Haut-Rhin's 3rd constituency

The 3rd constituency of the Haut-Rhin is a French legislative constituency in the Haut-Rhin département.

3rd constituency of the Haut-Rhin
inline Constituency of the National Assembly of France
Haut-Rhin's 3rd Constituency shown within Alsace
Deputy	Didier Lemaire Horizons
Department	Haut-Rhin
Cantons	Altkirch, Dannemarie, Ferrette, Hirsingue, Huningue.
Registered voters	83,583
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Description

Haut-Rhin's 3rd Constituency covers the southern portion of the département centred on the town of Altkirch however the largest town by far with the constituency is Saint-Louis, which lies close to Basel on the border with Switzerland. The constituency includes the area historically known as Sundgau. The constituency has elected Gaullist candidates for its entire history within the Fifth Republic.

The constituency was held by Jean-Luc Reitzer from 1988 until he stood down in 2022. In the 2012 election, he was elected on the first round of voting.

Historic Representation

Election		Member	Party
	1958	Joseph Perrin	UNR
	1962
	1967	Alphonse Jenn	UDR
	1968
	1973	Pierre Weisenhorn
	1978		RPR
	1981
1986		Proportional representation – no election by constituency
	1988	Jean-Luc Reitzer	RPR
	1993
	1997
	2002		UMP
	2007
	2012
	2017		LR
	2022	Didier Lemaire	HOR

Election results

2024

Legislative Election 2024: Haut-Rhin's 3rd constituency^[1][2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DLF	Simone Fischer	579	1.03	N/A
	DIV	Gaëlle Cressin	785	1.40	N/A
	DVE	Antoine Waechter	1,563	2.79	−0.91
	HOR (Ensemble)	Didier Lemaire	13,980	24.93	+5.27
	LFI (NFP)	Bénédicte Viroulet	7,119	12.70	+0.29
	LR	Thomas Zeller	7,521	13.41	−4.52
	LO	Géraud Ferry	234	0.42	N/A
	RN	Christian Zimmermann	21,790	38.86	+18.48
	REC	Sandrine Noël	653	1.16	−2.17
	UL	Jean-Denis Zoellé	1,850	3.30	−1.72
Turnout			56,074	97.79	+52.95
Registered electors			87,359
2nd round result
	HOR	Didier Lemaire	29,028	51.92	−1.96
	RN	Christian Zimmermann	26,883	48.08	+1.96
Turnout			55,911	95.90	+53.38
Registered electors			87,370
	HOR hold		Swing

2022

Legislative Election 2022: Haut-Rhin's 3rd constituency

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	RN	Christian Zimmermann	7,838	20.38	+10.23
	HOR (Ensemble)	Didier Lemaire	7,563	19.66	-12.18
	LR (UDC)	Thomas Zeller	6,894	17.93	−11.89
	LFI (NUPÉS)	Priscille Silva	4,774	12.41	+1.82
	DIV	Jean-Luc Johaneck	2,881	7.49	N/A
	LREM	Patrick Striby*	1,946	5.06	N/A
	UL (REG)	Jean-Denis Zoellé	1,930	5.02	−3.66
	DVE	Antoine Waechter	1,423	3.70	N/A
	REC	Sandrine Noel	1,279	3.33	N/A
	Others	N/A	1,932	-	−
Turnout			38,460	44.84	−0.64
2nd round result
	HOR (Ensemble)	Didier Lemaire	18,757	53.88	+9.03
	RN	Christian Zimmermann	16,053	46.12	N/A
Turnout			34,810	42.52	+2.78
	HOR gain from LR

^[3]

* Striby stood as a dissident LREM member, without the support of the party or the Ensemble Citoyens coalition. His results as the LREM candidate in 2017 are counted against the official Ensemble Citoyens candidate for swing purposes.

2017

Legislative Election 2017: Haut-Rhin's 3rd constituency

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LREM	Patrick Striby	12,419	31.84
	LR	Jean-Luc Reitzer	11,630	29.82
	FN	Katia Di Leonardo	3,960	10.15
	REG	Hervé Ott (Unser Land)	3,387	8.68
	LFI	Marianne Bercot	2,195	5.63
	MEI	Antoine Waechter	1,936	4.96
	DLF	Jean-Michel Monteillet	1,052	2.70
	REG	Catherine Dahmane (Alsace First)	1,046	2.68
	Others	N/A	1,374
Turnout			38,999	45.50
2nd round result
	LR	Jean-Luc Reitzer	18,786	55.15
	LREM	Patrick Striby	15,278	44.85
Turnout			34,064	39.74
	LR hold

Source:^[4]

2012

Legislative Election 2012: Haut-Rhin 3rd 1st Round^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	UMP	Jean-Luc Reitzer	25,010	54.80
	FN	Stéphanie Faesch	6,109	13.39
	MEI	Antonie Waechter	4,802	10.52
	LV	Max Demond	4,230	9.27
	DVD	Alain Koegler	1.861	4.08
	FG	Geneviève Enggasser	1,793	3.93
		Jean-Luc Koch	863	1.89
	NM	Alexandra Delaunay-Hartemann	739	1.62
	LO	Géraud Ferry	231	0.51
Turnout			46,309	55.40
	UMP hold		Swing