The 2nd constituency of Charente-Maritime (French: Deuxième 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 cantons: those of Aigrefeuille-d'Aunis, Aytré, Courçon, La Jarrie, Marans, Rochefort-Centre, Rochefort-Nord, Rochefort-Sud, and Surgères.
At the time of the 1999 census (which was the basis for the most recent redrawing of constituency boundaries, carried out in 2010) the 2nd constituency had a total population of 112,535.
Deputies
Election results
2022
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2017
2012
|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;" ! 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 |- style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;" ! width="75" | Votes ! width="30" | % ! width="75" | Votes ! width="30" | % |- | style="background-color:" | | style="text-align:left;" | Suzanne Tallard | style="text-align:left;" | Socialist Party | PS | | 31.50% | | 52.99% |- | style="background-color:" | | style="text-align:left;" | Jean-Louis Leonard | style="text-align:left;" | Union for a Popular Movement | UMP | | 34.22% | | 47.01% |- | style="background-color:" | | style="text-align:left;" | David Baudon | style="text-align:left;" | Miscellaneous Left | DVG | | 12.60% | colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" | |- | style="background-color:" | | style="text-align:left;" | Joan Desire | style="text-align:left;" | Front National | FN | | 9.36% | colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" | |- | style="background-color:" | | style="text-align:left;" | Gérard Blanchier | style="text-align:left;" | Left Front | FG | | 4.78% | colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" | |- | style="background-color:" | | style="text-align:left;" | Patrick Angibaud | style="text-align:left;" | Europe Ecology – The Greens | EELV | | 3.81% | colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" | |- | style="background-color:" | | style="text-align:left;" | Dominique Droin | style="text-align:left;" | Miscellaneous Right | DVD | | 1.43% | colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" | |- | style="background-color:" | | style="text-align:left;" | Victor Domingues | style="text-align:left;" | Miscellaneous Left | DVG | | 0.84% | colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" | |- | style="background-color:" | | style="text-align:left;" | Jean-Luc Delcampo | style="text-align:left;" | Miscellaneous Left | DVG | | 0.68% | colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" | |- | style="background-color:" | | style="text-align:left;" | Frédéric Castello | style="text-align:left;" | Far Left | EXG | | 0.43% | colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" | |- | style="background-color:" | | style="text-align:left;" | Claude Billot Zeller | style="text-align:left;" | Far Right | EXD | | 0.35% | colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" | |- | colspan="8" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"| |- style="font-weight:bold" | colspan="4" style="text-align:left;" | Total | | 100% | | 100% |- | colspan="8" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"| |- | colspan="4" style="text-align:left;" | Registered voters | | style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"| | | style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"| |- | colspan="4" style="text-align:left;" | Blank/Void ballots | | 0.90% | | 1.60% |- | colspan="4" style="text-align:left;" | Turnout | | 58.57% | | 59.19% |- | colspan="4" style="text-align:left;" | Abstentions | | 41.43% | | 40.81% |- | colspan="8" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"| |- style="font-weight:bold" | colspan="6" style="text-align:left;" | Result | colspan="2" style="background-color:" | PS GAIN FROM UMP |}