Bas-Rhin's 8th constituency

The 8th constituency of the Bas-Rhin is a French legislative constituency in the Bas-Rhin département.

8th constituency of the Bas-Rhin
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Constituency of the
National Assembly of France
Bas-Rhin's 8th Constituency shown within Alsace
Bas-Rhin in France
Deputy
DepartmentBas-Rhin
CantonsLauterbourg, Seltz, Soultz-sous-Forêts, Wissembourg, Wœrth, Niederbronn-les-Bains, Bischwiller (part)
Registered voters92,744

Description

The 8th constituency of Bas-Rhin covers the Northernmost portion of the Departement, bordering (Germany) to both the east and north. It includes the small town of Wissembourg on the German border as well as the surrounding countryside.

It was a bastion of the conservative right from the inception of the Fifth Republic until 2022. It was won easily by the UMP in the first round of the 2012 election, with the National Front coming a distant second some 16,000 votes behind Frédéric Reiss. In the 2017 election, he easily beat the LREM candidate. However, in 2022, LR lost the seat to Horizons, part of Emmanuel Macron's centrist Ensemble Citoyens alliance.

Historic representation

ElectionMemberParty
1958 François Grussenmeyer UNR
1962
1967 UDR
1968
1973
1978 RPR
1981
1986 Proportional representation – no election by constituency
1988 François Grussenmeyer RPR
1993 François Loos UDF
1997
2002 Frédéric Reiss UMP
2007
2012
2017 LR
2022 Stéphanie Kochert HOR

Election results

2022

Legislative Election 2022: Bas-Rhin's 8th constituency
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
RN Ludwig Knoepffler 10,527 26.28 +9.11
Horizons (Ensemble) Stéphanie Kochert 9,849 24.59 -8.39
LR (UDC) Anne Sander 8,808 21.99 -8.21
LFI (NUPÉS) Samy Ahmed-Yahia 3,951 9.86 +4.69
Unser Land (Regionalists) Bruno Jacky 3,533 8.82 +1.08
ECO Claire Grosheitsch 1,328 3.32 +1.54
REC Sébastien Kriloff 1,200 3.00 N/A
Others N/A 862 - -
Turnout 40,058 43.20 -3.19
2nd round result
Horizons (Ensemble) Stéphanie Kochert 21,373 56.64 +15.52
RN Ludwig Knoepffler 16,365 43.36 N/A
Turnout 37,738 41.86 -0.62
Horizons gain from LR

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2017

Results of the 11 June and 18 June 2017 French National Assembly election in Bas-Rhin’s 8th Constituency[2]
Candidate Party 1st round 2nd round
Votes  % Votes  %
Christian Gliech La République En Marche! LREM 14,143 32.98 15,407 41.12
Frédéric Reiss The Republicans LR 12,954 30.20 22,063 58.88
Gérard Janus National Front FN 7,363 17.17
Gaby Hartmann Regionalist REG 3,320 7.74
Manuel Menetrier La France Insoumise FI 2,039 4.75
Pierre-Henri Eisenschmidt Debout la France DLF 996 2.32
Perrine Torrent Ecologist ECO 764 1.78
Ambroise Perrin Socialist Party PS 520 1.21
Daniel Fischer Independent DIV 228 0.53
Gisèle Schneider Ecologist ECO 214 0.50
Pascal Prevost-Boure Communist Party PCF 179 0.42
Mehdi Benhlal Far Left EXG 167 0.39
Total 42,887 100% 37,470 100%
Registered voters 94,590 94,499
Blank/Void ballots 990 2.26% 2,671 6.65%
Turnout 43,877 46.39% 40,141 42.48%
Abstentions 50,713 53.61% 54,358 57.52%
Result LR GAIN FROM UMP

2012

Frédéric Reiss was elected with more than 50% of the vote in the first round of voting, and therefore no second round took place.

Results of the 10 June and 17 June 2012 French National Assembly election in Bas-Rhin’s 8th Constituency[3]
Candidate Party 1st round
Votes  %
Frédéric Reiss Union for a Popular Movement UMP 26,380 53.64
Diana Garnier-Lang National Front FN 10,100 20.54
Nicole Habermacher Socialist Party PS 8,648 17.59
Alphonse Sibler Ecologist ECO 946 1.92
Séverine Charret Left Front FG 870 1.77
Perrine Torrent Ecologist ECO 812 1.65
Laure Ferrari Miscellaneous Right DVD 780 1.59
Pascal Ascheberg Other AUT 362 0.74
Catherine Gsell Far Left EXG 273 0.56
Catherine Bahl Other AUT 7 0.01
Total 49,178 100%
Registered voters 92,744
Blank/Void ballots 1,006 2.00%
Turnout 50,184 54.11%
Abstentions 42,560 45.89%
Result UMP HOLD

2007

Frédéric Reiss was elected with more than 50% of the vote in the first round of voting, and therefore no second round took place.

Results of the 10 June and 17 June 2007 French National Assembly election in Bas-Rhin’s 8th Constituency[4]
Candidate Party 1st round
Votes  %
Frédéric Reiss Union for a Popular Movement UMP 25,260 65.91
Thomas Joerger UDF-Democratic Movement UDF-MoDem 3,488 9.10
Ambroise Perrin Socialist Party PS 3,339 8.71
Laurent Gnaedig National Front FN 2,765 7.21
Songul Kiraz The Greens LV 980 2.56
Héloïse Exbrayat Ecologist ECO 523 1.36
Danièle Canton Far Left EXG 469 1.22
Catherine Gsell Far Left EXG 432 1.13
Gabriel Bastain Far Right EXD 381 0.99
Christophe Bord Miscellaneous Right DVD 347 0.91
Jean-Philippe Martin Independent DIV 342 0.89
Total 38,326 100%
Registered voters 70,558
Blank/Void ballots 993 2.53%
Turnout 39,319 55.73%
Abstentions 31,239 44.27%
Result UMP HOLD

2002

The UMP candidate was elected with more than 50% of the vote in the first round of voting, and therefore no second round took place.

Results of the 9 June and 16 June 2002 French National Assembly election in Bas-Rhin’s 8th Constituency[5]
Candidate Party 1st round
Votes  %
Francois Loos Union for a Presidential Majority UMP 23,211 60.42
J. Marie Freund National Front FN 6,000 15.62
Pierre Mammosser Socialist Party PS 4,997 13.01
Stephane Reiss The Greens LV 1,443 3.76
Catherine Gsell Workers’ Struggle LO 579 1.51
Bruno Wolff Regionalist REG 562 1.46
H. Pierre Bapst Ecologist ECO 479 1.25
Colette Marchal Ecologist ECO 386 1.00
Catherine Wagner Independent DIV 311 0.81
Frederic Lemaire Movement for France MPF 284 0.74
Ralph Blindauer Communist Party PCF 162 0.42
Total 38,414 100%
Registered voters 68,063
Blank/Void ballots 1,176 2.97%
Turnout 39,590 58.17%
Abstentions 28,473 41.83%
Result UMP GAIN FROM UDF

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