France 2012: Official Results Thread

[Gustaf]

Ok, I'm also intrigued now, since I, too, always assumed that women vote more left in all Western countries. Why is this not the case in the UK and France?

I have a vague feeling that working class women may be more socially conservative in some contexts but that seems like an unlikely explanation here.

[Californian Tony]

Ok, I'm also intrigued now, since I, too, always assumed that women vote more left in all Western countries. Why is this not the case in the UK and France?

I have a vague feeling that working class women may be more socially conservative in some contexts but that seems like an unlikely explanation here.

Is there a strong divide in Sweden as well ?

[Swedish Cheese]

Ok, I'm also intrigued now, since I, too, always assumed that women vote more left in all Western countries. Why is this not the case in the UK and France?

I have a vague feeling that working class women may be more socially conservative in some contexts but that seems like an unlikely explanation here.

Is there a strong divide in Sweden as well ?

It's not nearly as strong as the US one, though it's clearly there.

The 2010 the devide looked like this: (according to exit polls) 

Red-Greens: 44% (all) - 48% (women) - 41% (men)
Alliance: 49% (all) - 46% (women) - 52% (men)

[crypto-fascist superhero]

Women are more likely to want to stick with the status quo, men are more likely to want to change it.  In most Western countries the "anti-status quo" parties are the rightist ones, but in France and to a lesser extent the UK they're the leftist ones.

[DL]

Its hard to see how the Cameron government in the UK represents any sort of "status quo" with their draconian cuts to public services and tax cuts for the rich etc...When you look at who is most negatively impacted their policies - the Tories in the UK deserve to polling about 20 points lower among woman than among man!

[Sibboleth]

There's something really quite old school about the Midi focus of Mélenchon's support, isn't there? Even if not exactly in terms of details.

[RogueBeaver]

Sarko gets the VGE endorsement for what it's worth (I'm guessing not much?)

http://www.leparisien.fr/election-presidentielle-2012/valery-giscard-d-estaing-pourquoi-je-voterai-sarkozy-26-04-2012-1972652.php

[Californian Tony]

Sarko gets the VGE endorsement for what it's worth (I'm guessing not much?)

http://www.leparisien.fr/election-presidentielle-2012/valery-giscard-d-estaing-pourquoi-je-voterai-sarkozy-26-04-2012-1972652.php

I wonder how many French will think "wait, he's still alive ?" when hearing about this.

[Andrea]

Here's expats results by country,sub-area,bureau de vote

http://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/fr/IMG/pdf/Resultats_provisoires_des_votes_des_Francais_etablis_hors_de_France_au_1er_tour_de_l_election_presidentielle_cle83f26f.pdf

There are also totals by new parliamentary constituencies
http://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/fr/les-francais-a-l-etranger/elections-2012-votez-a-l-etranger/election-presidentielle/article/resultats-provisoires-des-votes

[Sibboleth]

I do so love the utterly predictable geographical patterns wrt French voters on the north bank of the Mor Breizh.

Also: does anyone have a link to constituency results for the mainland?

[Tender Branson]

Sarkozy is probably toast:

With 10 days to go, Hollande leads 55-45.

http://www.tns-sofres.com/_assets/files/2012.04.26-iv12.pdf

[ModerateCoward]

Canada Surprised how right-wing the rest of the voters are though.

[You kip if you want to...]

Le Front national est un parti autorisé à se présenter et qui conteste un certain nombre de valeurs de la République

Quote from Francois. Please tell me i'm understanding that wrong...

[You kip if you want to...]

Liverpool, UK 181-89 to Hollande.

[DL]

Interesting that Sarkozy got over 80% of the vote from French citizens living in Monaco!

[Insula Dei]

Le Front national est un parti autorisé à se présenter et qui conteste un certain nombre de valeurs de la République

Quote from Francois. Please tell me i'm understanding that wrong...

I would like to know how you understand it, because it doesn't seem all that controversial a quote to me.

[You kip if you want to...]

Le Front national est un parti autorisé à se présenter et qui conteste un certain nombre de valeurs de la République

Quote from Francois. Please tell me i'm understanding that wrong...

I would like to know how you understand it, because it doesn't seem all that controversial a quote to me.

The FN is a party which has the right to present itself and which contests some Republican values.

Sounds like praise to me... if i've understood.

[Insula Dei]

I'm feeling like putting my neck out in an area where there are numerous native speakers of French around: 'Contester' here means something like: 'to attack, to bring into question'.

[Senator MaxQue]

I don't see any problem.
The FN is a legal party. TRUE
The FN is not in agreement with some republican values. Debatable, but from the mainstream view, TRUE.

[Ghyl Tarvoke]

Canada Surprised how right-wing the rest of the voters are though.

The reason why Canada votes different become ridiculously obvious when you look at the breakdown...

P.S: Does anyone have a blank map of the world? I'd like to do a map of this.

Perhaps most curious spot: Panzergirl won the all-important country of South Sudan with a whopping 4 votes. I wonder what those voters are like...

[ModerateCoward]

Canada Surprised how right-wing the rest of the voters are though.

The reason why Canada votes different become ridiculously obvious when you look at the breakdown...

P.S: Does anyone have a blank map of the world? I'd like to do a map of this.

Perhaps most curious spot: Panzergirl won the all-important country of South Sudan with a whopping 4 votes. I wonder what those voters are like...

It's still nice to know that there is a significant left-leaning area in North America.

[Sibboleth]

What? These are French nationals voting.

[Ghyl Tarvoke]

Canada Surprised how right-wing the rest of the voters are though.

The reason why Canada votes different become ridiculously obvious when you look at the breakdown...

P.S: Does anyone have a blank map of the world? I'd like to do a map of this.

Perhaps most curious spot: Panzergirl won the all-important country of South Sudan with a whopping 4 votes. I wonder what those voters are like...

It's still nice to know that there is a significant left-leaning area in North America.

It nicely fits into the cliches I've heard about french voters in English speaking countries...

[ModerateCoward]

Hmm I only know two brothers who's parents are french. The younger brother hates Left-wingers, the older one voted Nader iirc.

[You kip if you want to...]

Just looking through posts from around this time last year. Some of our predictions about Candidate Hollande and the election in general are hilarious.