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5th constituency of
Charente-Maritime
5th constituency of ; Charente-Maritime
inlineConstituency of the ; National Assembly of France
	Constituency in department
	Charente-Maritime in France
Incumbent deputy	Christophe Plassard; H
Department	Charente-Maritime
Cantons	Le Château-d'Oléron, Marennes, Royan-Ouest, Saint-Agnant, Saint-Pierre-d'Oléron, Saint-Porchaire, Saujon, Tonnay-Charente, La Tremblade
Registered voters	111,434 (2017)
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The 5th constituency of Charente-Maritime (French: Cinquième circonscription de la Charente-Maritime) is one of five electoral districts in the department of Charente-Maritime, each of which returns one deputy to the French National Assembly in elections using the two-round system, with a run-off if no candidate receives more than 50% of the vote in the first round.

Description

The constituency is made up of nine (pre-2015) cantons: those of Le Château-d'Oléron, Marennes, Royan-Ouest, Saint-Agnant, Saint-Pierre-d'Oléron, Saint-Porchaire, Saujon, Tonnay-Charente, and La Tremblade.

At the time of the 1999 census (which was the basis for the most recent redrawing of constituency boundaries, carried out in 2010) the 5th constituency had a total population of 112,002.

Deputies

Election		Member	Party
	1958	André Lacaze	CNIP
	1962	Jean de Lipkowski	UNR
	1967		UDR
	1968
	1973
	1978		RPR
	1981		RPR
1986		Proportional representation – no election by constituency
	1988	Jean de Lipkowski	RPR
	1993	Jean de Lipkowski
	1997	Didier Quentin
	2002		UMP
	2007
	2012
	2017		LR
	2022	Christophe Plassard	H
	2024

Election results

2024

Candidate		Party	Alliance	First round			Second round
Candidate		Party	Alliance	Votes	%	+/–	Votes	%	+/–
	Aymeric Mongelous	RN		36,296	43.83	+18.07	39,259	47.89
	Christophe Plassard	HOR	ENS	27,134	32.75	+8.92	42,725	52.11
	Anne Brachet	PS	NFP	18,344	22.15	+2.27	WITHDREW
	Danièle Cassette	LO		1,051	1.27	+0.23

Valid votes				82,815	97.31	-1.05	81,984	95.46
Blank votes				1,609	1.89	+0.77	2,758	3.21
Null votes				676	0.79	+0.28	1,128	1.31
Turnout				85,100	70.74	+19.97	85,870	71.37
Abstentions				35,196	29.26	-19.97	34,447	28.63
Registered voters				120,296			120,317

Source: Ministry of the Interior,^[1] Le Monde^[2]^[3]
Result							HOR HOLD

2022

Legislative Election 2022: Charente-Maritime's 5th constituency
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	RN	Séverine Werbrouck	15,404	25.76	+10.23
	HOR (Ensemble)	Christophe Plassard	14,245	23.83	N/A
	PS (NUPÉS)	Margarita Sola	11,886	19.88	−6.21
	LR (UDC)	Didier Quentin	10,519	17.59	−6.19
	REC	Florence Courtois	2,474	4.14	N/A
	DIV	Romuald Dequatre	1,525	2.55	N/A
	PRG	Marie-Noëlle Groch	1,506	2.52	N/A

	Others	N/A	2,228	3.73
Turnout			59,787	50.77	+0.94
2nd round result
	HOR (Ensemble)	Christophe Plassard	28,233	51.74	N/A
	RN	Séverine Werbrouck	26,336	48.26	N/A
Turnout			54,569	49.69	+6.70
	HOR gain from LR

^[4]

2017

Candidate		Label	First round		Second round
Candidate		Label	Votes	%	Votes	%
	Didier Quentin	LR	12,933	23.78	23,151	54.89
	Gérard Potennec	DIV	11,415	20.99	19,024	45.11
	Séverine Werbrouck	FN	8,444	15.53
	Mickael Vallet	PS	7,355	13.52
	Geoffrey Lebreton Perez	FI	4,936	9.08
	Christian Gerin	DIV	3,509	6.45
	Stéphanie Muzard	ECO	1,327	2.44
	Thierry Gille	DIV	1,206	2.22
	Maurice Montangon	DLF	863	1.59
	Jacques Guiard	PCF	569	1.05
	Stéphane Theas	ECO	444	0.82
	Audrey Jean	DIV	396	0.73
	Béatrice Machillot	DIV	234	0.43
	Khamssa Rahmani	EXG	229	0.42
	Pierre Duponchel	DIV	214	0.39
	Julien Millot	DIV	208	0.38
	Patrice Guillory	DIV	67	0.12
	Gilles Geirnaert	DVG	36	0.07
	Rémi Lefèvre	DIV	2	0.00

Votes			54,387	100.00	42,175	100.00

Valid votes			54,387	97.93	42,175	88.03
Blank votes			782	1.41	3,919	8.18
Null votes			370	0.67	1,816	3.79
Turnout			55,539	49.83	47,910	42.99
Abstentions			55,914	50.17	63,524	57.01
Registered voters			111,453		111,434

Source: Ministry of the Interior

2012

Summary of the 10 June and 17 June 2012 French legislative election in Charante Maritime’s 5th Constituency^[5]
Candidate		Party		1st round		2nd round
Candidate		Party		Votes	%	Votes	%
	Didier Quentin	Union for a Popular Movement	UMP	25,925	41.68%	32,697	53.99%
	Pascal Ferchaud	Radical Party of the Left	PRG	21,637	34.79%	27,866	46.01%
	Jean-Marc de Lacoste Lareymondie	Front National	FN	8,769	14.10%
	Jacques Guiard	Left Front	FG	2,340	3.76%
	Laurence Marcillaud	Europe Ecology – The Greens	EELV	1,272	2.05%
	Michel Renault	Centrist	CEN	957	1.54%
	Sylvie Moreau	Ecologist	ECO	608	0.98%
	Pascale Lequeux	Ecologist	ECO	361	0.58%
	Anne Bernon	Far Left	EXG	327	0.53%

Total				62,196	100%	60,563	100%

Registered voters				106,006		105,996
Blank/Void ballots				811	0.77%	1,604	1.51%
Turnout				63,007	59.44%	62,167	58.65%
Abstentions				42,999	40.56%	43,829	41.35%

Result						UMP HOLD

2007

Results of the 10 June and 17 June 2007 French legislative election in Charente Maritime’s 5th Constituency [6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	UMP	Didier Quentin	31,884	53.51
	PRG	Vincent Barraud	10,798	18.12
	MoDem	Alexis Blanc	4,790	8.04
	FN	Elise Somprou	2,345	3.94
	CPNT	Jean-Louis Jaulin	1,993	3.34
	LV	Nicole Kentzel	1,983	3.33
	Far left	Marie Dolores Delgado	1,803	3.03
	PCF	Jacques Guiard	1,647	2.76
	MPF	Claude Meunier	1,142	1.92
	Independent	Patrick Vaisse	637	1.07
	Far left	Marouani Ben Hadj Salem	383	0.64
	Independent	Alain Ignacimouttou	185	0.31
Majority			21,086	35.39
Turnout			60,808	60.52
	UMP hold		Swing

2002

Legislative Election 2002: Charente-Maritime's 5th constituency
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	UMP	Didier Quentin	27,560	48.33
	PS	Régine Joly	12,794	22.43
	FN	Didier Fontaine	6,063	10.63
	CPNT	Olivier Delabbey	3,519	6.17
	LV	Eric Chollon	2,213	3.88
	PCF	Jacques Guiard	1,368	2.40

	Others	N/A	3,512
Turnout			58,135	64.83
2nd round result
	UMP	Didier Quentin	33,340	64.76
	PS	Régine Joly	18,144	35.24
Turnout			53,568	59.74
	UMP hold

1997

Legislative Election 1997: Charente-Maritime's 5th constituency
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	RPR	Didier Quentin	13,663	27.03
	PS	Claude Billot-Zeller	12,238	24.21
	FN	Pascal Markowski	6,688	13.23
	RPR	Jean-Noël de Lipkowski	6,514	12.89
	PCF	Jacques Guiard	4,177	8.26
	MPF	Claude Meunier	3,424	6.77
	LV	Réjane Grué	2,421	4.79
	MEI	Paul Liénart	1,415	2.80
Turnout			53,721	65.90
2nd round result
	RPR	Didier Quentin	29,964	55.37
	PS	Claude Billot-Zeller	24,153	44.63
Turnout			57,819	70.93
	RPR hold