Nord's 12th constituency

12th constituency of the Nord

French National Assembly
constituency

Nord's 12th Constituency shown within Nord-Pas-de-Calais

Deputy

Christian Bataille
PS

Department

Nord

Canton

Avesnes-sur-Helpe-Sud, Berlaimont, Carnières, Hautmont, Landrecies, Le Quesnoy-Est, Le Quesnoy-Ouest, Solesmes

Voters

93,678

The 12th constituency of the Nord is a French legislative constituency in the Nord département.

Description

Following the 2010 redistricting of French legislative constituencies Nord's 12th Constituency was effectively created as a new seat covering the areas once occupied by the 22nd and 24th constituencies in the east of the department.

Christian Bataille of the Socialist Party won the seat comfortably in the second round beating the National Front candidate by 7,000 votes.

Historic Representation

Election		Member	Party
	2012	Christian Bataille	PS

Election results

2012

Legislative Election 2012: Nord's 12th Constituency 2nd round
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PS	Christian Bataille	27,129	57.47
	FN	Anne-Sophie Leveque	20,080	42.53
Turnout			51,017	54.46
	PS hold		Swing

Sources

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

Constituencies Nord-Pas-de-Calais (33)

Nord (21)	Nord's 1st Nord's 2nd Nord's 3rd Nord's 4th Nord's 5th Nord's 6th Nord's 7th Nord's 8th Nord's 9th Nord's 10th Nord's 11th Nord's 12th Nord's 13th Nord's 14th Nord's 15th Nord's 16th Nord's 17th Nord's 18th Nord's 19th Nord's 20th Nord's 21st

Pas-de-Calais (12)	Pas-de-Calais' 1st Pas-de-Calais' 2nd Pas-de-Calais' 3rd Pas-de-Calais' 4th Pas-de-Calais' 5th Pas-de-Calais' 6th Pas-de-Calais' 7th Pas-de-Calais' 8th Pas-de-Calais' 9th Pas-de-Calais' 10th Pas-de-Calais' 11th Pas-de-Calais' 12th

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