The 2nd constituency of New Caledonia 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
New Caledonia
New Caledonia ( ; ) is a group of islands in the southwest Pacific Ocean, southwest of Vanuatu and east of Australia. Located from Metropolitan France, it forms a Overseas France#Sui generis collectivity, ''sui generis'' collectivity of t ...
.
The second constituency was created in a redistricting in 1978. Between 1978 and a new redistricting in 1986, the second constituency represented the western shore of the
main island, but its main population centre was
Nouméa
Nouméa () is the capital and largest city of the French Sui generis collectivity, 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 i ...
, a largely French-populated loyalist stronghold. Since 1986, the constituency has been composed of the so-called ''brousse''—that is, the rural parts of the main island, which are mostly
Kanak, but also the more populous French-populated suburbs of Nouméa.
Deputies
Election results
2024
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:
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French legislative constituencies in New Caledonia