Charente-Maritime's 5th constituency

The 5th constituency of Charente-Maritime (French: Cinquième 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 nine (pre-2015) cantons: those of Le Château-d'Oléron, Marennes, Royan-Ouest, Saint-Agnant, Saint-Pierre-d'Oléron, Saint-Porchaire, Saujon, Tonnay-Charente, and La Tremblade.

At the time of the 1999 census (which was the basis for the most recent redrawing of constituency boundaries, carried out in 2010) the 5th constituency had a total population of 112,002.

2012


! colspan="2" rowspan="2" style="text-align:left;" | Candidate ! rowspan="2" colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" | Party ! colspan="2" | 1st round ! colspan="2" | 2nd round ! width="75" | Votes ! width="30" | % ! width="75" | Votes ! width="30" | %
 * - style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;"
 * - style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;"
 * style="color:inherit;background-color:" |
 * style="text-align:left;" | Didier Quentin
 * style="text-align:left;" | Union for a Popular Movement
 * UMP
 * 25,925
 * 41.68%
 * 32,697
 * 53.99%
 * style="color:inherit;background-color:" |
 * style="text-align:left;" | Pascal Ferchaud
 * style="text-align:left;" | Radical Party of the Left
 * PRG
 * 21,637
 * 34.79%
 * 27,866
 * 46.01%
 * style="color:inherit;background-color:" |
 * style="text-align:left;" | Jean-Marc de Lacoste Lareymondie
 * style="text-align:left;" | Front National
 * FN
 * 8,769
 * 14.10%
 * colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" |
 * style="color:inherit;background-color:" |
 * style="text-align:left;" | Jacques Guiard
 * style="text-align:left;" | Left Front
 * FG
 * 2,340
 * 3.76%
 * colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" |
 * style="color:inherit;background-color:" |
 * style="text-align:left;" | Laurence Marcillaud
 * style="text-align:left;" | Europe Ecology – The Greens
 * EELV
 * 1,272
 * 2.05%
 * colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" |
 * style="color:inherit;background-color:" |
 * style="text-align:left;" | Michel Renault
 * style="text-align:left;" | Centrist
 * CEN
 * 957
 * 1.54%
 * colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" |
 * style="color:inherit;background-color:" |
 * style="text-align:left;" | Sylvie Moreau
 * style="text-align:left;" | Ecologist
 * ECO
 * 608
 * 0.98%
 * colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" |
 * style="color:inherit;background-color:" |
 * style="text-align:left;" | Pascale Lequeux
 * style="text-align:left;" | Ecologist
 * ECO
 * 361
 * 0.58%
 * colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" |
 * style="color:inherit;background-color:" |
 * style="text-align:left;" | Anne Bernon
 * style="text-align:left;" | Far Left
 * EXG
 * 327
 * 0.53%
 * colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" |
 * colspan="8" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"|
 * - style="font-weight:bold"
 * colspan="4" style="text-align:left;" | Total
 * 62,196
 * 100%
 * 60,563
 * 100%
 * colspan="8" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"|
 * colspan="4" style="text-align:left;" | Registered voters
 * 106,006
 * style="color:inherit;background-color:#E9E9E9;"|
 * 105,996
 * style="color:inherit;background-color:#E9E9E9;"|
 * colspan="4" style="text-align:left;" | Blank/Void ballots
 * 811
 * 0.77%
 * 1,604
 * 1.51%
 * colspan="4" style="text-align:left;" | Turnout
 * 63,007
 * 59.44%
 * 62,167
 * 58.65%
 * colspan="4" style="text-align:left;" | Abstentions
 * 42,999
 * 40.56%
 * 43,829
 * 41.35%
 * colspan="8" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"|
 * - style="font-weight:bold"
 * colspan="6" style="text-align:left;" | Result
 * colspan="2" style="background-color:" | UMP HOLD
 * }
 * 63,007
 * 59.44%
 * 62,167
 * 58.65%
 * colspan="4" style="text-align:left;" | Abstentions
 * 42,999
 * 40.56%
 * 43,829
 * 41.35%
 * colspan="8" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"|
 * - style="font-weight:bold"
 * colspan="6" style="text-align:left;" | Result
 * colspan="2" style="background-color:" | UMP HOLD
 * }
 * colspan="2" style="background-color:" | UMP HOLD
 * }