French Municipal Elections 2014: Hashemite's Guide and Official Thread

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Regarding the number of communes, a useful point of comparison for British posters: there are around 10,000 civil parishes in England.

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I always love how hilariously blatant Defferre was.

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When's that?

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Things are not going well.

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Scanning through the results is a pretty depressing experience.

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Thought it might be an idea to compare results in towns where the FN 'won' with how they polled in the last legislatives. List of towns taken from Le Monde. First figure is yesterday, second is the legislatives.

Hénin-Beaumont - 50.2%, 48.2%
Béziers - 44.9%, 21.2%
Saint-Gilles - 42.6%, 48.4%
Fréjus - 40.3%, 28.0%
Tarascon - 39.2%, 39.8%
Forbach - 35.7%, 25.3%
Perpignan - 34.2%, 24.4%
Beaucaire - 32.8%, 33.0%
Avignon - 29.6%, 22.1%
Digne-les-Bains - 27.7%, 13.4%

And another branch of the same ghastly tree:

Orange - 59.8%, 44.0%
Bollène - 49.3%, 23.8%

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More towns in the wrong column, so to speak. Smaller ones, I note. Same thing done as before:

Cogolin - 39.0%, 27.2%
Brignoles - 37.1%, 27.0%
Villers-Cotterêts - 32.0%, 31.4%
Cluses - 31.4%, 23.3%
Hayange - 30.4%, 23.4%
Montigney-en-Gohelle - 28.9%, 43.1%

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Vote for the party that you support, which also happens to have a candidate that you sort-of know. The outcome of the real contest won't be decided by voters like you anyway.

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I.e. if you're concerned about the challenger, let people who you know to be conservatives know that, in your actually comparatively neutral (given the situation) opinion, he is an obvious scumbag.

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Is the chat thing being done again?

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With thanks to Hash for helping with party labeling. Any mistakes are mine.

PCF also includes FG members who are not (these days) in the PCF.

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Smaller municipalities at that end of the 93, on the whole. Though, yeah...