Finistère's 8th constituency

8th constituency of Finistère
inline Constituency of the National Assembly of France
Deputy	Erwan Balanant REM
Department	Finistère
Cantons	d’Arzano, Bannalec, Concarneau, Pont-Aven, Quimperlé, Rosporden, Scaër
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The 8th constituency of Finistère is a French legislative constituency in the Finistère département. Like the other 576 French constituencies, it elects one MP using the two-round system, with a run-off if no candidate receives over 50% of the vote in the first round.

Deputies

Election		Member	Party
style="background-color: Template:Union for French Democracy/meta/color" |	1958	Louis Orvoën	MRP
style="background-color: Template:Independent Republicans/meta/color" |	1968	Jean-Claude Petit	RI
style="background-color: Template:Socialist Party (France)/meta/color" |	1973	Louis Le Pensec	PS
1986		Proportional representation - no election by constituency
style="background-color: Template:Socialist Party (France)/meta/color" |	1988	Louis Le Pensec	PS
style="background-color: Template:Socialist Party (France)/meta/color" |	2002	Gilbert Le Bris	PS
style="background-color: Template:La République En Marche!/meta/color" |	2017	Erwan Balanant	REM

Election results

2017

Candidate		Label	First round		Second round
			Votes	%	Votes	%
style="background:Template:La République En Marche!/meta/color;"|	Erwan Balanant	REM	15,458	33.42	18,233	51.45
style="background:Template:Socialist Party (France)/meta/color;"|	Michael Quernez	PS	8,417	18.20	17,203	48.55
style="background:Template:La France Insoumise/meta/color;"|	Emmanuel Magnan	FI	6,001	12.97
style="background:Template:The Republicans (France)/meta/color;"|	Laëtitia Boidin	LR	4,564	9.87
style="background:Template:National Front (France)/meta/color;"|	Mikaël Caréo	FN	4,481	9.69
style="background:Template:Ecologist/meta/color;"|	Marie-Andrée Jérôme-Clovis	ECO	1,842	3.98
style="background:Template:French Communist Party/meta/color;"|	Jacques Rannou	PCF	1,417	3.06
style="background:Template:Miscellaneous right/meta/color;"|	Atto Dossena	DVD	1,072	2.32
style="background:Template:Regionalist/meta/color;"|	Yann Pelliet	REG	1,063	2.30
style="background:Template:Debout la France/meta/color;"|	Joseph Pichon	DLF	600	1.30
style="background:Template:Regionalist/meta/color;"|	Denis Madelaine-Nicot	REG	391	0.85
style="background:Template:Far-left/meta/color;"|	Anne Morel	EXG	371	0.80
style="background:Template:Miscellaneous/meta/color;"|	Catherine Mercier	DIV	341	0.74
style="background:Template:Miscellaneous left/meta/color;"|	Didier Troude	DVG	233	0.50
Votes			46,251	100.00	35,436	100.00
Valid votes			46,251	97.64	35,436	88.77
Blank votes			795	1.68	3,024	7.58
Null votes			321	0.68	1,460	3.66
Turnout			47,367	54.32	39,920	45.78
Abstentions			39,838	45.68	47,281	54.22
Registered voters			87,205		87,201
Source: Ministry of the Interior

2007

Legislative Election 2007: Finistère 8th - 2nd round

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PS	Gilbert Le Bris	29,023	53,48	+2.51
	UMP	Jeanne-Yvonne Triché	25,247	46.52	-2.51
Turnout			54,270	68.24
	PS hold		Swing

Sources

• Official results of French elections from 1998: "Résultats électoraux officiels en France" (in French). Archived from the original on 2011-12-20.