Aisne's 5th constituency

The 5th constituency of the Aisne is a French legislative constituency in the Aisne département.

5th constituency of the Aisne

French National Assembly constituency
Aisne's 5th constituency shown within Picardie
Deputy	Jacques Krabal REM
Department	Aisne
Cantons	Braine, Charly, Château-Thierry, Condé-en-Brie, Fère-en-Tardenois, Neuilly-Saint-Front, Oulchy-le-Château, Vailly-sur-Aisne, Villers-Cotterêts.
Registered voters	81,007

Description

Aisne's 5th constituency covers the southern portion of the department, the area is centred on Château-Thierry on the Marne river.

Politically the seat elected conservatives for all the Fifth Republic with the exceptions of during the Mitterrand years between 1981 and 1993 and after the 2012 election.

At the 2012 election a National Front candidate secured a place in the 2nd round splitting the right's vote and allowing the election of Jacques Krabal of the left leaning PRG. Krabal subsequently switched to the centrist La République En Marche!.

Historic Representation

Election		Member	Party
	1958	André Rossi	DC
	1978		UDF
	1981	Bernard Lefranc	PS
1986		Proportional representation - no election by constituency
	1988	René Dosière	PS
	1993	André Rossi	UDF
	1994	Renaud Dutreil	UDF
	2002		UMP
	2002	Daniel Gard	UMP
	2007	Isabelle Vasseur	UMP
	2012	Jacques Krabal	PRG
	2017		REM

Election results

2007

 Summary of the 10 June and 17 June 2007 French legislative in Aisne's 5th Constituency election results

Candidate		Party		1st round		2nd round
				Votes	%	Votes	%
	Isabelle Vasseur	Union for a Popular Movement	UMP	18,088	37.84%	25,167	53.96%
	Dominique Jourdain	Socialist Party	PS	9,920	20.75%	21,471	46.04%
	Jacques Krabal	Miscellaneous Left	DVG	8,446	17.67%
	Franck Briffaut	National Front	FN	4,023	8.42%
	Renaud Belliere	Democratic Movement	MoDem	2,156	4.51%
	Jean-Luc Allioux	Communist	COM	1,047	2.19%
	Brigitte Fourquet	Far Left	EXG	949	1.99%
	Marie-Thérèse Chambaud	The Greens	VEC	811	1.70%
	Sylvie Geret	Far Left	EXG	780	1.63%
	Olivier Papritz	Movement for France	MPF	625	1.31%
	Annick Deryckere	Hunting, Fishing, Nature, Traditions	CPNT	502	1.05%
	Marc-Hervé Rey	Ecologist	ECO	427	0.89%
	Aude Allegraud	Divers	DIV	30	0.06%
Total				47,804	100%	46,638	100%
Registered voters				80,005		80,003
Blank/Void ballots				780	1.61%	1,724	3.56%
Turnout				48,584	60.73%	48,362	60.45%
Abstentions				31,421	39.27%	31,641	39.55%
Result						UMP HOLD

2012

 Summary of the 10 June and 17 June 2012 French legislative in Aisne's 5th Constituency election results

Candidate		Party		1st round		2nd round
				Votes	%	Votes	%
	Jacques Krabal	Radical Party of the Left	PRG	14,141	29.79%	20,427	42.21%
	Isabelle Vasseur	Union for a Popular Movement	UMP	14,820	31.22%	17,761	36.70%
	Frank Briffaut	National Front	FN	10,793	22.74%	10,205	21.09%
	Dominique Jourdain	Europe Ecology – The Greens	EELV	4,647	9.79%
	Mireille Ausecache	Left Front	FG	2,115	4.46%
	Sylvie Geret	Far Left	ExG	489	1.03%
	Jean-Claude Poiret	Miscellaneous Right	DVD	466	0.98%
Total				48,103	100%	49,212	100%
Registered voters				81,017		81,007
Blank/Void ballots				632	1.31%	819	1.66%
Turnout				47,529	59.37%	47,900	60.75%
Abstentions				32,914	40.63%	31,795	39.25%
Result						PRG gain

2017

Candidate		Label	First round		Second round
			Votes	%	Votes	%
	Jacques Krabal	REM	14,206	35.97	19,609	57.82
	François de Voyer	FN	10,111	25.60	14,304	42.18
	Omar Fenardji	FI	3,939	9.97
	Dominique Moyse	UDI	3,351	8.48
	Sébastien Manscourt	DVD	3,227	8.17
	Dominique Jourdain	ECO	2,426	6.14
	Michelle Sapori	DLF	764	1.93
	Françoise Vacca	DIV	727	1.84
	Sylvie Géret	EXG	480	1.22
	Annick Leclerc	DIV	268	0.68
Votes			39,499	100.00	33,913	100.00
Valid votes			39,499	97.87	33,913	91.70
Blank votes			609	1.51	2,253	6.09
Null votes			251	0.62	817	2.21
Turnout			40,359	49.08	36,983	44.98
Abstentions			41,864	50.92	45,241	55.02
Registered voters			82,223		82,224
Source: Ministry of the Interior

Sources

• Official results of French elections from 1998: "Résultats électoraux officiels en France" (in French). Archived from the original on 2011-12-20.