Pas-de-Calais's 11th constituency

The 11th constituency of the Pas-de-Calais is a French legislative constituency in the Pas-de-Calais département.

11th constituency of the Pas-de-Calais
French National Assembly
constituency
Pas-de-Calais' 11th constituency shown within Nord-Pas-de-Calais
Deputy
 Marine Le Pen
RN
DepartmentPas-de-Calais
CantonsCarvin, Courrières, Hénin-Beaumont, Leforest, Montigny-en-Gohelle, Rouvroy
Registered voters89,833

Description

For the 2012 election, the constituency attracted nationwide and international attention, as, for the first time, two candidates from the recently held presidential election stood as candidates there: Marine Le Pen of the National Front and Jean-Luc Mélenchon of the Left Front. Since 2007, Le Pen had been an opposition member of the (Socialist-held) town council in Hénin-Beaumont, the largest town in the constituency, while Mélenchon had argued that the Pas-de-Calais is "the birthplace of the workers' movement in France and should not be abandoned to the far-right". Opinion polls a month before the election suggested Le Pen would finish first in the first round, during which the left was divided between several parties, but would be beaten by Kemel or Mélenchon in the second round, with the Left Front potentially taking the constituency from the locally embattled Socialists.[1][2][3][4] The Le Pen-Mélenchon duel attracted international media attention, including for what it revealed of attitudes and expectations in an area of northern France hit hard by deindustrialisation and unemployment. The Guardian noted that, in that regard, "Mélenchon blames what he sees as pernicious free-market capitalism and bankers; Le Pen points the finger at immigrants and Europe".[5][6][7][8][9][10][11]

Previous office-holders

The seat had traditionally been held by the left until 2017. In 1988, Socialist candidate Noël Josèphe had been the only candidate in the second round, which he won unopposed. In 1993, the seat went to the Communist Rémy Auchedé; Marcel Cabiddu — also unopposed in the second round — took it back for the Socialists in 1997. He was re-elected in 2002. Upon his death in 2004, the seat went to his suppléante Odette Duriez, who then won the 2007 election.[12]

ElectionMemberParty
1986 Proportional representation – no election by constituency
1988 Noël Josèphe PS
1993 Rémy Auchedé PCF
1997 Marcel Cabiddu PS
2002
2004 (Cabiddu's death) Odette Duriez PS
2007
2012 Philippe Kemel PS
2017 Marine Le Pen FN

Election results

2017

Incumbent Deputy Philippe Kemel of the Socialist Party was defeated in the first round. This left only Marine Le Pen, who finished second by less than half a percentage point in the 2012 election, and Anne Roquet of President Macron's recently created En Marche! party. Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who came in third in the first round of the 2012 elections, did not run, instead opting to run for a seat in Bouches-du-Rhône's 4th constituency. He was replaced by Jean-Pierre Carpentier of La France insoumise, a party founded by Mélenchon, and finished in fourth place.

Candidate Label First round Second round
Votes % Votes %
Marine Le Pen FN 19,997 46.02 22,769 58.60
Anne Roquet REM 7,141 16.43 16,084 41.40
Philippe Kemel PS 4,705 10.83
Jean-Pierre Carpentier FI 4,334 9.97
Hervé Poly PCF 2,172 5.00
Alexandrine Pintus LR 1,818 4.18
Marine Tondelier ECO 1,542 3.55
Flore Lataste EXG 475 1.09
Rachid Ferahtia ECO 456 1.05
Betty Leclercq DLF 346 0.80
Aude Lesage DIV 215 0.49
Vincent Caflers EXD 166 0.38
Jacques Nikonoff DVG 85 0.20
Votes 43,452 100.00 38,853 100.00
Valid votes 43,452 98.09 38,853 93.72
Blank votes 510 1.15 1,594 3.85
Null votes 337 0.76 1,009 2.43
Turnout 44,299 46.67 41,456 43.67
Abstentions 50,618 53.33 53,468 56.33
Registered voters 94,917 94,924
Source: Ministry of the Interior

2012

The Union for a Popular Movement did not present a candidate of its own, and instead endorsed as candidate a member of the Democratic Movement, Jean Urbaniak.[13] Urbaniak is officially standing as an independent candidate of the centre-right.[14]

A debate was organised between the five "main" candidates (alphabetically: Kemel, Le Pen, Mélenchon, Tondelier and Urbaniak) on the regional edition of the France 3 television channel.[14][15]

2012 legislative election in Pas-de-Calais' 11th constituency
Candidate Party First round Second round
Votes % Votes %
Marine Le Pen FN 22,460 42.26% 26,696 49.89%
Philippe Kemel PS 12,609 23.72% 26,814 50.11%
Jean-Luc Mélenchon FG 11,406 21.46%
Jean Urbaniak MoDem 4,179 7.86%
Marine Tondelier EELV 849 1.60%
Michel Vast DLR 488 0.92%
Murielle Richet LT 331 0.62%
Nathalie Hubert LO 330 0.62%
Séverine Duval NPA 177 0.33%
Michèle Dessenne M'PEP–PRCF 94 0.18%
Mohamed Bousnane AEI 85 0.16%
Rachida Sahraoui PR 80 0.15%
Pierre Rose COC62 (POC) 61 0.11%
Daniel Cucchiaro Ecologist 0.00%
Valid votes 53,149 98.20% 53,510 96.10%
Spoilt and null votes 975 1.80% 2,173 3.90%
Votes cast / turnout 54,124 57.50% 55,683 59.15%
Abstentions 40,011 42.50% 38,452 40.85%
Registered voters 94,135 100.00% 94,135 100.00%

2007
Legislative election 2007: Pas-de-Calais 11th – 2nd round
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
PS Odette Duriez 32,595 61.66 −7.37
UMP Myriam Wonterghem 20,265 38.34 n/a
Turnout 55,319 57.24 −3.96
PS hold Swing −7.37
Legislative election 2007: Pas-de-Calais 11th – 1st round
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
PS Odette Duriez 18,476 33.62 30.16 +3.46
UMP Myriam Wonterghem 14,368 26.14 +12.68
FN Éric Iorio 5,201 9.46 −12.01
PCF Jean Clarisse 4,805 8.74 n/a
UDF Jean-Philippe Boonaert 3,385 6.16 −2.85
LCR Séverine Duval 1,972 3.59 +2.05
LV Jacques Switalski 1,518 2.76 +0.14
MPF Martine Lefebure Thevenet 1,295 2.36 +1.24
CPNT Rosemonde Lefrancq 1,022 1.86 +0.09
LO Régis Scheenaerts 1,010 1.84 −0.42
DVE Murielle Richet 1,004 1.83
DVD Philippe Morin 906 1.65 n/a
Turnout 56,629 58.59 −2.61

2002

Two candidates stood under the Communist label, including former MP Rémy Auchedé (now a dissident), but neither was endorsed by the Communist Party.[12]

Legislative election 2002: Pas-de-Calais 11th – 2nd round
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
PS Marcel Cabiddu 32,078 69.03
FN Éric Iorio 14,390 30.97
Turnout 51,673 56.25
PS hold Swing
Legislative election 2002: Pas-de-Calais 11th – 1st round
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
PS Marcel Cabiddu 16,404 30.16
FN Éric Iorio 10,047 18.47
UMP Myriam Wonterghem Billiaux 7,322 13.46
Communist Rémy Auchedé 6,303 11.59
UDF Annie Delannoy Jumez 4,899 9.01
Communist Muriel Dutrieu 1,750 3.22
LV Jacques Switalski 1,423 2.62
LO Régis Scheenaerts 1,229 2.26
CPNT Chantal Créton 960 1.77
Other Cathy Burgeat 902 1.66
LCR Séverine Duval 835 1.54
MNR Marcel Part 644 1.18
MPF Bernadette Dury 611 1.12
DVD David Masson 573 1.05
DVE Catherine Lebrun 304 0.56
DVE Éliane Stegner 182 0.33
Turnout 56,223 61.20

1997
Legislative Election 1997: Pas-de-Calais's 11th constituency
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
PS Marcel Cabiddu 17,304 28.17
PCF Rémy Auchedé* 17,028 27.72
FN Eric Iorio 10,112 16.46
UDF Dominique Josien 9,585 15.60
LV Joseph Pasquier 3,499 5.70
LO Frédéric Scheers 2,317 3.77
DVD René Beaugrand 1,591 2.59
Turnout 64,755 74.17
2nd round result
PS Marcel Cabiddu 34,412 100.00
Turnout 50,746 58.12
PS gain from PCF

* Withdrew before the 2nd round

Sources

References
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  2. "M. Mélenchon "nationalise" Hénin-Beaumont", Le Monde, 19 May 2012.
  3. "A Hénin-Beaumont, le parti de Marine Le Pen joue la carte du "FN de proximité"", Le Monde, 19 May 2012.
  4. "Législatives: Mélenchon battrait Le Pen, selon un sondage", Libération, 20 May 2012.
  5. "France election: Le Pen and Melenchon duel for northern town", BBC News, 8 June 2012.
  6. "Marine Le Pen and Jean-Luc Mélenchon face off again for French votes", The Telegraph, 3 June 2012.
  7. "France's champion of the left sends a challenge to Marine Le Pen", The Guardian, 26 May 2012.
  8. "Marine Le Pen challenged on home turf", Die Welt, 12 May 2012.
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  10. "Wahlkampf in Frankreichs Norden: Duell der Populisten", Der Spiegel, 5 June 2012.
  11. "Wahlkampf bei den Ch'tis", Die Tagezeitung, 6 June 2012.
  12. "Un bastion de la gauche sur des sables mouvants" Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine, La Voix du Nord.
  13. "Sondage : Mélenchon battrait Le Pen à Hénin-Beaumont", Le Monde, 20 May 2012.
  14. "Débat législatives Hénin-Carvin 11ème circonscription Pas-de-Calais", France 3, 2 June 2012.
  15. "Législatives : âpre débat entre Mélenchon et Le Pen", Le Monde, 2 June 2012.
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