Canton of Pontvallain

Former canton of Pontvallain
region	Pays de la Loire
Department	Sarthe
Arrondissement	La Flèche
main place	Pontvallain
Dissolution date	March 29, 2015
Residents	12,703 (Jan. 1, 2012)
Population density	60 inhabitants / km²
surface	211.49 km²
Communities	9
INSEE code	7226

The Canton Pontvallain was 2015 a French constituency in the district La Fleche , in Sarthe and the region Pays de la Loire ; its main town was Pontvallain . Gérard Véron ( UMP ) was the last representative in the General Council of the Département from 1993 to 2015 .

geography

The canton of Pontvallain was on average 69 meters above sea ​​level , between 35 meters in Mansigné and 113 meters in Cérans-Foulletourte. The canton was in the south of the Sarthe department. It bordered in the north on the canton of La Suze-sur-Sarthe, in the north-east on the canton Écommoy, in the east on the canton Mayet, in the south on the canton Le Lude, in the southwest on the canton La Flèche and in the west on the canton Malicorne -sur-Sarthe.

Communities

The canton consisted of nine municipalities:

local community	Population year	Area km²	Population density	Code INSEE	Post Code
Cérans-Foulletourte	3,288 (2013)	32.52	101 inhabitants / km²	72051	72330
Château-l'Hermitage	274 (2013)	9.39	29 inhabitants / km²	72072	72510
La Fontaine-Saint-Martin	618 (2013)	13.72	45 inhabitants / km²	72135	72330
Mansigné	1,603 (2013)	36.31	44 inhabitants / km²	72182	72510
Oizé	1,335 (2013)	16.91	79 inhabitants / km²	72226	72330
Pontvallain	1,797 (2013)	34.88	52 inhabitants / km²	72243	72510
Requeil	1,209 (2013)	13.89	87 inhabitants / km²	72252	72510
Saint-Jean-de-la-Motte	884 (2013)	32.03	28 inhabitants / km²	72291	72510
Yvré-le-Pôlin	1,793 (2013)	21.84	82 inhabitants / km²	72385	72330

Partner municipality

The partner municipality of the nine municipalities is the municipality of Visbek ( Vechta district ) in Lower Saxony .

Population development

1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006
8,034	7,727	8,332	9,519	9,502	9,931	11,620