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Seine-Maritime
Seine-Maritime
Department
	Prefecture building of the Seine-Maritime department, in Rouen
	Flag Coat of arms
	Location of Seine-Maritime in France
	Coordinates: 49°40′N 0°50′E / 49.667°N 0.833°E
Country	France
Region	Normandy
Prefecture	Rouen
Subprefectures	Dieppe; Le Havre
Government
• President of the Departmental Council	Bertrand Bellanger
Area 1
• Total	6,278 km2 (2,424 sq mi)
Population (2022)
• Total	1,260,205
• Rank	16th
• Density	200/km2 (520/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
ISO 3166 code	FR-76
Department number	76
Arrondissements	3
Cantons	35
Communes	708
	^1 French Land Register data, which exclude estuaries, and lakes, ponds, and glaciers larger than 1 km2

Seine-Maritime (French pronunciation: [sɛn maʁitim] ^ⓘ) is a department of France in the Normandy region of northern France. It is situated on the northern coast of France, at the mouth of the Seine, and includes the cities of Rouen and Le Havre. Until 1955 it was named Seine-Inférieure. It had a population of 1,255,633 in 2019.^[3]

History

1790 - Creation of the Seine-Inférieure department: The department was created from part of the old province of Normandy during the French Revolution, on 4 March 1790, through the application of a law of 22 December 1789.

1815 - Occupation: After the victory at Waterloo of the coalition armies, the department was occupied by British forces from June 1815 till November 1818.

1843 – Railways and industry: In Rouen, Elbeuf, and Bolbec, the number of textile factories is increasing. Metallurgy and naval construction as well.

1851 - A republican department: Following President Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte's 1851 Coup d'état, Seine-Inférieure was one of several departments placed under a state of emergency (literally, in French, state of siege) ^[4] following fears of significant resistance to the new government.

World War II: In 1942, during occupation by Nazi Germany, two Allied raids, the Bruneval and Dieppe, took place at towns of the channel coast of Seine-Inférieure.

1955 - Rename to Seine-Maritime

In 1955, the department's name was officially changed to Seine-Maritime.

Heraldry

	The arms of the departement Seine-Maritime are blazoned : Gules a fess wavy argent between two lions passant gardant or armed and langued azure.

Geography

The department can be split into three main areas:^[5]

The Seine valley. The Seine flows through the provincial capital Rouen.
The chalk plateau Pays de Caux, with its abrupt coastline (the Alabaster Coast).
The Norman Pays de Bray, with its hills and bocage landscape.

Administration

The département was created in 1790 as Seine-Inférieure, one of five departements that replaced the former province of Normandy. In 1800 five arrondissements were created within the département, namely Rouen, Le Havre, Dieppe, Neufchatel and Yvetot, although the latter two were disbanded in 1926. On 18 January 1955 the name of the département was changed to Seine-Maritime, in order to provide a more positive-sounding name and in-keeping with changes made in a number of other French departements.

Principal towns

The most populous commune is Le Havre; the prefecture Rouen is the second-most populous. As of 2019, there are 7 communes with more than 20,000 inhabitants:^[3]

Commune	Population (2019)
Le Havre	168,290
Rouen	112,321
Sotteville-lès-Rouen	29,068
Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray	28,352
Dieppe	28,241
Le Grand-Quevilly	25,963
Le Petit-Quevilly	22,000

Demographics

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1801	609,843	—
1821	655,804	+0.36%
1831	693,683	+0.56%
1841	737,206	+0.61%
1851	762,039	+0.33%
1861	789,988	+0.36%
1872	790,022	+0.00%
1881	814,068	+0.33%
1891	839,876	+0.31%
1901	853,883	+0.17%
1911	877,383	+0.27%
1921	880,671	+0.04%
1931	905,278	+0.28%

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1936	915,628	+0.23%
1946	846,131	−0.79%
1954	941,684	+1.35%
1962	1,035,844	+1.20%
1968	1,113,977	+1.22%
1975	1,172,743	+0.74%
1982	1,193,039	+0.25%
1990	1,223,429	+0.31%
1999	1,239,138	+0.14%
2006	1,243,830	+0.05%
2011	1,251,282	+0.12%
2016	1,255,755	+0.07%

source:^[6]^[7]

Previously lacking a demonym, the inhabitants of Seine-Maritime (as the department had been renamed in 1955) chose, following a public consultation, to be identified in official documents as "Seinomarins" ^[8] (males) and "Seinomarines" (females).

Politics

The president of the Departmental Council is Bertrand Bellanger, elected in 2019.

Presidential elections 2nd round

	Winning Candidate	Party	%	2nd Place Candidate	Party	%
2022	Emmanuel Macron	LREM	55.28	Marine Le Pen	FN	44.72
2017^[9]	Emmanuel Macron	LREM	60.42	Marine Le Pen	FN	39.58
2012	François Hollande	PS	54.94	Nicolas Sarkozy	UMP	45.06
2007	Nicolas Sarkozy	UMP	50.20	Ségolène Royal	PS	49.80
2002^[9]	Jacques Chirac	RPR	82.58	Jean-Marie Le Pen	FN	17.42

Current National Assembly Representatives

	Member^[10]	Party
Seine-Maritime's 1st constituency	Florence Hérouin-Léautey	Socialist Party
Seine-Maritime's 2nd constituency	Annie Vidal	Renaissance
Seine-Maritime's 3rd constituency	Édouard Bénard	French Communist Party
Seine-Maritime's 4th constituency	Alma Dufour	La France Insoumise
Seine-Maritime's 5th constituency	Gérard Leseul	Socialist Party
Seine-Maritime's 6th constituency	Patrice Martin	National Rally
Seine-Maritime's 7th constituency	Agnès Firmin-Le Bodo	Horizons
Seine-Maritime's 8th constituency	Jean-Paul Lecoq	French Communist Party
Seine-Maritime's 9th constituency	Marie-Agnès Poussier-Winsback	Horizons
Seine-Maritime's 10th constituency	Robert Le Bourgeois	National Rally

Transport

In 1843 the railway from Paris reached the region. The département is connected to the adjacent Eure department via the Tancarville and Pont de Normandie bridge crossings of the Seine.

Culture

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert is set in Seine Maritime.

The novel La Place by Annie Ernaux largely takes place in Seine-Maritime and describes events and changes that take place in relation to French society in the 20th century especially in relation to the rural population.

The first story of the long-running series Valérian and Laureline is set in Seine-Maritime, with the character Laureline originating from the area.

Cauchois is the dialect of the Pays de Caux, and is one of the most vibrant forms of the Norman language beyond Cotentinais.