Canton of Baïgura et Mondarrain

Canton of Baïgura et Mondarrain
region	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Department	Pyrénées-Atlantiques
Arrondissement	Bayonne
main place	Cambo-les-Bains
Establishment date	March 22, 2015
Residents	24,263 (Jan. 1, 2017)
Population density	101 inhabitants / km²
surface	239.50 km²
Communities	10
INSEE code	6403
Location of the canton of Baïgura et Mondarrain in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department

The Canton Baigura et Mondarrain is a French constituency in Pyrénées-Atlantiques in the region Nouvelle-Aquitaine . Its territory is in the Bayonne arrondissement , its main town is Cambo-les-Bains .

history

A new territorial division of the cantons of the Pyrenees-Atlantiques department has been in effect since the 2015 elections in the department. It is defined by the decree of February 25, 2014 in application of the laws of May 17, 2013. From these elections on, the representatives of the Départementrat are elected for six years in a Romance majority vote in up to two ballots in the cantons, with each canton sending an elected couple of different sex to the Départementrat. Participation in a possible runoff election requires 12.5% ​​of the votes in the first ballot. The number of cantons in a department is reduced to half the number of cantons on January 1, 2013, rounded up to an odd number if the division results in an even number. Therefore, the cantons in the département had to be redesigned, with the number of cantons reduced from 52 to 27.

The canton of Baïgura et Mondarrain was formed from municipalities of former cantons:

• Espelette (five municipalities),
• Ustaritz (three municipalities),
• Hasparren (two municipalities).

Communities

The canton comprises the following ten municipalities:

local community	Residents January 1, 2017	Area km²	Density of population / km²	Code INSEE	Post Code
Cambo-les-Bains	6,551	22.49	291	64160	64250
Espelette	2,024	26.85	75	64213	64250
Halsou	595	5.08	117	64255	64480
Hasparren	6,879	77.01	89	64256	64240
Itxassou	2.133	39.37	54	64279	64250
Jatxou	1,154	13.95	83	64282	64480
Larressore	2,053	10.76	191	64317	64480
Louhossoa	887	7.38	120	64350	64250
Macaye	587	19.75	30th	64364	64240
Souraïde	1,400	16.86	83	64527	64250
Canton of Baïgura et Mondarrain	24,263	239.50	101	6403	-

politics

In the first ballot on March 22, 2015, none of the candidate pairs achieved an absolute majority. As a result of the runoff election on March 29, 2015, the following representatives were elected to the Départementrat :

• Vincent Bru ( UDI ) and
• Isabelle Pargade ( UDI )

with a share of the vote of 57.31% (turnout in the runoff election: 55.62%).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ LOI n ° 2013-403 on May 17, 2013 relative à l'élection des conseillers départementaux, des conseillers municipaux et des conseillers communautaires, et modifiant le calendrier électoral ( fr ) Légifrance . May 17, 2013. Retrieved June 3, 2017.
2. ↑ Décret n ° 2014-248 du 25 février 2014 portant délimitation des cantons dans le département des Pyrénées-Atlantiques ( fr ) Légifrance . March 21, 2014. Retrieved March 24, 2017.
3. ↑ Résultats des élections départementales 2015 ( fr ) Ministry of the Interior . March 29, 2015. Accessed March 24, 2017.