Meuse's 1st constituency

1st constituency of Meuse
inline Constituency of the National Assembly of France
Meuse's 1st Constituency shown within Lorraine
Deputy	Bertrand Pancher PRV
Department	Meuse
Cantons	Ancerville, Bar-le-Duc-Nord, Bar-le-Duc-Sud, Commercy, Gondrecourt-le-Château, Ligny-en-Barrois, Montiers-sur-Saulx, Pierrefitte-sur-Aire, Revigny-sur-Ornain, Saint-Mihiel, Seuil-d'Argonne, Vaubecourt, Vaucouleurs, Vavincourt, Vigneulles-lès-Hattonchâtel, Void-Vacon.
Registered voters	78,861
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The 1st constituency of Meuse is a French legislative constituency in the Meuse département.

Description

The 1st constituency of Meuse covers the southern portion of the department and includes the prefecture of Bar-le-Duc.

Since 1988 a variety of conservative parties have held the seat with the exception of 1997 when the seat was captured by François Dosé of the Socialist Party who subsequently held the seat at the 2002 French legislative election. Since 2007 Bertrand Pancher has been held the seat first for the Gaullist UMP before he swapped to the more centrist Radical Party and Union of Democrats and Independents.

Historic Representation

Election		Member	Party
1986		Proportional representation – no election by constituency
	1988	Gérard Longuet	UDF
	1993	André Droitcourt
	1997	François Dosé	PS
	2002
	2007	Bertrand Pancher	UMP
	2012		PRV
	2017		UDI
	2022		PRV

Election results

2024

Legislative Election 2024: Meuse's 1st constituency

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PS (NFP)	Olivier Guckert	7,066	14.31	−3.18
	DVD	Bertrand Pancher	16,901	34.22	+4.03
	LO	Blaise Tymen	481	0.97	N/A
	DLF	Sylvie Mariage	708	1.43	N/A
	DIV	Grégoire Moutaux	548	1.11	N/A
	RN	Maxime Amblard	23,680	47.95	+17.52
Turnout			49,384	96.93	+48.40
Registered electors			74,962
2nd round result
	RN	Maxime Amblard	25,411	50.49	+2.54
	DVD	Bertrand Pancher	24,918	49.51	+15.29
Turnout			50,329	96.94	−0.01
Registered electors			74,914
	RN gain from DVD

2022

Legislative Election 2022: Meuse's 1st constituency

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	RN	Brigitte Gaudineau	10,914	30.43	+10.25
	PRV (UDC)	Bertrand Pancher	10,826	30.19	+2.37
	PS (NUPÉS)	Olivier Guckert	6,272	17.49	+0.59
	HOR (Ensemble)	Sandrine Raffner Kiefer	1,277	13.38	−14.06
	REC	Arnaud Chapon	1,277	3.56	N/A
	Others	N/A	1,778	-	−
Turnout			35,864	48.53	−1.61
2nd round result
	PRV (UDC)	Bertrand Pancher	19,028	55.40	-2.85
	RN	Brigitte Gaudineau	15,319	44.60	N/A
Turnout			34,347	48.08	+2.78
	PRV gain from UDI

2017

Candidate		Label	First round		Second round
			Votes	%	Votes	%
	Bertrand Pancher	UDI	10,476	27.82	18,053	58.25
	Diana André	REM	10,333	27.44	12,940	41.75
	Corinne Kaufmann	FN	7,599	20.18
	Guy Jeannesson	FI	3,597	9.55
	Arnaud Mac Farlane	PS	1,616	4.29
	Jean-Marc Fleury	ECO	1,151	3.06
	Sylvie Frasez	DLF	860	2.28
	Gilles Latour	EXD	615	1.63
	Nathalie Thiébaut-Lamy	DIV	526	1.40
	Bruno Caille	REG	397	1.05
	Éric Finot	EXG	279	0.74
	Gilles Gobert	DIV	208	0.55
Votes			37,657	100.00	30,993	100.00
Valid votes			37,657	97.17	30,993	88.52
Blank votes			820	2.12	2,751	7.86
Null votes			278	0.72	1,268	3.62
Turnout			38,755	50.14	35,012	45.30
Abstentions			38,539	49.86	42,271	54.70
Registered voters			77,294		77,283
Source: Ministry of the Interior

2012

Legislative Election 2012: Meuse's 1st constituency

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PRV	Bertrand Pancher	17,489	37.31
	PS	Diana Andre	15,521	33.11
	FN	Dominique Bilde	9,179	19.58
	EELV	Jean-Marc Fleury	1,740	3.71
	FG	Mélanie Tsagouris	1,458	3.11
	Others	N/A	1,491
Turnout			46,878	59.41
2nd round result
	PRV	Bertrand Pancher	24,667	54.68
	PS	Diana Andre	20,448	45.32
Turnout			45,115	57.21
	PRV gain from UMP

Sources

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