Vic-en-Bigorre Canton
Vic-en-Bigorre Canton | |
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region | Occitania |
Department | Hautes-Pyrénées |
Arrondissement | Tarbes |
main place | Vic-en-Bigorre |
Residents | 12,188 (Jan. 1, 2017) |
Population density | 90 inhabitants / km² |
surface | 135.78 km² |
Communities | 22nd |
INSEE code | 6517 |
Location of the canton of Vic-en-Bigorre in the Hautes-Pyrénées department |
The canton of Vic-en-Bigorre is a French constituency in the Arrondissement of Tarbes in the Hautes-Pyrénées department in the Occitanie region ; its main town is Vic-en-Bigorre .
The canton is located in the northwest of the department. The communes Escaunets and Villenave-près-Béarn form an exclave of the canton in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department .
history
The canton was established in 1790 and changed its territory in 1801. Until 2015, it had 15 municipalities. When the cantons were reorganized in 2015, 7 of the 11 communes in the canton of Bordères-sur-l'Échez were added to the previous communes . The canton therefore currently has 22 municipalities.
Communities
The canton consists of 22 municipalities with a total of 12,188 inhabitants (as of 2017) on a total area of 135.78 km 2 :
local community | Residents January 1, 2017 |
Area km² |
Density of population / km² |
Code INSEE |
Post Code |
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Rest | 1,396 | 6.19 | 226 | 65007 | 65390 |
Artagnan | 512 | 4.94 | 104 | 65035 | 65500 |
Aurensan | 789 | 7.11 | 111 | 65048 | 65390 |
Caixon | 375 | 8.55 | 44 | 65119 | 65500 |
Camalès | 384 | 4.67 | 82 | 65121 | 65500 |
Escaunets | 126 | 6.24 | 20th | 65160 | 65500 |
Gayan | 277 | 2.78 | 100 | 65189 | 65320 |
Lagarde | 524 | 4.91 | 107 | 65244 | 65320 |
Marsac | 224 | 1.55 | 145 | 65299 | 65500 |
Nouilhan | 200 | 4.53 | 44 | 65330 | 65500 |
Oroix | 120 | 8.90 | 13 | 65341 | 65320 |
Pintac | 22nd | 1.49 | 15th | 65364 | 65320 |
Pujo | 636 | 5.28 | 120 | 65372 | 65500 |
Saint-Lézer | 426 | 11.17 | 38 | 65390 | 65500 |
Sanous | 98 | 1.63 | 60 | 65403 | 65500 |
Sarniguet | 255 | 2.07 | 123 | 65406 | 65390 |
Siarrouy | 436 | 6.20 | 70 | 65425 | 65500 |
Talazac | 76 | 1.58 | 48 | 65438 | 65500 |
Tarasteix | 266 | 9.85 | 27 | 65439 | 65320 |
Vic-en-Bigorre | 4,897 | 31.93 | 153 | 65460 | 65500 |
Villenave-près-Béarn | 59 | 3.09 | 19th | 65476 | 65500 |
Villenave-près-Marsac | 90 | 1.12 | 80 | 65477 | 65500 |
Vic-en-Bigorre Canton | 12,188 | 135.78 | 90 | 6517 | - |
Until the nationwide reorganization of the French cantons in March 2015, the canton Vic-en-Bigorre included the 15 municipalities of Andrest , Artagnan , Caixon , Camalès , Escaunets , Marsac , Nouilhan , Pujo , Saint-Lézer , Sanous , Siarrouy , Talazac , Vic-en -Bigorre , Villenave-près-Béarn and Villenave-près-Marsac . Its layout corresponded to an area of 98.67 km 2 . Before 2015 it had a different INSEE code than it does today, namely 6525.
Population development in the old canton
year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2012 |
Residents | 7,383 | 8,044 | 8,367 | 8,593 | 9,450 | 9.211 | 9,842 | 9,363 |
Source: INSEE |
Population development in the new borders
year | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 |
Residents | 12,319 | 12,677 | 12,237 |
Source: INSEE |
politics
In the first ballot on March 22, 2015, none of the four pairs of candidates achieved an absolute majority. In the runoff election on March 29, 2015, Isabelle Lafourcade (DVG) / Bernard Poublan (PRG) won against Anne-Laure Latrille-Larmitou / Clément Menet (Union de la Droite) with 55.71% of the votes (turnout: 58 , 19%).
Since 1945 the canton has had the following members of the Council of the Département:
Representative in the conseil général (1) of the département | ||
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Term of office | Surname | Political party |
1945-1949 | Henri Vignes | MLN |
1949-1955 | Pierre Bourda | radical |
1955-1959 | Robert Burret | DVD |
1959-1961 | Albert Battoue | CNI |
1961-1973 | Pierre Guillard | Radicals , then MRG |
1973-1979 | Yvan Souptès | PCF |
1979-2015 | Claude Miqueu | PS , then DVG |
2015– | Isabelle Lafourcade Bernard Poublan |
DVG PRG |
(1) since 2015 Department Council