New Caledonia's 1st constituency

1st constituency of New Caledonia

French National Assembly
constituency

Deputy
 Gaël Yanno
The Rally-UMP
Department New Caledonia
Canton Loyalty Islands, communes of Nouméa and Île des Pins in South Province

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

ElectionMemberParty
1958 Maurice Lenormand UC
1967 Rock Pidjot UC
1986 Proportional representation - no election by constituency
1988 Jacques Lafleur RPR
2002 UMP
2007 Gaël Yanno UMP

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

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