French election maps

[Antonio the Sixth]

Two maps showing the PS Reims Congres results.

The first is a map of the motions vote ( yellow=A, red=C, green=D, blue=E ).
The second map shows the results of the 2nd turn of the first-secretary election ( green=Aubry, blue=Royal, dark colours=more than 75% )

Ops...

How could I increase image's size ?

[Antonio the Sixth]

Yes, that's certainly better than my map.

[Antonio the Sixth]

I didn't find it, but maybe I didn't search enough.

[Antonio the Sixth]

I'm somewhat ignorant about French politics, but I never would have guessed the Right would do so well in Paris. Actually, the absence of any consistent urban/rural split is quite striking, compared with American politics

The strength of the Parisian right is due to the fact that Chirac was Paris' mayor for 18 years.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Wow, that's really impressive ! Congratulations for your work.

Many interesting things. Looks like Provence, Savoie and outer IdF were all left-wing strongholds at the time : considering how they vote today... Conversely, the northwest from Normandie to Vendée was solidly right-wing, of course. And what's up with all those radicals in Champagne ? Also, look at how much constituencies Paris had at the time : it probably made up for a far higher share of the population at the time. Same could be said for the East and the North, for obvious reasons.

Random funny thing : an enclaved constituency in Loiret !

[Antonio the Sixth]

Very interesting.

Wow, this map looks a lot "cleaner" than expected.

[Antonio the Sixth]

As always, I'll start with Gandrange
2007: UMP 50.2, PS 49.8

ROFLMAO

Waiting to see the 2012 results, though.

[Antonio the Sixth]

As always, I'll start with Gandrange
2007: UMP 50.2, PS 49.8

ROFLMAO

Waiting to see the 2012 results, though.

2010 results, were, for reminder: PS 55.76, FN 23.83, UMP 20.41. In the first round, the UMP polled 12.81% and third place.

Gandrange is a perfect example of a declining, very white and conservative working-class area which had been rather solidly left-wing in the past, voted FN in 2002 and where Sarkozy had an "exceptional" appeal in 2007. I like to track it as an microcosm of the general declining white conservative working-class vote, though perhaps it isn't a perfect indicator it's a good one.

Indeed, that's a rather emblematic place to watch. Places like Gandrange are one of the main reasons why Sarkozy is in trouble today.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Beautiful maps ! Thank you Shilly !

[Antonio the Sixth]

These maps are f---ing brilliant.

^^^^

[Antonio the Sixth]

Alsace-Lorraine... And the Northwest belt surrounding Brittany...

Indeed, it's pretty nice and extremely contiguous. I didn't imagine FRance was so polarize back then.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Wow, the Paris Metro really liked Rocard.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Hash, your contributions to this thread are just unvaluable. Those maps are fascinating, especially the last one. I could stay hours watching it.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Awesome stuff ! The trends are quite striking, even though I find the map key in the second map to be a bit too "dark". Anyways, the "moderate west"/"popular east" is very striking.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Welcome to the forum, Colbert. And thank you for these interesting maps.

[Antonio the Sixth]

[Antonio the Sixth]

Saint-Josse won so many cantons ? ROFL.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Yeah, but it's pretty rare to do so well with only 4% of the vote. Talk about extreme concentration of the vote...

Anyways, this map is absolutely awesome.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Epic map indeed: you should print them on T-shirts, posters, napkins, etc...

With the results by arrondissements in Paris, it would be even greater: after all, it's the territory inside which municipal counsellors and, hence, general counsellors of Paris are elected.

But I'm a bit ashamed to dare to write this after so big a work and so wonderful a map you've done: it's almost Art ! No exaggeration in this !

I second Fab's post.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Yeah, I wanted to do by arrondissements, but my base map (ripped off from Geoclip and pasted together into a single huge base map) didn't include them.

I can do cantonal maps for any candidate in 2002 or 2007, any major party in the 2009 EU elections or major lists in the 2010 regions, any major party in the 2007 legislative elections. So if you have requests, it'll give me a pass time.

I don't know if it requires too much work for you, but I'd really apreciate if you could do the map I asked you some time ago. Basically, a map showing left (Jospin+Laguiller+Chevènement+Mamère+Besancenot+Hue+Taubira+Gluckstein), right (Chirac+Bayrou+Saint-Josse+Madelin+Lepage+Boutin) and far-right (Le Pen+Mégret) nationally tied with UNS. If it's too complicated to do, no problem. There are plenty of other interesting things to do.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Yeah, I wanted to do by arrondissements, but my base map (ripped off from Geoclip and pasted together into a single huge base map) didn't include them.

I can do cantonal maps for any candidate in 2002 or 2007, any major party in the 2009 EU elections or major lists in the 2010 regions, any major party in the 2007 legislative elections. So if you have requests, it'll give me a pass time.

I don't know if it requires too much work for you, but I'd really apreciate if you could do the map I asked you some time ago. Basically, a map showing left (Jospin+Laguiller+Chevènement+Mamère+Besancenot+Hue+Taubira+Gluckstein), right (Chirac+Bayrou+Saint-Josse+Madelin+Lepage+Boutin) and far-right (Le Pen+Mégret) nationally tied with UNS. If it's too complicated to do, no problem. There are plenty of other interesting things to do.

Doing it by canton would kill me, but by constituency is fairly simple:



Landes (rofl), Pyrenees-Atlantiques, Correze and the Somme estuary are f-ed up.

Thank you.

Indeed, it's a pretty strange map... How in the world does the right prevail over the left in so many southwest constituencies ?

[Antonio the Sixth]

Most certainly the fact of adding in Bayrou and Saint-Josse in the right's sum which wrecks matters. Both either had a favourite son appeal or performed abnormally strongly.

True, maybe the 3-way packing I proposed wasn't the right one... Still, can you tell me how many constituency each "side" won ? Since it's a 3-way tie, I wonder which of those has a geographic advantage.

[Antonio the Sixth]

I hope there are more of those maps to come.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Yeah, these generalisations don't tell much.

[Antonio the Sixth]

et voilà..., make pretty graphics, and collect only not very sympathetic comments

*sob*

We apreciate your efforts but, often, one summary graph doesn't tell enough. Congrats for your work, of course.