The 2nd constituency of Oise is a French legislative

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in the

Oise Oise ( ; ; ) is a department in the north of France. It is named after the river Oise. Inhabitants of the department are called ''Oisiens'' () or ''Isariens'', after the Latin name for the river, Isara. It had a population of 829,419 in 2019.< ...

''département''.

Description

The 2nd constituency of the

covers its western portion and borders

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, it also includes the south western part of

Beauvais Beauvais ( , ; ) is a town and Communes of France, commune in northern France, and prefecture of the Oise Departments of France, département, in the Hauts-de-France Regions of France, region, north of Paris. The Communes of France, commune o ...

. Until 2017, similarly to Oise's 1st constituency the seat was a conservative stronghold since 1988 apart from the Socialist landslide at the 1997 election. At the 2012 election the vote was split by the presence of a National Front candidate in the second round but veteran

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deputy

Jean-François Mancel Jean-François Mancel (born 1 March 1948) is a French politician. He was a member of the National Assembly of France, representing Oise's 2nd constituency from 2002 to 2017, as a member of the Union for a Popular Movement The Union for a ...

held on by less than 100 votes to claim victory. In 2019,

Agnès Thill Agnès Thill (; born 2 June 1964) is a French politician who served as a member of the National Assembly from 2017 to 2022, representing the department of Oise. In parliament, Thill served as member of the Committee on Cultural Affairs and E ...

, elected as

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, publicly opposed a bioethics law extending to homosexual and single women free access to

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such as

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(IVF) under France's national health insurance; it was one of the campaign promises of

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. She was subsequently excluded from La République en Marche and later joined the

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Historic Representation

Election results

2024

2022

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2017

2012

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Sources

Official results of French elections from 2002:
Résultats électoraux officiels en France
(in French). {{French National Assembly constituencies 2