Nord's 8th constituency

8th constituency of the Nord

French National Assembly
constituency

Nord's 8th Constituency shown within Nord-Pas-de-Calais
Deputy
 Dominique Baert
DVG
Department Nord
Canton Roubaix-Centre, Roubaix-Est, Roubaix-Nord
Voters 69,044

The 8th constituency of the Nord is a French legislative constituency in the Nord département.

Description

Nord's 8th constituency covers three of the four cantons of the city of Roubaix with only Roubaix Ouest within Nord's 7th constituency.

Despite electing a candidate from the centre right UDF as recently as 2002 the seat now appears to be safe for the left. The current representative Dominique Baert was expelled from the Socialist Party prior to the 2012 election and faced a Green Party (France) candidate backed by the Socialist Party. He was, however, comfortably re-elected with nearly 70% of the vote but on a very low turnout of only 41%.

Historic Representation

ElectionMemberParty
1958 André Diligent MRP
1962 Pierre Herman UNR
1967 Jean Delvainquière SFIO
1968 Pierre Herman UDR
1973 Léonce Clérambeaux PS
1978 Alain Faugaret PS
1986 Proportional representation - no election by constituency
1988 Gérard Vignoble UDF
1997 Dominique Baert PS
2002 Gérard Vignoble UDF
2007 Dominique Baert PS
2012 DVG

Election results

2012

Legislative Election 2012: Nord's 8th Constituency 2nd round
Party Candidate Votes % ±
DVG Dominique Baert 18,110 69.58
LV Slimane Tir 7,919 30.42
Turnout 28,066 40.65
DVG gain from PS Swing

Sources

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