2024 2022 2018 by-election Napole Polutele's 2017 election was invalidated and a by-election held in 2018. Only the first round of the election was required.
2017 Napole Polutele obtained sufficient votes to be elected in the first round. Note, this election was later invalidated, leading to the
2018 by-election 2013 by-election David Vergé's 2012 election was annulled due to financial irregularities, causing a by-election on 17 and 24 March 2013. Two candidates stood for the left, including Laurianne Vergé for the Socialists. She was the first woman ever to stand as a candidate for Parliament to represent the constituency – and was the wife of David Vergé, who had represented the other side of the political spectrum. Seeking to retain the seat for the right,
Napole Polutele stood as an independent endorsed by the
Union for a Popular Movement. Two months later, having been elected to sit on the opposition benches (albeit officially as an independent), he joined the ranks of the Socialist-led majority. He explained frankly that being a member of the majority would make it easier for him to lobby the government for funds and services for his constituents – who, he said, cared little for the left-right divide prevalent in
metropolitan France. He subsequently sat as an independent on the benches of the left.
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