Charente-Maritime's 4th constituency

4th constituency of the Charente-Maritime

French National Assembly circonscription
Deputy		Dominique Bussereau UMP
Department	Charente-Maritime
Canton	Archiac, Cozes, Gémozac, Jonzac, Mirambeau, Montendre, Montguyon, Montlieu-la-Garde, Pons, Royan-Est, Saint-Genis-de-Saintonge, Saintes-Est (only Colombiers and La Jard)
Population (1999)	101,987

The 4th constituency of the Charente-Maritime is a French legislative constituency in the Charente-Maritime department (Poitou-Charentes).

It consists of eleven cantons and two municipalities in Saintes-Est located in the arrondissements of Rochefort, Saintes and Jonzac: Archiac, Cozes, Gémozac, Jonzac, Mirambeau, Montendre, Montguyon, Montlieu-la-Garde, Pons, Royan-Est, Saint-Genis-de-Saintonge, Saintes-Est (only Colombiers and La Jard)

Election: results in 2007

2007 legislative election: Charente-Maritime's 4th constituency - 1st round
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	UMP	Dominique Bussereau	26,322	51.73
	PS	Régine Joly	12,161	23.90
Turnout			52,695	61.42
	UMP hold		Swing

Past elections: 1958-2002

Election		Member	Party
	1958	André Bégouin	CNIP
	1962	Daniel Daviaud	Parti Radical
	1967	Daniel Daviaud	Parti Radical
	1968	Louis Joanne	UDR
	1973	Louis Joanne	RI
	1978	Philippe Marchand	PS
	1981	Philippe Marchand	PS
1986		Proportional representation - no election by constituency
	1988	Philippe Marchand	PS
	1993	Dominique Bussereau	UDF
	1997	Dominique Bussereau	UDF
	2002	Dominique Bussereau	UMP

Sources

• Notes and portraits of the French MPs under the Fifth Republic, French National Assembly
• 2007 results in the Charente-Maritime's 4th constituency, Minister of the Interior