# 2008 Valenciennes municipal election

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

Turnout: 13,378 of 24,520 registered voters (54.6%). −4.4 points since 2001.

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

Dominique Riquet won 35 of the 43 seats, with 55.5% of the vote.

| Candidate or party | Party | Votes | Share | Seats |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Dominique Riquet | LMAJ | 7,214 | 55.5% | 35 |
| Jean-Luc Chagnon | LSOC | 2,376 | 18.3% | 4 |
| Jean-Claude Dulieu | LCOM | 2,152 | 16.6% | 4 |
| Dominique Slabolepszy | LEXD | 631 | 4.9% |  |
| Anne Wattel | LEXG | 617 | 4.7% |  |

## Contests

- [2008 Valenciennes municipal election, first round](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/valenciennes/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 Valenciennes | 2.67 | 1.47 | 20.6 | 25.9 |  |  |

- From 12,990 votes and 43 seats.

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