# 2008 Violaines municipal election

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

Turnout: 2,009 of 2,972 registered voters (67.6%). −4.2 points since 2001.

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

Jean-Bernard Firmin won 23 of the 27 seats, with 66.4% of the vote.

| Candidate or party | Party | Votes | Share | Seats |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Jean-Bernard Firmin | LSOC | 1,286 | 66.4% | 23 |
| Guy Vandembergue | LDVG | 466 | 24.1% | 3 |
| Odile Boulanger | LDVG | 185 | 9.6% | 1 |

## Contests

- [2008 Violaines municipal election, first round](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/violaines/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 Violaines | 1.97 | 1.35 | 16.7 | 18.8 |  |  |

- From 1,937 votes and 27 seats.

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