Finistère's 8th constituency

8th constituency of Finistère
8th constituency of Finistère
inlineConstituency of the ; National Assembly of France
	Constituency in department
	Finistère in France
Deputy	Erwan Balanant; MoDem
Department	Finistère
Cantons	d’Arzano, Bannalec, Concarneau, Pont-Aven, Quimperlé, Rosporden, Scaër
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The 8th constituency of Finistère is a French legislative constituency in the Finistère département. Like the other 576 French constituencies, it elects one MP using the two-round system, with a run-off if no candidate receives over 50% of the vote in the first round.

Deputies[edit]

Election		Member	Party
	1958	Louis Orvoën	MRP
	1962
	1967
	1968	Jean-Claude Petit	RI
	1973	Louis Le Pensec	PS
	1978
	1981
1986		Proportional representation - no election by constituency
	1988	Louis Le Pensec	PS
	2002	Gilbert Le Bris
	2007
	2012
	2017	Erwan Balanant	LREM
	2017		MoDem
	2022		MoDem

Election results[edit]

2022[edit]

Legislative Election 2022: Finistère's 8th constituency
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	MoDem (Ensemble)	Erwan Balanant	16,270	34.87	+1.45
	LFI (NUPÉS)	Youeen Le Flao	14,772	31.66	-6.55
	RN	Christian Perez	7,522	16.12	+6.43
	LR (UDC)	Claire Gourlaouen	3,104	6.65	-3.22
	REC	Pierre Couedelo	1,678	3.60	N/A
	PA	Laurent Dran	940	2.01	N/A

	Others	N/A	2,378	5.10
Turnout			46,664	52.92	-1.40
2nd round result
	MoDem (Ensemble)	Erwan Balanant	23,292	52.43	+0.98
	LFI (NUPÉS)	Youeen Le Flao	21,135	47.57	-0.98
Turnout			44,427	52.79	+7.01
	MoDem gain from LREM

2017[edit]

Candidate		Label	First round		Second round
Candidate		Label	Votes	%	Votes	%
	Erwan Balanant	REM	15,458	33.42	18,233	51.45
	Michael Quernez	PS	8,417	18.20	17,203	48.55
	Emmanuel Magnan	FI	6,001	12.97
	Laëtitia Boidin	LR	4,564	9.87
	Mikaël Caréo	FN	4,481	9.69
	Marie-Andrée Jérôme-Clovis	ECO	1,842	3.98
	Jacques Rannou	PCF	1,417	3.06
	Atto Dossena	DVD	1,072	2.32
	Yann Pelliet	REG	1,063	2.30
	Joseph Pichon	DLF	600	1.30
	Denis Madelaine-Nicot	REG	391	0.85
	Anne Morel	EXG	371	0.80
	Catherine Mercier	DIV	341	0.74
	Didier Troude	DVG	233	0.50

Votes			46,251	100.00	35,436	100.00

Valid votes			46,251	97.64	35,436	88.77
Blank votes			795	1.68	3,024	7.58
Null votes			321	0.68	1,460	3.66
Turnout			47,367	54.32	39,920	45.78
Abstentions			39,838	45.68	47,281	54.22
Registered voters			87,205		87,201

Source: Ministry of the Interior

2012[edit]

2012 legislative election in Finistere's 8th constituency^[1]
Candidate		Party	First round		Second round
Candidate		Party	Votes	%	Votes	%
	Gilbert Le Bris	PS	24,092	48.58%	30,844	65.78%
	Atto Dossena	UMP	10,527	21.23%	16,043	34.22%
	Gilles Ebroussard	FN	4,461	9.00%
	Marcel Tilly	FG	3,246	6.55%
	Stéphane Lefloch	EELV	2,651	5.35%
	Erwan Balanant	MoDem	2,171	4.38%
	Isabelle Moign	UDB	632	1.27%
	Hervé Vanzande	NC	428	0.86%
	Françoise Pontigny Lucas	PCD	421	0.85%
	Anne-Marie Rimbault	JB (BNAFET)	296	0.60%
	Anne Morel	LO	279	0.56%
	Annie Menvielle	POI	217	0.44%
	Roland Dufleit	GE	168	0.34%

Valid votes			49,589	98.29%	46,887	96.08%
Spoilt and null votes			865	1.71%	1,912	3.92%
Votes cast / turnout			50,454	59.75%	48,799	57.80%
Abstentions			33,984	40.25%	35,623	42.20%
Registered voters			84,438	100.00%	84,422	100.00%

2007[edit]

Legislative Election 2007: Finistère's 8th constituency
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	PS	Gilbert Le Bris	18,883	35.62
	UMP	Jeanne Yvonne Triche	18,097	34.14
	MoDem	Catherine Tanguy Gallen	3,966	7.48
	Far left	Eric Le Bour	2,774	5.23
	Far left	Fabrice Le Danvic	1,671	3.15
	LV	Fanny Chauffin	1,578	2.98
	FN	Georges Blanche	1,322	2.49

	Others	N/A	4,724
Turnout			53,969	65.81
2nd round result
	PS	Gilbert Le Bris	29,023	53.48
	UMP	Jeanne Yvonne Triche	25,247	46.52
Turnout			55,961	68.24
	PS hold

2002[edit]

Legislative Election 2002: Finistère's 8th constituency
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	PS	Gilbert Le Bris	19,850	38.68
	UMP	Jeanne Yvonne Triche	19,124	37.27
	FN	Jean-Louis Penn	2,877	5.61
	LV	Marie-Christine Lalloue	2,537	4.94
	PCF	Jacques Rannou	2,492	4.86
	LMR	Gerard Le Bris	1,334	2.60

	Others	N/A	3,101
Turnout			52,245	67.14
2nd round result
	PS	Gilbert Le Bris	26,278	50.97
	UMP	Jeanne Yvonne Triche	25,282	49.03
Turnout			53,224	68.40
	PS hold

1997[edit]

Legislative Election 1997: Finistère's 8th constituency
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	PS	Louis Le Pensec	20,788	41.77
	RPR	Jean Lomenech	15,719	31.59
	PCF	Eric Couvez	4,610	9.26
	FN	Anne-Marie Kerléo	4,237	8.51
	LV	Marc Navellou	1,450	2.91
	GE	Rolland Dufleit	1,312	2.64
	Regionalist	Jean Moign	1,105	2.22

	Others	N/A	542
Turnout			51,828	69.73
2nd round result
	PS	Louis Le Pensec	30,669	59.21
	RPR	Jean Lomenech	21,126	40.79
Turnout			54,247	72.99
	PS hold

Sources[edit]

Official results of French elections from 1998: "Résultats électoraux officiels en France" (in French). Archived from the original on 20 December 2011.

^ "Résultats des élections législatives 2012" [Results of 2012 Legislative Election] (in French). Ministry of the Interior.

[2012int-1] "Résultats des élections législatives 2012" [Results of 2012 Legislative Election] (in French). Ministry of the Interior.

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8th constituency of Finistère
inline Constituency of the National Assembly of France
Constituency in department
Finistère in France
Deputy	Erwan Balanant MoDem
Department	Finistère
Cantons	d’Arzano, Bannalec, Concarneau, Pont-Aven, Quimperlé, Rosporden, Scaër
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