Arrondissement of Cholet


The arrondissement of Cholet is an arrondissement of France in the Maine-et-Loire department in the Pays de la Loire region. It has 32 communes. Its population is 224,581, and its area is.

Composition

The communes of the arrondissement of Cholet, and their INSEE codes, are:
  1. Beaupréau-en-Mauges
  2. Bégrolles-en-Mauges
  3. Cernusson
  4. Les Cerqueux
  5. Chanteloup-les-Bois
  6. Chemillé-en-Anjou
  7. Cholet
  8. Cléré-sur-Layon
  9. Coron
  10. Lys-Haut-Layon
  11. Mauges-sur-Loire
  12. Maulévrier
  13. Le May-sur-Èvre
  14. Mazières-en-Mauges
  15. Montilliers
  16. Montrevault-sur-Èvre
  17. Nuaillé
  18. Orée-d'Anjou
  19. Passavant-sur-Layon
  20. La Plaine
  21. La Romagne
  22. Saint-Christophe-du-Bois
  23. Saint-Léger-sous-Cholet
  24. Saint-Paul-du-Bois
  25. La Séguinière
  26. Sèvremoine
  27. Somloire
  28. La Tessoualle
  29. Toutlemonde
  30. Trémentines
  31. Vezins
  32. Yzernay

    History

The arrondissement of Beaupréau was created in 1800. The subprefecture was moved to Cholet in 1857. At the January 2017 reorganisation of the arrondissements of Maine-et-Loire, it gained nine communes from the arrondissement of Saumur.
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 Cholet were, as of January 2015:
  1. Beaupréau
  2. Champtoceaux
  3. Chemillé
  4. Cholet-1
  5. Cholet-2
  6. Cholet-3
  7. Montfaucon-Montigné
  8. Montrevault
  9. Saint-Florent-le-Vieil