The 4th constituency of the Saône-et-Loire is a French legislative

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in the

Saône-et-Loire Saône-et-Loire (; Arpitan: ''Sona-et-Lêre'') is a department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in France. It is named after the rivers Saône and Loire, between which it lies, in the country's central-eastern part. Saône-et-Loire is Bo ...

''département''.

Description

The 4th constituency of the

covers the north of

Chalon-sur-Saône Chalon-sur-Saône (, literally ''Chalon on Saône'') is a city in the Saône-et-Loire department in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France. It is a sub-prefecture of the department. It is the largest city in the department; h ...

and the eastern part of the department. Following substantial boundary changes prior to the

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the seat is now entirely different in character from its predecessor. The seat has historically been a bastion of the

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, though the new boundaries made it far more marginal and the PS candidate won by only 379 at the

. In the 2017 election it was one of the few constituencies held by the PS, in this case by over 2,000 votes. PS strengthened their hold on the seat in

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, winning by over 4,000 votes.

Historic Representation

Election results

2024

2022

2017

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2012

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2007

2002

1997

Sources

Official results of French elections from 2002:
Résultats électoraux officiels en France
(in French). {{French National Assembly constituencies 4