French election maps

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MoDem, runoff?

Would be totally useless and a waste of time.

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strongholds in Bretagne  (Louis Le Pensec...),

And Yves Le Foll o/c.

- Lecanuet 1965 is a very unsurprising one: centrist map + Rouen (Lecanuet's city).
Remember Lecanuet was the first main candidate to know how to use television. Some in France called him a French Kennedy. It was 43 years ago...

I'll take a look at constituency results in the 76 if I find them and they're accurate.

- In 1870 plebiscite map, you can already read the first socialist maps of the twentieth century (before the Tours Congress in 1920).

A few other things on that. Apart from urban republicans who hated him (the original opposition to him) plus some conservative (meaning royalist) Catholic areas (Breton west, Gironde, parts of the rural east), industrial areas out east and some leftie rurals.

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Boredom is an awful thing, and so is wireless intermittent Interwebs.

So, I did some uniform swing maps for 2007 showing a few scenarios:

67% Sarkozy



55% Sarkozy



50%-50% tie

b

53% Royal



55% Royal



Errors possible. Note that I didn't do the Overseas map on the 55-45 Royal map, so it's wrong.

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I'm a bit surprised by Hauts-de-Seine for Royal if she wins 53% nationally (but haven't checked anything...).

Narrowly wins with around 50.4%

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This map is fascinating in a number of ways, not just because CPNT is a cool party, but it's also a cool demographic guide.

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2007 runoff maps, again.

Marne



Ardennes



Charente-Maritime



Mayenne and Sarthe



Currently working on the Deux-Sevres.

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Important favourite daughter vote in there.



Epic fail. Sarkozy won Fos-sur-Mer (albeit narrowly, he still won Fos-sur-Mer)

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Still taking requests.

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Epic fail.

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You've posted Finistère, which is very interesting with the "pays léonard" and the "presqu'île de Crozon" heavily and homogeneously on the right, but many rural parts on the left, in addition to urban areas around Brest and Quimper.

The west of Léon is right-wing (and has been right-wing for a long time). Crozon is generally wealthy and has quite a high number of secondary residences.

You request requests, so.... what about Aveyron and Dordogne (Périgord): they may be interesting with 4 or 5 different local areas in each one ?

Both were already on my to-do list

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What are those uber-left places?

I checked some census states for Saorge (Alpes-Maritimes) and Trigance (Var), and there seems to be nothing that unusual compared to the surroundings. Small villages, relatively mountainous and isolated. Apparently, during the Second World War, the Germans moved a lot of Saorge's population to other cities, such as Turin or Cannes. There is, however, 60% of secondary residences in Saorge and nearly 50% in Trigance.

Saorge was the best commune for the anti-liberal left in 2007, with the various Commie and Trot candidates taking 24% all together. It doesn't seem to be an error in either case.

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Map update, including one epic map. All quite interesting, of course, but the patterns are the one to be expected.







Epic map:

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Epic map:

Talk about a "red belt"!

The old mining belt, of course.

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Seems like Saorge was quite an important city during the Second Empire, though.

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3 more maps now.

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Even more maps!

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Alpes-de-Haute-Provence

Hautes-Alpes

Correze

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Loire Atlantique is quite clear geographically: pays de Retz, Guérandais and rural north and east vs Nantes and greater Nantes.

Nantes, Greater Nantes, Saint-Nazaire, Redon suburbia for the left vs. the wealthy coastal areas, rural areas, Retz for the right.

Correze is shocking: so red for former Chirac's stronghold...

Returning to historical roots, I guess.

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Taking a break from the departmental maps for a bit.

Bove



Besancenot

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Local election maps (cantonal)



Val-de-Marne is so polarized. Even in 1993, the blue wave was limited.



Rural communism. Allier is a stronghold of rural communism.



The PCF is really now limited to its historical Marseille suburban industrial strongholds. I think they lost their last councillor in Marseille proper last year.



Don't know much about this one, but I'd love to know more. Cayenne is leftie, while the Amazonian parts are rightie.

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Rejoice. The communal maps have returned.









The Creuse and Puy-de-Dome should be up tonight.

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