Pas-de-Calais's 2nd constituency

The 2nd constituency of the Pas-de-Calais is a French legislative constituency in the Pas-de-Calais département.

2nd constituency of the Pas-de-Calais

French National Assembly constituency
Pas-de-Calais' 2nd constituency shown within Nord-Pas-de-Calais
Deputy	Jacqueline Maquet REM
Department	Pas-de-Calais
Cantons	Arras-Nord, Arras-Ouest, Arras-Sud, Dainville, Vimy
Registered voters	84,287

Description

Pas-de-Calais' 2nd constituency was enlarged as a result of the 2010 redistricting of French legislative constituencies to include the entire of Arras having previously only contained the north of the city. Politically Arras is famed for being the birthplace of revolutionary Maximilien de Robespierre.

The constituency is currently held by Jacqueline Maquet who had previously represented Pas-de-Calais' 1st constituency.

Historic Representatives

Election		Member	Party
	1988	André Delehedde	PS
	1993	Charles Gheerbrant	UDF
	1997	Catherine Génisson	PS
	2012	Jacqueline Maquet	PS
	2017	REM

Election results

2017

Candidate		Label	First round		Second round
			Votes	%	Votes	%
	Jacqueline Maquet	REM	15,889	36.58	22,847	65.51
	Alban Heusele	FN	7,718	17.77	12,028	34.49
	Alexandre Malfait	UDI	6,937	15.97
	Caroline Delplace	FI	5,531	12.73
	Antoine Détourné	PS	2,880	6.63
	Laure Olivier	ECO	2,051	4.72
	Véronique Loir	DLF	880	2.03
	Leïla Dutailly	PCF	548	1.26
	Ameline Clinckemaillié	DIV	338	0.78
	Abmajid Belhadj	EXG	307	0.71
	Audric Alexandre	DVG	260	0.60
	Michèle Dessenne	DVG	51	0.12
	Benjamin Charlier	DIV	44	0.10
Votes			43,434	100.00	34,875	100.00
Valid votes			43,434	97.31	34,875	87.71
Blank votes			790	1.77	3,181	8.00
Null votes			410	0.92	1,707	4.29
Turnout			44,634	52.43	39,763	46.71
Abstentions			40,498	47.57	45,365	53.29
Registered voters			85,132		85,128
Source: Ministry of the Interior

2012

Legislative Election 2012: Pas-de-Calais 2nd constituency - 2nd round

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	PS	Jacqueline Maquet	27,626	59.27
	UMP	Jean-Marie Prestaux	18,982	40.73
Turnout			49,285	58.47
	PS hold		Swing

2007

Legislative Election 2007: Pas-de-Calais 2nd constituency - 2nd round

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	PS	Catherine Génisson	27,273	55.38
	UMP	Michel Ziolkowski	21,977	44.62
Turnout			50,788	66.37
	PS hold		Swing

Sources

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