Nord's 19th constituency

19th constituency of the North
inline Constituency of the National Assembly of France
Nord's 19th constituency shown within Nord-Pas-de-Calais
Deputy	Sébastien Chenu RN
Department	Nord
Cantons	Bouchain, Denain, Valenciennes-Sud (part).
Registered voters	79,055
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Nord's nineteenth constituency is a French legislative constituency in the Nord département (in the far North of France). It is one of twenty-one in that département, and covers three cantons in whole or in part : Bouchain, Denain and Valenciennes-Sud (minus Valenciennes itself).

Patrick Roy, MP from 2002 until his death in 2011, known for his colourful clothes and love of heavy metal music.

Deputies

This was a consistently left-wing constituency until 2017. It was long held by the French Communist Party prior to the redistricting in 1986.

Election		Member	Party
1986		Proportional representation - no election by constituency
style="background-color: Template:French Communist Party/meta/color" |	1988	Gustave Ansart	PCF
style="background-color: Template:French Communist Party/meta/color" |	1990 (following Ansart's death)	René Carpentier	PCF
style="background-color: Template:French Communist Party/meta/color" |	1993
style="background-color: Template:French Communist Party/meta/color" |	1997	Patrick Leroy	PCF
style="background-color: Template:Socialist Party (France)/meta/color" |	2002	Patrick Roy	PS
style="background-color: Template:Socialist Party (France)/meta/color" |	2007
style="background-color: Template:Socialist Party (France)/meta/color" |	2011 (following Roy's death)	Marie-Claude Marchand	PS
style="background-color: Template:Socialist Party (France)/meta/color" |	2012	Anne-Lise Dufour-Tonini	PS
style="background-color: Template:National Front (France)/meta/color" |	2017	Sébastien Chenu	FN

Election results

2017

Candidate		Label	First round		Second round
			Votes	%	Votes	%
style="background:Template:National Front (France)/meta/color;"|	Sébastien Chenu	FN	11,839	33.21	16,013	55.35
style="background:Template:Democratic Movement (France)/meta/color;"|	Sabine Hebbar	MoDem	6,443	18.08	12,920	44.65
style="background:Template:Socialist Party (France)/meta/color;"|	Anne-Lise Dufour-Tonini	PS	5,019	14.08
style="background:Template:La France Insoumise/meta/color;"|	Julien Poix	FI	4,573	12.83
style="background:Template:French Communist Party/meta/color;"|	Pascal Jean	PCF	3,480	9.76
style="background:Template:The Republicans (France)/meta/color;"|	Olivier Capron	LR	2,472	6.94
style="background:Template:Ecologist/meta/color;"|	Xavier Blottière	ECO	639	1.79
style="background:Template:Far-left/meta/color;"|	Marlène Wrobel	EXG	439	1.23
style="background:Template:Far-right/meta/color;"|	Serge Thomès	EXD	336	0.94
style="background:Template:Miscellaneous/meta/color;"|	Sébastien Dufour	DIV	243	0.68
style="background:Template:Miscellaneous left/meta/color;"|	Saïda Bamoune	DVG	161	0.45
Votes			35,644	100.00	28,933	100.00
Valid votes			35,644	97.74	28,933	90.20
Blank votes			607	1.66	2,176	6.78
Null votes			219	0.60	967	3.01
Turnout			36,470	46.11	32,076	40.56
Abstentions			42,631	53.89	47,011	59.44
Registered voters			79,101		79,087
Source: Ministry of the Interior

2012

Legislative Election 2012: Nord 19th - 2nd round

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PS	Anne-Lise Dufour-Tonini	19,873	100
Turnout			26,726	33.81
	PS hold		Swing	+0

2007

The constituency was one of just two (the other being Seine-Saint-Denis' 7th constituency) in which there was only one candidate in the second round, thus guaranteeing his re-election. The law provides that candidates obtaining the votes of at least 12.5% of registered voters in the first round advance to the second round. The parties of the mainstream left had a nationwide agreement whereby if two of them advanced to the second round, the second-placed would automatically withdraw. Primarily, this was to avoid dividing the left-wing or centre-left electorate in constituencies where a right-wing, centre-right or far-right candidate had also reached the second round. In the North's 19th constituency, however, as in 2002, the Socialist and Communist candidates were the only ones to reach the second round, respectively in first and second place. Communist candidate and former MP Patrick Leroy again honoured the agreement and withdrew, enabling Patrick Roy to be re-elected in a walkover. 24.4% of voters nonetheless cast a blank ballot.

Legislative Election 2007: Nord 19th - 2nd round

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PS	Patrick Roy	22 870	100	+0
Turnout			30 252	37.70	+0.61
	PS hold		Swing	+0

2002

The constituency was one of just three (the others being Paris' 16th constituency and Nord's 16th constituency) in which there was only one candidate in the second round, thus guaranteeing his re-election. The law provides that candidates obtaining the votes of at least 12.5% of registered voters in the first round advance to the second round. The parties of the mainstream left had a nationwide agreement whereby if two of them advanced to the second round, the second-placed would automatically withdraw. Primarily, this was to avoid dividing the left-wing or centre-left electorate in constituencies where a right-wing, centre-right or far-right candidate had also reached the second round. In the North's 19th constituency, however, incumbent Communist MP Patrick Leroy and his Socialist challenger Patrick Roy were the only ones to reach the second round, respectively in second and first and place; Roy pipped Leroy to first place by fewer than 200 votes (0.43%). Leroy honoured the agreement and withdrew, enabling Roy and the Socialists to take the constituency in a walkover.

Legislative Election 2007: Nord 19th - 2nd round

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PS	Patrick Roy	20 973	100
Turnout			28 925	37.09
	PS gain from PCF		Swing