The 3rd constituency of

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: ''Troisième circonscription du Doubs'') is one of five electoral districts in the

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of the same name, each of which returns one deputy to the French National Assembly in elections using the

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, 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 the eight

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of Baume-les-Dames, Clerval, L'Isle-sur-le-Doubs, Maîche, Montbéliard-Est, Montbéliard-Ouest, Rougemont, and Saint-Hippolyte. It includes the town of

Montbéliard Montbéliard (; traditional ) is a town in the Doubs department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in eastern France, about from the border with Switzerland. It is one of the two subprefectures of the department. History Montbéliard is ...

and nearly surrounds the department's 4th constituency. In the east it reaches deep into the

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, where it is bordered by Switzerland. At the time of the 1999 census (which was the basis for the most recent redrawing of constituency boundaries, carried out in 2010) the 3rd constituency had a total population of 93,407. The seat has generally been held by

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parties except on the occasions of the

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landslides in the 1988 and

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Historic representation

Election results

2022

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2017

2012

Sources

Official results of French elections from 2002:
Résultats électoraux officiels en France
(in French). {{French National Assembly constituencies 3