France 2012: Official Results Thread

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What's the general mood on the street? What are people talking about? Are there any rumors circulating? In what direction does the momentum feel to be going? Are the candidates' partisans optimistic?

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NDA victorious in his hometown by a whisker! Unfortunately for him, no luck in any of the other 37,000 communes.

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If anybody is interested, given that I have five days off, I can throw some constituency maps for each candidate together.

You thought we'd say, "No, Hash, don't bother"?

I look forward to it (and I'll have a nice map of my own to post soon...)

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Somewhere early in this thread someone mentioned that Joly won a tiny village (Trémargat) in inland Cote d'Armor - she did so with 29%, with Mélenchon second on 27%. And the next village to the north (Peumerit-Quintin), she tied Hollande and Le Pen with 20 votes each out of 102, with Mélenchon on 19. What the hell is that?

Hippies.

There's also the commune of Éourres in Hautes-Alpes that seems to be the French equivalent of Woodstock, NY: it voted 42% for Joly and 50% for Bové in '07. It was a Mamère-Besancenot tie in '02. The UMP vote declined from 8% to 5% over '07-'12 - but Chirac got zero votes in '02.

It looks like it's the site of some sort of artist colony or commune (in the American sense)

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A rough map of expat results:



Hollande's top five:

Algeria 65.96%
Comoros 64.12%
Benin 60.34%
Mali 58.00%
Togo 55.67%

Sarkozy's top five:

Israel 82.74%
Libya 68.97%
Armenia 64.09%
Cote d'Ivoire 60.29%
Vanuatu 59.74%

Le Pen's top five:

South Sudan 28.57%
Latvia 25.33%
Paraguay 21.82%
Djibouti 21.47%
Monaco 18.30%

Bayrou's top five:

Mongolia 19.05%
Yemen 18.00%
Kazakhstan 17.69%
Slovakia 17.65%
Taiwan 17.57%

Melenchon's top five:

Nicaragua 26.25%
Cuba 23.87%
South Sudan 21.43%
Guatemala 20.50%
Belarus 20.00%

Joly's top five:

Iceland 22.79%
Tajikstan 20.00%
Mongolia 19.05%
Nepal 17.28%
Norway 15.03%