French election maps

[Zanas]

A few things.

Those Marchais strongholds in Somme, northern Brittany and all over the Golfe du Lion coast make me quite sad today, considering...

Émile Muller one is breathtaking ! This St-Malo-Nice divide is near perfect ! Not really sure it means anything though, considering the very small shares. I get Alsace, of course, but what was going on in Somme ?

I went to see who he was, and I saw that every socialist mayor of Mulhouse was bound to betray and end up allying or just plain enlisting with the right-wing. Happened with Wagner, Muller, Klifa and Bockel. To be fair, Wagner hadn't a majority on his own.

[Zanas]

That was my first question as well Really amazed to see the PS winning so few precincts in the européennes of 2009. I knew EELV made a strong showing, but I would have expected PS to win more in popular areas like 13, 18, 19 and 20.

[Zanas]

A few things :
- What's with this Charentais tropism of bonapartist vote ? I wouldn't have expected it but it's huge !
- Happy to see, even if I knew I'd see it, such a republican Limousin. Just a tad bit disappointed to see a bonapartist candidate in first in the Millevaches Plateau of all places ! Explanation ? Well, I'll try to seek one myself.
- Ariège is also a solid and continuing stronghold of our side.
- Very, very interesting to see to observe Paris' East-West divide in the legislative election, pretty much exactly the same as today !

[Zanas]

And thus we see why the 5th is winnable by the left, whereas the 6th isn't.

[Zanas]

Yeah, Western Hautes-Alpes, Northwestern Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Drôme, Ardèche and Southwestern Isère are really good matches for semi-alternative green-ish or neo-left-ish candidates or alliances. Lots of neo-rurals growing organic crops, vines, or livestock there.