Nord's 17th constituency

17th constituency of the Nord
inline Constituency of the National Assembly of France
Nord's 17th Constituency shown within Nord department
Deputy	Thibaut François RN
Department	Nord
Cantons	Arleux, Douai-Nord (part), Douai-Nord-Est, Douai-Sud (part), Douai-Sud-Ouest.
Registered voters	75,067
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The 17th constituency of the Nord is a French legislative constituency in the Nord département.

Description

Nord's 17th constituency contains the majority of Douai as well as the rural canton of Arleux to the south.

The seat was held by Marc Dolez from 1988 to 2017, with the sole exception of between 1993 and 1997. Dolez left the Socialist Party to join Jean-Luc Mélenchon's Left Party in 2008. At the 2012 election he faced no candidate in the second round following the withdrawal of the Socialist Party candidate.

Historic Representation

Election		Member	Party
	1958	Narcisse Pavot	SFIO
	1962
	1967	Paul Leloir	PCF
	1968	Jean Durieux	RI
	1973
	1978	Claude Wargnies	PCF
	1981	Paul Moreau	PS
1986		Proportional representation - no election by constituency
	1988	Marc Dolez	PS
	1993	Jacques Vernier	RPR
	1997	Marc Dolez	PS
	2002
	2007
	2008		PG
	2012
	2017	Dimitri Houbron	LREM
	2020		Agir
	2022	Thibaut François	RN

Election results

2024

Legislative Election 2024: Nord's 17th constituency

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	RN (UXD)	Thierry Tesson	21,803	47.92	+15.01
	LR	Loick Brouazin	3,627	7.97	−16.16
	PS (NFP)	Frédéric Chéreau	13,575	29.84	n/a
	HOR (Ensemble)	Guillaume Honoré	5,739	12.61	−11.52
	LO	Cédric Fluckiger	751	1.65	n/a
Turnout			45,495	97.37	+53.38
Registered electors			73,875
2nd round result
	RN	Thierry Tesson	23,873	55.80	+7.88
	PS	Frédéric Chéreau	18,913	44.20	+14.36
Turnout			42,786	93.42	−3.95
Registered electors			73,889
	RN hold		Swing

2022

Legislative Election 2022: Nord's 17th constituency

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	RN	Thibaut François	10,414	32.91	+8.53
	HOR (Ensemble)	Dimitri Houbron	7,636	24.13	+1.00
	LFI (NUPÉS)	Cyril Grandin	7,250	22.91	−4.82
	UDI (UDC)	Romain Boulant	1,688	5.33	−5.07
	REC	Valérie Norreel	966	3.05	N/A
	DIV	Isabelle Maman	841	2.66	N/A
	PRG	Marion Thooft	661	2.09	N/A
	Others	N/A	2,186	6.91
Turnout			31,642	43.99	−1.50
2nd round result
	RN	Thibaut François	15,408	53.57	+6.78
	HOR (Ensemble)	Dimitri Houbron	13,354	46.43	−6.78
Turnout			28,762	42.37	+1.69
	RN gain from LREM

2017

Candidate		Label	First round		Second round
			Votes	%	Votes	%
	Thibaut François	FN	7,993	24.38	12,697	46.79
	Dimitri Houbron	REM	7,583	23.13	14,442	53.21
	François Guiffard	FI	3,961	12.08
	Charles Beauchamp	PCF	3,955	12.07
	Frédéric Nihous	LR	3,408	10.40
	Jean-Luc Hallé	DVG	2,876	8.77
	Agnès Dupuis	PS	1,174	3.58
	Lucile Wacheux	ECO	628	1.92
	Amid Benchabane	ECO	364	1.11
	Éric Pecqueur	EXG	309	0.94
	Gaëtan Duez	DIV	192	0.59
	Nicolas Rankowski	DVD	177	0.54
	Léopold Pons	DVD	159	0.49
Votes			32,779	100.00	27,139	100.00
Valid votes			32,779	97.88	27,139	90.65
Blank votes			523	1.56	1,919	6.41
Null votes			187	0.56	881	2.94
Turnout			33,489	45.49	29,939	40.68
Abstentions			40,124	54.51	43,660	59.32
Registered voters			73,613		73,599
Source: Ministry of the Interior

2012

Legislative Election 2012: Nord's 17th constituency

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PG (FG)	Marc Dolez	12,404	30.84
	PS	Monique Amghar*	9,141	22.73
	FN	Chantal Bojanek	8,234	20.47
	UMP	Bruno Bufquin	8,212	20.42
	MoDem	Bruno Vandeville	1,154	2.87
	Others	N/A	1,075
Turnout			40,220	53.58
2nd round result
	PG (FG)	Marc Dolez	19,763	100.00
Turnout			19,763	26.33
	PG gain from PS

* Withdrew before the 2nd round

2007

Legislative Election 2007: Nord's 17th constituency

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PS	Marc Dolez	16,509	38.54
	UMP	Françoise Prouvost	13,539	31.60
	PCF	Jacques Michon	4,221	9.85
	FN	Marie-Paule Darchicourt	2,659	6.21
	MoDem	Dominique Becar-Rojee	2,013	4.70
	Others	N/A	3,898
Turnout			43,579	58.09
2nd round result
	PS	Marc Dolez	25,847	62.14
	UMP	Françoise Prouvost	15,746	37.86
Turnout			43,303	57.72
	PS hold

2002

Legislative Election 2002: Nord's 17th constituency

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PS	Marc Dolez	15,855	36.40
	UMP	Françoise Prouvost	11,733	26.94
	FN	Monique Lamare	6,264	14.38
	PCF	Therese Pernot	3,550	8.15
	CPNT	Frederic Nihous	1,316	3.02
	UDF	Didier Sniadach	1,061	2.44
	Others	N/A	3,781
Turnout			44,416	60.68
2nd round result
	PS	Marc Dolez	23,986	59.98
	UMP	Françoise Prouvost	16,005	40.02
Turnout			41,677	56.94
	PS hold

1997

Legislative Election 1997: Nord's 17th constituency

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PS	Marc Dolez	15,029	31.43
	RPR	Jacques Vernier	13,702	28.66
	PCF	Pierre Lefebvre	7,672	16.05
	FN	Jean-Marie Lamare	6,677	13.97
	LO	Roger Marie	1,296	2.71
	LV	Geneviève Pirrieros	1,027	2.15
	Others	N/A	2,408
Turnout			49,580	69.25
2nd round result
	PS	Marc Dolez	29,431	59.53
	RPR	Jacques Vernier	20,005	40.47
Turnout			51,446	71.86
	PS gain from RPR

Sources

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