Territoire de Belfort's 2nd constituency

2nd constituency of Territoire-de-Belfort

French National Assembly constituency
File:Territoire-de-Belfort2ndConstituency.png Territoire-de-Belfort's 2nd Constituency shown within Franche-Comté
Deputy	Florian Chauche LFI
Department	Territoire-de-Belfort
Canton	Belfort-Nord, Belfort-Ouest, Belfort-Sud, Châtenois-les-Forges, Giromagny, Offemont, Rougemont-le-Château, Valdoie.
Voters	47,774

The 2nd constituency of Territoire-de-Belfort is a French legislative constituency in the Territoire-de-Belfort département.

Description

The 2nd constituency of Territoire-de-Belfort includes most of Belfort itself as well as the territory in the north west of the department.

The constituency is notable for being the home seat of former Interior Minister Jean-Pierre Chevènement, who left the Socialist Party to found the Citizens' Movement in 1993.

Historic Representation

Election		Member	Party
	1978	Raymond Forni	PS
1986		Proportional representation – no election by constituency
	1988	Jean-Pierre Chevènement	PS
	1988	Gilberte Marin-Moskovitz
	1991	Jean-Pierre Chevènement
	1993		MDC
	1997
	1997	Gilberte Marin-Moskovitz
	2000	Jean-Pierre Chevènement
	2002	Michel Zumkeller	PRV
	2007		UMP-PRV
	2012
	2017		UDI-PRV
	2022	Florian Chauche	LFI

Election results

2022

Legislative Election 2022: Territoire de Belfort's 2nd constituency

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LFI (NUPES)	Florian Chauche	5,943	26.42	+0.97
style="background-color: Template:National Rally/meta/color; width: 5px;" |	[[National Rally|Template:National Rally/meta/shortname]]	Sophie Carnicer	4,307	19.15	+3.80
	MoDem ([[Ensemble Citoyens|Template:Ensemble Citoyens/meta/shortname]])	Baptiste Petitjean	4,134	18.38	-11.51
	UDI ([[Union of the Right and Centre|Template:Union of the Right and Centre/meta/shortname]])	Michel Zumkeller	3,669	16.31	-7.24
	Republican	Didier Vallverdu*	2,502	11.12	N/A
style="background-color: Template:Reconquête/meta/color; width: 5px;" |	[[Reconquête|Template:Reconquête/meta/shortname]]	Marc Felemez	1,158	5.15	N/A
	Others	N/A	782	-	-
Turnout			22,495	49.94	+1.80
2nd round result
	LFI (NUPES)	Florian Chauche	9,476	51.37	N/A
style="background-color: Template:National Rally/meta/color; width: 5px;" |	[[National Rally|Template:National Rally/meta/shortname]]	Sophie Carnicer	8,971	48.63	N/A
Turnout			18,447	47.56	+9.18
style="background-color: Template:La France Insoumise/meta/color" |	[[La France Insoumise|Template:La France Insoumise/meta/shortname]] gain from UDI

* Vallverdu ran as a dissident LR candidate, without the support of the party or the UDC alliance.

2017

Legislative Election 2017: Territoire de Belfort's 2nd constituency

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	[[La République En Marche!|Template:La République En Marche!/meta/shortname]]	Bruno Kern	6,836	29.89
	UDI	Michel Zumkeller	5,386	23.55
	FN	Laila Leroy	3,511	15.35
style="background-color: Template:La France Insoumise/meta/color; width: 5px;" |	[[La France Insoumise|Template:La France Insoumise/meta/shortname]]	Laurent Soler	2,644	11.56
	EELV	Vincent Jeudy	1,486	6.50
	PS	Maude Clavequin	1,357	5.93
	[[Debout la France|Template:Debout la France/meta/shortname]]	Jean-Christophe Muringer	506	2.21
	Others	N/A	1,142
Turnout			22,868	48.14
2nd round result
	UDI	Michel Zumkeller	9,815	53.84
	[[La République En Marche!|Template:La République En Marche!/meta/shortname]]	Bruno Kern	8,415	46.16
Turnout			18,230	38.38
	UDI gain from Radical

2012

Legislative Election 2012: Territoire de Belfort's 2nd constituency

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Radical	Michel Zumkeller	8,502	30.34
	Miscellaneous left	Etienne Butzbach	8,403	29.99
	FN	Isabelle Roy	4,921	17.56
	Miscellaneous left	Marie-José Fleury	1,862	6.64
	FG	Emmanuel Petitjean	1,377	4.91
	EELV	Vincent Jeudy	1,163	4.15
	MoDem	Jean-Christophe Messin	778	2.78
	[[Miscellaneous|Template:Miscellaneous/meta/shortname]]	Bachir Bouhmadou	593	2.12
	Others	N/A	425
Turnout			28,024	58.65
2nd round result
	Radical	Michel Zumkeller	13,741	51.61
	Miscellaneous left	Etienne Butzbach	12,886	48.39
Turnout			26,627	55.74
	Radical gain from UMP

2007

Legislative Election 2007: Territoire de Belfort's 2nd constituency

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	UMP	Michel Zumkeller	12,380	43.15
	CRM	Jean-Pierre Chevènement	7,467	26.03
	PS	Alain Dreyfus-Schmidt	2,081	7.25
	FN	Sylvianne Schott	1,488	5.19
	LV	Jean Siron	1,279	4.46
	MoDem	Sebastien Astorga	1,238	4.32
	Far-left	Marie-Christine Welfele	650	2.27
	Others	N/A	2,106
Turnout			29,363	61.83
2nd round result
	UMP	Michel Zumkeller	15,701	54.48
	CRM	Jean-Pierre Chevènement	13,119	45.52
Turnout			30,385	63.99
	UMP hold

2002

Legislative Election 2002: Territoire de Belfort's 2nd constituency

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	UMP	Michel Zumkeller	7,560	25.65
	Republican Pole	Jean-Pierre Chevènement	6,338	21.50
	PS	Yves Ackermann	5,531	18.77
	FN	Marie-Thérèse Munnier	4,854	16.47
	UDF	Lionel Courbey	1,815	6.16
	LV	Céline Raigneau	1,003	3.40
	LO	Gerard Belot	592	2.01
	Others	N/A	1,782
Turnout			30,292	65.91
2nd round result
	UMP	Michel Zumkeller	14,543	53.42
	Republican Pole	Jean-Pierre Chevènement	12,679	46.58
Turnout			29,615	64.44
	UMP gain from CRM

1997

Legislative Election 1997: Territoire de Belfort's 2nd constituency

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CRM	Jean-Pierre Chevènement	12,339	40.48
	FN	Michel Algrin	6,228	20.43
	UDF	Jacques Bichet	6,043	19.82
	LV	Jean-Jacques Mettetal	2,143	7.03
	PCF	Daniel Couqueberg	1,503	4.93
	LO	Gérard Belot	1,291	4.23
	Miscellaneous right	Christine Roussel	938	3.08
Turnout			32,129	71.73
2nd round result
	CRM	Jean-Pierre Chevènement	17,720	55.30
	UDF	Jacques Bichet	8,346	26.04
	FN	Michel Algrin	5,979	18.66
Turnout			33,652	75.15
	CRM hold

Sources

Official results of French elections from 2002: "Résultats électoraux officiels en France" (in French).