Bas-Rhin's 6th constituency

6th constituency of Bas-Rhin
6th constituency of Bas-Rhin
inlineConstituency of the ; National Assembly of France
	Bas-Rhin's 6th Constituency shown within Alsace.
Deputy	Laurent Furst; UMP
Department	Bas-Rhin
Cantons	Saales, Obernai, Molsheim, Rosheim, Schirmeck, Wasselonne
Registered voters	91,200
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The 6th constituency of the Bas-Rhin is a French legislative constituency in the Bas-Rhin département.

Description

The 6th Constituency of Bas-Rhin covers the mid Western portion of the Département including the entire Arrondissement of Molsheim but also Obernai from the Arrondissement of Sélestat-Erstein.

The constituency includes the small towns of Molsheim and Wasselonne as well as a portion of the eastern fringes of the Vosges Mountains.

The constituency has been held by parties of the right and centre right for its entire existence during the 5th Republic.

Historic representation

Election		Member	Party
style="background-color: Template:Popular Republican Movement/meta/color" \|	1958	Henri Meck	MRP
style="background-color: Template:Union of Democrats for the Republic/meta/color" \|	1967	Gérard Lehn	UDR
style="background-color: Template:Union for French Democracy/meta/color" \|	1973	Jean-Marie Caro	UDF
1986		Proportional representation – no election by constituency
style="background-color: Template:Union for French Democracy/meta/color" \|	1988	Jean-Marie Caro	UDF
style="background-color: Template:Radical Party (France)/meta/color" \|	1993	Alain Ferry	PR
style="background-color: Template:Union for a Popular Movement/meta/color" \|	2012	Laurent Furst	UMP
style="background-color: Template:The Republicans (France)/meta/color" \|	2015	Laurent Furst	LR

Election results

2002

Alain Ferry was elected under the Union for a Presidential Majority candidate but was a member of the Radical Party. Furthermore, he was elected with more than 50% of the vote in the first round of voting, and therefore no second round took place.

e • d Results of the 9 June and 16 June 2002 French National Assembly election in Bas-Rhin’s 6th Constituency^[1]
Candidate		Party		1st round
Candidate		Party		Votes	%
style="background-color:Template:Union for a Popular Movement/meta/color" \|	Alain Ferry	Union for a Presidential Majority	UMP	27,318	60.63
style="background-color:Template:National Front (France)/meta/color" \|	Nathalie Tomasi	National Front	FN	6,541	14.52
style="background-color:Template:Socialist Party (France)/meta/color" \|	Michele Zumstein	Socialist Party	PS	5,836	12.95
style="background-color:Template:The Greens (France)/meta/color" \|	Mireille Metz	The Greens	LV	1,553	3.45
style="background-color:Template:National Republican Movement/meta/color" \|	Daniel Schilling	National Republican Movement	MNR	1,221	2.71
style="background-color:Template:Ecologist/meta/color" \|	Bernard Goepfert	Ecologist	ECO	693	1.54
style="background-color:Template:Lutte Ouvrière/meta/color" \|	Jean Meyer	Workers’ Struggle	LO	513	1.14
style="background-color:Template:French Communist Party/meta/color" \|	J. Paul Fabacher	Communist Party	PCF	455	1.01
style="background-color:Template:Revolutionary Communist League (France)/meta/color" \|	Gilles Dimnet	Revolutionary Communist League	LCR	384	0.85
style="background-color:Template:Citizen and Republican Movement/meta/color" \|	Irene Eckmann	Republican Pole	PR	350	0.78
style="background-color:Template:Independent politician/meta/color" \|	Pascale Petermann	Independent	DIV	190	0.42

Total				45,054	100%

Registered voters				75,374
Blank/Void ballots				1,115	2.42%
Turnout				46,169	61.25%
Abstentions				29,205	38.75%

Result				colspan="2" style="background-color:Template:Radical Party (France)/meta/color" \| PR HOLD

2007

Alain Ferry was elected with more than 50% of the vote in the first round of voting, and therefore no second round took place.

e • d Results of the 10 June and 17 June 2007 French National Assembly election in Bas-Rhin’s 6th Constituency^[2]
Candidate		Party		1st round
Candidate		Party		Votes	%
style="background-color:Template:Union for a Popular Movement/meta/color" \|	Alain Ferry	Union for a Popular Movement	UMP	31,097	67.38
style="background-color:Template:Democratic Movement (France)/meta/color" \|	Cédric Baillet	UDF-Democratic Movement	UDF-MoDem	{{formatnum:4,293}	9.30
style="background-color:Template:Socialist Party (France)/meta/color" \|	Marie-Madeleine Iantzen	Socialist Party	PS	3,883	8.41
style="background-color:Template:National Front (France)/meta/color" \|	Nathalie Tomasi	National Front	FN	2,444	5.30
style="background-color:Template:The Greens (France)/meta/color" \|	Mireille Metz	The Greens	LV	1,708	3.70
style="background-color:Template:Far left/meta/color" \|	Valérie Acker	Far Left	EXG	717	1.55
style="background-color:Template:Ecologist/meta/color" \|	Marie-Noëlle Eastes	Ecologist	ECO	489	1.06
style="background-color:Template:French Communist Party/meta/color" \|	Joël Allain	Communist Party	PCF	410	0.89
style="background-color:Template:Independent politician/meta/color" \|	Bernadette Lutz	Independent	DIV	407	0.88
style="background-color:Template:Far left/meta/color" \|	Jean Meyer	Far Left	EXG	386	0.84
style="background-color:Template:Far right/meta/color" \|	Marie Jeanne Mailley	Far Right	EXD	319	0.69

Total				46,153	100%

Registered voters				80,815
Blank/Void ballots				776	1.65%
Turnout				46,929	58.07%
Abstentions				33,886	41.93%

Result				colspan="2" style="background-color:Template:Union for a Popular Movement/meta/color" \| UMP HOLD

2012

Laurent Furst was elected with more than 50% of the vote in the first round of voting, and therefore no second round took place.

e • d Results of the 10 June and 17 June 2012 French National Assembly election in Bas-Rhin’s 6th Constituency^[3]
Candidate		Party		1st round
Candidate		Party		Votes	%
style="background-color:Template:Union for a Popular Movement/meta/color" \|	Laurent Furst	Union for a Popular Movement	UMP	25,964	51.68
style="background-color:Template:National Front (France)/meta/color" \|	Brigitte Tinot	National Front	FN	8,953	17.82
style="background-color:Template:Socialist Party (France)/meta/color" \|	Astrid Scharly	Socialist Party	PS	8,043	16.01
style="background-color:Template:Europe Ecology - The Greens/meta/color" \|	Jean Vogel	Europe Ecology - The Greens	EELV	4,720	9.39
style="background-color:Template:Left Front (France)/meta/color" \|	Dorothée Unterberger	Left Front	FG	969	1.93
style="background-color:Template:Democratic Movement (France)/meta/color" \|	Anne-Sophie Freliger	The Centre for France	CEN	945	1.88
style="background-color:Template:Independent politician/meta/color" \|	Rémy Wendling	Other	AUT	416	0.83
style="background-color:Template:Far left/meta/color" \|	Jeanne-Françoise Langlade	Far Left	EXG	232	0.46

Total				50.242	100%

Registered voters				91,200
Blank/Void ballots				707	1.39%
Turnout				50,949	55.87%
Abstentions				40,251	44.13%

Result				colspan="2" style="background-color:Template:Union for a Popular Movement/meta/color" \| UMP HOLD

2017

e • d Results of the 11 June and 18 June 2017 French National Assembly election in Bas-Rhin’s 6th Constituency^[4]
Candidate		Party		1st round		2nd round
Candidate		Party		Votes	%	Votes	%
style="background-color:Template:The Republicans (France)/meta/color" \|	Laurent Furst	The Republicans	LR	16,824	36.21	24,843	62.60
style="background-color:Template:Democratic Movement (France)/meta/color" \|	Guy Salomon	Democratic Movement	MoDem	13,965	29.48	14,845	37.40
style="background-color:Template:National Front (France)/meta/color" \|	Hombeline Du Parc	National Front	FN	6,410	13.80
style="background-color:Template:La France Insoumise/meta/color" \|	Denis Gadot	La France Insoumise	FI	2,669	5.74
style="background-color:Template:Regionalist/meta/color" \|	Jeanine Plaisant-Hermanns	Regionalist	REG	2,395	5.16
style="background-color:Template:Ecologist/meta/color" \|	Alexandre Gonçalves	Ecologist	ECO	1,860	4.00
style="background-color:Template:Socialist Party (France)/meta/color" \|	Martin Effenberger	Socialist Party	PS	644	1.39
style="background-color:Template:Debout la France/meta/color" \|	Sara Chabaane	Debout la France	DLF	561	1.21
style="background-color:Template:Independent politician/meta/color" \|	Régis Meyer	Independent	DIV	408	0.88
style="background-color:Template:Independent politician/meta/color" \|	Gilles Pfaffenhof	Independent	DIV	277	0.60
style="background-color:Template:Independent politician/meta/color" \|	Evelyne Monteleone	Independent	DIV	233	0.50
style="background-color:Template:Far left/meta/color" \|	Roxane Ferrez	Far Left	EXG	202	0.43
style="background-color:Template:French Communist Party/meta/color" \|	Odile Agrafeil	Communist Party	PCF	167	0.36
style="background-color:Template:Independent politician/meta/color" \|	Olivier Laustriat	Independent	DIV	114	0.25

Total				46,459	100%	39,688	100%

Registered voters				96,039		96,028
Blank/Void ballots				661	1.40%	1,298	5.25%
Turnout				47,120	49.06%	41,886	43.62%
Abstentions				48,919	50.94%	54,142	56.38%

Result						colspan="2" style="background-color:Template:The Republicans (France)/meta/color" \| LR GAIN FROM UMP

Sources

[1] ttps://www.interieur.gouv.fr/Elections/Les-resultats/Legislatives/elecresult__legislatives_2002/(path)/legislatives_2002/067/circons06.html

[2] ttps://www.interieur.gouv.fr/Elections/Les-resultats/Legislatives/elecresult__legislatives_2007/(path)/legislatives_2007/067/circons06.html

[3] ttps://www.interieur.gouv.fr/Elections/Les-resultats/Legislatives/elecresult__LG2012/(path)/LG2012/067/06706.html

[4] ttps://www.interieur.gouv.fr/Elections/Les-resultats/Legislatives/elecresult__legislatives-2017/(path)/legislatives-2017/067/06706.html

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