Canton of Lescar, Gave et Terres du Pont-Long

Canton of Lescar, Gave et Terres du Pont-Long
region	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Department	Pyrénées-Atlantiques
Arrondissement	Pau
main place	Lons
Establishment date	March 22, 2015
Residents	29,643 (Jan. 1, 2017)
Population density	338 inhabitants / km²
surface	87.80 km²
Communities	7th
INSEE code	6411
Location of the canton of Lescar, Gave et Terres du Pont-Long in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department

The Canton of Lescar, Gave et Terres du Pont-Long is a French constituency in Pyrénées-Atlantiques in the region Nouvelle-Aquitaine . Its territory is in the arrondissement of Pau , its capital is Lons .

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 seven municipalities from the former canton of Lescar .

Communities

The canton comprises the following seven municipalities:

local community	Residents January 1, 2017	Area km²	Density of population / km²	Code INSEE	Post Code
Arbus	1,205	13.89	87	64037	64230
Artiguelouve	1,621	10.74	151	64060	64230
Lescar	9,804	26.50	370	64335	64230
Lons	13,374	11.53	1,160	64348	64140
Poey-de-Lescar	1,655	6.74	246	64448	64230
Siros	752	2.21	340	64525	64230
Uzein	1,232	16.19	76	64549	64230
Canton of Lescar, Gave et Terres du Pont-Long	29,643	87.80	338	6411	-

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 :

• Sandrine Lafargue ( LR ) and
• Nicolas Patriarche ( LR )

with a share of the vote of 50.31% (turnout in the runoff election: 54.93%).

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. Accessed March 31, 2017.
3. ↑ Résultats des élections départementales 2015 ( fr ) Ministry of the Interior . March 29, 2015. Accessed March 31, 2017.