Talk Elections

In honor of Hash's legislative predictions work, here's another project which took an absurd amount of time to complete. Right click either for super-colossal version:

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Comments and suggestions are welcome.

You are a flawless human being.

Indeed, this is marvellous. :o

I don't like your colours for Bayrou.






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No, just kiddin', of course (and making fun of people never happy).
This is Kolossal. I love it !!!!
You're welcome to do absolutely any other French map you want, whenever you want. :D

I hate to be mean, but how long did it take to complete this amazing map?

No infraction points on this, Al, please...

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Or you can infract the fact that homely hasn't partted Paris in arrondissements. ;D
Yeah, this is the only (very minor) point where we can make a remark (I've done the same to Gaël in the past).
But I'm just sitting on my back and "scanning" your maps, Hash and homely, so...

Beautiful!

Six weeks (total) to complete both - readers of this board's French elections thread will remember that I posted the 2007 map back in April. I spent an hour or two on the maps every day.

Not to mention that I painstakingly hand-striped hundreds of tied communes between the two maps.

Well, Fabien, now take a look at Paris (and Marseille, and Lyon... ;) )

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Even arrondissements now ? You are amazing. :D

Great stuff ... :)

Already working on the Round 2 maps ?

For reference, there are 37.000 towns in France, 3.000 counties in the US and 2500 towns in Austria.

Yeah, we do have a sh*tload of tiny communes...

Anything else would be quite, quite unfrench.

GREAT ! It's fine to have both maps, in fact :D

A little communes summary for 2012:

Hollande won an estimated 12,000 communes; Sarkozy 16,000 communes; Le Pen 5,000.
Le Pen won or tied in at least one commune in every department outside the Petite Couronne except for Finistere.

Melenchon won about 500, mostly small ones in the South of France. He won the most communes by department in Aude and Drome.

Bayrou won 50 or 60 - most of which are in Pyrenees-Atlantiques, of course.

Eva Joly won in six communes: two in Ariege and one each in Hautes-Alpes (Eourres), Drome, Cotes-d'Armor (Tremargat) and Hautes-Pyrenees.

NDA barely won his hometown of Yerres and also won some tiny little hamlet in Lorraine called Molring.

Poutou, Arthaud and Cheminade didn't win any communes.

Somehow, though, Cheminade took 22.7% in Varmonzey, in the Vosges...

Ever seen a map in 2.5% scale? As always, right click to super-size.

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You are the best. :)

Where is the 2012 map, though. It must be WAY prettier. ;D

How about the second round?

My best guess is 20,000 for Sarko, 17,000 for Hollande. I think he (Hollande) probably picked up 6,000 or 7,000 over the 2007 second round.

Even without zooming, it's great !
When zooming, wow !
Thanks a lot !

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The great cartographic tetralogy is complete. Four maps, 150,000 communes, 100 million pixels, 200+ hours, 2.5% scales: pure, unadulterated mapgasm.

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I think I just had sex.

Amazing. I don't know if this is a sexual or a mystic experience. It doesn't matter anyway.

Brilliant ! Fantastic !
And you can imagine how it's good for a French man to have a political travel through your map, revisiting all the communes and areas I know and being alternatively disgusted and delighted :P ;D

Thank you very much, homely !

And if you want to waste spend another 50 hours, well the second round of 1974 (the thinnest margin of all) is here for you ;)

Wow... Breathtaking.

I didn't realize Alsace was SUCH a right-wing stronghold. I mean, Haut-Rhin is THE mother of all right-wing strongholds. Hollande won only ONE commune there (Mulhouse btw, the most populous one) ! It's the only département I can find in such a case. In Bas-Rhin, well he won Strasbourg and 3 or 4 communes surrounding, plus two lost in the Vosges mountains (Ste-Marie aux Mines ? Urbeis ?). Also, LOL at the one commune of Bitscherland voting Hollande ! :D

On the other side, nothing comparable on the mainland. Even in Corrèze (old Chirac homeland) and red Haute-Vienne Hollande lost half a dozen communes. Only in la Réunion did he hammer the Grand Slam, and in Martinique and Guadeloupe the Small one, losing only one commune.

Seeing the color of Sarthe explains everything about Fillon moving to Paris...

Well I could travel this map for hours (and I will, too...). Not as good as sex, but pretty much the closest thing you got... ;)

Great work

It's back, mes amis! I think it even looks a bit like Van Gogh's night sky - the purple rendering of the FN result is (aesthetically) very beautiful.

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Hills don't like Le Pen.

This is beautiful and terrifying at the same time...

Resurrecting the Mapgasm thread with the trial run of an exciting new innovation. Three (generally) independent variables are simultaneously mapped with a comprehensive, continuous 4,096 color scale. Since the color scale is three-dimensional, I can't really show it effectively here, but it encompasses every point within the representative cube in the image.

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I should be arrested for killing the mapping game.

This just is INSANE. :o And brilliant, too. The map's a bit hard to decipher, but definitely worth looking into. Fantastic work! :D

I made a similar map before:

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I admit it's not actually 3 dimensional though.

Well, if you have requests for other départements or variables, let me know and I can "look into it"... ;)

Well, personally I guess Savoie and Yvelines would be interesting. Also Paris by arrondissement, which should be pretty quick to do.

Other than that... I don't know. Hash is better at identifying interesting departments. Maybe Pas-de-Calais, to see the FN/FG divide?

I think this one might be a little easier to understand. Also includes Paris by arrondissement.

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OMG this is wonderful!!! :o :D :o

Everything there is to know about the 2012 legislative elections: Calvados

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Savoie for Antonio.

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Thank you! :)

...oh god

True (+Paris, Loire and Bretagne people):

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Ready for what ?

EP maps for France ?

That would be great.

Six months in the making. It's quite the portrait of France's great crisis of electoral pluralism.

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This was a little birthday present for Hashemite - I think that the rest of you Francophiles might like it.

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Would you happen to have a map of the second round, or just a table of the results by commune? I can't seem to find any. Thanks in advance.

That Corrèze-Cantal-Lozère region really did love their Chirac. :P