Nord's 6th constituency explained

The 6th constituency of the Nord is a French legislative constituency in the Nord département.

Description

Nord's 6th constituency lies in the centre of the department and reaches both its northern border with Belgium and its southern border with Pas-de-Calais. It covers the largely rural areas between Lille and Valenciennes.

Historically the seat has swung between left and right, however from 1993 to 2017 it was held continuously by the Gaullist Thierry Lazaro.

Historic Representation

Election		Member	Party
	1958	Eugene Van Der Meersch	UNR
	1962	Marceau Laurent	FDGS
	1967
	1968	Robert Vandelanoitte	UDR
	1973	André Laurent	PS
	1978
	1981
1986		Proportional representation - no election by constituency
	1988	Robert Anselin	PS
	1993	Thierry Lazaro	RPR
	1997
	2002		UMP
	2007
	2012
	2017	Charlotte Lecocq	LREM
	2022		RE

Election results

2022

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2017

Candidate		Label	First round		Second round
			Votes	%	Votes	%
	Charlotte Lecocq	REM		38.03		51.82
	Thierry Lazaro	LR		23.13		48.18
	Éric Cattelin-Denu	FN		14.84
	Amandine Fouillard	FI		9.84
	Maryse Faber-Rossi	ECO		3.27
	Didier Chastanet	PRG		2.98
	Romain Sarels	DVD		2.60
	Nadine Savary-Canteloup	PCF		2.12
	Isabelle Colas	ECO		1.14
	Léa Demory	EXG		0.80
	Anne Lefèvre	DIV		0.67
	Jean-Marc Gérard	DIV		0.54
	Agnès Lefebvre	DVD		0.04
Votes				100.00		100.00
Valid votes				98.17		90.25
Blank votes				1.29		6.61
Null votes				0.54		3.14
Turnout				53.91		47.37
Abstentions				46.09		52.63
Registered voters
Source: Ministry of the Interior

2012

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2007

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2002

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1997

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Sources

• Official results of French elections from 1998: Web site: Résultats électoraux officiels en France. fr.