Marne's 2nd constituency
# Marne's 2nd constituency

The 2nd constituency of Marne (French: Deuxième circonscription de la Marne) is one of five electoral districts in the department of the same name, each of which returns one deputy to the French National Assembly in elections using the two-round system, with a run-off if no candidate receives more than 50% of the vote in the first round.

## Description

The constituency is made up of six whole former cantons – those of Fismes, Reims I, Reims III, Reims V, Reims VIII, and Ville-en-Tardenois – plus the major part of the former canton of Châtillon-sur-Marne (all communes except those of Courtagnon, Nanteuil-la-Forêt, and Pourcy).

It includes the centre and south of Reims as well as rural areas to the south of the city. The seat as currently delineated is substantially different from that which existed prior to the 2012 election, which contained little of Reims and was far more rural in character.

At the time of the 1999 census (which was the basis for the most recent redrawing of constituency boundaries, carried out in 2010) the 2nd constituency had a total population of 103,767.

For 24 years from 1993 the seat was held by the Gaullist right, from 2002 in the person of Catherine Vautrin who held various posts in the governments of Jean-Pierre Raffarin and Dominique de Villepin. However, in the 2017 election Vautrin lost her seat to Aina Kuric of La République En Marche! (REM). Kuric resigned her membership of LREM on 7 June 2019, joining Agir.

## Historic representation

| Election | Election | Member | Party |
| - | - | - | - |
| 1986 | 1986 | Proportional representation – no election by constituency | Proportional representation – no election by constituency |
| | 1988 | Georges Colin [fr] | PS |
| | 1993 | Jean-Claude Étienne | RPR |
| | 1997 | Jean-Claude Étienne | RPR |
| | 2002 | Catherine Vautrin | UMP |
| | 2007 | Catherine Vautrin | UMP |
| | 2012 | Catherine Vautrin | UMP |
| | 2017 | Aina Kuric | LREM |
| | 2019 | Aina Kuric | Agir |
| | 2022 | Anne-Sophie Frigout | RN |
| | 2023 | Laure Miller | RE |

## Election results

### 2023 by-election

On 2 December 2022, Anne-Sophie Frigout's election was annulled by the Constitutional Council. She lost the seat in the second round of the by-election on 29 January 2023.

2023 by-election: Marne's 2nd constituency :

| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| | RN | Anne-Sophie Frigout | 6,059 | 34.80 | +12.82 |
| | RE (Ensemble) | Laure Miller | 5,228 | 30.03 | +8.80 |
| | LFI (NUPÉS) | Victorien Pâté | 2,815 | 16.17 | -6.29 |
| | LR (UDC) | Stéphane Lang | 1,929 | 11.08 | +0.21 |
| | ECO | Nesma Sayoud | 521 | 2.99 | -0.48 |
| | REC | Marie Pace | 436 | 2.50 | -2.39 |
| | Others | N/A | 424 | 2.43 | - |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 17.411 | 23.96 | -22.06 |
| 2nd round result ||||||
| | RE (Ensemble) | Laure Miller | 9,047 | 51.80 | N/A |
| | RN | Anne-Sophie Frigout | 8,418 | 48.20 | -6.62 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 18,704 | 25.17 | -18.49 |
| | RE gain from RN | RE gain from RN | RE gain from RN | RE gain from RN | RE gain from RN |

### 2022

Legislative Election 2022: Marne's 2nd constituency :

| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| | LFI (NUPÉS) | Lynda Meguenine | 7,369 | 22.46 | +4.36 |
| | RN | Anne-Sophie Frigout | 7,213 | 21.98 | +5.88 |
| | LREM (Ensemble) | Laure Miller | 6,964 | 21.23 | -13.11 |
| | LREM | Aina Kuric* | 4,103 | 12.51 | N/A |
| | LR (UDC) | Stéphane Lang | 3,565 | 10.87 | -15.57 |
| | REC | Jean-Claude Philipot | 1,603 | 4.89 | N/A |
| | ECO | Nesma Sayoud | 1,139 | 3.47 | +2.28 |
| | Others | N/A | 853 | - | - |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 32,809 | 46.02 | +1.74 |
| 2nd round result ||||||
| | RN | Anne-Sophie Frigout | 14,650 | 54.81 | N/A |
| | LFI (NUPÉS) | Lynda Meguenine | 12,080 | 45.19 | N/A |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 26,730 | 43.65 | +1.91 |
| | RN gain from LREM | RN gain from LREM | RN gain from LREM | RN gain from LREM | RN gain from LREM |

* Kuric stood as a dissident LREM candidate, without the support of the party or the Ensemble Citoyens alliance. Kuric's results in the last election are counted against the official LREM candidate for swing calculations.

### 2017

| Candidate | Candidate | Label | First round | First round | Second round | Second round |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Candidate | Candidate | Label | Votes | % | Votes | % |
| | Aina Kuric | REM | 11,839 | 34.34 | 14,176 | 51.21 |
| | Catherine Vautrin | LR | 9,115 | 26.44 | 13,508 | 48.79 |
| | Cindy Demange | FN | 5,552 | 16.10 | | |
| | Victorien Pâté | FI | 3,459 | 10.03 | | |
| | Imane Maniani | PS | 1,869 | 5.42 | | |
| | Patricia Coradel | ECO | 913 | 2.65 | | |
| | Daniel Ménard | DLF | 654 | 1.90 | | |
| | Catherine Huat | ECO | 410 | 1.19 | | |
| | Thomas Rose | EXG | 345 | 1.00 | | |
| | Evelyne Fernandez-Toussaint | DIV | 187 | 0.54 | | |
| | Axel Gaucher | DIV | 134 | 0.39 | | |
| Votes | Votes | Votes | 34,477 | 100.00 | 27,684 | 100.00 |
| Valid votes | Valid votes | Valid votes | 34,477 | 98.71 | 27,684 | 90.70 |
| Blank votes | Blank votes | Blank votes | 296 | 0.85 | 2,028 | 6.64 |
| Null votes | Null votes | Null votes | 154 | 0.44 | 811 | 2.66 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 34,927 | 47.76 | 30,523 | 41.74 |
| Abstentions | Abstentions | Abstentions | 38,206 | 52.24 | 42,608 | 58.26 |
| Registered voters | Registered voters | Registered voters | 73,133 | | 73,131 | |
| Source: Ministry of the Interior |||||||

### 2012

Legislative Election 2012: Marne's 2nd constituency :

| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| | UMP | Catherine Vautrin-Pennaforte | 16,703 | 41.81 | |
| | PS | Eric Quenard | 14,427 | 36.11 | |
| | FN | Pascale Evanno | 5,080 | 12.72 | |
| | FG | Francoise Georges | 1,454 | 3.64 | |
| | EELV | Nadine Cortial | 1,037 | 2.60 | |
| | Others | N/A | 1,248 | | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 39,949 | 55.02 | |
| 2nd round result ||||||
| | UMP | Catherine Vautrin-Pennaforte | 20,640 | 53.04 | |
| | PS | Eric Quenard | 18,274 | 46.96 | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 38,914 | 53.60 | |
| | UMP hold | UMP hold | UMP hold | UMP hold | UMP hold |

## Sources

* Official results of French elections from 2002: "Résultats électoraux officiels en France" (in French).
* Official results of the French elections from 2017: "" (in French).
* ↑ As defined in 1999; the number and composition of the department's cantons was altered in 2014 but this has not yet been reflected in electoral district boundaries.
* ↑ "Législatives : l'élection de la députée Anne-Sophie Frigout (RN) invalidée". L'Union (in French). 2 December 2022.
* ↑ "Législatives partielles : la Nupes gagne un siège, le RN en perd un". Le Figaro (in French). 29 January 2023.
* ↑ "Résultats des élections législatives 2022 dans la Marne". Le Monde.fr (in French). Retrieved 31 July 2022.
