Haut-Rhin's 1st constituency
The 1st constituency of the Haut-Rhin is a French legislative constituency in the Haut-Rhin département.
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 Haut-Rhin's 1st Constituency shown within Alsace. | |||
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|---|---|---|---|
| Department | Haut-Rhin | ||
| Cantons | Andolsheim, Colmar-Nord, Colmar-Sud, Neuf-Brisach. | ||
| Registered voters | 74,091 | ||
Description
The seat includes the town of Colmar and then stretches eastwards towards the Rhine which forms the border with Germany. The seat has followed the historic pattern of Alsace by supporting parties of the right over the PS and its allies.
Historic Representation
| Election | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1958 | Edmond Borocco | UDR | |
| 1973 | Justin Haussherr | CDP | |
| 1978 | Jean-Paul Fuchs | UDF | |
| 1986 | Proportional representation - no election by constituency | ||
| 1988 | Edmond Gerrer | UDF | |
| 1993 | Gilbert Meyer | RPR | |
| 2002 | UMP | ||
| 2007 | Éric Straumann | UMP | |
| 2012 | LR | ||
Election results
2002
| Candidate | Party | 1st round | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | ||||
| Gilbert Meyer | Union for a Presidential Majority | UMP | 20,935 | 52.13 | |
| Monique Marchal | Socialist Party | PS | 8,376 | 20.86 | |
| Bruno Haebig | National Front | FN | 5,031 | 12.53 | |
| Frederic Hilbert | The Greens | LV | 1,395 | 3.47 | |
| Rene Becker | National Republican Movement | MNR | 1,128 | 2.81 | |
| Brigitte Courteville | Independent | DIV | 600 | 1.49 | |
| Gerard Probst | Ecologist | ECO | 564 | 1.40 | |
| Christian Rousset | Workers’ Struggle | LO | 546 | 1.36 | |
| Lydia Lacentra | Movement for France | MPF | 536 | 1.33 | |
| Mathieu Lavarenne | Republican Pole | PR | 506 | 1.26 | |
| Eliane Lodwitz | Communist Party | PCF | 342 | 0.85 | |
| Vincent Wischlen | Miscellaneous Right | DVD | 203 | 0.51 | |
| Total | 40,162 | 100% | |||
| Registered voters | 68,320 | ||||
| Blank/Void ballots | 1,007 | 2.45% | |||
| Turnout | 41,169 | 60.26% | |||
| Abstentions | 27,151 | 39.74% | |||
| Result | UMP GAIN FROM RPR | ||||
2012
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UMP | Éric Straumann | 22,753 | 62.21 | ||
| PS | Victorine Valetin | 13,823 | 37.79 | ||
| Turnout | 36576 | 51.13 | |||
| UMP hold | Swing | ||||
2007
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DVD | Éric Straumann | 24,298 | 66.05 | ||
| UMP | Gilbert Meyer | 12492 | 33.95 | ||
| Turnout | 41,528 | 57.73 | |||
| DVD hold | Swing | ||||
Sources
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