Nord's 8th constituency

The 8th constituency of the Nord is a French legislative constituency in the Nord département.

8th constituency of the Nord

French National Assembly constituency
Nord's 8th Constituency shown within Nord-Pas-de-Calais
Deputy	Catherine Osson REM
Department	Nord
Cantons	Roubaix-Centre, Roubaix-Est, Roubaix-Nord
Registered voters	69,044

Description

Nord's 8th constituency covers three of the four (pre-2015) cantons of the city of Roubaix with only Roubaix Ouest within Nord's 7th constituency.

Despite electing a candidate from the centre right UDF as recently as 2002 the seat appeared to be safe for the left until 2017. Dominique Baert was expelled from the Socialist Party prior to the 2012 election and faced a Green Party (France) candidate backed by the Socialist Party. He was, however, comfortably re-elected with nearly 70% of the vote but on a very low turnout of only 41%.

Historic Representation

Election		Member	Party
	1958	André Diligent	MRP
	1962	Pierre Herman	UNR
	1967	Jean Delvainquière	SFIO
	1968	Pierre Herman	UDR
	1973	Léonce Clérambeaux	PS
	1978	Alain Faugaret	PS
1986		Proportional representation - no election by constituency
	1988	Gérard Vignoble	UDF
	1997	Dominique Baert	PS
	2002	Gérard Vignoble	UDF
	2007	Dominique Baert	PS
	2012		DVG
	2017	Catherine Osson	REM

Election results

2017

Candidate		Label	First round		Second round
			Votes	%	Votes	%
	Catherine Osson	REM	6,369	28.86	11,703	62.95
	Astrid Leplat	FN	4,845	21.95	6,889	37.05
	Paul Zilmia	FI	4,334	19.64
	Karim Amrouni	DVG	1,709	7.74
	Léonard Delcourt	LR	1,691	7.66
	Mehdi Massrour	PS	1,074	4.87
	Christian Carlier	ECO	763	3.46
	Sandrine Vanhoorde	DLF	467	2.12
	Françoise Delbarre	EXG	354	1.60
	Madgid Khiter	DIV	213	0.97
	Nadia Bourahla	ECO	134	0.61
	Rachid Rizoug	DIV	100	0.45
	Amine Baba Aïssa	DIV	15	0.07
	Luis Da Costa	DIV		0.00
Votes			22,068	100.00	18,592	100.00
Valid votes			22,068	97.31	18,592	91.65
Blank votes			449	1.98	1,225	6.04
Null votes			160	0.71	468	2.31
Turnout			22,677	33.43	20,285	29.91
Abstentions			45,148	66.57	47,537	70.09
Registered voters			67,825		67,822
Source: Ministry of the Interior

2012

Legislative Election 2012: Nord's 8th Constituency 2nd round

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	DVG	Dominique Baert	18,110	69.58
	LV	Slimane Tir	7,919	30.42
Turnout			28,066	40.65
	DVG gain from PS		Swing

Sources

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