Nord's 12th constituency

The 12th constituency of the Nord is a French legislative constituency in the Nord département.

12th constituency of the Nord

French National Assembly constituency
Nord's 12th Constituency shown within Nord-Pas-de-Calais
Deputy	Anne-Laure Cattelot REM
Department	Nord
Cantons	Avesnes-sur-Helpe-Sud, Berlaimont, Carnières, Hautmont, Landrecies, Le Quesnoy-Est, Le Quesnoy-Ouest, Solesmes
Registered voters	93,678

Description

Following the 2010 redistricting of French legislative constituencies Nord's 12th Constituency was effectively created as a new seat covering the areas once occupied by the 22nd and 24th constituencies in the east of the department.

Christian Bataille of the Socialist Party won the seat comfortably in the second round beating the National Front candidate by 7,000 votes.

Historic Representation

Election		Member	Party
	2012	Christian Bataille	PS
	2017	Anne-Laure Cattelot	REM

Election results

2017

Candidate		Label	First round		Second round
			Votes	%	Votes	%
	Gérard Philippe	FN	9,921	24.03	16,230	45.94
	Anne-Laure Cattelot	REM	9,710	23.51	19,095	54.06
	Laurent Courtois	FI	5,230	12.67
	Marjorie Gosselet	LR	4,799	11.62
	Joël Wilmotte	DVD	3,365	8.15
	Christian Bataille	DVG	3,325	8.05
	Jean Durieux	PCF	2,216	5.37
	Élisabeth Saint-Guily	ECO	1,119	2.71
	Laurent Coulon	DVG	783	1.90
	Jean-Charles Cournut	EXG	313	0.76
	Nadine Fournard	EXD	266	0.64
	Jonathan Pottiez	DIV	247	0.60
Votes			41,294	100.00	35,325	100.00
Valid votes			41,294	97.66	35,325	90.98
Blank votes			672	1.59	2,451	6.31
Null votes			316	0.75	1,052	2.71
Turnout			42,282	45.17	38,828	41.49
Abstentions			51,328	54.83	54,752	58.51
Registered voters			93,610		93,580
Source: Ministry of the Interior

2012

Legislative Election 2012: Nord's 12th Constituency 2nd round

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	PS	Christian Bataille	27,129	57.47
	FN	Anne-Sophie Leveque	20,080	42.53
Turnout			51,017	54.46
	PS hold		Swing

Sources

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