Marne's 1st constituency

The 1st constituency of Marne (French: Première circonscription de la Marne) is one of five electoral districts in the department of the same name, each of which returns one deputy to the French National Assembly in elections using the two-round system, with a run-off if no candidate receives more than 50% of the vote in the first round.

1st constituency of Marne

French National Assembly constituency
The constituency shown within Champagne-Ardenne
Incumbent deputy	Valérie Beauvais LR
Department	Marne
Cantons	Bourgogne, Reims II, Reims IV, Reims VI, Reims X
Registered voters	72,128 (2017)

Description

The constituency is made up of five cantons: those of Bourgogne, Reims II, Reims IV, Reims VI, and Reims X.

It includes the northern part of Reims, the department's largest city, as well as some rural territory between it and the border with Ardennes.

At the time of the 1999 census (which was the basis for the most recent redrawing of constituency boundaries, carried out in 2010) the 1st constituency had a total population of 100,826.

The seat has been a conservative stronghold for many years and was held by Jean Falala, the long-serving mayor of Reims, until 2002 when he passed the seat on to his son Francis Falala. Francis, however, failed to match his father's longevity and lost the UMP nomination to Renaud Dutreil prior to the 2007 election, before standing as an independent and coming third in the first round of voting.

Historic representation

Election		Member	Party
1986		Proportional representation – no election by constituency
	1988	Jean Falala	RPR
	1993
	1997
	2002	Francis Falala	UMP
	2007	Renaud Dutreil	UMP
	2008	Arnaud Robinet	UMP
	2012
	2017	Valérie Beauvais	LR

Election results

2017

Candidate		Label	First round		Second round
			Votes	%	Votes	%
	Gérard Chemla	DIV	9,071	28.30	10,573	44.66
	Valérie Beauvais	LR	8,837	27.57	13,104	55.34
	Sandrine Vignot	FN	5,507	17.18
	Laure Manesse	FI	3,745	11.69
	Alexandre Tunc	PS	2,045	6.38
	Marie-Ange Petit	ECO	1,054	3.29
	Anne-Sophie Frigout	DLF	618	1.93
	Céline Brunhoso-Goulden	ECO	364	1.14
	Vincent Varlet	EXG	321	1.00
	Guillaume Prin	DIV	220	0.69
	Quentin Czerwiec	DIV	207	0.65
	Mounir Bali	DIV	59	0.18
	Julien Maya-Pérez	DIV		0.00
Votes			32,048	100.00	23,677	100.00
Valid votes			32,048	98.44	23,677	88.27
Blank votes			357	1.10	2,275	8.48
Null votes			150	0.46	872	3.25
Turnout			32,555	45.14	26,824	37.19
Abstentions			39,573	54.86	45,304	62.81
Registered voters			72,128		72,128
Source: Ministry of the Interior

2012

Legislative Election 2012: Marne's 1st Constituency 2nd round

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	UMP	Arnaud Robinet	18,515	52.77
	PS	Sabrina Ghallal	16,570	47.23
Turnout			36,066	52.08
	UMP hold		Swing

Sources

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

Official results of French elections, Marne 1st, from 2017: "" (in French)