French election maps

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Epic fail.

[big bad fab]

You've posted Finistère, which is very interesting with the "pays léonard" and the "presqu'île de Crozon" heavily and homogeneously on the right, but many rural parts on the left, in addition to urban areas around Brest and Quimper.

You request requests, so.... what about Aveyron and Dordogne (Périgord): they may be interesting with 4 or 5 different local areas in each one ?

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You've posted Finistère, which is very interesting with the "pays léonard" and the "presqu'île de Crozon" heavily and homogeneously on the right, but many rural parts on the left, in addition to urban areas around Brest and Quimper.

The west of Léon is right-wing (and has been right-wing for a long time). Crozon is generally wealthy and has quite a high number of secondary residences.

You request requests, so.... what about Aveyron and Dordogne (Périgord): they may be interesting with 4 or 5 different local areas in each one ?

Both were already on my to-do list

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[big bad fab]

Dordogne is a very puzzling one for me: how the SW of this département can be more left-wing than the Périgord noir around Sarlat, which is richest and more conservative ?

A bit like in Gironde, it seems as if it was blue-collar and suburban Sarkozy against "bobo" Royal....

Aveyron is divided along its traditional lines: old mining region and cities for the left, rural north and center for the right.

[minionofmidas]

What are those uber-left places?

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What are those uber-left places?

I checked some census states for Saorge (Alpes-Maritimes) and Trigance (Var), and there seems to be nothing that unusual compared to the surroundings. Small villages, relatively mountainous and isolated. Apparently, during the Second World War, the Germans moved a lot of Saorge's population to other cities, such as Turin or Cannes. There is, however, 60% of secondary residences in Saorge and nearly 50% in Trigance.

Saorge was the best commune for the anti-liberal left in 2007, with the various Commie and Trot candidates taking 24% all together. It doesn't seem to be an error in either case.

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Map update, including one epic map. All quite interesting, of course, but the patterns are the one to be expected.







Epic map:

[minionofmidas]

Epic map:

Talk about a "red belt"!

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Epic map:

Talk about a "red belt"!

The old mining belt, of course.

[minionofmidas]

I checked some census states for Saorge (Alpes-Maritimes) and Trigance (Var), and there seems to be nothing that unusual compared to the surroundings. Small villages, relatively mountainous and isolated.

Saorge seems to be quite the looker...





No car access to the built-up area, btw. There's a parking lot underneath the town.

Also, while rural France did of course bleed population back then, this figure needs an explanation really:

1968    1975
508    330

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Seems like Saorge was quite an important city during the Second Empire, though.

[minionofmidas]

It's on an ancient road across the Alps that was superceded when they built a new, better one further south.
Oh, and Fontan was created from part of Saorge in 1872, explaining the steep drop.

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3 more maps now.

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Even more maps!

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Alpes-de-Haute-Provence

Hautes-Alpes

Correze

[big bad fab]

Loire Atlantique is quite clear geographically: pays de Retz, Guérandais and rural north and east vs Nantes and greater Nantes.

Calvados is really changing: Caen suburbs are now deep in the south...

Correze is shocking: so red for former Chirac's stronghold...

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Loire Atlantique is quite clear geographically: pays de Retz, Guérandais and rural north and east vs Nantes and greater Nantes.

Nantes, Greater Nantes, Saint-Nazaire, Redon suburbia for the left vs. the wealthy coastal areas, rural areas, Retz for the right.

Correze is shocking: so red for former Chirac's stronghold...

Returning to historical roots, I guess.

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Taking a break from the departmental maps for a bit.

Bove



Besancenot

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Local election maps (cantonal)



Val-de-Marne is so polarized. Even in 1993, the blue wave was limited.



Rural communism. Allier is a stronghold of rural communism.



The PCF is really now limited to its historical Marseille suburban industrial strongholds. I think they lost their last councillor in Marseille proper last year.



Don't know much about this one, but I'd love to know more. Cayenne is leftie, while the Amazonian parts are rightie.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Interesting to see that the PCF still have some strength in the suburbs of Marseille. I suppose a lot of their old vote in the city lives out there now.

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Rejoice. The communal maps have returned.









The Creuse and Puy-de-Dome should be up tonight.

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