Gard's 1st constituency

1st constituency of Gard
inline Constituency of the National Assembly of France
Location of constituency in Department
Gard in France
Deputy	Françoise Dumas REM
Department	Gard
Cantons	(pre-2015) Beaucaire, Nîmes-1, Nîmes-3, Nîmes-6, La Vistrenque
Registered voters	125,281
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The 1st constituency of Gard is a French legislative constituency in the Gard département. It consists of the (pre-2015) cantons of Beaucaire, Nîmes 1, 3 and 6 and Vistrenque.

Deputies

Election		Member	Party
style="background-color: Template:Union for French Democracy/meta/color" |	1988	Jean Bousquet	UDF
style="background-color: Template:Union for French Democracy/meta/color"|	1993
style="background-color: Template:French Communist Party/meta/color" |	1997	Alain Clary	PCF
style="background-color: Template:Union for French Democracy/meta/color" |	2002	Yvan Lachaud	UDF
style="background-color: Template:New Centre/meta/color" |	2007		NC
style="background-color: Template:Socialist Party (France)/meta/color" |	2012	Françoise Dumas	PS
style="background-color: Template:La République En Marche!/meta/color" |	2017		REM

Election results

2017

Candidate		Label	First round		Second round
			Votes	%	Votes	%
style="background:Template:La République En Marche!/meta/color;"|	Françoise Dumas	REM	10,549	28.43	17,365	54.55
style="background:Template:National Front (France)/meta/color;"|	Yoann Gillet	FN	10,423	28.09	14,470	45.45
style="background:Template:Union of Democrats and Independents/meta/color;"|	Thierry Procida	UDI	5,462	14.72
style="background:Template:La France Insoumise/meta/color;"|	Yannick Battefort	FI	3,688	9.94
style="background:Template:French Communist Party/meta/color;"|	Sylvette Fayet	PCF	2,050	5.52
style="background:Template:Miscellaneous left/meta/color;"|	Hacen Boukhelifa	DVG	1,184	3.19
style="background:Template:Ecologist/meta/color;"|	Dominique Andrieu-Bonnet	ECO	1,135	3.06
style="background:Template:Miscellaneous/meta/color;"|	Jean-Paul Boré	DIV	760	2.05
style="background:Template:Debout la France/meta/color;"|	Pascaline Fostyk	DLF	647	1.74
style="background:Template:Ecologist/meta/color;"|	Lysiane Coillet-Matillon	ECO	475	1.28
style="background:Template:Far-left/meta/color;"|	Isabelle Leclerc	EXG	226	0.61
style="background:Template:Miscellaneous/meta/color;"|	Tristan Seguin	DIV	189	0.51
style="background:Template:Ecologist/meta/color;"|	Nasser Mohamedi	ECO	178	0.48
style="background:Template:Miscellaneous/meta/color;"|	Deniz Ozdemir	DIV	79	0.21
style="background:Template:Miscellaneous/meta/color;"|	Michel Flaisler	DIV	65	0.18
Votes			37,110	100.00	31,835	100.00
Valid votes			37,110	97.66	31,835	90.93
Blank votes			594	1.56	2,256	6.44
Null votes			296	0.78	921	2.63
Turnout			38,000	43.71	35,012	40.27
Abstentions			48,943	56.29	51,929	59.73
Registered voters			86,943		86,941
Source: Ministry of the Interior

2012

2012 legislative election in Gard's 1st constituency

Candidate		Party	First round		Second round
			Votes	%	Votes	%
style="background-color:Template:Socialist Party (France)/meta/color;"|	Françoise Dumas	PS–EELV	14,545	30.31%	20,694	41.89%
style="background-color:Template:New Centre/meta/color;"|	Yvan Lachaud	NC	13,920	29.01%	16,923	34.26%
style="background-color:Template:National Front (France)/meta/color;"|	Julien Sanchez	FN	12,487	26.02%	11,781	23.85%
style="background-color:Template:Left Front (France)/meta/color;"|	Sylvette Fayet	FG	3,653	7.61%
style="background-color:Template:Radical Party (France)/meta/color;"|	Jacques Bourbousson	PRV	1,253	2.61%
style="background-color:Template:Europe Ecology – The Greens/meta/color;"|	Dominique Grossetete	EELV dissident	496	1.03%
	Lysiane Coillet-Matillon	??	379	0.79%
style="background-color:Template:Republic Arise/meta/color;"|	Jacques Armando	DLR	282	0.59%
style="background-color:Template:Citizen and Republican Movement/meta/color;"|	Fatima Rag El Hassi	MRC	248	0.52%
style="background-color:Template:Union of the National Right/meta/color;"|	Robert Ponge	UDN	211	0.44%
style="background-color:Template:New Anticapitalist Party/meta/color;"|	Guy Dejean	NPA	133	0.28%
style="background-color:Template:Workers' Struggle/meta/color;"|	Isabelle Leclerc	LO	119	0.25%
style="background-color:Template:Occitan Party/meta/color;"|	Anne Alirol	POC	102	0.21%
style="background-color:Template:Independent Ecological Alliance/meta/color;"|	Michel Albanese	AEI	90	0.19%
style="background-color:Template:Alliance Royale/meta/color;"|	Catherine Andre	AR	72	0.15%
Valid votes			47,990	98.91%	49,398	98.69%
Spoilt and null votes			528	1.09%	658	1.31%
Votes cast / turnout			48,518	58.18%	50,056	60.04%
Abstentions			34,881	41.82%	33,319	39.96%
Registered voters			83,399	100.00%	83,375	100.00%

2007

Legislative Election 2007: Gard's 1st constituency

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LC	Yvan Lachaud	20,891	44.79
	PS	Françoise Dumas	8,324	17.85
	PCF	Alain Clary	6,902	14.80
	FN	Evelyne Ruty	3,058	6.56
	DIV	Gérard Chayne	1,028	2.20
	LV	Ali Karrim	977	2.09
	Others	N/A	3,387
Turnout			47,450	57.08
2nd round result
	LC	Yvan Lachaud	25,717	56.96
	PS	Françoise Dumas	19,432	43.04
Turnout			46,913	56.47
	LC gain from UDF

2002

Legislative Election 2002: Gard's 1st constituency

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	UDF	Yvan Lachaud	16,947	36.59
	PCF	Alain Clary	13,046	28.17
	FN	Evelyne Ruty	8,902	19.22
	PRG	Jocelyne Pezet-Romieux	1,802	3.89
	Others	N/A	5,617
Turnout			47,265	61.27
2nd round result
	UDF	Yvan Lachaud	24,120	56.90
	PCF	Alain Clary	18,273	43.10
Turnout			44,532	57.74
	UDF gain from PCF

1997

Legislative Election 1997: Gard's 1st constituency

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	UDF	Yvan Lachaud	12,304	26.57
	FN	Serge Martinez	11,782	25.45
	PCF	Alain Clary	10,100	21.81
	PS	Bernard Finiel	7,120	15.38
	LV	Martine Gros-Aguilera	1,257	2.71
	Others	N/A	3,739
Turnout			48,151	65.53
2nd round result
	PCF	Alain Clary	21,185	41.20
	UDF	Yvan Lachaud	20,819	40.49
	FN	Serge Martinez	9,413	18.31
Turnout			53,151	72.35
	PCF gain from UDF

Sources

• French Interior Ministry results website: "Résultats électoraux officiels en France" (in French).