# 2008 Somain municipal election

[France](https://electionsarchive.com/fr.md) / [Somain](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/somain.md), March 9, 2008

Turnout: 5,878 of 9,115 registered voters (64.5%). −0.07 points since 2001.

## [Municipal council of Somain](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/somain/2008-03-09-local/conseil-municipal.md)

Jean-Claude Quennesson won 29 of the 33 seats, with 69.7% of the vote.

| Candidate or party | Party | Votes | Share | Seats |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Jean-Claude Quennesson | LUG | 3,946 | 69.7% | 29 |
| Jérôme Matuszewski | LDVG | 902 | 15.9% | 2 |
| Alain Zaffani | LMAJ | 815 | 14.4% | 2 |

## Contests

- [2008 Somain municipal election, first round](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/somain/2008-03-09-local/conseil-municipal.md)

## Party system indices

[How these indices are computed](https://electionsarchive.com/indices.md)

| Chamber | Effective parties by votes | Effective parties by seats | Gallagher index | Loosemore–Hanby index | Volatility | Nationalization |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Municipal council of Somain | 1.88 | 1.28 | 15.8 | 18.2 |  |  |

- From 5,663 votes and 33 seats.

Also available as HTML at https://electionsarchive.com/fr/somain/2008-03-09-local and JSON at https://electionsarchive.com/fr/somain/2008-03-09-local.json.