Canton of Ustaritz-Vallées de Nive et Nivelle

Canton of Ustaritz-Vallées de Nive et Nivelle
region	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Department	Pyrénées-Atlantiques
Arrondissement	Bayonne
main place	Ustaritz
Establishment date	March 22, 2015
Residents	31,855 (Jan. 1, 2017)
Population density	139 inhabitants / km²
surface	229.76 km²
Communities	9
INSEE code	6426
Location of the canton of Ustaritz-Vallées de Nive et Nivelle in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department

The canton Ustaritz-Vallées de Nive et Nivelle is a French constituency in the department of Pyrénées-Atlantiques in the region Nouvelle-Aquitaine . Its area is in the Arrondissement of Bayonne , its main town is Ustaritz .

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 nine communes from the following former cantons:

• Canton of Ustaritz (six municipalities),
• Canton Espelette (two municipalities) and
• Canton of Saint-Jean-de-Luz (a municipality).

Communities

The canton comprises the following nine municipalities:

local community	Residents January 1, 2017	Area km²	Density of population / km²	Code INSEE	Post Code
Ahetze	2.158	10.56	204	64009	64210
Ainhoa	672	16.19	42	64014	64250
Arbonne	2.223	10.59	210	64035	64210
Arcangues	3,160	17.47	181	64038	64200
Ascain	4,194	19.27	218	64065	64310
Bassussarry	3.126	6.51	480	64100	64200
Saint-Pée-sur-Nivelle	6,849	65.08	105	64495	64310
Sare	2,651	51.34	52	64504	64310
Ustaritz	6,822	32.75	208	64547	64480
Canton of Ustaritz-Vallées de Nive et Nivelle	31,855	229.76	139	6426	-

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 :

• Philippe Echeverria ( DVD ) and
• Bénédicte Luberriaga ( DVD )

with a share of the vote of 55.57% (turnout in the runoff election: 51.24%).

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. Retrieved June 20, 2017.
3. ↑ Résultats des élections départementales 2015 ( fr ) Ministry of the Interior . March 29, 2015. Accessed June 20, 2017.