The 4th constituency of Ille-et-Vilaine is a French legislative constituency in the Ille-et-Vilaine 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.
Description
Ille-et-Vilaine's 4th Constituency covers the south west of the department and includes one of its subprefectures, Redon.
The constituency was first established in 1958. During the legislative election of that year, Isidore Renouard, the general councillor for the canton of Redon and mayor of the small town of Langon, was elected. He faced a Henri Dorgères, an agrarian politician with a pro Vichy past elected in 1956 as a Poujadist. Renouard, a centre-right politician, joined the Valéry Giscard d'Estaing-led Independent Republicans in 1962. Reelected in 1962, 1967, 1968 and 1973, he died in 1975 in a car crash. His substitute, Édouard Simon, took his position until the 1978 elections.
In 1978, Alain Madelin is elected. He is reelected in 1981 and in 1985, becomes the general delegate of the Republican Party, the political successor to the Independent Republicans within the UDF. The constituency is abolished in 1986 but Madelin is reelected as deputy and becomes a minister under PM Jacques Chirac. The constituency is then reinstated and recontested in 1988, with few changes. Madelin is reelected that year, against the same opponent as in 1981, the socialist Pierre Bourges, Redon mayor. One of his deputies, Jean-René Marsac, is unsuccessful in 1993 and Madelin is soundly reelected. Under prime minister Édouard Balladur, he is appointed Minister of Business and Economic Development. He is replaced as deputy by Jean-Gilles Berthommier, mayor of Saint-Erblon. Several changes occur in 1995 following the presidential election and the victory of Jacques Chirac. Madelin remains a minister, however promoted in May, to minister for Economics and Finance. In June, he is elected mayor of Redon. However, Madelin soon resigns from government in August and goes back to his deputy position in October. Madelin is reelected in 1997 with a reduced margin but becomes the president of the Republican Party. Over the 1997 summer, he rebrands it Liberal Democracy. Madelin is the presidential election candidate for his party in 2002. He only gets 3,91 % of the vote. He is reelected as deputy in 2002, on a thin margin.
In 2007, Madelin retires from politics. Loïc Aubin, the UMP candidate and mayor of Saint-Thurial, is defeated by Jean-René Marsac, Madelin's socialist opponent in 1993. The constituency is slightly reshaped in 2010 and Marsac is widely reelected in 2012.
In 2017, Gaël Le Bohec, an engineer, is the En Marche ! candidate and succeeds Marsac who was retiring, with more than 60% of the vote against the La France insoumise candidate. Le Bohec does not run again in 2022 and Mathilde Hignet is elected during a close contest. Hignet is a La France insoumise supporter and a farmworker from Val d'Anast.
Deputies
ElectionMemberParty 1958 Isidore Renouard Entente Démocratique 1962 RI196719681973 1978 Alain Madelin UDF 1986 Proportional representation - no election by constituency 1988 Alain Madelin UDF1993 1997 DL 2002 UMP 2007 Jean-René Marsac PS 2012 2017 Gaël Le Bohec LREM2022Mathilde HignetLFI
Election results
2024 CandidatePartyAllianceFirst roundSecond roundVotes%+/–Votes%+/–Jacques FrançoisRN32.30+14.8142.43Mathilde HignetLFINFP32.10+0.5157.57+7.21Anne PataultRENEnsemble24.06-5.72withdrewJeremy GilbertLRUDC8.85+0.97Sophie HubertDLF1.43-0.12Sandra ChiraziLO1.26+0.24Votes100.00100.00Valid votes97.23-0.1089.50Blank votes2.00+0.167.92Null votes0.77-0.062.58Turnout72.61+22.0671.89Abstentions27.39-22.0628.11Registered votersSource: Result LFI HOLD
2022
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2017 CandidateLabelFirst roundSecond roundVotes%Votes%Gaël Le BohecREM42.0261.75Marc MartinFI13.6638.25Franck PichotPS12.22Christian LechevalierFN10.92Jean-Marc CarreauLR10.49Sarah Trichet-AllaireECO4.04Philippe BonninDVG2.02Nelly RosaisDLF1.51Jocelyne DevriendtECO1.09Sandra ChiraziEXG0.91Maud CallacDIV0.60Élisabeth DrouinEXD0.51Votes100.00100.00Valid votes97.9292.50Blank votes1.515.09Null votes0.572.41Turnout52.2343.91Abstentions47.7756.09Registered votersSource: Ministry of the Interior
2012 + 2012 legislative election in Ille-Et-Vilaine's 4th constituencyCandidatePartyFirst roundSecond roundVotes%Votes%Jean-René MarsacPS47.69%62.30%Dominique JulaudAC23.97%37.70%Christian RessortFN13.18%Michèle GilletFG5.05%Eloïse CordierBreizhistance–UDB–EELV4.46%Véronique Wester-OuisseDLR3.93%Gwennola ErmelNPA0.92%Sandra ChiraziLO0.80%Valid votes97.51%96.73%Spoilt and null votes2.49%3.27%Votes cast / turnout58.45%54.78%Abstentions41.55%45.22%Registered voters100.00%100.00%
2007
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2002
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1997
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1993
Sources
INSEE's slip of this constituency:
List of Ille-et-Vilaine's deputies from 1789: Official results of French elections from 1998: