Alain Bocquet (born 6 May 1946) is a French politician.

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Alain Bocquet
Mayor of Saint-Amand-les-Eaux
Incumbent
Assumed office 25 June 1995
Preceded by	Georges Donnez
President of the Communauté d'agglomération de la Porte du Hainaut
In office 22 December 2000 – 11 July 2020
Succeeded by	Aymeric Robin
French Deputy
In office 3 April 1978 – 20 June 2017
Preceded by	Georges Donnez (19th constituency) Gustave Ansart (20th constituency)
Succeeded by	Gustave Ansart (19th constituency) Fabien Roussel (20th constituency)
Parliamentary group	Communist (1978–2007) GDR(2007–2017)
Constituency	Nord's 19th constituency (1978–1986) Nord (1986–1988) Nord's 20th constituency (1988–2017)
Personal details
Born	(1946-05-06) 6 May 1946 (age 77) Marquillies, France
Political party	PCF
Relatives	Éric Bocquet (brother)

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A member of the French Communist Party (PCF), he was a Deputy from the Nord department of France between 1978 and 2017 and president of the communist parliamentary group from 1993 to 2007.^[1] He served as part of the regional council of Nord-Pas-de-Calais from 1992 to 1998 and has been mayor of Saint-Amand-les-Eaux since 1995.

Bocquet was born in Marquillies in 1946. Before going into politics, he was a social worker.^[2] His younger brother, Éric Bocquet, is also a politician, and in 2016 they published a book together about tax evasion and fraud, Sans domicile fisc.^[3]