Canton of Saint-Priest

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Former
canton of Saint-Priest
region Rhône-Alpes
Department Rhône
Arrondissement Lyon
main place Saint-Priest
Dissolution date March 29, 2015
Residents 42,488 (Jan. 1, 2012)
Population density 1,430 inhabitants / km²
surface 29.71 km²
Communities 1
INSEE code 6945

The District of Saint-Priest was 2015 a French canton in the arrondissement of Lyon and the region Rhône-Alpes . It originally belonged to the Rhône department and consisted of the city of Saint-Priest . The canton was abolished when the Métropole de Lyon replaced the Département Rhône as the higher-level regional authority in its catchment area at the turn of the year 2014/2015 and the cantons lost their function as constituencies. His last representative in the conseil général des Départements was Evelyne Fontaine ( PS ), she succeeded Bruno Polga (also PS, term of office 1985-2011).

Individual evidence

  1. Ordonnance n ° 2014-1539 du 19 December 2014 relative à l'élection des conseillers métropolitains de Lyon published in JORF and in Légifrance (French)