PS
	2017	Anne-Laure Cattelot	REM

Election results

2017

Candidate		Label	First round		Second round
			Votes	%	Votes	%
	Gérard Philippe	FN	9,921	24.03	16,230	45.94
	Anne-Laure Cattelot	REM	9,710	23.51	19,095	54.06
	Laurent Courtois	FI	5,230	12.67
	Marjorie Gosselet	LR	4,799	11.62
	Joël Wilmotte	DVD	3,365	8.15
	Christian Bataille	DVG	3,325	8.05
	Jean Durieux	PCF	2,216	5.37
	Élisabeth Saint-Guily	ECO	1,119	2.71
	Laurent Coulon	DVG	783	1.90
	Jean-Charles Cournut	EXG	313	0.76
	Nadine Fournard	EXD	266	0.64
	Jonathan Pottiez	DIV	247	0.60
Votes			41,294	100.00	35,325	100.00
Valid votes			41,294	97.66	35,325	90.98
Blank votes			672	1.59	2,451	6.31
Null votes			316	0.75	1,052	2.71
Turnout			42,282	45.17	38,828	41.49
Abstentions			51,328	54.83	54,752	58.51
Registered voters			93,610		93,580
Source: Ministry of the Interior

2012

Legislative Election 2012: Nord's 12th constituency

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PS	Christian Bataille	17,270	33.33
	FN	Anne-Sophie Leveque	9,298	17.95
	FG	Bernard Baudoux	7,953	15.35
	DVD	Joel Wilmotte	7,953	15.35
	NC	Etienne Cauchy	6,898	13.31
	Others	N/A	2,336
Turnout			51,808	55.30
2nd round result
	PS	Christian Bataille	27,129	57.47
	FN	Anne-Sophie Leveque	20,080	42.53
Turnout			47,209	50.39
	PS gain from DVG

2007

Legislative Election 2007: Nord's 12th constituency

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DVG	Christian Hutin	13,884	37.08
	UMP	Jacqueline Gabant	8,677	23.17
	DVG	Léon Panier	3,681	9.83
	FN	Yannick Le Floc'h	2,879	7.69
	PCF	Gilles Willeman	1,355	3.62
	MoDem	Pilar Surgers	1,279	3.42
	EXG	Sylvain Madacsi	1,230	3.29
	CPNT	Patrick Lebrun	1,008	2.69
	LV	Martine Beuraert	850	2.27
	EXG	Laure Bourel	833	2.22
	Others	N/A	1,766
Turnout			38,982	55.41
2nd round result
	DVG	Christian Hutin	23,448	63.95
	UMP	Jacqueline Gabant	13,219	36.05
Turnout			38,556	54.81
	DVG gain from PS

2002

Legislative Election 2002: Nord's 12th constituency

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PS	Jean Le Garrec	12,162	30.45
	FN	Marion Auffray	7,146	17.89
	PR	Christian Hutin	6,841	17.13
	UMP	Hélène Surgers	4,538	11.36
	MNR	Patrick Lorant	1,776	4.45
	CPNT	Michel Szalkiewicz	1,453	3.64
	LO	Laure Bourel	1,071	2.68
	DVD	Marie-Paule Larcy-Debril	1,071	2.68
	PCF	Danielle Veignie	988	2.47
	LV	Nicole Grassien	954	2.39
	Others	N/A	1,940
Turnout			41,085	58.92
2nd round result
	PS	Jean Le Garrec	22,426	64.19
	FN	Marion Auffray	12,511	35.81
Turnout			37,984	54.48
	PS hold

1997

Legislative Election 1997: Nord's 12th constituency

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PS	Jean Le Garrec	10,782	23.75
	FN	Patrick Lorant	10,342	22.78
	DVD	Christian Hutin	8,192	18.05
	DVG	Régis Fauchoit	6,047	13.32
	PCF	Didier Liennart	3,739	8.24
	LO	Dominique Wailly	2,396	5.28
	DVD	Daniel Dusart	967	2.13
	Others	N/A	2,927
Turnout			47,966	71.24
2nd round result
	PS	Jean Le Garrec	28,158	64.25
	FN	Patrick Lorant	15,665	35.75
Turnout			48,582	72.15
	PS hold

Sources

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