# Alpes-Maritimes's 3rd constituency

The 3rd constituency of the Alpes Maritimes is a French legislative constituency in the Alpes Maritimes département. It goes around the outskirts of the city of Nice, including the communities of Falicon, Saint-André-de-la-Roche, and La Trinité. At the last count, it had 109,573 inhabitants.
It is currently represented by Bernard Chaix of LR.

## Historic representation

| Election | Member | Party |
| 1988 | Rudy Salles | UDF |
| 1993 | Rudy Salles | UDF |
| 1997 | Rudy Salles | UDF |
| 2002 | Rudy Salles | UDF |
| 2007 | Rudy Salles | NC |
| 2012 | Rudy Salles | NC |
| 2017 | Cédric Roussel | LREM |
| 2022 | Philippe Pradal | H |
| 2024 | Bernard Chaix | LR |

## Election results
### 2024

| Candidate | Candidate | Party | Alliance | First round | First round | Second round | Second round |
| Candidate | Candidate | Party | Alliance | Votes | % | Votes | % |
| | Bernard Chaix | LR-RN | UXD | 23,983 | 41.47 | 28,884 | 53.71 |
| | Laure Quignard | PS | NFP | 15,754 | 27.24 | 24,897 | 46.29 |
| | Philippe Pradal | HOR | Ensemble | 14,760 | 25.36 | | |
| | Marie Françoise Caussin | ECO | | 1,675 | 2.90 | | |
| | Thibault Delhez | DLF | | 883 | 1.53 | | |
| | Estelle Jaquet | LO | | 438 | 0.76 | | |
| | Marjorie Vivo | DIV | | 434 | 0.75 | | |
| Valid votes | Valid votes | Valid votes | Valid votes | 57,837 | 98.01 | 53,781 | 93.57 |
| Blank votes | Blank votes | Blank votes | Blank votes | 763 | 1.29 | 2,904 | 5.05 |
| Null votes | Null votes | Null votes | Null votes | 412 | 0.70 | 794 | 1.38 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 59,012 | 64.34 | 57,479 | 62.66 |
| Abstentions | Abstentions | Abstentions | Abstentions | 32,712 | 35.66 | 33,249 | 37.34 |
| Registered voters | Registered voters | Registered voters | Registered voters | 91,724 | | 91,728 | |
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| Result | Result | Result | Result | LR GAIN | LR GAIN | LR GAIN | LR GAIN |

### 2022

| Candidate | Candidate | Label | First round | First round | Second round | Second round |
| Candidate | Candidate | Label | Votes | % | Votes | % |
| | Philippe Pradal | Horizons | 10,113 | 26.04 | 19,043 | 57.44 |
| | Enzo Giusti | NUPES | 8,524 | 21.95 | 14,111 | 42.56 |
| | Benoît Kandel | NR | 6,668 | 17.17 | | |
| | Laurent Castillo | LR | 4,973 | 12.81 | | |
| | Philippe Vardon | Reconquête | 4,217 | 10.86 | | |
| | David-André Darmon | Eco | 1,062 | 2.73 | | |
| | Dominique Boy-Mottard | RDG | 1,023 | 2.63 | | |
| | Marie-Françoise Caussin | Eco | 613 | 1.58 | | |
| | Marie-Ange Riviere | DSV | 550 | 1.42 | | |
| | Gabriel-Kayne Mercier | Eco | 540 | 1.39 | | |
| | Estelle Jaquet | DXG | 259 | 0.67 | | |
| | Sylvie Bonaldi | Eco | 207 | 0.53 | | |
| | Yann Benoit | DIV | 84 | 0.22 | | |
| Votes | Votes | Votes | 38,833 | 100.00 | 33,154 | 100.00 |
| Valid votes | Valid votes | Valid votes | 38,833 | 98.29 | 33,154 | 90.46 |
| Blank votes | Blank votes | Blank votes | 217 | 1.16 | 2,425 | 6.62 |
| Null votes | Null votes | Null votes | 217 | 0.55 | 1,071 | 2.92 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 39,508 | 43.03 | 36,650 | 39.92 |
| Abstentions | Abstentions | Abstentions | 52,313 | 56.97 | 55,165 | 60.08 |
| Registered voters | Registered voters | Registered voters | 91,821 | | 91,845 | |
| Source: Ministry of the Interior |||||||

### 2017

| Candidate | Candidate | Label | First round | First round | Second round | Second round |
| Candidate | Candidate | Label | Votes | % | Votes | % |
| | Cédric Roussel | REM | 12,727 | 31.91 | 19,762 | 60.84 |
| | Philippe Vardon | FN | 8,476 | 21.25 | 12,720 | 39.16 |
| | Rudy Salles | UDI | 8,176 | 20.50 | | |
| | Bruno Coulet | FI | 4,459 | 11.18 | | |
| | Raphaël Galmiche | PS | 1,284 | 3.22 | | |
| | Juliette Chesnel-Le Roux | ECO | 1,061 | 2.66 | | |
| | Stanislas André | DVD | 838 | 2.10 | | |
| | Muriel Loubet | DLF | 739 | 1.85 | | |
| | Chantal Fontanesi | DVD | 707 | 1.77 | | |
| | Éric Gilli | DIV | 452 | 1.13 | | |
| | Isabelle Di Mascio | DIV | 395 | 0.99 | | |
| | Geneviève Blache | DIV | 235 | 0.59 | | |
| | Marie-José Pereira | EXG | 197 | 0.49 | | |
| | Karim Akasbi | DIV | 116 | 0.29 | | |
| | Renaud Deconde | DIV | 28 | 0.07 | | |
| | Didier Asin | DVD | 0 | 0.00 | | |
| Votes | Votes | Votes | 39,890 | 100.00 | 32,482 | 100.00 |
| Valid votes | Valid votes | Valid votes | 39,890 | 98.30 | 32,482 | 91.82 |
| Blank votes | Blank votes | Blank votes | 460 | 1.13 | 2,119 | 5.99 |
| Null votes | Null votes | Null votes | 228 | 0.56 | 776 | 2.19 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 40,578 | 45.52 | 35,377 | 39.69 |
| Abstentions | Abstentions | Abstentions | 48,559 | 54.48 | 53,760 | 60.31 |
| Registered voters | Registered voters | Registered voters | 89,137 | | 89,137 | |
| Source: Ministry of the Interior |||||||

### 2012

Summary of the 10 June and 17 June 2012 French legislative in Alpes-Maritimes's 3rd Constituency election results :
| Candidate | Candidate | Party | Party | 1st round | 1st round | 2nd round | 2nd round |
| Candidate | Candidate | Party | Party | Votes | % | Votes | % |
| | Rudy Salles | New Centre | NC | 17,420 | 36.80% | 25,060 | 58.73% |
| | Christine Dorejo | Socialist Party | PS | 10,891 | 23.01% | 17,611 | 41.27% |
| | Gaël Nofri | National Front | FN | 10,770 | 22.75% | | |
| | Roseline Grac | Left Front | FG | 2,370 | 5.01% | | |
| | Jean-Christophe Picard | Regionalist | REG | 2,032 | 4.29% | | |
| | Marouane Bouloudhnine | Centre for France | MoDem | 833 | 1.76% | | |
| | Marie-José Vallad | Ecologist | ECO | 558 | 1.18% | | |
| | Bruno Della Sudda | Far Left | EXG | 518 | 1.09% | | |
| | Marie-Edith Cattet | Other far-right | EXD | 387 | 0.82% | | |
| | Delphine Delétang | Ecologist | ECO | 337 | 0.71% | | |
| | Sylvain Maillot | Others | AUT | 248 | 0.52% | | |
| | Didier Burdin | Miscellaneous Right | DVD | 234 | 0.49% | | |
| | Patrick Monica | Miscellaneous Right | DVD | 218 | 0.46% | | |
| | Laurent Baccino | Far Left | EXG | 167 | 0.35% | | |
| | Denis Roos | Miscellaneous Right | DVD | 143 | 0.30% | | |
| | Igor Kurek | Miscellaneous Right | DVD | 125 | 0.26% | | |
| | Marie-José Pereira | Far Left | EXG | 81 | 0.17% | | |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | 47,332 | 100% | 42,671 | 100% |
| Registered voters | Registered voters | Registered voters | Registered voters | 87,373 | | 87,373 | |
| Blank/Void ballots | Blank/Void ballots | Blank/Void ballots | Blank/Void ballots | 561 | 0.64% | 1,786 | 2.04% |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 47,893 | 54.81% | 44,457 | 50.88% |
| Abstentions | Abstentions | Abstentions | Abstentions | 39,480 | 45.19% | 42,916 | 49.12% |
| Result | Result | Result | Result | Result | Result | | NC HOLD | | NC HOLD |

### 2007

Legislative Election 2007: Alpes Maritimes 3rd :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | NM | Rudy Salles | 21,805 | 56.65 |
| | PRG | Elodie Jomat | 7,372 | 19.15 |
| | FN | Gilbert Pigli | 2,998 | 7.79 |
| | PCF | Adeline Mouton | 1,447 | 3.76 |
| | Far right | Myriam Marchand | 963 | 2.50 |
| | MPF | Pierre Argentieri | 790 | 2.05 |
| | LV | Rémi Gaechter | 786 | 2.04 |
| | LCR | Bruno Della Suda | 507 | 1.32 |
| | DVE | Serge Gardien | 425 | 1.10 |
| | Independent | Elie Guez | 352 | 0.91 |
| | MNR | Jean-Marie Baële | 328 | 0.85 |
| | Independent | Nadia Aouassi | 288 | 0.75 |
| | DVG | Laurent Bacino | 247 | 0.64 |
| | LO | Marie-Josée Pereira | 185 | 0.48 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 39,368 | 56.22 |
| | NM hold | NM hold | Swing | |

### 2002

Legislative Election 2002: Alpes-Maritimes's 3rd constituency :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | UDF | Rudy Salles | 17,207 | 43.06 | |
| | FN | Isabelle Gerard | 9,499 | 23.77 | |
| | LV | Juliette Chesnel le Roux | 7,996 | 20.01 | |
| | PCF | Marie Billi | 1,846 | 4.62 | |
| | Others | N/A | 3,416 | | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 40,590 | 56.00 | |
| 2nd round result ||||||
| | UDF | Rudy Salles | 22,280 | 71.00 | |
| | FN | Isabelle Gerard | 9,101 | 29.00 | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 34,572 | 47.63 | |
| | UDF hold | UDF hold | UDF hold | UDF hold | UDF hold |

### 1997

Legislative Election 1997: Alpes-Maritimes's 3rd constituency :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | UDF | Rudy Salles | 11,845 | 29.48 | |
| | FN | Jean-Pierre Schenardi | 10,164 | 25.29 | |
| | PS | Michèle Matringe | 7,436 | 18.50 | |
| | PCF | Joseph-Louis Broch | 4,923 | 12.25 | |
| | MPF | Jacques de Rocca Serra | 1,836 | 4.57 | |
| | GE | Brigitte Bergeron | 864 | 2.15 | |
| | Others | N/A | 3,116 | | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 41,541 | 57.51 | |
| 2nd round result ||||||
| | UDF | Rudy Salles | 23,639 | 66.39 | |
| | FN | Jean-Pierre Schenardi | 11,967 | 33.61 | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 41,421 | 57.35 | |
| | UDF hold | UDF hold | UDF hold | UDF hold | UDF hold |

## Sources

Results at the Ministry of the Interior (French)