# 2014 Somain municipal election

[France](https://electionsarchive.com/fr.md) / [Somain](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/somain.md), March 23, 2014

Turnout: 5,225 of 8,830 registered voters (59.2%). −5.3 points since 2008.

## [Municipal council of Somain](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/somain/2014-03-23-local/conseil-municipal.md)

Jean-Claude Quennesson won 26 of the 33 seats, with 56.5% of the vote.

| Candidate or party | Party | Votes | Share | Seats |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Jean-Claude Quennesson | LUG | 2,802 | 56.5% | 26 |
| Samuel Vanlichtervelde | LUDI | 1,229 | 24.8% | 4 |
| Alain Zaffani | LDVD | 930 | 18.7% | 3 |

## Contests

- [2014 Somain municipal election, first round](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/somain/2014-03-23-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 | 2.41 | 1.55 | 19.4 | 22.3 | 100.0 |  |

- From 4,961 votes and 33 seats.
- Compared with [2008 Somain municipal election](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/somain/2008-03-09-local.md).
- A large party has no recorded predecessor or successor, so its whole share counts as change.

Also available as HTML at https://electionsarchive.com/fr/somain/2014-03-23-local and JSON at https://electionsarchive.com/fr/somain/2014-03-23-local.json.