Haute-Marne's 1st constituency

1st constituency of the Haute-Marne
inline Constituency of the National Assembly of France
Haute-Marne's 1st Constituency shown within Champagne-Ardenne
Deputy	Christophe Bentz RN
Department	Haute-Marne
Cantons	Arc-en-Barrois, Auberive, Bourbonne-les-Bains, Bourmont, Châteauvillain, Chaumont-Nord, Chaumont-Sud, Clefmont, Fayl-la-Forêt, Laferté-sur-Amance, Langres, Longeau-Percey, Neuilly-l'Évêque, Nogent, Prauthoy, Terre-Natale, Val-de-Meuse.
Registered voters	74,519
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The 1st constituency of the Haute-Marne is a French legislative constituency in the Haute-Marne département.

Description

Haute-Marne's 1st constituency covers the southern portion of the department and includes the prefecture of Chaumont.

Despite being won by the left at the 1997 election the seat was comfortably held by Luc Chatel of the UMP from 2002 to 2017.

Historic Representation

Election		Member	Party
1986		Proportional representation – no election by constituency
	1988	Charles Fèvre	UDF
	1993
	1997	Jean-Claude Daniel	DVG
	2002	Luc-Marie Chatel	UMP
	2007
	2012
	2017	Bérangère Abba	LREM
	2020	Sylvain Templier
	2022	Christophe Bentz	RN

Election results

2024

Candidate		Party	Alliance	First round		Second round
				Votes	%	Votes	%
	Christophe Bentz	RN		22,815	48.83	23,772	53.90
	Bérangère Abba	HOR	Ensemble	12,529	28.05	20,335	46.10
	Benjamin Lambert	PS	NPF	9,104	20.38
	Sylvain Demay	LO		869	1.95
	Baptiste Gallet	DIV		355	0.79
Valid votes				44,672	95.88	44,107	94.31
Blank votes				1,159	2.49	1,847	3.95
Null votes				763	1.64	814	1.74
Turnout				46,594	67.36	46,768	67.61
Abstentions				22,577	32.64	22,405	32.39
Registered voters				69,171		69,173
Source: [1]
Result				RN HOLD

2022

Legislative Election 2022: Haute-Marne's 1st constituency

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	RN	Christophe Bentz	9,479	27.31	+8.48
	HOR (Ensemble)	Bérangère Abba	7,342	21.15	-10.75
	LFI (NUPÉS)	Michèle Leclerc	5,622	16.20	−3.86
	LR (UDC)	Sophie Delong	4,660	13.42	−5.64
	DIV	Théo Caviezel	3,635	10.47	N/A
	DVD	Jocelyne Leblanc-Gabriel	1,466	4.22	N/A
	REC	Bénédicte de Dinechin	964	2.78	N/A
	DVG	Eloïse Venancio	752	2.17	N/A
	Others	N/A	794	-	−
Turnout			34,714	50.61	−0.70
2nd round result
	RN	Christophe Bentz	16,201	51.25	N/A
	HOR (Ensemble)	Bérangère Abba	15,412	48.75	+5.19
Turnout			31,613	49.61	+4.61
	RN gain from LREM

2017

Candidate		Label	First round		Second round
			Votes	%	Votes	%
	Bérangère Abba	REM	11,545	31.90	15,045	53.44
	Adrien Guené	LR	6,896	19.06	13,109	46.56
	Fabienne Cudel	FN	6,813	18.83
	Ariane Walaszek	FI	4,069	11.24
	Christophe Fischer	DVD	3,011	8.32
	Axel Causin	PS	1,681	4.65
	Patrick Varney	ECO	1,140	3.15
	Patricia Petronelli	PCF	369	1.02
	Sylvain Demay	EXG	299	0.83
	Yvette Le Nepveu	DIV	224	0.62
	Mireille Braun	DVG	139	0.38
Votes			36,186	100.00	28,154	100.00
Valid votes			36,186	97.39	28,154	86.42
Blank votes			692	1.86	3,011	9.24
Null votes			276	0.74	1,413	4.34
Turnout			37,154	51.31	32,578	45.00
Abstentions			35,251	48.69	39,825	55.00
Registered voters			72,405		72,403
Source: Ministry of the Interior

2012

Legislative Election 2012: Haute-Marne's 1st constituency

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	UMP	Luc Chatel	20,620	45.76
	EELV	Patricia Andriot	14,417	31.99
	FN	Thomas Suillot	5,422	12.03
	FG	Céline Surel	2,203	4.89
	Others	N/A	2,401
Turnout			45,063	60.48
2nd round result
	UMP	Luc Chatel	24,346	55.05
	EELV	Patricia Andriot	19,879	44.95
Turnout			44,225	59.35
	UMP hold

References

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