The 3rd constituency of Allier is a French legislative constituency in the Allier département.

Members elected ElectionMemberParty1958Pierre VillonFrench Communist Party1962Charles MagneFrench Section of the Workers' International1967Pierre VillonFrench Communist Party196819731978André Lajoinie19811986Proportional representation - no election by constituency1988André LajoinieFrench Communist Party1993Bernard CoulonUnion for French Democracy1997André LajoinieFrench Communist Party2002Yves SimonUnion for a Popular Movement2007Jean MallotSocialist Party2012Gérard CharasseRadical Party of the Left2017Bénédicte PeyrolLa République En Marche!2022Nicolas RayThe Republicans2024

Election results

2024

CandidatePartyAllianceFirst roundSecond roundVotes%+/–Votes%+/–Nicolas Ray (incumbent)LR40.05 +15.8359.07 Rémy QueneyRN37.82 +17.5140.93 Aline JeudiPSNFP20.40 +0.87Jean-François RameauLO1.72 +0.50Valid votes96.89 -0.6395.28 Blank votes1.83 +0.153.41 Null votes1.28 +0.481.31 Turnout69.08 +18.4368.92 Abstentions30.92 -18.4331.08 Registered votersSource: Ministry of the Interior, Le Monde Result LR HOLD

2022

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2017 CandidateLabelFirst roundSecond roundVotes%Votes%Bénédicte PeyrolREM34.4458.43Gabriel MaquinLR19.7741.57Jacques de ChabannesPRG14.03Jean-Pierre SigaudFN13.27Marie-Thérèse DupuisFI8.41Pascal DevosECO5.03Marie-Laure BecouzeDLF2.31Bernard LebelEXG0.99Annie DemmelDIV0.77Ahmed GhlamallahDIV0.51Guillaume de LongevilleEXD0.45Votes100.00100.00Valid votes97.5187.84Blank votes1.778.13Null votes0.734.03Turnout51.0045.48Abstentions49.0054.52Registered votersREM Gain from PRGSource: Ministry of the Interior

2012

|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;" ! colspan="2" rowspan="2" style="text-align:left;" | Candidate ! rowspan="2" colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" | Party ! colspan="2" | 1st round ! colspan="2" | 2nd round |- style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;" ! width="75" | Votes ! width="30" | % ! width="75" | Votes ! width="30" | % |- | style="color:inherit;background-color:" | | style="text-align:left;" | Gérard Charasse | style="text-align:left;" | Radical Party of the Left | PRG | | 42.51% | | 57.37% |- | style="color:inherit;background-color:" | | style="text-align:left;" | Claude Malhuret | style="text-align:left;" | Union for a Popular Movement | UMP | | 32.38% | | 42.63% |- | style="color:inherit;background-color:" | | style="text-align:left;" | Claudine Lopez | style="text-align:left;" | National Front | FN | | 13.64% | colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" | |- | style="color:inherit;background-color:" | | style="text-align:left;" | Pascale Semet | style="text-align:left;" | Left Front | FG | | 5.63% | colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" | |- | style="color:inherit;background-color:" | | style="text-align:left;" | Anne Babian-Lhermet | style="text-align:left;" | The Greens | VEC | | 1.92% | colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" | |- | style="color:inherit;background-color:" | | style="text-align:left;" | Sylvie Rasile | style="text-align:left;" | Democratic Movement | MoDem | | 1.26% | colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" | |- | style="color:inherit;background-color:" | | style="text-align:left;" | Pascal Javerliat | style="text-align:left;" | Radical Party | PRV | | 0.69% | colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" | |- | style="color:inherit;background-color:" | | style="text-align:left;" | Patrice Rucar | style="text-align:left;" | Ecologist | ECO | | 0.65% | colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" | |- | style="color:inherit;background-color:" | | style="text-align:left;" | Jean-Marc Caecassin | style="text-align:left;" | New Centre-Presidential Majority | NCE | | 0.58% | colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" | |- | style="color:inherit;background-color:" | | style="text-align:left;" | Monique Roche | style="text-align:left;" | Far Left | EXG | | 0.44% | colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" | |- | style="color:inherit;background-color:" | | style="text-align:left;" | Renaud Siry | style="text-align:left;" | Ecologist | ECO | | 0.30% | colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" | |- | colspan="8" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"| |- style="font-weight:bold" | colspan="4" style="text-align:left;" | Total | | 100% | | 100% |- | colspan="8" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"| |- | colspan="4" style="text-align:left;" | Registered voters | | style="color:inherit;background-color:#E9E9E9;"| | | style="color:inherit;background-color:#E9E9E9;"| |- | colspan="4" style="text-align:left;" | Blank/Void ballots | | 1.64% | | 3.25% |- | colspan="4" style="text-align:left;" | Turnout | | 60.52% | | 59.99% |- | colspan="4" style="text-align:left;" | Abstentions | | 39.48% | | 40.01% |- | colspan="8" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"| |- style="font-weight:bold" | colspan="6" style="text-align:left;" | Result | colspan="2" style="background-color:" | RDG GAIN

2007

|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;" ! colspan="2" rowspan="2" style="text-align:left;" | Candidate ! rowspan="2" colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" | Party ! colspan="2" | 1st round ! colspan="2" | 2nd round |- style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;" ! width="75" | Votes ! width="30" | % ! width="75" | Votes ! width="30" | % |- | style="color:inherit;background-color:" | | style="text-align:left;" | Jean Mallot | style="text-align:left;" | Socialist Party | PS | | 23.41% | | 50.80% |- | style="color:inherit;background-color:" | | style="text-align:left;" | Yves Simon | style="text-align:left;" | Union for a Popular Movement | UMP | | 39.87% | | 49.20% |- | style="color:inherit;background-color:" | | style="text-align:left;" | Dominique Bidet | style="text-align:left;" | Communist | COM | | 18.38% | colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" | |- | style="color:inherit;background-color:" | | style="text-align:left;" | Claude Joly | style="text-align:left;" | Democratic Movement | MoDem | | 5.64% | colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" | |- | style="color:inherit;background-color:" | | style="text-align:left;" | Jean-Louis Baudriller | style="text-align:left;" | National Front | FN | | 3.71% | colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" | |- | style="color:inherit;background-color:" | | style="text-align:left;" | Marc Boyer | style="text-align:left;" | Movement for France | MPF | | 2.57% | colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" | |- | style="color:inherit;background-color:" | | style="text-align:left;" | Anne-Marie Chambeau | style="text-align:left;" | The Greens | VEC | | 1.59% | colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" | |- | style="color:inherit;background-color:" | | style="text-align:left;" | Françoise Gaillardon | style="text-align:left;" | Far Left | EXG | | 1.46% | colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" | |- | style="color:inherit;background-color:" | | style="text-align:left;" | Bernard Lebel | style="text-align:left;" | Far Left | EXG | | 1.07% | colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" | |- | style="color:inherit;background-color:" | | style="text-align:left;" | Gérard-Pierre Guillaumin | style="text-align:left;" | Ecologist | ECO | | 0.96% | colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" | |- | style="color:inherit;background-color:" | | style="text-align:left;" | Véronique Deris-Targon | style="text-align:left;" | Ecologist | ECO | | 0.73% | colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" | |- | style="color:inherit;background-color:" | | style="text-align:left;" | Mireille Marnay | style="text-align:left;" | Divers | DIV | | 0.60% | colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" | |- | style="color:inherit;background-color:" | | style="text-align:left;" | Charles Castanier | style="text-align:left;" | Divers | DIV | | 0.00% | colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" | |- | colspan="8" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"| |- style="font-weight:bold" | colspan="4" style="text-align:left;" | Total | | 100% | | 100% |- | colspan="8" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"| |- | colspan="4" style="text-align:left;" | Registered voters | | style="color:inherit;background-color:#E9E9E9;"| | | style="color:inherit;background-color:#E9E9E9;"| |- | colspan="4" style="text-align:left;" | Blank/Void ballots | | 2.68% | | 3.45% |- | colspan="4" style="text-align:left;" | Turnout | | 65.59% | | 67.92% |- | colspan="4" style="text-align:left;" | Abstentions | | 34.41% | | 32.08% |- | colspan="8" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"| |- style="font-weight:bold" | colspan="6" style="text-align:left;" | Result | colspan="2" style="background-color:" | PS GAIN

2002

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1997

1993

1988

CandidatePartyAllianceFirst roundSecond roundVotes%+/–Votes%+/–André Lajoinie (incumbent)PCF40.31 +0.5755.51 -1.58Bernard CoulonUDFPR, URC31.91 -1.0244.49 +1.58Marcel PisaniPS19.48 -7.84Jean-Claude CandilleFN6.17 Philippe GenestDVD2.13Valid votes97.74 -0.9896.60 -0.17Blank or Null votes2.26 +0.983.40 +0.17Turnout70.27 -5.5775.80 -3.35Abstentions29.76 +5.5724.20 +3.35Registered voters Result PCF HOLD 1981

CandidatePartyAllianceFirst roundSecond roundVotes%+/–Votes%+/–André Lajoinie (incumbent)PCF39.74 +3.5757.09 +5.33Edmond MaupoilUDFRad32.93 +7.4942.91 -5.33Louis HuguetPS27.32 +10.43Valid votes98.72 +0.7396.77 -0.91Blank or Null votes1.28 -0.733.23 +0.91Turnout75.84 -9.1879.15 -8.33Abstentions24.16 +9.1820.85 +8.33Registered voters Result PCF HOLD 1978

CandidatePartyAllianceFirst roundSecond roundVotes%+/–Votes%+/–André LajoiniePCF36.17 -0.8551.76 -1.67Edmond MaupoilUDFRad25.44 48.24 René MaëderRPR18.21 Roger LimogesPS16.89 -0.60Yvette CostesLO3.29 +0.10Valid votes97.99 +0.1497.68 +1.92Blank or Null votes2.01 -0.142.32 -1.92Turnout85.02 +4.4087.48 +4.97Abstentions14.98 -4.4012.52 -4.97Registered voters Result PCF HOLD 1973

CandidatePartyAllianceFirst roundSecond roundVotes%+/–Votes%+/–Pierre Villon (incumbent)PCF37.02 -0.7653.43 +3.01Joseph KatzUDRURP28.74 -8.8446.57 -3.01Henri SarronPSUGSD17.49 +3.23Jacques Dupuydauby DVD11.61 Annie SouchonLO3.19 Robert ForgeDVD1.96 Valid votes97.85 =0.1995.76 -0.72Blank or Null votes2.15 +0.194.24 +0.72Turnout80.62 0.6082.51 +2.67Abstentions19.38 -0.6017.49 -2.67Registered voters Result PCF HOLD 1968

CandidatePartyAllianceFirst roundSecond roundVotes%+/–Votes%+/–Pierre Villon (incumbent)PCF37.78 -0.4850.42 -4.68Joseph KatzUDRURP37.58 49.58 Roger SouthonSFIO24.65 -0.24Valid votes98.04 +0.0496.48 +0.41Blank or Null votes1.96 -0.044.24 +0.72Turnout80.02 +1.9079.84 +0.37Abstentions19.98 -1.9020.16 -0.37Registered voters Result PCF HOLD 1967

CandidatePartyAllianceFirst roundSecond roundVotes%+/–Votes%+/–Pierre VillonPCF39.26 -0.6755.10 +11.01Henri TardivatUD-VE25.70 44.90 Antoine LacroixSFIOFGDS24.89 +1.05Jean DyeCDPDM8.14 Gaston PaulModérés3.01 Valid votes98.00 +0.0596.07 -0.90Blank or Null votes2.00 -0.053.93 +0.90Turnout78.12 +12.0379.47 +7.56Abstentions21.88 -12.0320.53 -7.56Registered voters Result PCF GAIN 1962

CandidatePartyAllianceFirst roundSecond roundVotes%+/–Votes%+/–Pierre Villon (incumbent)PCF38.93 +3.6244.09 +6.11Charles MagneSFIO23.84 -3.9550.38 +12.67Daniel PoliakUNR-UDT17.99 5.54 Louis DumasCNIP13.68 Édouard KuntzRadcent5.56 Valid votes97.95 +0.1196.97 -2.02Blank or Null votes2.05 -0.113.03 -2.02Turnout66.09 -5.5171.91 -3.02Abstentions33.91 +5.5128.09 +3.02Registered voters Result SFIO GAIN 1958

CandidatePartyAllianceFirst roundSecond roundVotes%+/–Votes%+/–Pierre VillonPCF35.3137.98 Charles MagneSFIO27.7937.71 Pierre NigayCR21.192.42 Gaston PaulModérés9.880.11 Maurice GaillardUFF5.83Valid votes97.8498.99 Blank or Null votes2.161.01 Turnout71.6074.93 Abstentions28.4025.07 Registered voters ResultPCF GAIN

Sources

Official results of French elections from 1998: