A by-election for Seine-Maritime's 5th constituency was held in September 2020. Politically the seat has remained a solid bastion for the Socialist Party. In 2017 the seat was a rare example of them retaining a seat.
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Turnout | 17.71% (first round) 17.75% (second round) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The deputy, Christophe Bouillon was elected mayor of Barentin on 28 May 2020 and resigned from the National Assembly on 18 June because of cumulation of mandates. His substitute, Bastien Coriton, was also elected mayor, in Rives-en-Seine, so resigned from the assembly five days after taking office.[1] A by-election was called for 20 and 27 September 2020.
Gérard Leseul of the socialists was elected in the second round.[2]
By-election Result
editParty | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |||
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PS | Gérard Leseul (Substitute: Martine Blondel) | 6,586 | 39.94 | −1.92 | |||
RN | Jean-Cyril Montier (Substitute: Anaïs Thomas) | 2,970 | 18.01 | −0.81 | |||
LREM | Patricia Lhoir (Substitute: Paul Bonmartel) | 1,767 | 10.72 | N/A | |||
LR | Michel Allais (Substitute: Corinne Buquet) | 1,601 | 9.71 | −11.41 | |||
G.s | Auban Al Jiboury (Substitute: Enora Chopard) | 1,455 | 8.82 | N/A | |||
LFI | Maxime Da Silva (Substitute: Marie-Odile Lecourtois) | 1,434 | 8.70 | −3.06 | |||
Far left | Valérie Foissey (Substitute: Frédéric Podguzer) | 391 | 2.37 | N/A | |||
Others | N/A | 286 | |||||
Turnout | 16,918 | 17.71 | −31.37 | ||||
2nd round result | |||||||
PS | Gérard Leseul (Substitute: Martine Blondel) | 11,502 | 71.61 | +2.46 | |||
RN | Jean-Cyril Montier (Substitute: Anaïs Thomas) | 4,561 | 28.39 | N/A | |||
Turnout | 16,961 | 17.75 | −24.29 | ||||
PS hold |
References
edit- ^ Duguet, Stéphane. "Bastien Coriton, suppléant de député : «Je me suis demandé où je me sentais le plus utile»". Libération (in French). Retrieved 2021-09-03.
- ^ Anthoine, Gilles (23 September 2020). "Seine-Maritime. Législatives (5e circonscription) : Gérard Leseul (PS) au second tour". Tendance Ouest (in French). Retrieved 2021-09-03.
- ^ Ministère l'Intérieure. "partielles 2020" [2020 by-elections]. French Ministry of the interior (in French). Retrieved 2021-02-07.
- ^ "Seine-Maritime. Législative partielle dans la 5e circonscription : Huit candidats sur la ligne de départ".