Charente-Maritime's 4th constituency

4th constituency of Charente-Maritime
inline Constituency of the National Assembly of France
Constituency in department
Charente-Maritime in France
Incumbent deputy	Raphaël Gérard RE
Department	Charente-Maritime
Cantons	Archiac, Cozes, Gémozac, Jonzac, Mirambeau, Montendre, Montguyon, Montlieu-la-Garde, Pons, Royan-Est, Saint-Genis-de-Saintonge, and the communes of Colombiers and La Jard in Saintes-Est
Registered voters	89,894 (2017)
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The 4th constituency of Charente-Maritime (French: Quatrième circonscription de la Charente-Maritime) is one of five electoral districts in the department of Charente-Maritime, each of which returns one deputy to the French National Assembly in elections using the two-round system, with a run-off if no candidate receives more than 50% of the vote in the first round.

Description

The constituency is made up of 11 whole (pre-2015) cantons – those of Archiac, Cozes, Gémozac, Jonzac, Mirambeau, Montendre, Montguyon, Montlieu-la-Garde, Pons, Royan-Est, and Saint-Genis-de-Saintonge – plus two communes (Colombiers and La Jard) belonging to a twelfth: that of Saintes-Est.

At the time of the 1999 census (which was the basis for the most recent redrawing of constituency boundaries, carried out in 2010) the 4th constituency had a total population of 101,987.

Deputies

Election		Member	Party
	1958	André Bégouin	CNIP
	1962	Daniel Daviaud	PRV
	1967
	1968	Louis Joanne	UDR
	1973	Louis Joanne	RI
	1978	Philippe Marchand	PS
	1981
1986		Proportional representation – no election by constituency
	1988	Philippe Marchand	PS
	1993	Dominique Bussereau	UDF
	1997
	2002		UMP
	2007
	2012
	2017	Raphaël Gérard	LREM
	2022		RE

Election results

2022

Legislative Election 2022: Charente-Maritime's 4th constituency

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LREM (Ensemble)	Raphaël Gérard	12,743	27.59	-6.26
	RN	Pascal Markowsky	11,900	25.77	+8.78
	LFI (NUPÉS)	Danièle Desselles	9,114	19.73	-1.90
	LR (UDC)	Françoise De Roffignac	6,828	14.78	-7.42
	REC	Jean Robin	1,935	4.19	N/A
	DIV	Stéphane Loth	935	2.02	N/A
	Others	N/A	2,727	5.90
Turnout			46,182	50.33	-0.41
2nd round result
	LREM (Ensemble)	Raphaël Gérard	21,447	50.90	-0.39
	RN	Pascal Markowsky	20,685	49.10	N/A
Turnout			42,132	48.92	+4.74
	LREM hold

2017

Candidate		Label	First round		Second round
			Votes	%	Votes	%
	Raphaël Gérard	REM	15,055	33.85	18,070	51.29
	Loic Girard	LR	9,872	22.20	17,159	48.71
	Isabelle Texier	FN	7,556	16.99
	Lucie Kirchner	FI	5,324	11.97
	Fabienne Dugas-Raveneau	PS	2,536	5.70
	Laurence Marcillaud	ECO	1,194	2.68
	Benoît Biteau	PRG	824	1.85
	Éric Devise	DLF	782	1.76
	Pascal Pellerin	PCF	568	1.28
	Valerie Barraud	EXG	379	0.85
	Ingrid Chrismann	DIV	298	0.67
	Philippe Davril	DVG	88	0.20
Votes			44,476	100.00	35,229	100.00
Valid votes			44,476	97.51	35,229	88.70
Blank votes			780	1.71	2,969	7.48
Null votes			357	0.78	1,521	3.83
Turnout			45,613	50.74	39,719	44.18
Abstentions			44,282	49.26	50,175	55.82
Registered voters			89,895		89,894
Source: Ministry of the Interior

2012

Results in the Charente-Maritime's five constituencies in 2012 : pale pink (Miscellaneous left), pink (PS), blue (UMP)

Summary of the 10 June and 17 June 2012 French legislative election in Charante Maritime’s 4th Constituency

Candidate		Party		1st round		2nd round
				Votes	%	Votes	%
	Dominique Bussereau	Union for a Popular Movement	UMP	20,485	40.01%	26,740	52.15%
	Fabienne Dugas-Raveneau	Socialist Party	PS	18,129	35.41%	24,540	47.85%
	Tony Lambert	Front National	FN	6,946	13.57%
	Jean-Yves Boiffier	Left Front	FG	2,168	4.23%
	Jean-Luc Guerbois	Europe Ecology – The Greens	EELV	1,243	2.43%
	Valérie Verduzier	Centrist	CEN	795	1.55%
	Laure Serra	Miscellaneous Right	DVD	524	1.02%
	Martine Gantner	Miscellaneous Right	DVD	379	0.74%
	Valérie Baraud	Far Left	EXG	348	0.68%
	Stéphane Hays	Other	AUT	182	0.36%
Total				51,199	100%	51,280	100%
Registered voters				87,692		87,675
Blank/Void ballots				873	1.00%	1,617	1.84%
Turnout				52,072	59.38%	52,897	60.33%
Abstentions				35,620	40.62%	34,778	39.67%
Result						UMP HOLD

2007

Results of the 10 June and 17 June 2007 French legislative election in Charente Maritime’s 4th Constituency[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	UMP	Dominique Bussereau	26,322	51.73
	PS	Régine Joly	12,161	23.90
	MoDem	Céline Alleaume	3,471	6.82
	FN	Bernard Roy	1,936	3.80
	LMR	Chantal Thomazeau	1,630	3.20
	Far left	Lino Piva	1,113	2.19
	LV	Danièle Lot	982	1.93
	PCF	Jean-Marc Langlais	923	1.93
	MPF	Séverine Werbrouck	723	1.42
	DVG	Alain Girard	371	0.73
	Far left	Christophe Bruneteau	371	0.73
	ECO	Françoise Doucet	353	0.69
	Independent	Jack Lionet	281	0.55
	DVD	Grégory Couillaud	250	0.49
Majority			14,161	27.83
Turnout			52,695	61.42
	UMP hold		Swing

2002

Legislative Election 2002: Charente-Maritime's 4th constituency

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	UMP	Dominique Bussereau	24,413	47.17
	PRG	Philippe Callaud	11,003	21.26
	FN	Eliane Petrus	5,392	10.42
	LMR	Gérard Fontenay	3,508	6.78
	LV	Nathalie Riollet	1,679	3.24
	PCF	René Renaudet	1,282	2.48
	DVG	Henri-Georges Dubois	1,145	2.21
	Others	N/A	3,333
Turnout			53,007	64.75
2nd round result
	UMP	Dominique Bussereau	29,642	62.31
	PRG	Philippe Callaud	17,932	37.69
Turnout			49,503	60.47
	UMP gain from UDF

1997

Legislative Election 1997: Charente-Maritime's 4th constituency

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	UDF	Dominique Bussereau	18,514	37.35
	PRG	Philippe Callaud	13,401	27.04
	FN	Hilles Bredillot	6,586	13.29
	PCF	Michelle Carmousse	4,878	9.84
	MPF	Claude Trong	2,534	5.11
	LV	Jack Lionet	2,272	4.58
	MEI	Christophe Bultel	1,382	2.79
Turnout			53,363	67.73
2nd round result
	UDF	Dominique Bussereau	27,117	51.07
	PRG	Philippe Callaud	25,981	48.93
Turnout			56,652	71.91
	UDF hold

Sources

• Notes and portraits of the French MPs under the Fifth Republic, French National Assembly
• 2012 French legislative elections: Charente-Maritime's 4th constituency (first round and run-off), Minister of the Interior