French Legislative Election 2017

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Nord circonscription 16, which borders 20, is also Front national vs. Parti communiste.

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Not voting is obviously profoundly dumb (and I would say that casting a blank vote instead of voting for whoever the marginally lesser evil does not strike me as a very useful way to make your voice heard, but I guess I can respect this), but the entire point of Ned Stark's character is to demonstrate that you can't really have the attitude he does and expect to accomplish a whole lot.

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How many of the various LR/PS/autres candidates elected are "presidential majority" types? Paris-18, for example, was a race between an LR macronista and a PS macronista. I would ask about Manuel Valls, but on these numbers he's almost certainly lost his seat anyway, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Valls reelected

Haha, literally seconds after I thought he was sure to go

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Le Pen called for proportional voting system. Just curious, what is REM's position on that? I'm guessing that just like the others they don't want to give FN a better advantage.

Macron called for a mixed-member proportional system in his campaign, with a minority of seats in the AssNat elected off party lists, but it's uncertain that he'll go through with this considering how much the present system has helped him and that the FN are his polar opposites...

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On the Marianne map, there are currently 4 Communists and 3 Melenchonistas, with PS running way ahead of both groups -- even if some PS are presidential majority types, it seems like they'll still be the largest left-wing group in the next Parliament?

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France 24 says that LREM headquarters is very quite and somber.  They know they totally under-performed.

Beautiful! Hopefully this is a harbinger of things to come.

More majorities for macronismo! I agree.

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How much support is there within LR for Macronismo? Are successful candidates who Macron stood aside for (like Pierre-Yves Bournazel or Franck Riester, to give two examples from the Paris area) likely to stay put in the LR parliamentary group, form their own party, or cross the floor?

And what about PS? I noticed the one PS winner from the city of Paris, George Pau-Langevin, was a close Macron ally from before he was a very prominent national figure, and is also someone Macron stood aside for.

More broadly -- what happens to elements outside of LREM/MoDem that were elected with LREM/MoDem support?