Nord's 11th constituency

11th constituency of the Nord

French National Assembly
constituency

Nord's 11th Constituency shown within Nord-Pas-de-Calais
Deputy
 Yves Durand
PS
Department Nord
Canton Armentières, Lille-Sud-Ouest, Lomme
Voters 90,403

The 11th constituency of the Nord is a French legislative constituency in the Nord département.

Description

Following the 2010 redistricting of French legislative constituencies La Bassée was removed from this constituency to be placed within Nord's 5th constituency and Lille-Sud-Ouest was added in its place.

The seat has supported the Socialist Party and its predecessor SFIO at every election since 1958 with the sole exception of the conservative landslide of 1993.

Historic Representation

ElectionMemberParty
1958 Albert Denvers SFIO
1978 PS
1986 Proportional representation - no election by constituency
1988 Yves Durand PS
1993 Françoise Hostalier UDF
1997 Yves Durand PS

Election results

2012

Legislative Election 2012: Nord's 11th Constituency 2nd round
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
PS Yves Durand 25,420 58.11
NC Thierry Pauchet 18,321 41.89
Turnout 45,360 50.18
PS hold Swing

Sources

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