The 8th constituency of the Nord is a French legislative

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in the

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''département''.

Description

Nord's 8th constituency covers three of the four (pre-2015) cantons of the city of

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with only Roubaix Ouest within Nord's 7th constituency. Despite electing a candidate from the centre right UDF as recently as 2002 the seat appeared to be safe for the left until 2017. Dominique Baert was expelled from the

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prior to the 2012 election and faced a

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candidate backed by the

. He was, however, comfortably re-elected with nearly 70% of the vote but on a very low turnout of only 41%.

Historic Representation

Election results