Maine-et-Loire
Maine-et-Loire () is a department in the Loire Valley in the Pays de la Loire region in Western France. It is named after the two rivers, Maine and the Loire. It borders Mayenne and Sarthe to the north, Loire-Atlantique to the west, Indre-e ...
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French
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: ''Première circonscription de Maine-et-Loire'') is a French legislative
constituency
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in the
Maine-et-Loire
Maine-et-Loire () is a department in the Loire Valley in the Pays de la Loire region in Western France. It is named after the two rivers, Maine and the Loire. It borders Mayenne and Sarthe to the north, Loire-Atlantique to the west, Indre-e ...
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département
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Maine-et-Loire
Maine-et-Loire () is a department in the Loire Valley in the Pays de la Loire region in Western France. It is named after the two rivers, Maine and the Loire. It borders Mayenne and Sarthe to the north, Loire-Atlantique to the west, Indre-e ...
is situated in the north of the department. It includes the central and some northern portions of the city of
Angers
Angers (, , ) is a city in western France, about southwest of Paris. It is the prefecture of the Maine-et-Loire department and was the capital of the province of Anjou until the French Revolution. The inhabitants of both the city and the prov ...
along with the more rural cantons of
Châteauneuf-sur-Sarthe
Châteauneuf-sur-Sarthe () is a former commune in the Maine-et-Loire department of western France. On 1 January 2019, it was merged into the commune Les Hauts-d'Anjou.Tiercé.
The seat had been a stronghold of the centre right UDR and its successor parties the RPR and the UMP. However, in 2012 the seat was captured by the
Socialist Party
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La République En Marche!
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in 2017. In 2020, the deputy,
Matthieu Orphelin
Matthieu Orphelin (born 3 December 1972) is a French politician who served as a member of the French National Assembly from 2017 French legislative election, 2017 to 2022 French legislative election, 2022, representing Maine-et-Loire.
Early l ...
, was one of the
LREM
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deputies who left to form
Ecology Democracy Solidarity
Ecology Democracy Solidarity (french: Écologie Démocratie Solidarité) was a centre-left parliamentary group in the National Assembly of France. It was formed in May 2020 by members of La République En Marche!, a liberal parliamentary group. ...