The 1st constituency of Paris (French: première circonscription de Paris) is a French legislative constituency in the Paris département. Like the other 576 French constituencies, it elects one MP using the two-round system.
Although Martine Billard kept her seat, she switched her party loyalty to the Left Party, previously a member of the Greens.
2007 legislative election: Paris' 1st constituency[1] | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
UMP | Jean-François Legaret | 15,567 | 39.7% | +2.2% | |
Left Party | Martine Billard | 14,554 | 37.1% | +4.1% | |
MoDem | Mario Stasi | 5,286 | 13.5% | +6.2% | |
National Front | Patricia Delcher | 830 | 2.1% | -2.7% | |
Communist Party | Michèle Zalcman | 801 | 2.0% | -0.2% | |
Independent | Diane Adam | 680 | 1.7% | +1.7% | |
Independent | François di Giulio | 306 | 0.8% | +0.8% | |
Miscellaneous right | Aurélien Veron | 254 | 0.7% | +0.7% | |
Miscellaneous right | Bruno North | 216 | 0.6% | +0.6% | |
Miscellaneous left | Sophie Menard | 140 | 0.4% | +0.4% | |
Independent | Danièle Hanryon | 130 | 0.3% | +0.3% | |
Independent | Janine Biselx | 101 | 0.3% | +0.3% | |
Independent | Michel Thooris | 100 | 0.3% | +0.3% | |
Independent | Hélène Rubenstein-Carrera | 94 | 0.2% | +0.2% | |
Independent | Véronique de Pons | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% | |
Turnout | 39,560 | 62.7% | |||
Two-candidate preferred result | |||||
Left Party | Martine Billard | 20,125 | 54.3% | +3.4% | |
UMP | Jean-François Legaret | 16,969 | 45.7% | -3.4% | |
Turnout | 37,817 | 60.0% | |||
Left Party gain from The Greens | Swing |