The 8th constituency of Essonne is a French legislative
constituency
An electoral (congressional, legislative, etc.) district, sometimes called a constituency, riding, or ward, is a geographical portion of a political unit, such as a country, state or province, city, or administrative region, created to provi ...
in the
Essonne
Essonne () is a department in the southern part of the Île-de-France region in Northern France. It is named after the river Essonne. In 2019, it had a population of 1,301,659, across 194 communes.department. Its member of the
National Assembly
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The 8th constituency of Essonne is in the north east of the department and consists of the Parisian suburbs around
Yerres
Yerres () is a commune in the Essonne department, in the southeastern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from Central Paris.
Population
Inhabitants are called ''Yerrois'' in French.
Geography
Yerres lies in the North-Eastern part of ...
and
Vigneux-sur-Seine
Vigneux-sur-Seine (, literally ''Vigneux on Seine'') is a commune in the southern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the centre of Paris.
Inhabitants of Vigneux-sur-Seine are known as ''Vigneusiens''.
Population
Transport
Vigne ...
. The seat was created in 1986 as the number of seats in Essonne grew from four to ten reflecting the rapidly increasing population and urbanisation of the department.
Against the national trend the seat was won by
Gaullist
Gaullism ( ) is a French political stance based on the thought and action of World War II French Resistance leader Charles de Gaulle, who would become the founding President of the Fifth French Republic. De Gaulle withdrew French forces from t ...
Nicolas Dupont-Aignan in 1997. Dupont-Aignan went on to break away from the mainstream
Union for a Popular Movement
The Union for a Popular Movement ( ; UMP ) was a Liberal conservatism, liberal-conservative List of political parties in France, political party in France, largely inspired by the Gaullism, Gaullist tradition. During its existence, the UMP was o ...
with his own
Debout La France
Debout la France (, , DLF), originally called Debout la République (, , DLR), is a French political party founded by Nicolas Dupont-Aignan in 1999 as the "genuine Gaullist" branch of the Rally for the Republic. It was relaunched again in 200 ...
party. The party campaigns on a more traditional
Gaullist
Gaullism ( ) is a French political stance based on the thought and action of World War II French Resistance leader Charles de Gaulle, who would become the founding President of the Fifth French Republic. De Gaulle withdrew French forces from t ...
platform but has met with little electoral success outside its leaders home seat.