| French National Assembly circonscription |
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|---|---|---|
| Deputy | Gaël Yanno The Rally-UMP |
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| Department | New Caledonia | |
| Canton | Loyalty Islands, communes of Nouméa and Île des Pins in South Province | |
| Population (2004) | 115,306 | |
The 1st constituency of New Caledonia is a French legislative constituency in New Caledonia.
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.
Contents |
| Election | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1958 | Maurice Lenormand | UC | |
| 1967 | Rock Pidjot | UC | |
| 1986 | Proportional representation - no election by constituency | ||
| 1988 | Jacques Lafleur | RPR | |
| 2002 | UMP | ||
| 2007 | Gaël Yanno | UMP | |
| 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 | ||||