The Pas-de-Calais is a department in northern France named after the French designation of the Strait of Dover,which it borders. It has the most communes of all the departments of France,890,and is the 8th most populous. It had a population of 1,465,278 in 2019. The Calais Passage connects to the Port of Calais on the English Channel. The Pas-de-Calais borders the departments of Nord and Somme and is connected to the English county of Kent via the Channel Tunnel.
Hénin-Beaumont is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France.
Marion Anne PerrineLe Pen is a French lawyer and politician who ran for the French presidency in 2012,2017,and 2022. A member of the National Rally,she served as its president from 2011 to 2021. She has been the member of the National Assembly for the 11th constituency of Pas-de-Calais since 2017. She currently serves as parliamentary party leader of the National Rally in the Assembly,a position she has held since June 2022. Le Pen has been widely described as being far-right on the political spectrum.
Jean-Marie Vanlerenberghe is a French politician of the Democratic Movement (MoDem) who has been serving as a member of the Senate since 2001.
Michel Delebarre was a French politician who was a member of the Senate of France. He represented the Nord department,and was a member of the Socialiste,radical,citoyen et divers gauche. He was also mayor of Dunkirk.
The 13th constituency of the Pas-de-Calais was a former French legislative constituency which existed until 2012. It was one of 14 French legislative constituencies in the Pas-de-Calais department (62) located in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region.
The 11th constituency of the Pas-de-Calais is a French legislative constituency in the Pas-de-Calais département. It elects one député to the National Assembly. It has been represented by Marine Le Pen since 2017.
The 10th constituency of the Pas-de-Calais is a French legislative constituency in the Pas-de-Calais département.
Legislative elections took place on 10 and 17 June 2012 to select the members of the 14th National Assembly of the Fifth Republic,a little over a month after the French presidential election run-off held on 6 May.
L'Enchaînédu Nord et du Pas-de-Calais was a Communist Party weekly newspaper published from Lille,France,published on Fridays. Stêphane Dubled was the editor-in-chief of l'Enchaîné.
Steeve Briois is a French politician. In 2017,he was interim leader of the National Front. In 2014,he was elected mayor of Hénin-Beaumont and a member of the European Parliament. From 2011 to 2014,he was general-secretary of the Front National. He was a member of the regional council of Nord-Pas-de-Calais from 1998 to 2014.
Pierre de Saintignon was a French politician. He was a member of the French Socialist Party since 1967. He was elected councilor to the Lille municipality in 1989,1995,2001,2008 and 2014,the first two terms under Pierre Mauroy and the other three under Martine Aubry. From 2001,he was the First Deputy-Mayor,in charge of finance,economic development and military matters. In 1998,2004 and 2010 he was elected councilor the Regional Council of Nord-Pas-de-Calais,where he sat as first vice-president,in charge of economic development. Most of his political career was as an unofficial chief of staff,rather than as a foreground person. He was chosen to lead the PS list for the 2015 regional elections that were held on 6 and 13 December 2015.
Legislative elections in France were held on 11 and 18 June 2017 to elect the 577 members of the 15th National Assembly of the Fifth Republic. They followed the two-round presidential election won by Emmanuel Macron. The centrist party he founded in 2016,La République En Marche! (LREM),led an alliance with the centrist Democratic Movement (MoDem);together,the two parties won 350 of the 577 seats—a substantial majority—in the National Assembly,including an outright majority of 308 seats for LREM. The Socialist Party (PS) was reduced to 30 seats and the Republicans (LR) reduced to 112 seats,and both parties' allies also suffered from a marked drop in support;these were the lowest-ever scores for the centre-left and centre-right in the legislative elections. The movement founded by Jean-Luc Mélenchon,la France Insoumise (FI),secured 17 seats,enough for a group in the National Assembly. Among other major parties,the French Communist Party (PCF) secured ten and the National Front (FN) obtained eight seats. Both rounds of the legislative election were marked by record low turnout.
The first Regional Elections of Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardie were held on 6 and 13 December 2015. At stake were the Regional Council of Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardie.
Paul Dussaussoy was a French lawyer and politician. Born in Dunkirk,Nord,he was a deputy to the national assembly from 1893 to 1902 and again from 1906 until his premature death in 1909. He introduced the first French bill that proposed to give votes to women,at first limited to local elections.
Charles-Alphonse Levert was a French public servant and politician. During the Second French Empire he was a prefect of various departments. During the French Third Republic he served as deputy for Pas-de-Calais between 1872 and 1889. He held right-wing Bonapartist views and consistently voted against the republican governments.
Emmanuel Blairy,born 14 March 1986 in Lens (Pas-de-Calais),is a French politician,deputy in the National Assembly from January 2022 and a local civil servant of the Communautéd'agglomération de Lens –Liévin since 2006.
Nicolas Bays is a French politician. Formerly of the Socialist Party and now of Renaissance,he currently serves as a municipal councillor in Wingles,in Northern France. From 2012 through 2017,he held the position of deputy for Pas-de-Calais's 12th constituency.
Jean-Philippe Tanguy is a French politician who has represented the 4th constituency of the Somme department in the National Assembly since 2022. He is a member of the National Rally (RN).
Bertrand Petit is a French politician from the Socialist Party (NUPES) who has been the member of the National Assembly for Pas-de-Calais's 8th constituency since 2022. His original election was invalidated,and he was re-elected in a by-election held in 2023.
