Loire-Atlantique's 2nd constituency explained

The 2nd constituency of Loire-Atlantique is a French legislative constituency in the Loire-Atlantique département, covering the eastern part of the city of Nantes. Like the other 576 French constituencies, it elects one MP using the two-round system, with a run-off if no candidate receives over 50% of the vote in the first round.From 1958 to 1986, the constituency was made up of the cantons of Nantes-5, 6 and 7.^[1] In 1986, this was changed to the cantons of Nantes-2, 3, 4 and 9. (In 2015, Nantes-9 was abolished and its territory split between Nantes-2 and 7.)

Historic representation

Election		Member	Party
	1997	Marie-Françoise Clergeau	PS
	2002
	2007
	2012
	2017	Valérie Oppelt	LREM
	2022	Andy Kerbrat	LFI
	2024

Election results

2024

Candidate		Party	Alliance	First round			Second round
				Votes	%	+/–	Votes	%	+/–
	Andy Kerbrat	LFI	NFP		51.67	+5.05
	Valérie Oppelt	REN	Ensemble		26.70	style="color:red;"				-1.74
	Nolwenn Fer	RN			13.78	+8.79
	Louisa Amrouche	LR	UDC		5.86	style="color:red;"				-3.49
	Adrien Copros	DVG			1.18	new
	Nicolas Bazille	LO			0.82	+0.06
	Zora Chignole	DIV			0.00	new
	Nicolas Vabre	NPA			0.00	new
Votes					100.00
Valid votes					98.37	+0.03
Blank votes					1.23	+0.06
Null votes					0.39	style="color:red;"	-0.02
Turnout					73.81	+17.70
Abstentions					26.19	style="color:red;"	-17.70
Registered voters
Source: https://www.resultats-elections.interieur.gouv.fr/legislatives2024/ensemble_geographique/52/44/4402/index.html
Result				LFI HOLD

2022

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2017

Candidate		Label	First round		Second round
			Votes	%	Votes	%
	Valérie Oppelt	REM		39.78		59.99
	Carole Malard	FI		15.83		40.01
	Sébastien Pilard	LR		13.95
	Pascale Chiron	ECO		10.18
	Alain Robert	PS		9.16
	Agnès Chrissement	FN		3.92
	Sophie Clocher	DVG		1.10
	Elhadi Azzi	PRG		0.96
	Jean de Mascureau	DLF		0.87
	Isabelle Dudouet-Bercegeay	DIV		0.78
	Mary Haway	DVG		0.64
	Oriane Lévêque	DIV		0.57
	Aurélien Boulé	REG		0.51
	Sandra Cormier	EXG		0.50
	Nicolas Bazille	EXG		0.49
	Donatienne Jossic	REG		0.37
	Laurent Cottereau	DVG		0.20
	François Chapron	DVG		0.18
	Béatrice Dumontet-Tarrius	DVD		0.00
Votes				100.00		100.00
Valid votes				98.85		92.15
Blank votes				0.86		6.14
Null votes				0.29		1.71
Turnout				56.77		45.40
Abstentions				43.23		54.60
Registered voters
Source: Ministry of the Interior

2012

2012 legislative election in Loire-Atlantique's 2nd constituency^[3]

Candidate	Party	First round		Second round
Votes	%	Votes	%
	Marie-Françoise Clergeau	PS		44.64%		62.22%
	Laurence Garnier	UMP		27.89%		37.78%
	Pascale Chiron	EELV		7.66%
	Eliana Delisante	FG		6.39%
	Michel Lombardo	FN		5.64%
	Yvon Chotard	MoDem		3.35%
	Louis-Georges Barret	PCD		2.22%
	Jean-Philippe Guillouche	AC		0.71%
	Jean-Pierre Souverville	AEI		0.63%
	Sandra Cormier	NPA		0.55%
	Hélène Defrance	LO		0.31%
Valid votes				99.30%		97.83%
Spoilt and null votes				0.70%		2.17%
Votes cast / turnout				58.40%		52.77%
Abstentions				41.60%		47.23%
Registered voters				100.00%		100.00%

2007

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2002

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1997

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References and Sources

• Official results of French elections from 1998: Web site: Résultats électoraux officiels en France . fr . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20111220150907/http://www.interieur.gouv.fr/sections/a_votre_service/elections/resultats . 2011-12-20.

Notes and References

1. 14 October 1958. Composition des circonscriptions. Journal officiel de la République française. Lois et décrets (version papier numérisée) . 241. 9372. legifrance.gouv.fr/jorf/jo. fr. French government.
2. Web site: Résultats des élections législatives 2022 dans la Loire-Atlantique . 2022-11-07 . Le Monde.fr . fr-FR.
3. Web site: Résultats des élections législatives 2012. Ministry of the Interior. fr. Results of 2012 Legislative Election.