Editing Parachute candidate (section)

==France==
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France has a long history of parachute candidates.<ref name="h641">{{cite web | last=Decotte | first=Laurent | title=Législatives : le parachutage, cette vieille discipline de la politique | website=La Voix du Nord | date=2022-05-27 | url=https://www.lavoixdunord.fr/1185389/article/2022-05-27/le-parachutage-cette-vieille-discipline-de-la-politique | language=fr | access-date=2024-06-21}}</ref> Extreme examples have been candidates from [[mainland France]] who ran for election in [[overseas France]]. In 1963, [[Michel Debré]] was parachuted to the [[Indian Ocean]] island of [[Réunion]] nearly 6,000 miles away from the mainland,<ref name="o913">{{cite magazine | title=France: 6,000 Miles from Home | magazine=TIME | date=1963-03-29 | url=https://time.com/archive/6831734/france-6000-miles-from-home/ | access-date=2024-06-21}}</ref> where he won a [[by-election]] and served as [[Deputy (France)|deputy]] for seventeen years.<ref name="w695">{{cite web | last=Barbarit | first=Simon | title=« Parachutages » aux législatives : « Une pratique aussi vieille que la République » | website=Public Sénat | date=2022-05-18 | url=https://www.publicsenat.fr/actualites/politique/parachutages-aux-legislatives-une-pratique-aussi-vieille-que-la-republique-210951 | language=fr | access-date=2024-06-21}}</ref> In the small North American territory of [[Saint Pierre and Miquelon]], three candidates from the mainland have attempted to win its [[Saint Pierre and Miquelon's 1st constituency|constituency seat]] since 2002, most recently [[Patricia Chagnon]] in [[2024 French legislative election|2024]].<ref name="x993">{{cite web | last=Raynaud | first=Mathias | title=Élections législatives : Histoires de dissolutions à Saint-Pierre et Miquelon | website=Saint-Pierre et Miquelon la 1ère | date=2024-06-18 | url=https://la1ere.francetvinfo.fr/saintpierremiquelon/elections-legislatives-histoires-de-dissolutions-a-saint-pierre-et-miquelon-1495976.html | language=fr | access-date=2024-06-21}}</ref>