Canton of Niort-Ouest

Former canton Niort-Ouest
region	Poitou-Charentes
Department	Deux-Sèvres
Arrondissement	Niort
main place	Niort
Dissolution date	March 29, 2015
Residents	25,166 (Jan. 1, 2012)
Communities	3
INSEE code	7921

The Canton Niort-Ouest was 2015 a French canton in the Arrondissement of Niort , in the Deux-Sevres and in the region of Poitou-Charentes ; its main place was Niort . The last representative in the Conseil Général des Départements was Gérard Zabatta ( PS ) from 1998 to 2015 .

geography

The canton was located in the southeast of the Deux-Sèvres department. In the west and north-west it bordered the Vendée department , in the north-east on the canton Niort-Nord , in the east on the canton Niort-Est , in the south-east on the canton Prahecq and in the south and south-west on the canton Frontenay-Rohan-Rohan .

Communities

The canton consisted of two communities and some quarters of the city of Niort (around 20,500 inhabitants of the city lived in the canton; the total number of inhabitants is given here):

local community	Population year	Area km²	Population density	Code INSEE	Post Code
Coulon	2,244 (2013)	29.79	75 inhabitants / km²	79100	79510
Magné	2,680 (2013)	14.8	181 inhabitants / km²	79162	79460
Niort	57,393 (2013)	-	- Inhabitants / km²	79191	79000

Population development

1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006
					26,139	26,512