The 4th constituency of the Sarthe 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
Sarthe
Sarthe () is a department of the French region of Pays de la Loire, and the province of Maine, situated in the '' Grand-Ouest'' of the country. It is named after the river Sarthe, which flows from east of Le Mans to just north of Angers. It ha ...
''département''.
In the 2007 legislative election, the constituency was won by
François Fillon
François Charles Amand Fillon (; born 4 March 1954) is a French retired politician who served as Prime Minister of France from 2007 to 2012 under President Nicolas Sarkozy. He was the nominee of The Republicans (previously known as the Union ...
. Fillon was appointed
Prime Minister
A prime minister or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. A prime minister is not the head of state, but r ...
, whereupon he automatically lost his seat; in France, a member of the executive cannot simultaneously be a member of the legislature. On 20 July his deputy candidate,
Marc Joulaud, who had previously held the seat himself, automatically took Fillon's place in the Assembly.
Historic representation
Election results
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2022
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2017
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2012
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2007
Sources & references
* Official results of French elections from 1998:
{{French National Assembly constituencies
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