French election maps

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You didn't understand what I said, I asked for one color scheme per party instead of the same everywhere.

How can Besancenot not be considered a trotskyist and instead a Libertarian? How is Royal a social liberal and not a social democrat? How is Buffet, Bove, Voynet all libertarians? Libertarianism in France is quite irrelevant, the closest you come to find one is AL (and that's more of classical liberalism than US-style libertarianism).

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Regional Results of the French presidential election, 2007

First Round



Regional Results of the French presidential election, 2002

First Round



Funny how the Limousin was Chirac's best region in 2002 and one of Royal's best regions in 2007

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Seat results of the UDR in the French legislative election, 1968

Overall Results



Some regions really never change, don't they? (Nievre, Cotes d'Armor, 9-3)

Taken from a map from my 1968 edition of the Atlas Historique Stock

I'll take a few other interesting old maps from there of French elections (they have the Parti de l'Ordre in 1848, 2 maps for the Front Populaire, and other interesting maps)

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more definited, map by departement. Same way : to dark blue to brown, from up to down (12 departements by color)

in opposition with the words of bayrou, this map shows clearly that is vote come from the most basically moderate-right-wing lands of the country, it is exactly the same map** of catholicism'"influence" ( sorry, I don't konw the english word for that)


**at the exception of the "locally factor" of the gascogne lands

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the eternal map of the communist party...From 28% to 2%, the communists's strong places are always the same : north, centre and mediterranean lands

in a way, it is exactly the opposite map of bayrou's vote

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in a way, it is exactly the opposite map of bayrou's vote

Not surprising really.

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Candidates with 50%+ of the vote by the first round of the French legislative election, 2007

Elected, First Round



Candidates in second place in the first round of the French legislative election, 2007



For those who might be surprised to see the FN second in Haute Marne, it was only 8.7% or around that, nothing huge (so are a few other in the UMP-solid circonscriptions)

Edit Dec 15 2007: Error in second position map in Lyon, wrong constituency for the PRG

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Departmental strength of each candidate in the second round of the 2007 Presidential election



Quite similar to the first round, but Royal was the one gaining the most votes (as seen by her taking a few departements that voted Sarkozy on the first round.

Winner of each departement, second round, 2007 Presidential election



Winner of each departement, first round, 2007 Presidential election



Key should be pretty easy to guess in this last one

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1. Frankly, I don't know. From what I see, some seats were contested by candidates under a UDF or RPR banner, for example Chirac is classified as an UPF candidate. The UPF was mainly a front like the Presidential Majority is today really. I wouild say the UPF were common candidates in areas they wanted to win from the left or where there was a strong RPR or UDF incumbent to defend.

2. The UDF was founded in 1978 as a party comprising of the PR, CDS, PSD, PR etc. The PSD and CDS became the Force Democrate in 1995 under Bayrou's pressure and was thus the largest group within the UDF. In 1998 after the stories of the UDF supporting the FN in various regions to get a rightist majority, the liberals issued from the PR left to form the Democratie liberale group which formed a common slate with the RPR in 1999 European elections while Bayrou led a dissident Nouvelle UDF list (the nouvelle UDF reunited the FD and a few other fringe groups. And we all know the rest.

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Thank for your comments.

The problem of French politics is that the political identity of particular politician is often very obscurely uttered. After elections 1997 the Le Monde (in paper version) told the political party of the elected candidates, but normally the French are not very able to tell the affiliations. We know that the PR was always largest component of the coalition and CDS was second, the others being   smaller. However, the official lists of National Assembly seldom tell such things.

Couldn't agree more. That's because of the god-awful DVD-DVG-DIV classifications which are useless to me and you Some people are able to classify further than that and break that up, but its very rare. Same goes for results which are grouped into 'far-left', 'far-right', 'regionalists' without giving us results in % and # for say the MNR or UDB candidates (sucks). In 2007 its awful to still operate like this.

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% vote FN in the first round, 1993 legislative election

% vote, FN candidates

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% vote CPNT in the first round, 2007 legislative election

% vote, CPNT candidates



Once again, those hunters in the Somme with their 6 and 8%, but it's a huge drop considering the CPNT's results here in the 1999 European election and in 2002 Presidential, where in some towns St. Josse took over 50%!


Might as well announce my current projects:
MPF, FN, and Regionalists in 2007, and some Presidential and other electoral maps (I still take requests of course)

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% vote for Les Verts in the first round, 1997 legislative election

% vote, Green candidates



Voynet won the seat of Dole in Jura with 31.11% in the first round and 55.95% in the second round (she was defeated in that same seat in 2002; noteworthy that she reached the second round as a Green-GE candidate in 1993 but lost in the second round against a UDF candidate. There was also another runoff in 1993 with a Green-GE candidate in Alsace). In 1997, Mamere got the best Green score with 34.01% in R1 and around 60% in the second round. I find it a quite interesting map. The PCF map (in 1997 again) next.

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% vote for the French Communist Party in the first round, 1997 legislative election

% vote, PCF candidates



The Commie belt at it again in Brittany (nearly 30% in Guingamp). Best score 41.1% in the Nord (Valenciennes Nord). 4 seats they took 100% in the second round BTW.

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% vote CPNT in the first round, 2007 legislative election

% vote, CPNT candidates



Once again, those hunters in the Somme with their 6 and 8%, but it's a huge drop considering the CPNT's results here in the 1999 European election and in 2002 Presidential, where in some towns St. Josse took over 50%!


Might as well announce my current projects:
MPF, FN, and Regionalists in 2007, and some Presidential and other electoral maps (I still take requests of course)

Very entertaining pattern of support here - especially when you just look at which seats they contested.

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% vote for Frederic Nihous in the first round, 2007 presidential election

% vote, F. Nihous (CPNT)



Posted for Lewis to compare with the CPNT map in the legislative election. CPNT vote in legislative elections is always lower than in the presidential election (Around 4% in the 2002 presidential, but around 1% in the 2002 legislative)

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% vote for the Popular Front, 1936 legislative election

% vote for the Popular Front



A very interesting map we've got here. Funny how some regions in France never can change (Cotes d'Armor, Manche, Alsace, Haute Garonne and Ariege etc.) while some can change a bit (Rhone for example is more right-wing nowadays)

Enjoy

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Any chance of some maps of the election just after the Second World War?

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The closest I can get is 1951, I haven't found any department-by-department maps for 1945.

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1951 legislative election



National results were PCF 26.93%, RPF 21.62%, SFIO 14.62%, Moderates (right) 14.15%, MRP 12.62%, RGR 10.05%.

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1969 Presidential Election

First Round



Damn that 9-3. They prevented a full sweep for Pompidou

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2007 Legislative Election: By Departement

Winning Party, 2nd Round



This map is more or less worthless because it only takes into account party labels, and not ideological labels, though that for example MPF and UMP are seperate, that explains the uhm weird results, like the PS winning in Vendee, or the UMP in Haute-Pyrenees or the 9-3. The next map is worth more than this one.

Winning 'Ideology', 2nd Round



That's more like it!

Winning Party, 2nd Round



See my analysis for the very first map on this page, although this one is a bit less worthless

Winning 'Ideology', 1st Round



Party in second position, 1st Round

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% vote MoDem in the first round, 2007 legislative election

% vote, UDF-MoDem candidates

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% vote PRG in the first round, 2007 legislative election

% vote, Left Radical candidates



It seems like they lacked the courage to put up lots of candidates where PS candidates were running , a pity since they're saner than the PS and have good policies.

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Results of the French legislative election, 2002

Second Round



First Round



What this page was missing was 2002.