# Sarthe's 4th constituency

The 4th constituency of the Sarthe is a French legislative constituency in the Sarthe département.
In the 2007 legislative election, the constituency was won by François Fillon. Fillon was appointed Prime Minister, whereupon he automatically lost his seat; in France, a member of the executive cannot simultaneously be a member of the legislature. On 20 July his deputy candidate, Marc Joulaud, who had previously held the seat himself, automatically took Fillon's place in the Assembly.

## Historic representation

| Election | Member | Party |
| 1988 | François Fillon | RPR |
| 1993 | François Fillon | RPR |
| 1993 | Pierre Lefebvre | RPR |
| 1997 | François Fillon | RPR |
| 2002 | François Fillon | UMP |
| 2002 | Marc Joulaud | UMP |
| 2007 | François Fillon | UMP |
| 2007 | Marc Joulaud | UMP |
| 2012 | Stéphane Le Foll | PS |
| 2012 | Sylvie Tolmont | PS |
| 2017 | Stéphane Le Foll | PS |
| 2018 | Sylvie Tolmont | PS |
| 2022 | Elise Leboucher | LFI |

## Election results
### 2024

| Candidate | Candidate | Party | Alliance | First round | First round | Second round | Second round |
| Candidate | Candidate | Party | Alliance | Votes | % | Votes | % |
| | Élise Leboucher | NFP | Ensemble | 13,600 | 25.94 | 24,136 | 50.23 |
| | Marie-Caroline Le Pen | RN | | 20,584 | 39.26 | 23,911 | 49.77 |
| | Sylvie Casenave-Péré | REN | Ensemble | 13,565 | 25.88 | | |
| | Léo Brisard | LR | | 2,316 | 4.42 | | |
| | Didier Barbet | Ind | DVD | 1,546 | 2.95 | | |
| | Thierry Nouchy | LO | | 596 | 1.14 | | |
| | Jean-Michel Brugade | Ind | Reg | 217 | 0.41 | | |
| Valid votes | Valid votes | Valid votes | Valid votes | 52,424 | 96.83 | 48,047 | 89.13 |
| Blank votes | Blank votes | Blank votes | Blank votes | 1,250 | 2.31 | 4,705 | 8.73 |
| Null votes | Null votes | Null votes | Null votes | 469 | 0.87 | 1,155 | 2.14 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 54,143 | 66.48 | 53,907 | 66.18 |
| Abstentions | Abstentions | Abstentions | Abstentions | 27,296 | 33,52 | 27,554 | 33.82 |
| Registered voters | Registered voters | Registered voters | Registered voters | 81,439 | | 81,461 | |
| Source: ||||||||
| Result | Result | Result | Result | LFI HOLD | LFI HOLD | LFI HOLD | LFI HOLD |

### 2022

Legislative Election 2022: Sarthe's 4th constituency :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | LFI (NUPÉS) | Elise Leboucher | 7,878 | 21.87 | -27.70 |
| | RN | Raymond De Malherbe | 7,673 | 21.30 | +8.34 |
| | DVC (Ensemble) | Joachim Le Floch-Imad | 6,876 | 19.09 | N/A |
| | PS | Sylvie Tolmont* | 5,574 | 15.47 | N/A |
| | LR (UDC) | Emmanuel Franco | 4,261 | 11.83 | −10.32 |
| | DIV | Didier Barbet | 1,232 | 3.42 | N/A |
| | REC | Sébastien Buard | 1,196 | 3.32 | N/A |
| | Others | N/A | 1,331 | 3.70 | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 36,021 | 45.71 | +0.33 |
| 2nd round result ||||||
| | LFI (NUPÉS) | Elise Leboucher | 14,891 | 50.15 | -4.76 |
| | RN | Raymond De Malherbe | 14,804 | 49.85 | N/A |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 29,695 | 44.42 | +7.56 |
| | LFI gain from PS | LFI gain from PS | LFI gain from PS | LFI gain from PS | LFI gain from PS |
* PS dissident without the support of the NUPES alliance

### 2017

Legislative Election 2017: Sarthe's 4th constituency :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | PS | Stéphane Le Foll | 10,954 | 30.31 | |
| | LR | Emmanuel Franco | 8,005 | 22.15 | |
| | FN | Catherine Trahtenbroit | 4,682 | 12.96 | |
| | LFI | Pascale Fromentiere | 4,127 | 11.42 | |
| | EELV | Aleis Braud | 1,844 | 5.10 | |
| | DVD | Emmanuel D'Aillieres | 1,820 | 5.04 | |
| | DIV | Bidier Barbet | 1,506 | 4.17 | |
| | PCF | Youssef Ben Amar | 989 | 2.74 | |
| | Others | N/A | 2,210 | | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 36,137 | 45.38 | |
| 2nd round result ||||||
| | PS | Stéphane Le Foll | 16,117 | 54.91 | |
| | LR | Emmanuel Franco | 13,245 | 45.09 | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 29,352 | 36.86 | |
| | PS hold | PS hold | PS hold | PS hold | PS hold |

### 2012

Legislative Election 2012: Sarthe's 4th constituency :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | PS | Stéphane Le Foll | 21,415 | 46.01 | |
| | UMP | Marc Joulaud | 14,741 | 31.67 | |
| | FN | Henri Delaune | 5,478 | 11.77 | |
| | FG | Chantal Hersemeule | 2,100 | 4.51 | |
| | EELV | Isabelle Severe | 1,314 | 2.82 | |
| | Others | N/A | 1,500 | | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 46,548 | 58.99 | |
| 2nd round result ||||||
| | PS | Stéphane Le Foll | 26,019 | 59.45 | |
| | UMP | Marc Joulaud | 17,749 | 40.55 | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 43,768 | 55.47 | |
| | PS gain from UMP | PS gain from UMP | PS gain from UMP | PS gain from UMP | PS gain from UMP |

### 2007

Legislative Election 2007: Sarthe 4th :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | UMP | François Fillon | 25,949 | 53.40 |
| | PS | Stéphane Le Foll | 14,592 | 30.03 |
| | MoDem | Jean-Pierre Bourrely | 1,992 | 4.10 |
| | PCF | Gilles Leproust | 1,989 | 4.09 |
| | FN | Catherine du Boisbaudry | 1,163 | 2.39 |
| | LV | Dominique Niederkorn | 1,044 | 2.15 |
| | LO | Thierry Nouchy | 506 | 1.04 |
| | GE | Christophe Lemaître | 449 | 0.92 |
| | CPNT | Joël Esnault | 374 | 0.77 |
| | DVD | Maria Loire | 259 | 0.53 |
| | MNR | Jeannette Delory | 146 | 0.30 |
| | Independent | Christian Papin | 132 | 0.27 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 49,560 | 63.53 |
| | UMP hold | UMP hold | Swing | |

## Sources & references

* Official results of French elections from 1998: "Résultats électoraux officiels en France" (in French).
* ↑ "Marc Joulaud" on the website of the French National Assembly
* ↑ "Résultats des élections législatives 2022 dans la Sarthe". Le Monde.fr (in French). Retrieved 17 November 2022.