France 2012: Official Results Thread

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Regions won by each candidate so far.

Hollande: Aquitaine, Limousin, Auvergne, Bretagne, Bourgogne, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Lorraine, Haute-Normandie, Picardie, Languedoc-Roussillon (10)

Sarkozy: Corse, Pays de la Loire, Centre, Franche-Comté, Basse-Normandie, Champagne-Ardennes (6)

Not finished: Île-de-France, Alsace, Poitou-Charentes, Rhône-Alpes, Midi-Pyrénées, Languedoc-Roussillon, Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur (6)

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Regions won by each candidate so far, update.

Hollande: Aquitaine, Limousin, Auvergne, Bretagne, Bourgogne, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Lorraine, Haute-Normandie, Picardie, Languedoc-Roussillon, Poitou-Charentes (11)

Sarkozy: Corse, Pays de la Loire, Centre, Franche-Comté, Basse-Normandie, Champagne-Ardennes (6)

Not finished: Île-de-France, Alsace, Rhône-Alpes, Midi-Pyrénées, Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur (5)

Hollande should win a majority of regions.

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I see than Morbihan decided to vote like the rest of the Bretagne.

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Benwah, Montpellier helps a lot for Hérault (Hollande 35%, Sarkozy 21,8%, Mélenchon 15,7%, Le Pen 13,7%, Bayrou 7,4%).

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Best Bayrou score for a dpt?

1. Pyrénées-Atlantiques: 15,7%
2. Mayenne: 13,4%
3. Maine-et-Loire: 12,8%

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Oh, Hollande won Loire. I'm surprised, the department being quite right-wing outside of Saint-Étienne.

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Hollande 27-25 in Loire, Sarko 37-24 over Panzergirl in Alpes-Maritime (his best result yet?). Provence is a really politically awful place, isn't it?

Well, Côte-d'Azur isn't very good either. Only good place in PACA is the Alps, apparently.

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It also is significantly less nice than, say, Languedoc-Rousillon on most other terrains.

Just saying in case you'd ever be planning a holiday.

Well, I suppose. Some French people in Montreal told me than Azur Coast became Concrete Coast.

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A good win in Haute-Garonne (Hollande 32,9%, Sarkozy 22,8, Le Pen 15,3, Mélenchon 13,4%, Bayrou 9,3).

Again, Toulouse helped lower Le Pen score and raise Mélenchon score.

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Surprised if Sarko won Rhône, but I don't know much about that area. Is Lyon a more rightist city than average?

The rural areas around Lyon are very right-wing, too.

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Surprised if Sarko won Rhône, but I don't know much about that area. Is Lyon a more rightist city than average?

Hmm, culturally yes, but who knows why the sane people of the city of Lyon choose the 'Socialist' Colomb for a while now...

He got elected in 2001 because the right was divided and he was easily reelected in 2008, because, according to polls, he had 85% approvals.

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Awful for the right, because FN could create many triangulars.

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Pretty awful for Sarko in Paris. He won only 1st, 6th, 7th, 8th, 15th, 16th and 17th arrondissements.

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It's very wealthy. Old money, similar to Westminster, I suppose.

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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.

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Funny than the highest margins for Hollande in Paris suburbs, Limousin and Bretagne.
The last one is quite surprising.
Yes, I know it's swing to the left, but to that point...

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How did Le Pen do in Israel?

Israel:
Sarkozy 82.7, Hollande 7.6, Le Pen 4, Bayrou 2.8, Mélenchon 0.97, Dupont-Aignan 0.84, Joly 0.56, Poutou 0.28, Cheminade 0.15, Arthaud 0.10

Jerusalem (which is separate of Israel and includes Ramallah):
Sarkozy 75.1, Hollande 9.5, Bayrou 6.2, Le Pen 3.6, Mélenchon 2.6, Dupont-Aignan 1.2, Joly 1.2, Poutou 0.19, Cheminade 0.19, Arthaud 0.19

[MaxQue]

Anyone has an idea of what's happening with Massif Central?
Is it going the Bretagne way, a couple of decades later?

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Why is the far right so strong on the Mediterranean coast of France? High immigration rates? Also why is it strong in those areas near Belgium?

Mediterranea: High rate of Arab population, I think.
Belgium: Dead industrial areas. Think of dead places of the Rust Belt, like Detroit.

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Hollande won Cantal (!?!) 52-48.
So, a step in the good direction, because the real problem of Europe is Germany and the unelected lobbyists in Brussels imposing neoliberalism on Europe.

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At risk of embarassing myself...

Any live results tracker (like google page?)

http://www.google.fr/elections/ed/fr/results?hl=en

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Correze is my favorite place on earth tonight.

Wow, yes, bigger than Creuse.

Bigger than Ariège, too.

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Why isn't Belfort in the Alsace région?

It was, but, because of their "heroic resistance" in 1870 war, Prussia led them to France, while taking the rest of Alsace, if I remember well.

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So are these numbers going to hold at Hollande doing significantly better than the exit polls predicted? Because it looks like the remaining areas aren't that pro-Sarkozy.

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Western IdF, Côte-d'Azur, Vendée, Alsace, Rhône aren't in yet.

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Lyon voted for Sarkozy in the first round and Hollande got awful results in the rural areas.