Canton of Lourdes-Ouest

Former canton of Lourdes-Ouest
region	Midi-Pyrénées
Department	Hautes-Pyrénées
Arrondissement	Argelès-Gazost
main place	Lourdes
Dissolution date	March 29, 2015
Residents	10,258 (Jan. 1, 2012)
Communities	9
INSEE code	6527

The Canton Lourdes-Ouest was 2015 a French constituency in the district Argeles-Gazost in the Hautes-Pyrenees and the region Midi-Pyrenees ; its main town was Lourdes . His representative in the General Council of the Département was last from 1976 to 2015, re-elected in 2008, José Marthe.

geography

The canton was in the southwest of the department. In the west it bordered on the canton of Saint-Pé-de-Bigorre , in the north and northeast on the canton of Ossun , in the southeast on the canton of Lourdes-Est and in the south on the canton of Argelès-Gazost . Its area was between 343 m in Lourdes and 1523 m in Ségus above sea ​​level .

Communities

The canton consisted of eight municipalities and the western quarters of the city of Lourdes (the total number of inhabitants is given, about 7,500 inhabitants of the city lived in the canton).

local community	Population year	Area km²	Population density	Post Code	Code INSEE
Goodbye	780 (2013)	-	- Inhabitants / km²	65100	65002
Aspin-en-Lavedan	267 (2013)	-	- Inhabitants / km²	65100	65040
Bartrès	473 (2013)	-	- Inhabitants / km²	65100	65070
Lourdes	14644 (2013)	-	- Inhabitants / km²	65100	65286
Omex	233 (2013)	-	- Inhabitants / km²	65100	65334
Ossen	193 (2013)	-	- Inhabitants / km²	65100	65343
Poueyferré	890 (2013)	-	- Inhabitants / km²	65100	65366
Ségus	264 (2013)	-	- Inhabitants / km²	65100	65415
Viger	134 (2013)	-	- Inhabitants / km²	65100	65470

Population development

Canton without the western quarters of the city of Lourdes

1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006
1845	1952	2133	2304	2570	2710	2965