Somme's 4th constituency

4th constituency of Somme

French National Assembly constituency
Somme's 4th Constituency shown within Picardie.
Deputy	Alain Gest UMP
Department	Somme
Canton	Ailly-sur-Noye, Bernaville, Conty, Corbie, Doullens, Hornoy-le-Bourg, Montdidier, Moreuil, Poix-de-Picardie, Villers-Bocage
Voters	82,795

The 4th constituency of Somme is a French legislative constituency in the Somme département.

Description

The 4th constituency of the Somme was radically altered as a result of the 2010 redistricting of French legislative constituencies and as a result is now completely different to that seat which bore the same name between 1988 and 2012. The new seat is closer in composition to the now defunct Somme's 6th constituency.

The constituency runs through the centre of the department but also includes a strip of territory along its southern edge. In its centre the seats surrounds the city of Amiens on three sides.

Notably the seat has changed hands at every election since 1988.

Historic Representation

Election		Member	Party
	1958	Max Lejeune	SFIO
	1978	Chantal Leblanc	PCF
	1981	Jacques Becq	PS
1986		Proportional representation – no election by constituency
	1988	Jacques Becq	PS
	1993	Joël Hart	RPR
	1997	Francis Hammel	PS
	2002	Joël Hart	UMP
	2007	Gilbert Mathon	PS
	2012	Alain Gest	UMP

Election results

2012

Legislative Election 2012: Somme's 3rd Constituency 2nd round

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	UMP	Alain Gest	25,351	50.55
	PS	Catherine Quignon	24,795	49.45
Turnout			52,191	63.04
	UMP gain from PS		Swing

Sources

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