RIDING. During legislative elections, the territory is divided into electoral constituencies. What does this represent? Explanations and map of France of the constituencies in mainland France.
[Mis à jour le 10 juin 2022 à 14h28] This Sunday, June 12, the first round of the 2022 legislative elections takes place, followed by the 2nd round a week later on Sunday, June 19, 2022. The legislative elections are both local and national elections. National because all citizens vote, on the same days, to designate the deputies and thus elect the representatives of national sovereignty. But these elections are also local since they are all different from one constituency to another, with candidates specific to each constituency. This term designates the territory on which the vote takes place in a locality – located in France and even outside France: French citizens are integrated into such and such a constituency depending on where they reside.
France is divided into 577 such constituencies that range from the verdant landscapes of Sarthe to the bustling streets of New York, with French people living abroad also voting in 11 very large, continent-wide constituencies. They have even already voted since the elections were organized for them a week earlier. The voters of the DOM-TOMs will vote them the same weekend as in mainland France, with differences simply related to the time difference. For many voters, it can be difficult to know in which constituency they will vote this Sunday, for the legislative elections. Especially since in large cities, the population is spread over several different constituencies and sometimes, in the same street, you can vote in one constituency while your neighbor votes in another!
Map of constituencies in France
To take the measure of the great diversity of the constituencies and the particularities of the divisions, here is a map of the constituencies for the 2022 legislative elections. The names of the candidates are displayed when you point to a constituency.
What is your constituency for the 2022 legislative elections?
To find out what the district is, use the search engine below by typing the name of your municipality or the name of your department. Some departments have only one or two constituencies, others twenty.
The constituencies have also been remodeled twice by the Ministry of the Interior, in 1987 by Charles Pasqua and in 2009 by Alain Marleix. A “butchering” sometimes accompanied by the suspicion of wanting to manipulate the result of the legislative elections… And which could have caused confusion among voters. You should know that the constituencies are, for the most part, grouped by department and have a number ranging from 1 to 15 or 20 depending on the size of the latter. The inhabitants of the small town of Fay, in the Pays-de-la-Loire, will thus vote in the 4th district of Sarthe, while the inhabitants of the district of Belsunce, in Marseille, are attached to the 4th district of Bouches- of the Rhone. Similarly, while there are many constituencies in the Bouches du Rhône, the less populated Creuse department has only one for these 2022 legislative elections. A constituency must indeed represent 125,000 inhabitants.