French election maps

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[minionofmidas]

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%.

Ah, those pre-sunbelt days... what a beautiful sea of red Provence is... sigh.

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our solid south !

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While I'm here, are there any requests?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

While I'm here, are there any requests?

First round results (by candidate) of the second Presidential election of the 5th Republic would be interesting.

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While I'm here, are there any requests?

First round results (by candidate) of the second Presidential election of the 5th Republic would be interesting.

1965? I have resources for that one.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

While I'm here, are there any requests?

First round results (by candidate) of the second Presidential election of the 5th Republic would be interesting.

1965? I have resources for that one.

Dammit; should have said direct elections (so '69). But '65 would be interesting as well.

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Dammit; should have said direct elections (so '69). But '65 would be interesting as well.

1965 was the first direct election; 1958 was the first election of the Fifth Republic, held by electoral college.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Dammit; should have said direct elections (so '69). But '65 would be interesting as well.

1965 was the first direct election; 1958 was the first election of the Fifth Republic, held by electoral college.

Ah, slight confusion here. By '69 I meant the second direct election.

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Departmental strength of major candidates in the first round of the 1969 Presidential elections



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% vote Regionalists in the first round, 2007 legislative election

% vote, all regionalist candidates



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Socialist Presidential primary, November 2006

Overall results



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Best score was 99% in Reunion IIRC. Seine Maritime is the department of Laurent Fabius which he won with over 60% (favorite son factor), he seemed to also affect results in Eure (only >40% victory for Royal), and the Oise at a lesser level. Val d'Oise is DSK's home department, which he was 2% from winning (45% for Royal, and his support was also big in the Petite and Grande couronne departments.

[minionofmidas]

So what's up with Puy-de-Dome?

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Fabius was strong in the Puy-de-Dome, Creuse, Indre, and Cher.

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Very interesting. I would have expected Royal to do better in Ille-et-Villaine and Aquitaine. What's with Haute-Corse?

Would you happen to have candidate maps for Fabius and DSK?

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Sure, I can do DSK and Fabius as soon as I get back to Ottawa (the 4th IIRC)

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Socialist Presidential primary, November 2006

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% DSK



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Much appreciated.

Is there any particular reason for Fabius's strong showing in Aquitaine (Gironde, Landes, Pyrénées-Atlantiques) and Haute-Corse? It also seems that he did well in the Diagonale du vide.

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Personally I couldn't say, I don't know too much about intra-party voting trends.

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Overseas French vote, 2007 presidential election

First Round



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Best result was 80 some percent in Israel for Sarkozy.

Second Round



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As said in the Gallery comments, I shaded France in with the nationwide results. No Overseas French there

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Incumbent Mayors as of 2008, 2001 municipal elections

First Round



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Also includes all mayors of the 4 Petite Couronne departments as of today. CAP stands for "Coalition pour une alternative progressiste"; a small anti-liberal commie party close to the PCF. SE means "Sans etiquette", or Indies; CNIP should be known but stands for "Centre national des independents et paysans", a tiny party nowadays (quite big in the 50s though) that's the conservative-right faction of the UMP (they ran common lists with the FN in 1986 and supported the LDI in 1997, now UMP 'associate'). GM, of course, stands for Gauche Moderne, Bockel's party.

Edit Feb 1 2008: Jean-Pierre Brard (Montreuil) is CAP, not PCF; and Bruno Joncour (Saint Brieuc) is MoDem, not NC/UDF

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% vote for the French Communist Party in the first round, 2007 legislative election

% vote, PCF candidates



% vote for The Greens in the first round, 2007 legislative election

% vote, Green candidates




UMP and PS maps coming up next, after that maybe MPF if I'm brave enough.

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Regional elections now.

2004 regional elections

Second Round



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By region now. I guess most of us have seen this awful map a million times.



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Runoffs in regional elections have a 10% and therefore in 2004, a vast majority of them were PS-UMP-FN runoffs. There is a 5% threshold in Corsica for the runoff, so that explains that. Interesting to note that the "left" actually won Corsica if you put PRG, CSD, PCF votes together. Oftentimes the media doesn't pay attention to locals in Corsica because they use a stupid system.

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Listening to the France2 post-first round broadcast was interesting because it confirmed that the left's tsunami was not expected to be as huge as that.

There should be a FN logo in Nord-Pas de Calais. Will probably fix that soon enough.

1998 regional elections

Overall by party



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The FN won in Haut-Rhin because of the division of the left and right IIRC.

Overall by Ideology



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Corsica held the 1998 elections in 1999 apparently. Once again, they have a weird system.

Leading Party by department



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Prior to 2004, regional elections used a one round-only system with 5% proportional representation by department. Note that where the Greenies, PCF, Radicals, MDC came out on top was because they were the left-wing party (no PS list). Reunion is not PCF but PCR, but I was too lazy to change that.

Overall regional presidencies



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A few of the right-wing majorities were obtained due to FN support.

CPNT seats



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Means in which regions they broke 5% in atleast one department.

LO-LCR-CAP seats



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Means in which regions they broke 5% in atleast one department.

1992 regional elections

Overall regional presidencies



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T'was a year before the 1993 RPR-UDF tsunami.

1986 regional elections

Overall regional presidencies



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Held on the same day as the 1986 legislative elections. Marked by the decline of the PCF and rise of the FN.

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*blows dust off thread*

Updated 1997 with a breakdown of the left category:



Fixed some other errors, mostly in the deep and confusing world of DVD/DVG labels. Nothing major to add.

Fixed 1993, a few errors. DVG in this case means (generally) the MDR, a centre-right party that participated in the Rocard etc. governments and ran as "Presidential majority".



Also a Greenie map for 1993, where they did quite well (but underperformed from polls, one of which had them on 16%!). The total Greenies, split in 4/5 parties/groupings won around 10% but no seats (they weren't allied with the Socialists yet). Usual Greenie voting patterns that are hard to observe in post-1993 Greenie voting map because of strong votes where they were the candidate of the left and so forth. Strong in Alsace (Waechter or whatever his name is was still in the Green Party and a major leader), Rhone-Alpes, parts of Bretagne and Pays-de-la-Loire, and Paris/IdF.

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2002 first round results by constituency



Saint-Josse won two constituencies in the Somme and Bayrou won his constituency. The Chirac favourite son factor in Correze and Cantal obviously. Quite hilarious that Le Pen didn't win the Dreux seat, but won the Nogent seat.

"Low" results for Chirac in the Neuilly, 16eme, Issy area; but mostly due to Le Pen doing quite well and the Madelin, Bayrou, Boutin etc. candidacies.

Might do 1995 and 1988 if there is any interest.


Some very, very old maps that are on my website but not posted here.



The Parti de l'Ordre was a bourgeois, right-wing conservative, monarchist party that originally supported Louis-Napoleon but fell out with him when he started acting authoritarian and wanting a second term (constitutionally impossible IIRC).



'Conservatives' are monarchists, most of the time.