# 2014 Violaines municipal election

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

Turnout: 2,046 of 2,885 registered voters (70.9%). +3.3 points since 2008.

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

Jean-François Castell won 21 of the 27 seats, with 57.0% of the vote.

| Candidate or party | Party | Votes | Share | Seats |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Jean-François Castell | LDIV | 1,126 | 57.0% | 21 |
| Patrick Debert | LSOC | 572 | 29.0% | 4 |
| Jean-Luc Fache | LDVG | 277 | 14.0% | 2 |

## Contests

- [2014 Violaines municipal election, first round](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/violaines/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 Violaines | 2.33 | 1.58 | 18.4 | 20.8 | 100.0 |  |

- From 1,975 votes and 27 seats.
- Compared with [2008 Violaines municipal election](https://electionsarchive.com/fr/violaines/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/violaines/2014-03-23-local and JSON at https://electionsarchive.com/fr/violaines/2014-03-23-local.json.