Somme's 5th constituency

The 5th constituency of Somme is a French legislative constituency in the Somme département. Like the other 576 French constituencies, it elects one MP using the two-round system, with a run-off if no candidate receives over 50% of the vote in the first round.

5th constituency of Somme
inline Constituency of the National Assembly of France
Somme's 5th Constituency shown within Picardie
Deputy	Yaël Ménache RN
Department	Somme
Cantons	Acheux-en-Amiénois, Albert, Bray-sur-Somme, Chaulnes, Combles, Ham, Nesle, Péronne, Roisel, Rosières-en-Santerre, Roye
Registered voters	81,979
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Description

The 5th constituency of the Somme covers the largely rural west of the department.

Unlike the other constituencies in Somme the 5th has remained solidly conservative throughout the Fifth Republic.

Historic representation

Election		Member	Party
	1958	Émile Luciani	UNR
	1962
	1967		UDR
	1968
	1973	André Audinot	DVD
	1978
	1981
1986		Proportional representation – no election by constituency
	1988	Gautier Audinot	RPR
	1993
	1997
	2002	Stéphane Demilly	UDF
	2007		NC
	2012
	2017		UDI
	2020	Grégory Labille
	2022	Yaël Ménache	RN

Election results

2022

2022 French legislative election: Somme's 5th constituency

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	RN	Yaël Ménache	13,501	34.49	+13.24
	LFI (NUPÉS)	Guillaume Ancelet	7,941	20.29	+3.50
	LREM (Ensemble)	Virginie Caron-Decroix	7,806	19.94	N/A
	LR (UDC)	Grégory Labille	6,607	16.88	–36.97
	REC	Laurent Beauvarlet	1,202	3.07	N/A
	Others	N/A	2,089	-	-
Turnout			39,146	49.20	–1.23
2nd round result
	RN	Yaël Ménache	20,861	60.79	N/A
	LFI (NUPÉS)	Guillaume Ancelet	13,453	39.21	N/A
Turnout			34,314	48.32	N/A
	RN gain from UDI

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2017

Legislative Election 2017: Somme's 5th Constituency 1st round

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	UDI	Stéphane Demilly	21,505	53.85	+9.14
	FN	Loïc Grimaux	8,487	21.25	+7.17
	LFI	Olivier Spinelli	4,770	11.94	N/A
	PCF	Valérie Roussel	1,937	4.85	N/A
	Independent	Thierry Vindevogel	1,441	3.61	N/A
	DLF	Olga Sorokina-Dollé	620	1.55	N/A
	Party of France	Florence Perdu	472	1.18	+0.21
	LO	Régis Liévrard	439	1.10	+0.31
	Independent	David Makowski	263	0.66	N/A
Turnout			41,076	50.43	–12.44
	UDI gain from LC		Swing

2012

Legislative Election 2012: Somme's 5th Constituency 1st round

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LC	Stéphane Demilly	22,744	44.71	–4.31
	PS	Valérie Kumm	17,061	33.54	+6.58
	FN	Wallerand de Saint-Just	7,161	14.08	+8.31
	FG	Christine Barbier	2,263	4.45	+1.83
	EELV	Élodie Héren	747	1.47	+0.17
	Party of France	Monique Chapel	494	0.97	N/A
	LO	Hélène Launay	401	0.79	–0.59
Turnout			51,551	62.87	–1.27

Legislative Election 2012: Somme's 5th Constituency 2nd round

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LC	Stéphane Demilly	28,864	58.12	+2.65
	PS	Valérie Kumm	20,798	41.88	–2.65
Turnout			50,974	62.18	–2.27
	LC hold		Swing

2007

Legislative Election 2007: Somme's 5th Constituency 1st round

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LC	Stéphane Demilly	20,357	49.02	N/A
	PS	Valérie Kumm	11,198	26.96	+6.79
	FN	Jean-Philippe Jardin	2,398	5.77	–7.86
	MoDem	Romain Cauët	1,687	4.06	N/A
	PCF	Olivier Chapuis-Roux	1,087	2.62	–2.44
	LMR	Dominique Lefebvre	1,040	2.50	–4.37
	Communists in Somme	Angelo Ondicana	919	2.21	N/A
	LCR	Danièle Dollé	816	1.96	–0.45
	LO	Hélène Launay	575	1.38	–1.40
	LV	Philippe Bocquet	541	1.30	–1.02
	MPF	Jean-Louis Renard	508	1.22	N/A
	MNR	Claude Dauby	223	0.54	–0.42
	France in Action	Dominique Benoît	182	0.44	N/A
Turnout			42,369	64.14	–1.40

Legislative Election 2007: Somme's 5th Constituency 2nd round

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LC	Stéphane Demilly	22,995	55.47	N/A
	PS	Valérie Kumm	18,459	44.53	+1.07
Turnout			42,568	64.45	+1.36
	LC gain from UDF		Swing

2002

Legislative Election 2002: Somme's 5th constituency

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	UDF	Stéphane Demilly	17,586	42.52
	PS	Valerie Kumm	8,341	20.17
	FN	Francine Fournet	5,638	13.63
	LMR	Jean-Louis Grevin	2,843	6.87
	PCF	Olivier Chapuis-Roux	2,092	5.06
	LO	Helene Launay	1,150	2.78
	LCR	Laurence Thiery	998	2.41
	Others	N/A	1,755
Turnout			42,566	65.54
2nd round result
	UDF	Stéphane Demilly	21,962	56.54
	PS	Valerie Kumm	16,881	43.46
Turnout			40,969	63.09
	UDF gain from RPR

1997

Legislative Election 1997: Somme's 5th constituency

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	RPR	Gautier Audinot	18,436	40.00
	PS	Danielle Destenay	11,531	25.02
	FN	Marie-Claire Bouvet	6,603	14.33
	PCF	Olivier Chapuis-Roux	4,230	9.18
	DVD	Daniel Savary	1,911	4.15
	LO	Yves Puig	1,535	3.33
	Others	N/A	1,841
Turnout			47,969	76.67
2nd round result
	RPR	Gautier Audinot	23,591	50.27
	PS	Danielle Destenay	23,342	49.73
Turnout			49,023	78.49
	RPR hold

References

• Official results of French elections from 2002: "Résultats électoraux officiels en France" (in French).
• 2007 results: "SOMME (80) -- 5ème circonscription (résultats officiels)" (in French). Ministry of the Interior.
• 2012 results: "ACCUEIL > SOMME (80) > 5èmecirconscription" (in French). Ministry of the Interior.
• "Résultats électoraux officiels en France" (in French). 2017.

1. "Résultats des élections législatives 2022 dans la Somme". Le Monde.fr (in French). Retrieved 8 August 2022.