Moselle's 7th constituency

7th constituency of Moselle

French National Assembly
constituency

Moselle's 7th Constituency shown within Lorraine.

Deputy

Paola Zanetti
PS

Department

Moselle

Canton

Boulay-Moselle, Bouzonville, Faulquemont, Saint-Avold-I, Saint-Avold-II

Voters

91,559

The 7th constituency of Moselle is a French legislative constituency in the Moselle département.

Description

Moselle's 7th constituency is formed around the town of Saint-Avold on the German border.

The domination of conservative candidates was broken in the 2012 elections after a National Front candidate secured a place in the second round thus splitting the conservative vote and allowing the election of the Socialist candidate.

Historic Representation

Election		Member	Party
1986		Proportional representation – no election by constituency
	1988	André Berthol	RPR
	2002	André Berthol	UMP
	2007	André Wojciechowski	UMP
	2012	Paola Zanetti	PS

Election results

2012

Legislative Election 2012: Moselle's 7th Constituency 2nd round
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	PS	Paola Zanetti	18,840	38.49
	Radical	André Wojciechowski	18,471	37.74
	FN	Nathalie Pigeot	11,631	23.76
Turnout			49,638	54.21
	PS gain from UMP		Swing

Sources

Official results of French elections from 2002: "Résultats électoraux officiels en France" (in French).

Constituencies in Lorraine (21)

Meurthe-et-Moselle (6)	Meurthe-et-Moselle's 1st Meurthe-et-Moselle's 2nd Meurthe-et-Moselle's 3rd Meurthe-et-Moselle's 4th Meurthe-et-Moselle's 5th Meurthe-et-Moselle's 6th

Meuse (2)	Meuse's 1st Meuse's 2nd

Moselle (9)	Moselle's 1st Moselle's 2nd Moselle's 3rd Moselle's 4th Moselle's 5th Moselle's 6th Moselle's 7th Moselle's 8th Moselle's 9th

Vosges (4)	Vosges' 1st Vosges' 2nd Vosges' 3rd Vosges' 4th

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