Canton of Bayonne-2

Canton of Bayonne-2
region	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Department	Pyrénées-Atlantiques
Arrondissement	Bayonne
main place	Bayonne
Establishment date	March 22, 2015
Residents	27,590 (Jan. 1, 2017)
Communities	1 and Bayonne (segment)
INSEE code	6405
Location of the canton of Bayonne-2 in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department

The canton Bayonne 2 is a French constituency in Pyrénées-Atlantiques in the region Nouvelle-Aquitaine . Its territory is in the Arrondissement of Bayonne , its capital is Bayonne .

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.

In 2015 the canton was formed as follows:

1. the Bayonne area north of a line formed by the following streets and boundaries: from the municipal boundary to Anglet, the course of the Adour, avenue Henri-Grenet, Chemin de Saint-Bernard, Quai de Lesseps, rue Sainte-Ursule, railway line from Bordeaux to Irun, Rue Maubec from number 81, Cité Madim, railway line from Bordeaux to Irun, Boulevard Jean-d'Amou, Chemin de Saint-Étienne, Chemin de Hamboum, Rue Albert-Thomas, Rue René-Cuzacq, Avenue du Maréchal-Juin , Railway line from Bordeaux to Irun, the course of the Adour to the municipal border with Anglet,
2. the municipality of Boucau .

Communities

The canton includes areas of the following municipalities:

local community	Residents January 1, 2017	Area km²	Density of population / km²	Code INSEE	Post Code
Bayonne	51,228	21.68	2,363	64102	64100
Boucau	8,350	5.82	1,435	64140	64340
Canton of Bayonne-2	27,590	-	-	6405	-

Remarks:

1. ↑ only part of the municipality belongs to this canton

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 :

• Christophe Martin ( PS ) and
• Juliette Brocard Muller ( PS )

with a share of the vote of 55.31% (turnout in the runoff election: 44.36%).

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 20, 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 25, 2017.
3. ↑ Résultats des élections départementales 2015 ( fr ) Ministry of the Interior . March 29, 2015. Retrieved March 25, 2017.