Seine-Maritime's 8th constituency

The 8th constituency of the Seine-Maritime (French: Huitième circonscription de la Seine-Maritime) is a French legislative constituency in the Seine-Maritime 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.

8th constituency of Seine-Maritime

French National Assembly constituency
Seine-Maritime's 8th Constituency shown within Seine-Maritime.
Deputy	Jean-Paul Lecoq [1] PCF
Department	Seine-Maritime
Cantons	Gonfreville-l'Orcher, Le Havre II, Le Havre III, Le Havre IV, Le Havre VIII, Le Havre IX
Registered voters	67666 [2]

Description

The 8th Constituency of the Seine-Maritime covers Le Havre as well as Gonfreville-l'Orcher which was added as a result of the 2010 redistricting of French legislative constituencies.

The seat has historically been a stronghold of the French Communist Party, 2012 is the only recent election in which another party won, in this case the Socialist Party.

Assembly Members

Election		Member	Party
	1988	André Duroméa	PCF
	1993	Daniel Colliard	PCF
	1997	Daniel Paul	PCF
	2012	Catherine Troallic	PS
	2017	Jean-Paul Lecoq	PCF

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Election results

2017

Legislative Election 2017: Seine-Maritime's 8th constituency

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PCF	Jean-Paul Lecoq	7,011	25.83	-4.43
	LREM	Béatrice Delamotte	6,107	22.50	N/A
	FN	Damien Lenoir	3,931	14.48	-0.12
	LR	Sébastien Tasserie	2,658	13.48	-6.16
	FI	François Panchout	3,328	12.26	N/A
	PS	Catherine Troallic	1,652	6.09	-24.41
	EELV	Joséphine Landormi	775	2.86	+0.45
	Others	N/A	680
Turnout			27,798	41.08	-6.24
2nd round result
	PCF	Jean-Paul Lecoq	13,911	62.70	N/A
	LREM	Béatrice Delamotte	8,276	37.30	N/A
Turnout			23,790	35.16	+9.70
	PCF gain from PS		Swing

2012

Legislative Election 2012: Seine-Maritime's 8th constituency

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PS	Catherine Troallic	10,182	30.50	+12.65
	FG	Jean-Paul Lecoq*	10,099	30.26	+5.07
	UMP	Agnès Canayer	6,555	19.64	-14.70
	FN	Philippe Fouche-Saillenfest	4,875	14.60	+7.66
	EELV	Pierre Dieulafait	803	2.41	N/A
	Others	N/A	865
Turnout			33,379	47.32	-2.61
2nd round result
	PS	Catherine Troallic	17,959	100.00	N/A
Turnout			17,959	25.46	-24.45
	PS gain from PCF

* Withdrew before the 2nd round.

2007

Legislative Election 2007: Seine-Maritime's 8th constituency

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	UMP	Agathe Cahierre	8,683	34.34	+6.32
	PCF	Daniel Paul	6,369	25.19	-6.32
	PS	Najwa Confaits	4,512	17.85	N/A
	FN	Jean-François Touzé	1,755	6.94	-7.61
	MoDem	Florent Saint Martin	1,271	5.03	N/A
	DVG	Eric Donfu	612	2.42	-7.88
	Others	N/A	2,080
Turnout			26,115	49.93	-3.55
2nd round result
	PCF	Daniel Paul	14,423	57.43	-0.03
	UMP	Agathe Cahierre	10,689	42.57	+0.03
Turnout			26,101	49.91	-0.50
	PCF hold

2002

Legislative Election 2002: Seine-Maritime's 8th constituency

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PCF	Daniel Paul	8,708	31.51	+3.89
	UMP	Édouard Philippe	7,742	28.02	N/A
	FN	Nadine Le Monnier	4,021	14.55	-7.61
	DVG	Eric Donfu	2,847	10.30	N/A
	DIV	Philippe Fouche-Saillenfest	1,180	4.27	N/A
	LV	Jerome Deschamps	842	3.05	+0.25
	LCR	Pierre Jeanne	610	2.21	N/A
	Others	N/A	1,682
Turnout			28,139	53.48	-9.25
2nd round result
	PCF	Daniel Paul	14,763	57.46	-9.28
	UMP	Édouard Philippe	10,928	42.54	N/A
Turnout			26,521	50.41	-13.54
	PCF hold

1997

Legislative Election 1997: Seine-Maritime's 8th constituency

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PCF	Daniel Paul	9,140	27.62
	FN	Philippe Fouche-Saillenfest	7,333	22.16
	PS	Maryse Barec	6,743	20.37
	UDF	Agathe Cahierre	5,795	17.51
	GE	Edouard Delarue	1,065	3.22
	LV	Pierre Dieulafait	927	2.80
	Others	N/A	2,094
Turnout			34,424	62.73
2nd round result
	PCF	Daniel Paul	21,132	66.74
	FN	Philippe Fouche-Saillenfest	10,529	33.26
Turnout			35,083	63.95
	PCF hold

References

1. "577 Députés - Assemblée nationale". www2.assemblee-nationale.fr.
2. "Les résultats aux élections législatives de 2017 - Assemblée nationale". www2.assemblee-nationale.fr.