Marne's 2nd constituency

2nd constituency of Marne
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Constituency of the
National Assembly of France
The constituency shown within Champagne-Ardenne
Incumbent deputy
DepartmentMarne
CantonsChâtillon-sur-Marne (part), Fismes, Reims I, Reims III, Reims V, Reims VIII, Ville-en-Tardenois
Registered voters73,131 (2017)

The 2nd constituency of Marne (French: Deuxième circonscription de la Marne) is one of five electoral districts in the department of the same name, each of which returns one deputy to the French National Assembly in elections using the two-round system, with a run-off if no candidate receives more than 50% of the vote in the first round.

Description

The constituency is made up of six whole former cantons – those of Fismes, Reims I, Reims III, Reims V, Reims VIII, and Ville-en-Tardenois – plus the major part of the former canton of Châtillon-sur-Marne (all communes except those of Courtagnon, Nanteuil-la-Forêt, and Pourcy).[1]

It includes the centre and south of Reims as well as rural areas to the south of the city. The seat as currently delineated is substantially different from that which existed prior to the 2012 election, which contained little of Reims and was far more rural in character.

At the time of the 1999 census (which was the basis for the most recent redrawing of constituency boundaries, carried out in 2010) the 2nd constituency had a total population of 103,767.

For 24 years from 1993 the seat was held by the Gaullist right, from 2002 in the person of Catherine Vautrin who held various posts in the governments of Jean-Pierre Raffarin and Dominique de Villepin. However, in the 2017 election Vautrin lost her seat to Aina Kuric of La République En Marche! (REM). Kuric resigned her membership of LREM on 7 June 2019, joining Agir.

Historic representation

Election Member Party
1986 Proportional representation – no election by constituency
1988 Georges Colin [fr] PS
1993 Jean-Claude Étienne RPR
1997
2002 Catherine Vautrin UMP
2007
2012
2017 Aina Kuric LREM
2019 Agir
2022 Anne-Sophie Frigout RN
2023 Laure Miller RE

Election results

2023 by-election

On 2 December 2022, Anne-Sophie Frigout's election was annulled by the Constitutional Council.[2] She lost the seat in the second round of the by-election on 29 January 2023.[3]

2023 by-election: Marne's 2nd constituency
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
RN Anne-Sophie Frigout 6,059 34.80 +12.82
RE (Ensemble) Laure Miller 5,228 30.03 +8.80
LFI (NUPÉS) Victorien Pâté 2,815 16.17 -6.29
LR (UDC) Stéphane Lang 1,929 11.08 +0.21
ECO Nesma Sayoud 521 2.99 -0.48
REC Marie Pace 436 2.50 -2.39
Others N/A 424 2.43 -
Turnout 17.411 23.96 -22.06
2nd round result
RE (Ensemble) Laure Miller 9,047 51.80 N/A
RN Anne-Sophie Frigout 8,418 48.20 -6.62
Turnout 18,704 25.17 -18.49
RE gain from RN

2022

Legislative Election 2022: Marne's 2nd constituency
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LFI (NUPÉS) Lynda Meguenine 7,369 22.46 +4.36
RN Anne-Sophie Frigout 7,213 21.98 +5.88
LREM (Ensemble) Laure Miller 6,964 21.23 -13.11
LREM Aina Kuric* 4,103 12.51 N/A
LR (UDC) Stéphane Lang 3,565 10.87 -15.57
REC Jean-Claude Philipot 1,603 4.89 N/A
ECO Nesma Sayoud 1,139 3.47 +2.28
Others N/A 853 - -
Turnout 32,809 46.02 +1.74
2nd round result
RN Anne-Sophie Frigout 14,650 54.81 N/A
LFI (NUPÉS) Lynda Meguenine 12,080 45.19 N/A
Turnout 26,730 43.65 +1.91
RN gain from LREM

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* Kuric stood as a dissident LREM candidate, without the support of the party or the Ensemble Citoyens alliance. Kuric's results in the last election are counted against the official LREM candidate for swing calculations.

2017

Candidate Label First round Second round
Votes % Votes %
Aina Kuric REM 11,839 34.34 14,176 51.21
Catherine Vautrin LR 9,115 26.44 13,508 48.79
Cindy Demange FN 5,552 16.10
Victorien Pâté FI 3,459 10.03
Imane Maniani PS 1,869 5.42
Patricia Coradel ECO 913 2.65
Daniel Ménard DLF 654 1.90
Catherine Huat ECO 410 1.19
Thomas Rose EXG 345 1.00
Evelyne Fernandez-Toussaint DIV 187 0.54
Axel Gaucher DIV 134 0.39
Votes 34,477 100.00 27,684 100.00
Valid votes 34,477 98.71 27,684 90.70
Blank votes 296 0.85 2,028 6.64
Null votes 154 0.44 811 2.66
Turnout 34,927 47.76 30,523 41.74
Abstentions 38,206 52.24 42,608 58.26
Registered voters 73,133 73,131
Source: Ministry of the Interior

2012

Legislative Election 2012: Marne's 2nd constituency
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
UMP Catherine Vautrin-Pennaforte 16,703 41.81
PS Eric Quenard 14,427 36.11
FN Pascale Evanno 5,080 12.72
FG Francoise Georges 1,454 3.64
EELV Nadine Cortial 1,037 2.60
Others N/A 1,248
Turnout 39,949 55.02
2nd round result
UMP Catherine Vautrin-Pennaforte 20,640 53.04
PS Eric Quenard 18,274 46.96
Turnout 38,914 53.60
UMP hold

Sources

  1. ^ As defined in 1999; the number and composition of the department's cantons was altered in 2014 but this has not yet been reflected in electoral district boundaries.
  2. ^ "Législatives : l'élection de la députée Anne-Sophie Frigout (RN) invalidée". L'Union (in French). 2 December 2022.
  3. ^ "Législatives partielles : la Nupes gagne un siège, le RN en perd un". Le Figaro (in French). 29 January 2023.
  4. ^ "Résultats des élections législatives 2022 dans la Marne". Le Monde.fr (in French). Retrieved 31 July 2022.