New Caledonia's 1st constituency

1st constituency of New Caledonia
inline Constituency of the National Assembly of France
Deputy	Sonia Lagarde UDI
Department	New Caledonia
Cantons	Loyalty Islands, communes of Nouméa and Île des Pins
Registered voters	116,984
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The 1st constituency of New Caledonia is a French legislative constituency in New Caledonia.

Between 1958 and 1962, the constituency represented the entirety of the New Hebrides condominium and the constituency represented the entirety of New Caledonia until a redistricting in 1978 created the 2nd constituency. Between 1978 and a new redistricting in 1986, the first constituency represented the Kanak-populated eastern shore of the main island in addition to the Loyalty Islands. Since 1986, the constituency is composed of the Caldoche-populated loyalist stronghold of Nouméa and the strongly nationalist Kanak-populated Loyalty Islands. Due to this makeup in which loyalist-voting Nouméa far outnumbers the sparsely populated islands, the constituency is strongly loyalist.

Deputies

Election		Member	Party
style="background-color: Template:Rally for the Republic/meta/color" |	1988	Jacques Lafleur	RPCR
style="background-color: Template:Rally for the Republic/meta/color" |	1993
style="background-color: Template:Rally for the Republic/meta/color" |	1997
style="background-color: Template:Union for a Popular Movement/meta/color" |	2002
style="background-color: Template:Union for a Popular Movement/meta/color" |	2007	Gaël Yanno	RPCR
style="background-color: Template:Union of Democrats and Independents/meta/color" |	2012	Sonia Lagarde	UDI Caledonia Together

Election results

2007

Legislative Election 2007: New Caledonia 1st - 2nd round

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	UMP	Gaël Yanno	26,732	69.21
	FLNKS	Charles Washetine	11,891	30.79
Turnout			38,623	57.73
	UMP hold		Swing

Sources

• Official results of French elections from 1998: "Résultats électoraux officiels en France" (in French).