Electoral districts of Occitanie

INSEE Definition: “Legislative constituencies are the territorial framework for the election of each member of the National Assembly, elected by direct universal suffrage for a renewable term of five years (unless the legislature is interrupted by dissolution, Article 24 of the Constitution). The legislative constituency is designated by a serial number within each department. The establishment of the deputies’ electoral districts, the method of election of the deputies and the first division into legislative constituencies date from the advent of the Fifth Republic in 1958. According to Article 2 of Law No 86-825 of 11 July 1986: “The boundaries of the electoral districts shall be revised, in accordance with demographic trends, after the second general census of the population following the last delimitation.” This took place in February 2010. This data was created by GIS with the following sources: IGN ROUTE_500®, data available on Data.gouv.fr, and data.opendatasoft.com. In the fields, we find the number of the department, the number of the electoral district, its area and its total number of inhabitants.