Nord's 5th constituency

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

5th constituency of the Nord

French National Assembly constituency
Nord's 5th Constituency shown within Nord-Pas-de-Calais
Deputy	Sébastien Huyghe LR
Department	Nord
Cantons	La Bassée, Haubourdin (part), Seclin-Nord, Seclin-Sud
Registered voters	96,486

Description

Nord's 5th constituency lies in the centre of the department to the south of Lille. The main town is Seclin which is still part of the Urban Community of Lille Métropole but this left leaning town is outweighed by the more conservative surrounding areas.

Despite 40 years of uninterrupted Socialist Party control between 1962 and 2002 the seat has now been held by the conservative UMP or Republicans at three consecutive elections.

Historic representation

Election		Member	Party
	1958	Georges Brice	UNR
	1962	Arthur Notebart	PS
1986		Proportional representation – no election by constituency
	1988	Denise Cacheux	PS
	1993	Bernard Davoine	PS
	1997	Martine Aubry	PS
	1997	Bernard Davoine	PS
	2002	Sébastien Huyghe	UMP
	2007
	2012
	2015		LR
	2017

Election results

2017

Candidate		Label	First round		Second round
			Votes	%	Votes	%
	Guillaume Dekoninck	REM	14,906	29.96	17,053	44.48
	Sébastien Huyghe	LR	11,757	23.63	21,284	55.52
	Victor Catteau	FN	9,199	18.49
	Lucile Caplier	FI	6,507	13.08
	Aude Leduc	PS	2,151	4.32
	Françoise Dumez	PCF	1,530	3.07
	Yannick Brohard	ECO	1,421	2.86
	Guillaume Levecq	DLF	786	1.58
	Xavier Lapierre	EXG	425	0.85
	Francine Herbaut-Dauptain	ECO	411	0.83
	Florence Masselot	ECO	354	0.71
	Philippe Dambry	DIV	209	0.42
	Pierre Lehembre	DIV	100	0.20
	Béatrice Cuvelier	DVD	4	0.01
Votes			49,760	100.00	38,337	100.00
Valid votes			49,760	98.05	38,337	88.76
Blank votes			752	1.48	3,511	8.13
Null votes			240	0.47	1,346	3.12
Turnout			50,752	50.82	43,194	43.25
Abstentions			49,119	49.18	56,682	56.75
Registered voters			99,871		99,876
Source: Ministry of the Interior

2012

Legislative Election 2012: Nord's 5th Constituency 2nd round

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	UMP	Sébastien Huyghe	27,131	51.43
	PS	Denise Cacheux	25,626	48.57
Turnout			51,365	52.85
	UMP hold		Swing

Sources

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