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Finistère's 8th constituency

{{Short description|Constituency of the National Assembly of France}}

{{use dmy dates|date=May 2022}}

{{Infobox French constituency

| name = 8th constituency of Finistère

| image = Circ29-2010-08.svg

| caption = Constituency in department

| map = Finistère-Position.svg

| caption2 = Finistère in France

| member-type = Deputy

| member = Erwan Balanant

| member-party = MoDem

| department = Finistère

| canton = d’Arzano, Bannalec, Concarneau, Pont-Aven, Quimperlé, Rosporden, Scaër

}}

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

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colspan="2"|ElectionMemberParty
rowspan="3" style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Union for French Democracy}}" |

| 1958

| rowspan="3" | Louis Orvoën

| rowspan="3" | MRP

1962
1967
style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Independent Republicans}}" |

| 1968

| Jean-Claude Petit

| RI

rowspan="3" style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Socialist Party (France)}}" |

| 1973

| rowspan="3" | Louis Le Pensec

| rowspan="3" | PS

1978
1981
colspan="2" align="center" | 1986

| colspan="2" | Proportional representation - no election by constituency

rowspan="4" style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Socialist Party (France)}}" |

| 1988

| Louis Le Pensec

| rowspan="4" | PS

2002

| rowspan="3" | Gilbert Le Bris

2007
2012
style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|La République En Marche!}}" |

| 2017

| rowspan="4" | Erwan Balanant

| LREM

rowspan="3" style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Democratic Movement (France)}}" |

| 2017

| rowspan="3" |MoDem

2022
2024

Election results

=2024=

The 8th constituency was one of the rare instances of a quadangular (where four candidates qualify for the second round).

class="wikitable" style="text-align:right;font-size:95%;"

!rowspan="2" colspan="2"|Candidate

!rowspan="2"|Party

!rowspan="2"|Alliance

!colspan="3"|First round

!colspan="3"|Second round

style="width:50px;"|Votes

!style="width:45px;"|%

!style="width:45px;"|+/–

!style="width:50px;"|Votes

!style="width:45px;"|%

!style="width:45px;"|+/–

|style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|National Rally}};"|

|style="text-align:left;"|Christian Perez

|RN

|

|{{formatnum:20003}}

|30.80

| +14.68

|{{formatnum:21974}}

|35.39

| N/A

|style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Democratic Movement (France)}};"|

|style="text-align:left;"|Erwan Balanant

|RE

|ENS

|{{formatnum:18031}}

|27.76

| -7.11

|{{formatnum:40112}}

|64.61

| +13.18

|style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Socialist Party (France)}};"|

|style="text-align:left;"|Sébastien Miossec

|PS diss.

|

|{{formatnum:14399}}

|22.17

| N/A

|colspan="3" style="background:#F8F9FA;"|{{Center|WITHDREW}}

|style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|La France insoumise}};"|

|style="text-align:left;"|Thomas Le Bon

|LFI

|NFP

|{{formatnum:11768}}

|18.12

| -13.54

|colspan="3" style="background:#F8F9FA;"|{{Center|WITHDREW}}

|style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Workers' Struggle}};"|

|style="text-align:left;"|Anne Morel

|LO

|

|{{formatnum:741}}

|1.14

| -0.75

|colspan="3" style="background:#E9E9E9;"|

colspan="10" style="background:#E9E9E9;"|
colspan="4" style="text-align:left;"|Valid votes

|{{formatnum:64942}}

|97.48

| +0.64

|{{formatnum:62086}}

|93.78

| +1.38

colspan="4" style="text-align:left;"|Blank votes

|{{formatnum:1139}}

|1.71

| -0.30

|{{formatnum:2966}}

|4.48

| -0.55

colspan="4" style="text-align:left;"|Null votes

|{{formatnum:542}}

|0.81

| -0.34

|{{formatnum:1150}}

|1.74

| -0.83

colspan="4" style="text-align:left;"|Turnout

|{{formatnum:66623}}

|72.62

| +19.70

|{{formatnum:66202}}

|72.16

| +19.37

colspan="4" style="text-align:left;"|Abstentions

|{{formatnum:25116}}

|27.38

| -19.70

|{{formatnum:25547}}

|27.84

| -19.37

colspan="4" style="text-align:left;"|Registered voters

|{{formatnum:91739}}

|colspan="2" style="background:#E9E9E9;"|

|{{formatnum:91749}}

|colspan="2" style="background:#E9E9E9;"|

colspan="10" style="background:#E9E9E9;"|
colspan="10" style="text-align:left;"|Source: Ministry of the Interior,{{Cite web|url=https://www.resultats-elections.interieur.gouv.fr/legislatives2024/ |title=Publication des candidatures et des résultats aux élections - Législatives 2024 |access-date=23 June 2024 |publisher=Ministry of Interior}} Le Monde{{Cite web|url=https://www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeurs/article/2024/06/19/qui-sont-les-candidats-aux-elections-legislatives-2024-decouvrez-la-liste-circonscription-par-circonscription_6241357_4355770.html |title=Découvrez la liste des candidats aux élections législatives 2024 dans votre circonscription |date=19 June 2024 |access-date=22 June 2023 |publisher=Le Monde}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.lemonde.fr/en/les-decodeurs/article/2024/06/30/french-election-results-map-of-the-first-round-s-results_6676224_8.html |title=Map of the results of the first round of the legislative elections 2024 |date=30 June 2024 |access-date=30 June 2024 |publisher=Le Monde}}
style="font-weight:bold"

| colspan="7" style="text-align:left;" | Result

| colspan="7" style="background-color:{{party color|Democratic Movement (France)}}" | MoDEM HOLD

=2022=

{{Election box begin | title=Legislative Election 2022: Finistère's 8th constituency}}

{{Election box winning candidate for alliance|

|party = Democratic Movement (France)

|side = Ensemble Citoyens

|candidate = Erwan Balanant

|votes = 16,270

|percentage = 34.87

|change = +1.45

}}

{{Election box winning candidate for alliance|

|party = La France Insoumise

|side = NUPES

|candidate = Youeen Le Flao

|votes = 14,772

|percentage = 31.66

|change = -6.55

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|

|party = National Rally (France)

|candidate = Christian Perez

|votes = 7,522

|percentage = 16.12

|change = +6.43

}}

{{Election box candidate for alliance|

|party = The Republicans (France)

|side = Union of the Right and Centre

|candidate = Claire Gourlaouen

|votes = 3,104

|percentage = 6.65

|change = -3.22

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|

|party = Reconquête

|candidate = Pierre Couedelo

|votes = 1,678

|percentage = 3.60

|change = N/A

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|

|party = Animalist Party

|candidate = Laurent Dran

|votes = 940

|percentage = 2.01

|change = N/A

}}

|-

| colspan="8" bgcolor="#E9E9E9"|

|-

{{Election box candidate|

|party = Others

|candidate = N/A

|votes = 2,378

|percentage = 5.10

|change =

}}

{{Election box turnout|

|votes = 46,664

|percentage = 52.92

|change = -1.40

}}

{{Election box 2nd round}}

{{Election box winning candidate for alliance|

|party = Democratic Movement (France)

|side = Ensemble Citoyens

|candidate = Erwan Balanant

|votes = 23,292

|percentage = 52.43

|change = +0.98

}}

{{Election box candidate for alliance|

|party = La France Insoumise

|side = NUPES

|candidate = Youeen Le Flao

|votes = 21,135

|percentage = 47.57

|change = -0.98

}}

{{Election box turnout|

|votes = 44,427

|percentage = 52.79

|change = +7.01

}}

{{Election box gain with party link no swing|

|winner = Democratic Movement (France)

|loser = La République En Marche!

|swing =

}}

{{Election box end}}

= 2017 =

class="wikitable" style="text-align:right;font-size:95%;"

!rowspan="2" colspan="2"|Candidate

!rowspan="2"|Label

!colspan="2"|First round

!colspan="2"|Second round

style="width:50px;"|Votes

!style="width:45px;"|%

!style="width:50px;"|Votes

!style="width:45px;"|%

style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|La République En Marche!}};"|

|style="text-align:left;"|Erwan Balanant

|REM

|{{formatnum:15458}}

|33.42

|{{formatnum:18233}}

|51.45

style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Socialist Party (France)}};"|

|style="text-align:left;"|Michael Quernez

|PS

|{{formatnum:8417}}

|18.20

|{{formatnum:17203}}

|48.55

style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|La France Insoumise}};"|

|style="text-align:left;"|Emmanuel Magnan

|FI

|{{formatnum:6001}}

|12.97

|colspan="2" rowspan="12" style="background:#E9E9E9;"|

style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|The Republicans (France)}};"|

|style="text-align:left;"|Laëtitia Boidin

|LR

|{{formatnum:4564}}

|9.87

style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|National Front (France)}};"|

|style="text-align:left;"|Mikaël Caréo

|FN

|{{formatnum:4481}}

|9.69

style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Ecologist}};"|

|style="text-align:left;"|Marie-Andrée Jérôme-Clovis

|ECO

|{{formatnum:1842}}

|3.98

style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|French Communist Party}};"|

|style="text-align:left;"|Jacques Rannou

|PCF

|{{formatnum:1417}}

|3.06

style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Miscellaneous right}};"|

|style="text-align:left;"|Atto Dossena

|DVD

|{{formatnum:1072}}

|2.32

style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Regionalist}};"|

|style="text-align:left;"|Yann Pelliet

|REG

|{{formatnum:1063}}

|2.30

style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Debout la France}};"|

|style="text-align:left;"|Joseph Pichon

|DLF

|{{formatnum:600}}

|1.30

style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Regionalist}};"|

|style="text-align:left;"|Denis Madelaine-Nicot

|REG

|{{formatnum:391}}

|0.85

style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Far-left}};"|

|style="text-align:left;"|Anne Morel

|EXG

|{{formatnum:371}}

|0.80

style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Miscellaneous}};"|

|style="text-align:left;"|Catherine Mercier

|DIV

|{{formatnum:341}}

|0.74

style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Miscellaneous left}};"|

|style="text-align:left;"|Didier Troude

|DVG

|{{formatnum:233}}

|0.50

colspan="7" style="background:#E9E9E9;"|
style="font-weight:bold;"

|colspan="3" style="text-align:left;"|Votes

|{{formatnum:46251}}

|100.00

|{{formatnum:35436}}

|100.00

colspan="7" style="background:#E9E9E9;"|
colspan="3" style="text-align:left;"|Valid votes

|{{formatnum:46251}}

|97.64

|{{formatnum:35436}}

|88.77

colspan="3" style="text-align:left;"|Blank votes

|{{formatnum:795}}

|1.68

|{{formatnum:3024}}

|7.58

colspan="3" style="text-align:left;"|Null votes

|{{formatnum:321}}

|0.68

|{{formatnum:1460}}

|3.66

colspan="3" style="text-align:left;"|Turnout

|{{formatnum:47367}}

|54.32

|{{formatnum:39920}}

|45.78

colspan="3" style="text-align:left;"|Abstentions

|{{formatnum:39838}}

|45.68

|{{formatnum:47281}}

|54.22

colspan="3" style="text-align:left;"|Registered voters

|{{formatnum:87205}}

|style="color:inherit;background:#E9E9E9;"|

|{{formatnum:87201}}

|style="color:inherit;background:#E9E9E9;"|

colspan="7" style="background:#E9E9E9;"|
colspan="7" style="text-align:left;"|Source: [https://www.interieur.gouv.fr/Elections/Les-resultats/Legislatives/elecresult__legislatives-2017/(path)/legislatives-2017/029/02908.html Ministry of the Interior]

=2012=

class="wikitable" style="text-align:right;font-size:95%;"

|+ 2012 legislative election in Finistere's 8th constituency{{cite web|url=https://www.interieur.gouv.fr/Elections/Les-resultats/Legislatives/elecresult__LG2012/(path)/LG2012/029/02908.html|publisher= Ministry of the Interior|language=fr|trans-title=Results of 2012 Legislative Election|title=Résultats des élections législatives 2012}}

rowspan=2 colspan=2|Candidate

!rowspan=2 colspan=1|Party

!colspan=2|First round

!colspan=2|Second round

style="width:50px;"|Votes

!style="width:55px;"|%

!style="width:50px;"|Votes

!style="width:55px;"|%

style="color:inherit;background-color:{{party color|Socialist Party (France)}};"|

|Gilbert Le Bris

|PS

|{{formatnum:24092}}

|48.58%

|{{formatnum:30844}}

|65.78%

style="color:inherit;background-color:{{party color|Union for a Popular Movement}};"|

|Atto Dossena

|UMP

|{{formatnum:10527}}

|21.23%

|{{formatnum:16043}}

|34.22%

style="color:inherit;background-color:{{party color|National Front (France)}};"|

|Gilles Ebroussard

|FN

|{{formatnum:4461}}

|9.00%

|colspan=7 rowspan=11 style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"|

style="color:inherit;background-color:{{party color|Left Front (France)}};"|

|Marcel Tilly

|FG

|{{formatnum:3246}}

|6.55%

style="color:inherit;background-color:{{party color|Europe Ecology – The Greens}};"|

|Stéphane Lefloch

|EELV

|{{formatnum:2651}}

|5.35%

style="color:inherit;background-color:{{party color|Democratic Movement (France)}};"|

|Erwan Balanant

|MoDem

|{{formatnum:2171}}

|4.38%

style="color:inherit;background-color:{{party color|Breton Democratic Union}};"|

|Isabelle Moign

|UDB

|{{formatnum:632}}

|1.27%

style="color:inherit;background-color:{{party color|New Centre}};"|

|Hervé Vanzande

|NC

|{{formatnum:428}}

|0.86%

style="color:inherit;background-color:{{party color|Christian Democratic Party (France)}};"|

|Françoise Pontigny Lucas

|PCD

|{{formatnum:421}}

|0.85%

style="color:inherit;background-color:{{party color|Jeune Bretagne}};"|

|Anne-Marie Rimbault

|JB {{small|({{abbr|BNAFET|Bretagne, nous avons foi en toi}})}}

|{{formatnum:296}}

|0.60%

style="color:inherit;background-color:{{party color|Workers' Struggle}};"|

|Anne Morel

|LO

|{{formatnum:279}}

|0.56%

style="color:inherit;background-color:{{party color|Independent Workers' Party}};"|

|Annie Menvielle

|POI

|{{formatnum:217}}

|0.44%

style="color:inherit;background-color:{{party color|Ecology Generation}};"|

|Roland Dufleit

|GE

|{{formatnum:168}}

|0.34%

colspan=7 style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"|
colspan=3|Valid votes

|{{formatnum:49589}}

|98.29%

|{{formatnum:46887}}

|96.08%

colspan=3|Spoilt and null votes

|{{formatnum:865}}

|1.71%

|{{formatnum:1912}}

|3.92%

colspan=3|Votes cast / turnout

|{{formatnum:50454}}

|59.75%

|{{formatnum:48799}}

|57.80%

colspan=3|Abstentions

|{{formatnum:33984}}

|40.25%

|{{formatnum:35623}}

|42.20%

colspan=3|Registered voters

|{{formatnum:84438}}

|100.00%

|{{formatnum:84422}}

|100.00%

=2007=

{{Election box begin | title=Legislative Election 2007: Finistère's 8th constituency}}

{{Election box winning candidate with party link

|party = Socialist Party (France)

|candidate = Gilbert Le Bris

|votes = 18,883

|percentage = 35.62

|change =

}}

{{Election box winning candidate with party link

|party = Union for a Popular Movement

|candidate = Jeanne Yvonne Triche

|votes = 18,097

|percentage = 34.14

|change =

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link

|party = Democratic Movement (France)

|candidate = Catherine Tanguy Gallen

|votes = 3,966

|percentage = 7.48

|change =

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link

|party = Far left

|candidate = Eric Le Bour

|votes = 2,774

|percentage = 5.23

|change =

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link

|party = Far left

|candidate = Fabrice Le Danvic

|votes = 1,671

|percentage = 3.15

|change =

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link

|party = The Greens (France)

|candidate = Fanny Chauffin

|votes = 1,578

|percentage = 2.98

|change =

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link

|party = National Front (France)

|candidate = Georges Blanche

|votes = 1,322

|percentage = 2.49

|change =

}}

|-

| colspan="8" bgcolor="#E9E9E9"|

|-

{{Election box candidate

|party = Others

|candidate = N/A

|votes = 4,724

|percentage =

|change =

}}

{{Election box turnout

|votes = 53,969

|percentage = 65.81

|change =

}}

{{Election box 2nd round}}

{{Election box winning candidate with party link

|party = Socialist Party (France)

|candidate = Gilbert Le Bris

|votes = 29,023

|percentage = 53.48

|change =

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link

|party = Union for a Popular Movement

|candidate = Jeanne Yvonne Triche

|votes = 25,247

|percentage = 46.52

|change =

}}

{{Election box turnout

|votes = 55,961

|percentage = 68.24

|change =

}}

{{Election box hold with party link no swing

|winner = Socialist Party (France)

|loser =

|swing =

}}

{{Election box end}}

=2002=

{{Election box begin | title=Legislative Election 2002: Finistère's 8th constituency}}

{{Election box winning candidate with party link

|party = Socialist Party (France)

|candidate = Gilbert Le Bris

|votes = 19,850

|percentage = 38.68

|change =

}}

{{Election box winning candidate with party link

|party = Union for a Popular Movement

|candidate = Jeanne Yvonne Triche

|votes = 19,124

|percentage = 37.27

|change =

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link

|party = National Front (France)

|candidate = Jean-Louis Penn

|votes = 2,877

|percentage = 5.61

|change =

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link

|party = The Greens (France)

|candidate = Marie-Christine Lalloue

|votes = 2,537

|percentage = 4.94

|change =

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link

|party = French Communist Party

|candidate = Jacques Rannou

|votes = 2,492

|percentage = 4.86

|change =

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link

|party = Hunting, Fishing, Nature and Traditions

|candidate = Gerard Le Bris

|votes = 1,334

|percentage = 2.60

|change =

}}

|-

| colspan="8" bgcolor="#E9E9E9"|

|-

{{Election box candidate

|party = Others

|candidate = N/A

|votes = 3,101

|percentage =

|change =

}}

{{Election box turnout

|votes = 52,245

|percentage = 67.14

|change =

}}

{{Election box 2nd round}}

{{Election box winning candidate with party link

|party = Socialist Party (France)

|candidate = Gilbert Le Bris

|votes = 26,278

|percentage = 50.97

|change =

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link

|party = Union for a Popular Movement

|candidate = Jeanne Yvonne Triche

|votes = 25,282

|percentage = 49.03

|change =

}}

{{Election box turnout

|votes = 53,224

|percentage = 68.40

|change =

}}

{{Election box hold with party link no swing

|winner = Socialist Party (France)

|loser =

|swing =

}}

{{Election box end}}

=1997=

{{Election box begin | title=Legislative Election 1997: Finistère's 8th constituency}}

{{Election box winning candidate with party link

|party = Socialist Party (France)

|candidate = Louis Le Pensec

|votes = 20,788

|percentage = 41.77

|change =

}}

{{Election box winning candidate with party link

|party = Rally for the Republic

|candidate = Jean Lomenech

|votes = 15,719

|percentage = 31.59

|change =

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link

|party = French Communist Party

|candidate = Eric Couvez

|votes = 4,610

|percentage = 9.26

|change =

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link

|party = National Front (France)

|candidate = Anne-Marie Kerléo

|votes = 4,237

|percentage = 8.51

|change =

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link

|party = The Greens (France)

|candidate = Marc Navellou

|votes = 1,450

|percentage = 2.91

|change =

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link

|party = Ecology Generation

|candidate = Rolland Dufleit

|votes = 1,312

|percentage = 2.64

|change =

}}

{{Election box candidate

|party = Regionalist

|candidate = Jean Moign

|votes = 1,105

|percentage = 2.22

|change =

}}

|-

| colspan="8" bgcolor="#E9E9E9"|

|-

{{Election box candidate

|party = Others

|candidate = N/A

|votes = 542

|percentage =

|change =

}}

{{Election box turnout

|votes = 51,828

|percentage = 69.73

|change =

}}

{{Election box 2nd round}}

{{Election box winning candidate with party link

|party = Socialist Party (France)

|candidate = Louis Le Pensec

|votes = 30,669

|percentage = 59.21

|change =

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link

|party = Rally for the Republic

|candidate = Jean Lomenech

|votes = 21,126

|percentage = 40.79

|change =

}}

{{Election box turnout

|votes = 54,247

|percentage = 72.99

|change =

}}

{{Election box hold with party link no swing

|winner = Socialist Party (France)

|loser =

|swing =

}}

{{Election box end}}

Sources

  • Official results of French elections from 1998: {{Cite web

|url = http://www.interieur.gouv.fr/sections/a_votre_service/elections/resultats

|title = Résultats électoraux officiels en France

|language = fr

|url-status = dead

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20111220150907/http://www.interieur.gouv.fr/sections/a_votre_service/elections/resultats

|archive-date = 2011-12-20

|df =

}}

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