Marne's 2nd constituency

2nd constituency of Marne
2nd constituency of Marne
inlineConstituency of the ; National Assembly of France
	The constituency shown within Champagne-Ardenne
Incumbent deputy	Laure Miller; RE
Department	Marne
Cantons	Châtillon-sur-Marne (part), Fismes, Reims I, Reims III, Reims V, Reims VIII, Ville-en-Tardenois
Registered voters	73,131 (2017)
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The 2nd constituency of Marne (French: Deuxième circonscription de la Marne) is one of five electoral districts in the department of the same name, each of which returns one deputy to the French National Assembly in elections using the two-round system, with a run-off if no candidate receives more than 50% of the vote in the first round.

Description

The constituency is made up of six whole former cantons – those of Fismes, Reims I, Reims III, Reims V, Reims VIII, and Ville-en-Tardenois – plus the major part of the former canton of Châtillon-sur-Marne (all communes except those of Courtagnon, Nanteuil-la-Forêt, and Pourcy).^[1]

It includes the centre and south of Reims as well as rural areas to the south of the city. The seat as currently delineated is substantially different from that which existed prior to the 2012 election, which contained little of Reims and was far more rural in character.

At the time of the 1999 census (which was the basis for the most recent redrawing of constituency boundaries, carried out in 2010) the 2nd constituency had a total population of 103,767.

For 24 years from 1993 the seat was held by the Gaullist right, from 2002 in the person of Catherine Vautrin who held various posts in the governments of Jean-Pierre Raffarin and Dominique de Villepin. However, in the 2017 election Vautrin lost her seat to Aina Kuric of La République En Marche! (REM). Kuric resigned her membership of LREM on 7 June 2019, joining Agir.

Historic representation

Election		Member	Party
1986		Proportional representation – no election by constituency
	1988	Georges Colin [fr]	PS
	1993	Jean-Claude Étienne	RPR
	1997	Jean-Claude Étienne	RPR
	2002	Catherine Vautrin	UMP
	2007
	2012
	2017	Aina Kuric	LREM
	2019	Aina Kuric	Agir
	2022	Anne-Sophie Frigout	RN
	2023	Laure Miller	RE

Election results

2023 by-election

On 2 December 2022, Anne-Sophie Frigout's election was annulled by the Constitutional Council.^[2] She lost the seat in the second round of the by-election on 29 January 2023.^[3]

2023 by-election: Marne's 2nd constituency
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	RN	Anne-Sophie Frigout	6,059	34.80	+12.82
	RE (Ensemble)	Laure Miller	5,228	30.03	+8.80
	LFI (NUPÉS)	Victorien Pâté	2,815	16.17	−6.29
	LR (UDC)	Stéphane Lang	1,929	11.08	+0.21
	DVE	Nesma Sayoud	521	2.99	−0.48
	REC	Marie Pace	436	2.50	−2.39

	Others	N/A	424	2.43	−
Turnout			17.411	23.96	−22.06
2nd round result
	RE (Ensemble)	Laure Miller	9,047	51.80	N/A
	RN	Anne-Sophie Frigout	8,418	48.20	−6.62
Turnout			18,704	25.17	−18.49
	RE gain from RN

2022

Legislative Election 2022: Marne's 2nd constituency
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LFI (NUPÉS)	Lynda Meguenine	7,369	22.46	+4.36
	RN	Anne-Sophie Frigout	7,213	21.98	+5.88
	LREM (Ensemble)	Laure Miller	6,964	21.23	−13.11
	LREM	Aina Kuric*	4,103	12.51	N/A
	LR (UDC)	Stéphane Lang	3,565	10.87	−15.57
	REC	Jean-Claude Philipot	1,603	4.89	N/A
	DVE	Nesma Sayoud	1,139	3.47	+2.28

	Others	N/A	853	-	−
Turnout			32,809	46.02	+1.74
2nd round result
	RN	Anne-Sophie Frigout	14,650	54.81	N/A
	LFI (NUPÉS)	Lynda Meguenine	12,080	45.19	N/A
Turnout			26,730	43.65	+1.91
	RN gain from LREM

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* Kuric stood as a dissident LREM candidate, without the support of the party or the Ensemble Citoyens alliance. Kuric's results in the last election are counted against the official LREM candidate for swing calculations.

2017

Candidate		Label	First round		Second round
Candidate		Label	Votes	%	Votes	%
	Aina Kuric	REM	11,839	34.34	14,176	51.21
	Catherine Vautrin	LR	9,115	26.44	13,508	48.79
	Cindy Demange	FN	5,552	16.10
	Victorien Pâté	FI	3,459	10.03
	Imane Maniani	PS	1,869	5.42
	Patricia Coradel	ECO	913	2.65
	Daniel Ménard	DLF	654	1.90
	Catherine Huat	ECO	410	1.19
	Thomas Rose	EXG	345	1.00
	Evelyne Fernandez-Toussaint	DIV	187	0.54
	Axel Gaucher	DIV	134	0.39

Votes			34,477	100.00	27,684	100.00

Valid votes			34,477	98.71	27,684	90.70
Blank votes			296	0.85	2,028	6.64
Null votes			154	0.44	811	2.66
Turnout			34,927	47.76	30,523	41.74
Abstentions			38,206	52.24	42,608	58.26
Registered voters			73,133		73,131

Source: Ministry of the Interior

2012

Legislative Election 2012: Marne's 2nd constituency
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	UMP	Catherine Vautrin-Pennaforte	16,703	41.81
	PS	Eric Quenard	14,427	36.11
	FN	Pascale Evanno	5,080	12.72
	FG	Francoise Georges	1,454	3.64
	EELV	Nadine Cortial	1,037	2.60

	Others	N/A	1,248
Turnout			39,949	55.02
2nd round result
	UMP	Catherine Vautrin-Pennaforte	20,640	53.04
	PS	Eric Quenard	18,274	46.96
Turnout			38,914	53.60
	UMP hold

Sources

Official results of French elections from 2002: "Résultats électoraux officiels en France" (in French).
Official results of the French elections from 2017: "[1]" (in French).

^ As defined in 1999; the number and composition of the department's cantons was altered in 2014 but this has not yet been reflected in electoral district boundaries.
^ "Législatives : l'élection de la députée Anne-Sophie Frigout (RN) invalidée". L'Union (in French). 2 December 2022.
^ "Législatives partielles : la Nupes gagne un siège, le RN en perd un". Le Figaro (in French). 29 January 2023.
^ "Résultats des élections législatives 2022 dans la Marne". Le Monde.fr (in French). Retrieved 31 July 2022.

[1] As defined in 1999; the number and composition of the department's cantons was altered in 2014 but this has not yet been reflected in electoral district boundaries.

[2] "Législatives : l'élection de la députée Anne-Sophie Frigout (RN) invalidée". L'Union (in French). 2 December 2022.

[3] "Législatives partielles : la Nupes gagne un siège, le RN en perd un". Le Figaro (in French). 29 January 2023.

[4] "Résultats des élections législatives 2022 dans la Marne". Le Monde.fr (in French). Retrieved 31 July 2022.

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