The 2nd constituency of New Caledonia is a French legislative

constituency An electoral district, also known as an election district, legislative district, voting district, constituency, riding, ward, division, or (election) precinct is a subdivision of a larger State (polity), state (a country, administrative region, ...

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. The second constituency was created in a redistricting in 1978. Between 1978 and a new redistricting in 1986, the second constituency represented the ethnically diverse western shore of the main island, but its main population centre was

Nouméa Nouméa () is the capital and largest city of the French special collectivity of New Caledonia and is also the largest francophone city in Oceania. It is situated on a peninsula in the south of New Caledonia's main island, Grande Terre, a ...

, a largely French-populated loyalist stronghold. Since 1986, the constituency is composed of the so-called ''brousse'' - that is, the rural parts of the main island which are mostly

Kanak The Kanak (French spelling until 1984: Canaque) are the indigenous Melanesian inhabitants of New Caledonia, an overseas collectivity of France in the southwest Pacific. According to the 2019 census, the Kanak make up 41.2% of New Caledonia' ...

but also the more populous French-populated suburbs of

Deputies

Election results

2022

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2017

2012

2007

2002

1997

References

Sources

* Official results of French elections from 1998: * Official results of French elections from 2017: {{DEFAULTSORT:New Caledonia's 2nd Constituency French legislative constituencies in New Caledonia