Arrondissement of Poitiers


The arrondissement of Poitiers is an arrondissement of France in the Vienne department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region. It has 83 communes. Its population is 259,699, and its area is.

Composition

The communes of the arrondissement of Poitiers, and their INSEE codes, are:
  1. Amberre
  2. Aslonnes
  3. Avanton
  4. Ayron
  5. Beaumont Saint-Cyr
  6. Béruges
  7. Biard
  8. Bignoux
  9. Boivre-la-Vallée
  10. Bonnes
  11. Buxerolles
  12. Celle-Lévescault
  13. Chabournay
  14. Chalandray
  15. Champigny en Rochereau
  16. La Chapelle-Moulière
  17. Chasseneuil-du-Poitou
  18. Château-Larcher
  19. Chauvigny
  20. Cherves
  21. Chiré-en-Montreuil
  22. Chouppes
  23. Cissé
  24. Cloué
  25. Coulombiers
  26. Coussay
  27. Croutelle
  28. Cuhon
  29. Curzay-sur-Vonne
  30. Dienné
  31. Dissay
  32. Fleuré
  33. Fontaine-le-Comte
  34. Frozes
  35. Gizay
  36. Iteuil
  37. Jardres
  38. Jaunay-Marigny
  39. Jazeneuil
  40. Latillé
  41. Lavoux
  42. Ligugé
  43. Liniers
  44. Lusignan
  45. Maillé
  46. Maisonneuve
  47. Marçay
  48. Marigny-Chemereau
  49. Marnay
  50. Massognes
  51. Mignaloux-Beauvoir
  52. Migné-Auxances
  53. Mirebeau
  54. Montamisé
  55. Neuville-de-Poitou
  56. Nieuil-l'Espoir
  57. Nouaillé-Maupertuis
  58. Poitiers
  59. Pouillé
  60. La Puye
  61. Quinçay
  62. Roches-Prémarie-Andillé
  63. Rouillé
  64. Saint-Benoît
  65. Sainte-Radégonde
  66. Saint-Georges-lès-Baillargeaux
  67. Saint-Julien-l'Ars
  68. Saint-Martin-la-Pallu
  69. Saint-Sauvant
  70. Sanxay
  71. Savigny-Lévescault
  72. Sèvres-Anxaumont
  73. Smarves
  74. Tercé
  75. Thurageau
  76. Vernon
  77. La Villedieu-du-Clain
  78. Villiers
  79. Vivonne
  80. Vouillé
  81. Vouneuil-sous-Biard
  82. Vouzailles
  83. Yversay

    History

The arrondissement of Poitiers was created in 1800. At the January 2017 reorganisation of the arrondissements of Vienne, it received four communes from the arrondissement of Châtellerault and two communes from the arrondissement of Montmorillon.
As a result of the reorganisation of the cantons of France which came into effect in 2015, the borders of the cantons are no longer related to the borders of the arrondissements. The cantons of the arrondissement of Poitiers were, as of January 2015:
  1. Lusignan
  2. Mirebeau
  3. Neuville-de-Poitou
  4. Poitiers-1
  5. Poitiers-2
  6. Poitiers-3
  7. Poitiers-4
  8. Poitiers-5
  9. Poitiers-6
  10. Poitiers-7
  11. Saint-Georges-lès-Baillargeaux
  12. Saint-Julien-l'Ars
  13. La Villedieu-du-Clain
  14. Vivonne
  15. Vouillé