Nord's 8th constituency covers three of the four (pre-2015) cantons of the city of
Roubaix with only
Roubaix Ouest within
Nord's 7th constituency. Despite electing a candidate from the centre right
UDF as recently as 2002 the seat appeared to be safe for the left until 2017.
Dominique Baert was expelled from the
Socialist Party prior to the
2012 election and faced a
Green Party (France) candidate backed by the
Socialist Party. He was, however, comfortably re-elected with nearly 70% of the vote but on a very low turnout of only 41%. ==Historic Representation==