Nord's 8th constituency

8th constituency of the Nord

French National Assembly constituency
Nord's 8th Constituency shown within Nord-Pas-de-Calais
Deputy	Dominique Baert DVG
Department	Nord
Canton	Roubaix-Centre, Roubaix-Est, Roubaix-Nord
Voters	69,044

The 8th constituency of the Nord is a French legislative constituency in the Nord département.

Description

Nord's 8th constituency covers three of the four cantons of the city of Roubaix with only Roubaix Ouest within Nord's 7th constituency.

Despite electing a candidate from the centre right UDF as recently as 2002 the seat now appears to be safe for the left. The current representative Dominique Baert was expelled from the Socialist Party prior to the 2012 election and faced a Green Party (France) candidate backed by the Socialist Party. He was, however, comfortably re-elected with nearly 70% of the vote but on a very low turnout of only 41%.

Historic Representation

Election		Member	Party
	1958	André Diligent	MRP
	1962	Pierre Herman	UNR
	1967	Jean Delvainquière	SFIO
	1968	Pierre Herman	UDR
	1973	Léonce Clérambeaux	PS
	1978	Alain Faugaret	PS
1986		Proportional representation - no election by constituency
	1988	Gérard Vignoble	UDF
	1997	Dominique Baert	PS
	2002	Gérard Vignoble	UDF
	2007	Dominique Baert	PS
	2012		DVG

Election results

2012

Legislative Election 2012: Nord's 8th Constituency 2nd round

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Miscellaneous left	Dominique Baert	18,110	69.58
	LV	Slimane Tir	7,919	30.42
Turnout			28,066	40.65
	Miscellaneous left gain from PS		Swing

Sources

• Official results of French elections from 1998: "Résultats électoraux officiels en France" (in French).