Loire's 6th constituency explained

The 6th constituency of the Loire (French: Sixième circonscription de la Loire) is a French legislative constituency in the Loire département. Like the other 576 French constituencies, it elects one MP using a two round electoral system.

Description

The 6th constituency of the Loire covers the central parts of the department to the north of Saint-Etienne

Long serving conservative deputy Pascal Clément stepped down at the 2012 election, his successor, Paul Salen was defeated in 2017 in the second round run off by Julien Borowczyk of En Marche!.

Assembly Members

Election		Member	Party	Notes
	1958	Georges Bidault	DVD
	1962	Paul Rivière	DVD
	1967		UDR
	1968
	1973
	1978	Pascal Clément	UDF
	1981
		1986	Proportional representation by department
	1988	Pascal Clément	UDF
	1993	Jacques Cyprès		substitute for Pascal Clément, replaced Clément while he was minister for relations with parliament
	1995	Pascal Clément
	1997
	2002		UMP
	2005	Liliane Vaginay		substitute for Pascal Clément, replaced Clément while he was Minister of Justice
	2007	Pascal Clément
	2012	Paul Salen
		Julien Borowczyk	LREM
	2022	Jean-Pierre Taite	LR
	2024

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Election results

2024

Candidate		Party	Alliance	First round			Second round
				Votes	%	+/–	Votes	%	+/–
	Grégorie Granger	RN			39.71	+18.83		44.83	new
	Jean-Pierre Taite	LR	UDC		27.81	+2.45		55.17	style="color:red;"	-0.57
	Marie-Paule Olive	LFI	NFP		17.25	style="color:red;"	-1.74
	Alexandre Silva	REN	Ensemble		12.45	style="color:red;"	-13.98
	Yves Petoit	LO			0.92	style="color:red;"	-0.15
	Norbert Trichard	EXG			0.64	new
	Sandra Haury	ECO			0.61	new
	Yvan Guy-Mercier	REC			0.60	style="color:red;"	-3.46
Votes					100.00			100.00
Valid votes					97.35	style="color:red;"	-0.64		95.72	+5.39
Blank votes					1.93	+0.44		3.09	style="color:red;"	-4.34
Null votes					0.72	+0.19		1.19	style="color:red;"	-1.05
Turnout					71.73	+21.04		72.14	+27.39
Abstentions					28.27	style="color:red;"	-21.04		27.86	style="color:red;"	-27.39
Registered voters
Source: https://www.resultats-elections.interieur.gouv.fr/legislatives2024/ensemble_geographique/84/42/4206/index.html
Result				LR HOLD

2022

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2017

Candidate		Label	First round		Second round
			Votes	%	Votes	%
	Julien Borowczyk	REM		37.44		56.87
	Paul Salen	LR		22.61		43.13
	Sophie Robert	FN		17.20
	Sadia Nadia Seghir	FI		8.88
	Jean Duverger	ECO		5.71
	Nicolas Poirieux	DVD		3.47
	Marie Goncalves	DLF		1.91
	Cécile Maisonnette	EXG		0.86
	Bernard Chuzeville	ECO		0.80
	Ludovic Vaginay	DIV		0.68
	Michel Cuenin	DIV		0.45
Votes				100.00		100.00
Valid votes				98.36		90.26
Blank votes				1.18		6.86
Null votes				0.46		2.88
Turnout				50.02		41.74
Abstentions				49.98		58.26
Registered voters
Source: Ministry of the Interior[3]

2012

2012 legislative election in Loire's 6th constituency^[4]

Candidate	Party	First round		Second round
Votes	%	Votes	%
	Paul Salen	UMP		36.68%		53.35%
	Liliane Faure	PS		35.50%		46.65%
	Sophie Robert	FN		20.10%
	Nicole Bietrix	FG		3.33%
	Leïssane Stefanoff	DLR		1.13%
	Laurène Martin	??		0.99%
	Bernard Chuzeville	AEI		0.78%
	Guy Ravot	MEI		0.52%
	Cécile Maisonnette	LO		0.51%
	Christian Banliat			0.48%
Valid votes				98.46%		97.09%
Spoilt and null votes				1.54%		2.91%
Votes cast / turnout				60.23%		58.49%
Abstentions				39.77%		41.51%
Registered voters				100.00%		100.00%

2007

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2002

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1997

Notes and References

1. Web site: 577 Députés – Assemblée nationale. www2.assemblee-nationale.fr.
2. Web site: Les résultats aux élections législatives de 2017 – Assemblée nationale. www2.assemblee-nationale.fr.
3. Web site: Résultats des élections législatives 2017. Ministry of the Interior. fr. Results of 2017 Legislative Election.
4. Web site: Résultats des élections législatives 2012. Ministry of the Interior. fr. Results of 2012 Legislative Election.