Moselle's 5th constituency

The 5th constituency of Moselle is a French legislative constituency in the Moselle département.

5th constituency of Moselle
inline Constituency of the National Assembly of France
Moselle's 5th Constituency shown within Lorraine
Deputy	Vincent Seitlinger LR
Department	Moselle
Cantons	Bitche, Rohrbach-lès-Bitche, Sarralbe, Sarreguemines, Sarreguemines-Campagne, Volmunster.
Registered voters	74,623
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Description

The 5th Constituency of Moselle occupies a finger of territory jutting eastwards from the main body of the Department, bordered to the north by Germany and to the south by Bas-Rhin. Almost entirely rural the constituency includes a large part of the Northern Vosges Regional Natural Park.

Until 2017, the seat elected conservatives throughout the Fifth Republic save for between 1997 and 2002 when Socialist Gilbert Maurer captured it.

Historic Representation

Election		Member	Party
	1958	Jean Seitlinger	MRP
	1962	Etienne Hinsberger	UNR
	1967		UDR
	1968
	1973	Jean Seitlinger	UDF
	1978
	1981
1986		Proportional representation – no election by constituency
	1988	Jean Seitlinger	UDF
	1993
	1997	Gilbert Maurer	PS
	2002	Céleste Lett	UMP
	2007
	2012
	2017	Nicole Gries-Trisse	LREM
	2022	Vincent Seitlinger	LR

Election results

2022

Legislative Election 2022: Moselle's 5th constituency

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	RN	Marie-Claude Voinçon	7,498	25.88	+8.64
	LR (UDC)	Vincent Seitlinger	7,108	24.53	-17.39
	LREM (Ensemble)	Nicole Trisse	6,802	23.48	-0.99
	LFI (NUPÉS)	Caroline Racine	4,216	14.55	+2.95
	REC	Sabrina Sellini	1,354	4.67	N/A
	DIV	François Bourbeau	930	3.21	N/A
	DLF (UPF)	Brigitte Toussaint	589	2.03	+0.59
	LO	Sébastien Ollier	474	1.64	+0.95
Turnout			28,971	40.95	-3.04
2nd round result
	LR (UDC)	Vincent Seitlinger	16,413	59.12	+10.63
	RN	Marie-Claude Voinçon	11,348	40.88	N/A
Turnout			27,761	40.29	-0.96
	LR gain from LREM

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2017

Candidate		Label	First round		Second round
			Votes	%	Votes	%
	Céleste Lett	LR	9,123	28.72	13,676	48.49
	Nicole Gries-Trisse	REM	7,775	24.47	14,529	51.51
	Pascal Jenft	FN	5,478	17.24
	David Suck	UDI	4,193	13.20
	Brigitte Blang	FI	2,092	6.59
	Angèle Dufflo	PS	823	2.59
	Élisabeth Parachini	ECO	549	1.73
	Solenne Schaff	DLF	457	1.44
	Chantal Uhring	REG	264	0.83
	Bernadette Hilpert	PCF	218	0.69
	Ramazan Dogan	DIV	193	0.61
	Sébastien Ollier	EXG	193	0.61
	Yvonne Wentzel	DIV	145	0.46
	Jacqueline Berger	DIV	142	0.45
	Daniella Bettenfeld	EXG	124	0.39
Votes			31,769	100.00	28,205	100.00
Valid votes			31,769	97.62	28,205	92.44
Blank votes			564	1.73	1,585	5.19
Null votes			211	0.65	722	2.37
Turnout			32,544	43.99	30,512	41.25
Abstentions			41,438	56.01	43,460	58.75
Registered voters			73,982		73,972
Source: Ministry of the Interior

2012

Legislative Election 2012: Moselle's 5th constituency

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	UMP	Céleste Lett	16,744	43.00
	PS	Angèle Dufflo	9,714	24.94
	FN	Philippe Marcel Armand	8,071	20.73
	ECO	Michel Uhring	1,663	4.27
	FG	Alphonse Walter	1,294	3.32
	Others	N/A	1,456
Turnout			38,942	52.18
2nd round result
	UMP	Céleste Lett	21,721	60.24
	PS	Angèle Dufflo	14,334	39.76
Turnout			36,055	48.32
	UMP hold

Sources

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

1. "Résultats des élections législatives 2022 en Moselle". Le Monde.fr (in French). Retrieved 2 August 2022.