The 8th constituency of the

Seine-Maritime Seine-Maritime () is a department of France in the Normandy region of northern France. It is situated on the northern coast of France, at the mouth of the Seine, and includes the cities of Rouen and Le Havre. Until 1955 it was named Seine-Inféri ...

( French: ''Huitième circonscription de la Seine-Maritime'') is a French legislative constituency in the Seine-Maritime ''

département In the administrative divisions of France, the department (french: département, ) is one of the three levels of government under the national level (" territorial collectivities"), between the administrative regions and the communes. Ninety ...

''. Like the other 576 French constituencies, it elects one MP using the two-round system, with a run-off if no candidate receives over 50% of the vote in the first round.

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The 8th Constituency of the

covers

Le Havre Le Havre (, ; nrf, Lé Hâvre ) is a port city in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region of northern France. It is situated on the right bank of the estuary of the river Seine on the Channel southwest of the Pays de Caux, very ...

as well as

Gonfreville-l'Orcher Gonfreville-l'Orcher () is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in northern France. Geography An industrial town based around an ancient village situated in the Pays de Caux, some east of Le Havre, in between the ...

which was added as a result of the 2010 redistricting of French legislative constituencies. The seat has historically been a stronghold of the

French Communist Party The French Communist Party (french: Parti communiste français, ''PCF'' ; ) is a political party in France which advocates the principles of communism. The PCF is a member of the Party of the European Left, and its MEPs sit in the European Un ...

, 2012 is the only recent election in which another party won, in this case the

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 t ...

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