Voting day in La Manche. This Sunday, June 12, you are called upon to elect the deputy who will represent you in the National Assembly for the next five years. Polling station hours, voting procedures, results… Everything you need to know before going to the polls for this first round of the legislative elections.
Polling stations open from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
In La Manche, the 721 polling stations open at 8 a.m. and close at 6 p.m.. For these elections, 386,206 people are registered on the electoral lists, i.e. 2,000 more than for the presidential election last April, and 11,000 additional compared to the legislative elections of 2017.
Four constituencies, four MP seats
You vote in the constituency in which you are registered. There are four in the department:
- 1st constituency: Saint-Lô and all of eastern Manche; it is this constituency that has the fewest voters, only 87,000
- 2nd district: Sud-Manche, in particular Granville and Avranches
- 3rd constituency: West of the Channel, including Coutances, Valognes and Les Pieux; it is the largest constituency in number of voters, with more than 112,000
- 4th district: Nord-Cotentin, around Cherbourg
Once elected in their constituency, the four deputies de la Manche will represent the French in the National Assembly, among the 577 seats nationwide.
How to qualify for the second round?
This Sunday, 38 candidates are running for a deputy seat in one of the Channel constituencies. That’s seven less than five years ago. To qualify for the second round on June 19, a candidate must at least obtain 12.5% of the votes of registered voters.
The higher the abstention, the higher the qualifying bar and the lower the chance of triangles. If none of the candidates reaches the qualification threshold, it is the two who come out on top who go on to the second round.
To be elected in the first round, on the other hand, it is necessary to obtain more than 50% of the votes cast, representing at least a quarter of the registered voters. In 2017, only four candidates were elected in the first round across the country. In the Channel, we have to go back to 2012 for this to be the case, with Bernard Cazeneuve in the 4th district.
Special evening on France Bleu Cotentin
You will be able to follow the results of this first round of legislative elections live on the France Bleu Cotentin antenna. Issue Election night from 7:30 p.m. until 9.30 p.m., with results, candidate reactions and analyses.