France 2012: Official Results Thread

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Only Bouches-du-Rhone, Haute-Garrone, Essonne, Seine-Saint-Denis and, naturally, Paris, left to report.

With 97.3% reporting:

Hollande: 51.3% (15,696,539)
Sarkozy: 48.7% (14,916,956)

Come on, pull at least 52%!


Edit: Forgot about French abroad

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Some random stuff:

Sarkozy is the second President of the Fifth Republic to be denied a second term (along with VGE) and the first whose single term was limited to five years

Hollande will be the first President of the Fifth Republic without previous cabinet experience (Pompidou never was a minister as well, but served as Prime Minister)

Hollande will be the second President of the Fifth Republic (after Poison Dwarf) who did not participate in politics under de Gaulle (duh)

Hollande will be the first President living in a domestic partnership

Finally, Hollande will be the first Socialist President during a lifetime of, probably, a half of Atlas posters

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Hollande wins Seine-Saint-Denis 65.3% to 34.7%

Correze lost it's first place, lol.

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Only Bouches-du-Rhone, Paris and French abroad not reported yet.


Haute-Garrone:

Hollande: 58.8%
Sarkozy: 41.2%

Essonne:

Hollande: 53.4%
Sarkozy: 46.6%

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Edit: Forgot about French abroad

Yes, it's like a big city, about 1,5/2 millions people, don't remember the exact number who have subscribed to electoral lists this year.

It's all Hashemite's fault: they are still wondering how to count his vote!

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Bouches-du-Rhone:

Sarkozy: 52.8%
Hollande: 47.2%

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Almost identically. Mitterrand 1981: 51.76%. Hollande in 2012 (with 99.9% reporting): 51.7%

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Comparison of the 2nd round victories of French Presidents:

1965: De Gaulle - 55.2%
1969: Pompidou - 57.5%
1974: Giscard - 50.81%
1981: Mitterrand - 51.76%
1988: Mitterrand - 54.02%
1995: Chirac - 52.64%
2002: Chirac - 82.21%
2007: Sarkozy - 53.06%
2012: Hollande - 51.63%

Best result: Chirac 2002
Best result under "normal" circumstances: Pompidou 1969
Worst result: Giscard 1974

And 1st round results:

1965: De Gaulle - 44.64%
1969: Pompidou - 43.9%
1974: Giscard - 32.60% (came in second)
1981: Mitterrand - 25.86% (came in second)
1988: Mitterrand - 34.11%
1995: Chirac - 20.84% (came in second)
2002: Chirac - 19.88%
2007: Sarkozy - 31.18%
2012: Hollande - 28.63%

Best 1st round result: De Gaulle 1965
Worst 1st round result: Chirac 2002

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Comparison of the 2nd round victories of French Presidents:

1965: De Gaulle - 55.2%
1969: Pompidou - 57.5%
1974: Giscard - 50.81%
1981: Mitterrand - 51.76%
1988: Mitterrand - 54.02%
1995: Chirac - 52.64%
2002: Chirac - 82.21%
2007: Sarkozy - 53.06%
2012: Hollande - 51.63%

Best result: Chirac 2002
Best result under "normal" circumstances: Pompidou 1969
Worst result: Giscard 1974

1969 arguably wasn't "normal". Turnout was dreadful and the runoff opposed two right wingers (the latter explains the former, of course).

Yes, but Poher was a mainstream anti-gaullist right candidate. Le Pen was not "mainstream" by any standards.

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I'm all in favor of temporary banning Antonio until after legislative election. Otherwise, he'd kill us with his pessimism.