New Caledonia's 1st constituency

1st constituency of New Caledonia

French National Assembly constituency
Deputy	Gaël Yanno The Rally-UMP
Department	New Caledonia
Canton	Loyalty Islands, communes of Nouméa and Île des Pins in South Province

The 1st constituency of New Caledonia is a French legislative constituency in New Caledonia.

Between 1958 and 1962, the constituency represented the entirety of the New Hebrides condominium and the constituency represented the entirety of New Caledonia until a redistricting in 1978 created the 2nd constituency. Between 1978 and a new redistricting in 1986, the first constituency represented the Kanak-populated eastern shore of the main island in addition to the Loyalty Islands. Since 1986, the constituency is composed of the Caldoche-populated loyalist stronghold of Nouméa and the strongly nationalist Kanak-populated Loyalty Islands. Due to this makeup in which loyalist-voting Nouméa far outnumbers the sparsely populated islands, the constituency is strongly loyalist.

Deputies

Election		Member	Party
	1958	Maurice Lenormand	UC
	1967	Rock Pidjot	UC
1986		Proportional representation - no election by constituency
	1988	Jacques Lafleur	RPR
	2002		UMP
	2007	Gaël Yanno	UMP

Election results

2007

Legislative Election 2007: New Caledonia 1st - 2nd round

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	UMP	Gaël Yanno	26,732	69.21
	FLNKS	Charles Washetine	11,891	30.79
Turnout			38,623	57.73
	UMP hold		Swing

Sources

• Official results of French elections from 1998: "Résultats électoraux officiels en France" (in French).