Bas-Rhin's 1st constituency

1st constituency of the Bas-Rhin

French National Assembly
constituency

Bas-Rhin's 1st Constituency shown within Alsace.

Deputy

Armand Jung
PS

Department

Bas-Rhin

Canton

Strasbourg I, Strasbourg II, Strasbourg IV, Strasbourg IX

Voters

63,979

The 1st constituency of the Bas-Rhin is a French legislative constituency in the Bas-Rhin département.

Description

The constituency includes the centre and immediate northern and southern cantons of Strasbourg. All the cantons are held by parties of the left; three for the PS and one for The Greens. It is therefore no surprise that the seat has returned a PS member to the National Assembly since 1997.

Historic Representation

Election		Member	Party
	1958	René Radius	UNR
	1978	Émile Koehl	UDF
1986		Proportional representation - no election by constituency
	1988	Émile Koehl	UDF
	1993	Harry Lapp	UDF
	1997	Armand Jung	PS

Election Results

2012

Legislative Election 2012: Bas-Rhin's 1st Constituency 2nd round
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PS	Armand Jung	18,926	61.61	+5.34
	UMP	Anne Hulne	11,792	38.39	-5.34
Turnout			31,439	49.14	-5.85
	PS hold		Swing

2007

Legislative Election 2007: Bas-Rhin's 1st Constituency 2nd round
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PS	Armand Jung	15,994	56.27
	UMP	Frédérique Loutrel	12,428	43.73
Turnout			28,964	54.99
	PS hold		Swing

Sources

Official results of French elections from 2002: "Résultats électoraux officiels en France" (in French).

Constituencies Alsace (15)

Bas-Rhin (9)	Bas-Rhin's 1st Bas-Rhin's 2nd Bas-Rhin's 3rd Bas-Rhin's 4th Bas-Rhin's 5th Bas-Rhin's 6th Bas-Rhin's 7th Bas-Rhin's 8th Bas-Rhin's 9th

Haut-Rhin (6)	Haut-Rhin's 1st Haut-Rhin's 2nd Haut-Rhin's 3rd Haut-Rhin's 4th Haut-Rhin's 5th Haut-Rhin's 6th

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