Doubs' 3rd constituency

3rd constituency of Doubs

Doubs' 3rd Constituency shown within Franche-Comté.

Deputy

Department

Canton

Baume-les-Dames, Clerval, L'Isle-sur-le-Doubs, Maîche, Montbéliard-Est, Montbéliard-Ouest, Rougemont, Saint-Hippolyte.

Voters

65,449

The 3rd constituency of Doubs is a French legislative constituency in the Doubs département.

Description

Doubs' 3rd constituency contains the town of Montbéliard and encircles Doubs' 4th constituency. To the east it borders Switzerland and reaches deep into the Jura mountains.

The seat has generally been held by conservative parties with the exceptions of the Socialist landslides in the 1988 and 1997 elections.

Election		Member	Party
	1973	Edgar Faure	DVD
	1978	Roland Vuillaume	RPR
1986		Proportional representation – no election by constituency
	1988	Guy Bêche	PS
	1993	Monique Rousseau	RPR
	1997	Joseph Parrenin	PS
	2002	Marcel Bonnot	UMP

Legislative Election 2012: Doubs' 3rd Constituency 2nd round
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	UMP	Marcel Bonnot	19,270	51
	PS	Arnaud Marthey	18,512	49
Turnout			39,350	60.12
	UMP hold		Swing

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.