Canton of Billère et Coteaux de Jurançon

Canton of Billère et Coteaux de Jurançon
region	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Department	Pyrénées-Atlantiques
Arrondissement	Pau
main place	Billere
Establishment date	March 22, 2015
Residents	22,376 (Jan. 1, 2017)
Population density	366 inhabitants / km²
surface	61.06 km²
Communities	5
INSEE code	6408
Location of the canton of Billère et Coteaux de Jurançon in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department

The Canton Billère et Coteaux de Jurançon is a French constituency in Pyrénées-Atlantiques in the region Nouvelle-Aquitaine . Since the regional reform in 2017 , his area has been in the arrondissement of Pau , his main town is Billère .

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 from five communes from the following former cantons:

• Canton of Lasseube (a municipality),
• Canton of Billère (a municipality) and
• Canton of Jurançon (three municipalities).

Communities

The canton comprises the following five municipalities:

local community	Residents January 1, 2017	Area km²	Density of population / km²	Code INSEE	Post Code
Aubertin	656	17.16	38	64072	64290
Billere	12,804	4.57	2,802	64129	64140
Jurançon	7.094	18.78	378	64284	64110
Laroin	1,076	7.04	153	64315	64110
Saint-Faust	746	13.51	55	64478	64110
Canton of Billère et Coteaux de Jurançon	22,376	61.06	366	6408	-

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 :

• Bernard Soudar ( PS ) and
• Margot Triep-Capdeville ( PS )

with a share of the votes of 51.67% (turnout in the runoff election: 53.86%).

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 24, 2017.
3. ↑ Décret Résultats des élections départementales 2015 ( fr ) Ministry of the Interior . March 29, 2015. Accessed March 24, 2017.