3rd constituency for French residents overseas
Constituency of the National Assembly of France
Deputy	Vincent Caure RE
Department	None (overseas residents)
Cantons	None
Registered voters	160,627 (2024)
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Thethird constituency for French residents overseas (French:Troisième circonscription des Français établis hors de France) is one ofeleven constituencies representingFrenchcitizens living abroad. It was created by the2010 redistricting of French legislative constituencies and elects, since2012, one representative to theNational Assembly.

It represents all French citizens living inBritish Isles (United Kingdom,Ireland andCrown Dependencies inManx Island andChannel Islands),Northern Europe andEastern Europe (Baltic States). As of 2024, it contained 175,997 registered French voters.

It covers all French citizens living in ten countries inNorthern Europe – specifically,Iceland,Norway,Denmark (including theFaroe Islands andGreenland),Sweden,Finland (includingÅland),Ireland, theUnited Kingdom,Estonia,Latvia andLithuania. As of New Year's Day 2011, it contained 140,731 registered French voters. By far the greatest number of these (113,655) were living in the United Kingdom, the country with the third greatest number of registered French residents in the world. (In contrast, there were only 146 in Estonia, and just one in Greenland.)^[1][2][3][4]

This constituency elected its first ever representative at the2012 French legislative election.

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The list of candidates was officially finalised on 15 May. There are 16 candidates, 10 women and 6 men:^[6]

TheEn Marche! Party chose Alexandre HOLROYD,^[7] a resident ofLondon, as its candidate. Hisdeputy (suppléant) is Laure PHILIPPON MAILLARD, also a resident ofLondon.^[8]

TheSocialist Party choseAxelle LEMAIRE, a resident ofLondon, as its candidate. Her deputy (suppléant) is Matthieu PINARD.^[9]

TheRepublicans Party chose Laurence AZZENA- GOUGEON as its candidate. Her deputy (suppléant) is Philippe CHALON.^[10]

TheFrance Insoumise Party chose Olivier TONNEAU as its candidate. His deputy (suppléant) is Anne PHILIPPE.^[11]

TheNational Front chose Tony Thommes. Xavier Rollin was his deputy.

The elections^[12] will take place on:

• 4 June for the first round
• 18 June for the second round

This year there was no electronic vote available due to cyber threats.^[13]

The campaign officially started on 23 May.^[14]

6 of the candidates held a debate organised and hosted byLe Petit Journal atKing's College in London on 23 May 2017.^[15]

The next debate will take place on 13 June between the 2 candidates qualified for the second round.

The list of candidates was officially finalised on 14 May. There were twenty candidates:^[16][17]

TheSocialist Party choseAxelle Lemaire, a resident ofLondon, as its candidate. Her deputy (suppléant) wasChristophe Premat, a resident ofStockholm.^[18]

TheUnion for a Popular Movement chose Emmanuelle Savarit, with Geoffrey Party as her deputy (suppléant).^[19]

TheLeft Front chose Lucile Jamet, with Sébastien Mas as her deputy (suppléant).^[17]

TheDemocratic Movement chose Yannick Naud as its candidate. Marianne Magnin was his deputy (suppléante).^[20]

Europe Écologie–The Greens chose Olivier Bertin. A resident of London, Bertin ran a bilingual preschool. He was also a member of theGreen Party of England and Wales.^[21] Natacha Blisson was his deputy (suppléante).^[22]

TheNational Front chose Guy Le Guezennec. Gérard Berardi was his deputy.^[17]

The centre-rightRadical Party and the centristRepublican, Ecologist and Social Alliance jointly chose Olivier de Chazeaux as their candidate, with Nathalie Chassaigne-Rombaut as his deputy.^[17]

TheRadical Party of the Left chose Ezella Sahraoui. Alain Malcolm Douet was her deputy.^[23]

TheChristian Democratic Party chose Denys Dhiver as its candidate. Dhiver, who was a member of theUnion for a Popular Movement as well as of the CDP, was also endorsed byFrance Ecologie. Jorice Samuel is his deputy.^[24]

TheCentrist Alliance choseOlivier Cadic, with Sophie Routier as his deputy.^[17]

Solidarity and Progress, the French branch of theLaRouche movement, was represented by Édith Tixier, with Yannick Caroff as her deputy.^[17]

Will Mael Nyamat stood as an independent candidate (miscellaneous left). A former member of the French Socialist Party, he left it and became a member of the BritishLabour Party. He was a resident of London.Dja-Tsingue Nzigou is his deputy.^[25]

Christophe Schermesser, who has lived and worked inIreland,England andFinland, was the candidate of theEuropean Federalist Party. Danielle Schermesser was his deputy.^[26]

Gaspard Koenig, a resident ofLondon, was the candidate for the small FrenchLiberal Democratic Party (which espouseseconomic liberalism). (It bears no relation to theBritish party of the same name.) Olivia Penichou is his deputy.^[27]

Marie-Claire Sparrow was the candidate of the Gathering of French Residents Overseas (Rassemblement des Français de l'étranger), related to theUnion for a Popular Movement. Richard Dimosi was her deputy.^[17]

Aberzack Boulariah, an "expatriate entrepreneur", was an independent candidate. Marc Ambroise was his deputy.^[28]

Jérôme de Lavenère Lussan was a legal entrepreneur running as an independent candidate. Fahd Rachidi was his deputy.^[29]

The other independent candidates were: Bernard Larmoyer (with Virginie Charles as his deputy); Anne-Marie Wolfsohn (with Maïlys Michot-Casbas as her deputy); and Patrick Kaboza (with David Judaique as his deputy).^[17]

Although campaigning was difficult due to the sheer size of the constituency, some candidates did travel to several countries to talk to expatriates. In addition, a debate over two evenings was organised atKing's College, London in late May by Le Club Démocrate (UK), with many of the candidates taking part.^[4][30] A number of candidates were also interviewed (separately) onFrench Radio London.^[31]

A major issue for voters was reportedly the cost and accessibility of French schools abroad.^[32]

With a large majority of voters living in the UK, and twelve of the twenty candidates based there (including nine in London), the UK was a focal point of the campaign.^[32]

As in other constituencies, turnout was low in the first round.Latvia was the only country in this constituency in which over half of registered French residents voted (57.3%). Turnout was also comparatively high inEstonia (41.1%) andLithuania (41.0%). It was lowest in theUnited Kingdom (18.8%) andIreland (21.8%). Nonetheless, French residents in the United Kingdom cast 72.53% of all ballots cast in this constituency.^[33]

Socialist candidateAxelle Lemaire won the first round vote by a clear margin. She finished first in every country except Estonia.^[33][34] Lemaire went on to win the second round by a large margin.^[35] When Lemaire was appointed Digital Affairs Minister in April 2014, her seat was taken byChristophe Premat.

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