The 1st constituency of the Haut-Rhin 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
Haut-Rhin
Haut-Rhin (); Alsatian: ''Owerelsà ss'' or '; , . is a department in the Grand Est region, France, bordering both Germany and Switzerland. It is named after the river Rhine; its name means Upper Rhine. Haut-Rhin is the smaller and less pop ...
''département''.
Description
The seat includes the town of
Colmar
Colmar (; ; or ) is a city and commune in the Haut-Rhin department and Alsace region of north-eastern France. The third-largest commune in Alsace (after Strasbourg and Mulhouse), it is the seat of the prefecture of the Haut-Rhin department ...
and then stretches eastwards towards the
Rhine
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which forms the border with
Germany
Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its sixteen States of Germany, constituent states have a total popu ...
. The seat has followed the historic pattern of
Alsace
Alsace (, ; ) is a cultural region and a territorial collectivity in the Grand Est administrative region of northeastern France, on the west bank of the upper Rhine, next to Germany and Switzerland. In January 2021, it had a population of 1,9 ...
by supporting parties of the right over the
PS and its allies.
Historic Representation
Election results
2024
2022
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2020 by-election
The deputy,
Éric Straumann
Éric Straumann (born 17 August 1964 in Colmar) is a French politician of the The Republicans (France), Republicans who served as a member of the National Assembly of France, National Assembly from 2007 until 2020, representing the Haut-Rhin depa ...
, was appointed
Mayor of Colmar in 2020.
This triggered the
accumulation of mandates rule, so he left the National Assembly. His
substitute candidate,
Brigitte Klinkert, was
Minister Delegate for Economic Inclusion, so a by-election was called.
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2017
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2012
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2007
2002
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! colspan="2" rowspan="2" style="text-align:left;" , Candidate
! rowspan="2" colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" , Party
! colspan="2" , 1st round
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! width="75" , Votes
! width="30" , %
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, style="background-color:" ,
, style="text-align:left;" , Gilbert Meyer
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Union for a Presidential Majority
, UMP
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, 52.13
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, style="text-align:left;" , Monique Marchal
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Socialist Party
Socialist Party is the name of many different political parties around the world. All of these parties claim to uphold some form of socialism, though they may have very different interpretations of what "socialism" means. Statistically, most of th ...
, PS
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, 20.86
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, style="text-align:left;" , Bruno Haebig
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National Front
, FN
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, 12.53
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, style="text-align:left;" , Frederic Hilbert
, style="text-align:left;" ,
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*The Greens – The Green Alternative, Austria
*Australian Greens, also known as ''The Greens''
* Greens of Andorra
* The Greens (Benin)
*The Greens (Bulgaria)
* Greens of Bosnia and He ...
, LV
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, 3.47
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, style="text-align:left;" , Rene Becker
, style="text-align:left;" ,
National Republican Movement
, MNR
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, 2.81
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, style="text-align:left;" , Brigitte Courteville
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Independent
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* Independentes (English: Independents), a Portuguese artist ...
, DIV
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, 1.49
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, style="text-align:left;" , Gerard Probst
, style="text-align:left;" , Ecologist
, ECO
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, 1.40
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, style="text-align:left;" , Christian Rousset
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Workers’ Struggle
, LO
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, 1.36
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, style="background-color:" ,
, style="text-align:left;" , Lydia Lacentra
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Movement for France
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, MPF
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, 1.33
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, style="text-align:left;" , Mathieu Lavarenne
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Republican Pole
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, PR
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, 1.26
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, style="background-color:" ,
, style="text-align:left;" , Eliane Lodwitz
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Communist Party
, PCF
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, 0.85
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, style="background-color:" ,
, style="text-align:left;" , Vincent Wischlen
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Miscellaneous Right
Miscellaneous right (', ''DVD'') in France refers to centre-right or right-wing candidates who are not members of any large party. This can include members of small right-wing parties, dissidents expelled from their party for running against thei ...
, DVD
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, 0.51
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, colspan="4" style="text-align:left;" , Total
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, 100%
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, colspan="4" style="text-align:left;" , Registered voters
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, 2.45%
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, colspan="4" style="text-align:left;" , Turnout
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, 60.26%
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, colspan="4" style="text-align:left;" , Abstentions
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, 39.74%
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, colspan="4" style="text-align:left;" , Result
, colspan="2" style="background-color:" , UMP GAIN FROM RPR
Sources
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