French election maps

[homelycooking]

I'm making a few first-round maps by commune for the 2007 election, and I'd be willing to make some on request. Keep in mind that they take forever and I am unlikely to do Pas de Calais/Nord.

I also can do strength maps for any candidate in departements beginning with A, Bouches-du-Rhone, most of Ile-de-France and Pyrenees-Atlantiques.

Here are two to begin:

Eure



Lozere (The one orange commune, Saint-Maurice-de-Ventalon, was won by Bove)



Should I continue?

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Any requests?

(And yes, I am using Geoclip, thank you. I don't know what I would do without it.)

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You will have Pyrenees-Atlantiques (big swathes of yellow await!) tomorrow.

I will do Bretagne afterwards.

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Here is Pyrenees-Atlantiques. Enjoy.

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...and Finistere:

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I will do those soon.

For now, here's a hideous map of Lozere: First round, 2002

Blue: Chirac (all >10% communes are colored as if they were >20% communes, because the >10% colors for blue and green are nearly identical)
Purple: Le Pen
Red: Jospin
Green: Saint-Josse (!)
Orange: Various communists (Besancenot, Hue and Laguiller all won at least one commune)




Hashemite, where are you getting those commune maps that you've used for your 2007 second round results?

[homelycooking]

I'd be happy to. Here's my request queue so far:

1. Yvelines '07: tonite
2. Somme '02: tomorrow, since it's huge
3. Dordogne '07: weekend
4. Ile-et-Vilaine '07: weekend
5. Gironde '07: weekend

Here's a few maps from BdR in the meantime:

'02 first round (yellow is Bruno Megret, orange is Hue)



'02 second round (what a snore...)



'07 first round

[homelycooking]

Here is Yvelines '07, per request of big bad fab.



Next: Somme '02.

[homelycooking]

Hashemite, you may need to wait another day for Somme '02. I'm pouring all my available time into it as it is. (but it looks amazing!) EDIT: done.

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Here is Somme '02, per request of Hashemite.

Blue: Chirac
Red: Jospin
Green: Saint-Josse
Purple: Le Pen
Orange: Hue (two communes in the far west of Somme) or Laguiller (the rest)
Yellow: Lepage (tied in two communes) or Bayrou (won one commune, tied in three others) or Madelin (won one commune, tied in one other)

Next: Dordogne '07, after I give my hand a rest

[homelycooking]

Great maps homelycooking! If you get the chance please could you do Dordogne 2007 by departement? I ask as this is a part of France I'm very familiar with.

Here it is.

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Here's one to hold you over while I do Pas de Calais/Nord '02.

Haute-Vienne '02 (Yellow: Bayrou)

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These maps are f---ing brilliant.

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Will you be able to put all these together when you're done into a commune map for the whole of France?

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Beautiful. Excellent color choice for Le Pen.

Two suggestions, though:

1. We need an all-communes map of the results!
2. 5% scale it!

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It's like looking into the face of God and seeing him smile back at you.

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Good idea. Does this correlate at all with the decline in the vote for Laguiller and the PCF?

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Great work, Shilly. Soon we'll have full commune maps of both the 2002 and 2007 first rounds.

Also, how are you indicating ties on your map?

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Thanks for that. But I still don't see any striped communes.

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My greatest triumph as a political cartographer: the first complete map of France's communes in Atlas color scale (5%). Color-striping for tied communes.

Right-click and zoom in for enormous version.

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So from making that humungo-map, here's a little report on who won what in terms of communes:

Sarkozy: about 26,000 communes.
Royal: about 8,000 communes.
Bayrou: about 1,000 communes.
Le Pen: about 500 communes.
Besancenot: 0 communes. Tied for lead in two very small communes.
de Villiers: 4 communes. One in Vendee, one in Indre, two in Ardeche. Tied in three or four more.
Buffet: 13 communes. One each in Drome, Gard, Haute-Garonne, Pyrenees-Orientales, Ariege and Nord. Three in Correze and four in Corsica. Ties in two or three more, including one in Allier.
Voynet: 1 commune: Joucou in Aude (it's tiny). No ties.
Laguiller: 0 communes - the only candidate not to win or tie in any.
Bove: 4 communes. One each in Lozere, Drome, Hautes-Alpes and Ariege. Tied in one or two more.
Nihous: 2 communes. One in Manche, one in Herault of all places. I think he also managed a four way tie somewhere in Hautes-Pyrenees by winning two votes. LOL, rural France.
Schivardi: 1 commune: Mailhac in Aude, of course, where he's the mayor. No ties.

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And to go along with my analysis, a funny little map:

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What sort of French expatriate lives or votes in Indonesia or Central Asia?

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Great! Why the poor Poujadist performance in Eure? Or is that drop-off relative to surrounding areas merely exaggerated by the color scale?

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I guess that whole "Cult of Reason" phenomenon wasn't be a big hit among the vendéens du bocage, eh?

NB: There is still a Catholic vs Protestant difference in those regions with Protestant minorities, but the Calvinists don't vote like Lutherans at all.

Do you have any data or maps on the geographic/socioeconomic divide amongst Protestant groups? I'd be interested to know what's going on there.