The 9th constituency of the Pas-de-Calais is a French legislative

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in the

Pas-de-Calais The Pas-de-Calais (, ' strait of Calais'; ; ) is a department in northern France named after the French designation of the Strait of Dover, which it borders. It has the most communes of all the departments of France, with 890, and is the ...

''département''.

Description

Pas-de-Calais' 9th constituency is composed of the town of

Béthune Béthune ( ; archaic and ''Bethwyn'' historically in English) is a town in northern France, Subprefectures in France, sub-prefecture of the Pas-de-Calais Departments of France, department. Geography Béthune is located in the Provinces of Fran ...

in the north of the department. From 1988 the seat has been held by six parties, three from the centre left (the

Radical Party of the Left The Radical Party of the Left (, PRG) is a social-liberal political party in France. A party in the Radical tradition, since 1972 the PRG has been a close ally of the major party of the centre-left in France, the Socialist Party (, PS). Af ...

, the

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and the

Citizen and Republican Movement The Citizen and Republican Movement ( French: ''Mouvement républicain et citoyen'') is a left-wing political party in France. The party replaced the Citizens' Movement (''Mouvement des citoyens'', MDC) in 2002. The previous party was founded b ...

), one from the centre (

MoDem The Democratic Movement (, ; MoDem ) is a centre to centre-right political party in France, whose main ideological trends are liberalism and Christian democracy, and that is characterised by a strong pro-Europeanist stance. MoDem was establis ...

), one from the conservative right (the

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), and one from the far-right ( RN). The seat has been won by five different parties in the five elections in the 21st century. Mayor of

Stéphane Saint-Andre narrowly won the seat at the

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becoming one of thirteen PRG representatives in the

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Historic Representation

Election results

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2022

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2017

2012

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2007

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2002

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1997

Sources

* Official results of French elections from 1998: {{French National Assembly constituencies 9