The Sixth French legislative constituency for citizens abroad (sixième circonscription des Français établis hors de France) is one of eleven constituencies each electing one representative of French people living outside France to the National Assembly.
Area This constituency is the smallest of the eleven by area. It covers two countries: Switzerland and Liechtenstein. As of New Year's Day 2011, it contained 145,108 registered French voters. Virtually all of these live in Switzerland, which has a greater number of registered French residents than any other country in the world."Les élections en 2012 à l’étranger: Votre circonscription pour l’élection des députés", French Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs"Décret n° 2011-367 du 4 avril 2011 authentifiant la population des Français établis hors de France au 1er janvier 2011", Légifrance"Français inscrits au registre mondial au 31/12/2010", French Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs
This constituency elected its first ever representative at the 2012 French legislative election.
Deputies ElectionMemberParty 2012 Claudine Schmid UMP 2017 Eva Son-Forget LREM 2018 SE 2021 REC2022 Marc Ferracci LREM 2024 RE
Election results
2024 CandidatePartyAllianceFirst roundSecond roundVotes%Votes%Marc FerracciREEnsemble25,59040.5434,77159.48Halima DelimiPSNFP19,44630.8123,68740.52Déborah MerceronRN9,15814.51Olivier CorticchiatoLRUDC4,1726.61Jacques De CausansDVC1,8882.99Philippe TissotREC9491.50Marie-Julie JacquemotVolt6511.03Arnaud DortheDIV6270.99Céline von AuwECO4190.66Michèle Sellès-LefrancPRG2220.35Valid votes63,122100.0058,458100.00Blank votes5880.924,7407.49Null votes880.14990.16Turnout63,79839.9463,29739.63Abstentions95,94860.0696,43660.37Registered voters159,746159,733Source: ResultRE HOLD
2022
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2017 CandidateLabelFirst roundSecond roundVotes%Votes%Joachim Son-ForgetREM63.5574.94Claudine SchmidLR15.7625.06Jean RossiaudECO7.96Emmanuelle BoudetFI5.48Jean-Claude MarchandFN2.89Geneviève MarionDVD1.50Vincent SouchaudDIV0.87Joseph KuszliDVG0.51Martine LerondEXD0.43Tie WatanabeDIV0.27Fabienne LefebvrePCF0.27Pierre AugustinDIV0.22Ernesto PriarolloDVD0.20Odile Leperre-VerrierPRG0.08Votes100.00100.00Valid votes99.4697.30Blank votes0.182.18Null votes0.360.53Turnout20.1918.78Abstentions79.8181.22Registered votersSource: Ministry of the Interior
2012
Candidates The list of candidates was officially finalised on 14 May. There were twenty-one candidates:"Arrêté du 14 mai 2012 fixant la liste des candidats au premier tour de l'élection des députés élus par les Français établis hors de France ", Journal Officiel de la République Française, 15 May 2012Candidates for the fifth constituency, in Le Petit Journal
The Socialist Party chose Nicole Castioni, a resident of Geneva, as its candidate. She was a magistrate in the Criminal Court of Geneva, and, having dual French and Swiss citizenship, was an elected representative in the Parliament of Geneva from 1993 to 2001. Her deputy (suppléant) was Louis Lepioufle, also a resident of Geneva."Elections législatives 2012 : nos candidates et candidats", Parti Socialiste - Fédération des Français à l'Etranger
The Union for a Popular Movement chose Claudine Schmid. Sébastien Brack was her deputy (suppléant)."Législatives : l'UMP a désigné ses candidats pour l'étranger", Le Figaro, April 13, 2011
Europe Écologie–The Greens chose Ximena Kaiser Morris, with Jean Rossiaud as her deputy (suppléant)."Motion 13: Législatives 2012: Hors de France" , Europe Écologie–The Greens A resident of Lausanne, Kaiser Morris was also a member of the Green Party of Switzerland."Les 11 candidat-e-s EELV sur les circonscriptions législatives hors de France" , EELV, 12 November 2011
The Left Front (which unites several parties, most notably the French Communist Party and the Left Party) chose Magali Orsini, a long-term resident of Geneva and active participant in that city's left-wing politics. She was a Chartered Accountant, former lecturer in tax law and former assessor. Pierre Gauthier was her deputy (suppléant)."Présentation de Magali Orsini", Le Petit Journal
The National Front chose Christiane Floquet. Serge Mohler was her deputy (suppléant).
The centre-right Radical Party and the centrist Republican, Ecologist and Social Alliance jointly chose Marie-Françoise d'Anglemont as their candidate, with Marcel Paquier as her deputy (suppléant). She had dual French and Swiss citizenship, and had a political career in the Swiss Canton of Geneva."Présentation de Marie-Françoise d'Anglemont de Tassigny", Le Petit Journal
The Radical Party of the Left chose Laila Barki, who worked in pharmaceuticals in Geneva. Philippe Berger was her deputy (suppléant)."Présentation de Laila Barki", Le Petit Journal
The Pirate Party chose Romain Devouassoux, with Xavier Gillard as his deputy.
Solidarity and Progress, the French branch of the LaRouche movement, was represented by Odile Mojon, with Christophe Laverne as her deputy. Mojon, who worked as a documentarist translator, had dual French and Swiss citizenship."Présentation de Odile Mojon", Le Petit Journal
Joseph Kuzsli was the candidate of the European Social-Democratic Party, with Pierre Baccale-Ramonatxco as his deputy.
Micheline Spoerri, former Minister for Police and Security in the government of the canton of Geneva, stood as the candidate of the "Independent Right". Jean-Patrick Bourcart is her deputy."Présentation de Micheline Spoerri", Le Petit Journal
Pierre-Jean Duvivier, a resident of Switzerland, was an independent candidate, wishing to "strictly defend the private sector against the multiple attempts to constrain it". Tatiana Zhyvylo was his deputy."Présentation de Pierre-Jean Duvivier", Le Petit Journal
Didier Salavert described himself as an "independent liberal" candidate, in the French meaning of the word (i.e. classical liberalism). Pierre Chappaz was his deputy."Présentation de Didier Salavert", Le Petit Journal He was endorsed by the Liberal Democratic Party.
The other independent candidates were: Bernard Garcia (with Gloria Giol as deputy); Guy Broustine (with Isabelle Lovera as deputy); Sébastien Jacques (with Annat Jacques as deputy); Nicolas Miguet (with Guillaume Barthelemey as deputy); Serge Cyril Vinet (with Sylvie Boutard as deputy); Christian Robert (with Tatiana Robert as deputy); Didier Tailliez (with Jean-Michel Barreyre as deputy); and Gérard Andrieux (with Geneviève Berthin-Hugault as deputy).
Results As in the other expatriate constituencies, turnout in the first round was low. It was one of only three expatriate constituencies in which the main candidate of the right finished first.Official results of the first round, French Ministry for Foreign Affairs"Législatives : tous les résultats des Français de l'étranger", Le Nouvel Observateur, 4 June 2012
Independent candidate Sébastien Jacques received a single vote (out of 23,390 votes cast). He had stood as representative of the International Capitalist Party, his main platform being the adoption by France of the Swiss fiscal model, and a rejection of the French government's "nauseating and unhealthy" efforts against tax evasion by expatriates.Sébastien Jacques' official campaign leaflet, hosted on the website of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs
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