Doub's 2nd constituency

2nd constituency of Doubs

French National Assembly
constituency

Doubs' 2nd Constituency shown within Franche-Comté.

Deputy

Éric Alauzet
EELV

Department

Doubs

Canton

Besançon-Est, Besançon-Nord-Est, Besançon-Sud, Marchaux, Ornans, Roulans

Voters

76,305

The 2nd constituency of Doubs is a French legislative constituency in the Doubs département.

Description

The 2nd constituency of Doubs includes the east and south of Besançon as well as territory to the east of it.

Since 1988 the seat has swung between left and right and was secured by Éric Alauzet of The Greens by the tiny margin of 108 votes at the 2012 election.

Historic Representation

Election		Member	Party
1986		Proportional representation – no election by constituency
	1988	Michel Jacquemin	UDF
	1997	Paulette Guinchard-Kunstler	PS
	2007	Jacques Grosperrin	UMP
	2012	Éric Alauzet	EELV

Election results

2012

Legislative Election 2012: Doubs' 2nd Constituency 2nd round
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	LV	Éric Alauzet	23,232	50.12
	UMP	Jacques Grosperrin	23,124	49.88
Turnout			47,717	62.53
	LV gain from UMP		Swing

Sources

Official results of French elections from 2002: "Résultats électoraux officiels en France" (in French).

Constituencies in Franche-Comté (12)

Doubs (5)	Doub's 1st Doub's 2nd Doubs' 3rd Doubs' 4th Doubs' 5th

Haute-Saône (2)	Haute-Saône's 1st Haute-Saône's 2nd

Jura (3)	Jura's 1st Jura's 2nd Jura's 3rd

Territoire-de-Belfort (2)	Territoire-de-Belfort's 1st Territoire-de-Belfort's 2nd

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 4/13/2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.