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).Loi n° 86-1197 du 24 novembre 1986 relative à la délimitation des circonscriptions pour l'élection des députés
Deputies This was a consistently left-wing constituency until 2017. It was long held by the French Communist Party prior to the 2002 election.
ElectionMember"Notices et portraits des députés de la Ve République, website of the National AssemblyParty1958Pierre CarousUNR1962Arthur MusmeauxPCF196719681973Georges DonnezMDSF1978Alain BocquetPCF1981 1986 Proportional representation - no election by constituency 1988 Gustave Ansart PCF 1990 René Carpentier 1993 1997 Patrick Leroy 2002 Patrick Roy PS 2007 2011 Marie-Claude Marchand 2012 Anne-Lise Dufour-Tonini 2017 Sébastien Chenu FN2022RN
Election results
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2017 CandidateLabelFirst roundSecond roundVotes%Votes%Sébastien ChenuFN33.2155.35Sabine HebbarMoDem18.0844.65Anne-Lise Dufour-ToniniPS14.08Julien PoixFI12.83Pascal JeanPCF9.76Olivier CapronLR6.94Xavier BlottièreECO1.79Marlène WrobelEXG1.23Serge ThomèsEXD0.94Sébastien DufourDIV0.68Saïda BamouneDVG0.45Votes100.00100.00Valid votes97.7490.20Blank votes1.666.78Null votes0.603.01Turnout46.1140.56Abstentions53.8959.44Registered votersSource: Ministry of the Interior
2012
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* Withdrew before the 2nd round
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."Législatives : 49,58% de participation à 17h", L'Express, 17 June 2007 24.4% of voters nonetheless cast a blank ballot.Official results: 2007, French government website
2007
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* Withdrew before the 2nd round
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."Dix triangulaires au second tour des législatives", L'Express, 12 June 2002Official results: 2002, French government website
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1997
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* Withdrew before the 2nd round
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