French election maps

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Nobody seems to care, but I've done 3 interesting departments (and I hope to have two biggies up by tomorrow)...

I read the article on the crazy UMP deputy from Moselle who killed his mistress last year, so I was inspired to do this map.



The Rhone



The Loire

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Some biggies now.

Meurthe-et-Moselle



Haute-Garonne



Drome



Ardeche

[Filuwaúrdjan]

I read the article on the crazy UMP deputy from Moselle who killed his mistress last year, so I was inspired to do this map.

Details!

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I read the article on the crazy UMP deputy from Moselle who killed his mistress last year, so I was inspired to do this map.

Details!

Jean-Marie Demange was deputy for Thionville and mayor of Thionville from 1995 to 2008. He got depressed after losing to the PS in 2008, he got into violent arguments with his mistress (who left him after a while). In November last year, he went to her apartment, dragged her out on the balcony (in broad daylight) and killed her before committing suicide. A lot of people saw both incidents.

Imagine seeing your MP murdering someone in public.

[minionofmidas]

I read the article on the crazy UMP deputy from Moselle who killed his mistress last year, so I was inspired to do this map.

Details!

Jean-Marie Demange was deputy for Thionville and mayor of Thionville from 1995 to 2008. He got depressed after losing to the PS in 2008, he got into violent arguments with his mistress (who left him after a while). In November last year, he went to her apartment, dragged her out on the balcony (in broad daylight) and killed her before committing suicide. A lot of people saw both incidents.

Imagine seeing your MP murdering someone in public.

Meh. I'd have much less difficulty imagining that if I lived a couple of hundred meters further south or east. (This isn't about their politics so much - though my MP is SPD and the other is CDU, both are from unacceptable wings within these parties. It's... just... you know... the notion of that jovial fatso Amann killing people is downright bizarre. The notion of Steinbach killing people, presumably Polish or Czech Communists, is an entirely natural one - I'm almost inclined to say that that's exactly what she'd be doing all day if she thought she'd get away with it.)

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I also have a hard time seeing my MP killing somebody.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Mine doesn't really look the type either;


Now, Vroom-vroom down the road might.



Pity that no photo of him being angry is on the internets.

[minionofmidas]

Now, Vroom-vroom down the road might.

Why are they calling him that? Just because they can't pronounce his name?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Now, Vroom-vroom down the road might.

Why are they calling him that? Just because they can't pronounce his name?

Because he was caught going at 101mph down a road near Dolgellau.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Btw, it's fascinating to see how little voting patterns in the Ardeche have changed since the Third Republic. Left seems to be stronger in the SW now than back then, but that's close to being the only difference.

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Btw, it's fascinating to see how little voting patterns in the Ardeche have changed since the Third Republic. Left seems to be stronger in the SW now than back then, but that's close to being the only difference.

The left has built up a bit of strength up north (2nd constituency), a traditionally right-wing country. The PRG won it in 1997, and the PS won in it in 2007. Ironically, the UMP holds only one seat, the 3rd constituency, which includes the red lands of the southwest (the Cevennes).

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Tomorrow I'll copy something to do with the Ardeche that you might find interesting; it's in an old book on electoral geography.

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Tomorrow I'll copy something to do with the Ardeche that you might find interesting; it's in an old book on electoral geography.

Sure . Thanks!

[big bad fab]

Btw, it's fascinating to see how little voting patterns in the Ardeche have changed since the Third Republic. Left seems to be stronger in the SW now than back then, but that's close to being the only difference.

The left has built up a bit of strength up north (2nd constituency), a traditionally right-wing country. The PRG won it in 1997, and the PS won in it in 2007. Ironically, the UMP holds only one seat, the 3rd constituency, which includes the red lands of the southwest (the Cevennes).

North of Ardèche is now a far suburb of Lyons-Vienne-Saint-Etienne metropolis (even the valley of Rhône between Lyons and Valence is almost one unique metropolis).

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Btw, it's fascinating to see how little voting patterns in the Ardeche have changed since the Third Republic. Left seems to be stronger in the SW now than back then, but that's close to being the only difference.

The left has built up a bit of strength up north (2nd constituency), a traditionally right-wing country. The PRG won it in 1997, and the PS won in it in 2007. Ironically, the UMP holds only one seat, the 3rd constituency, which includes the red lands of the southwest (the Cevennes).

North of Ardèche is now a far suburb of Lyons-Vienne-Saint-Etienne metropolis (even the valley of Rhône between Lyons and Valence is almost one unique metropolis).

True. But to be fair, the PS won partly based on the divisions on the right. The combined right + FN has enough votes to win theoretically. It's just that the DVD candidate who polled 18% IIRC didn't transfer perfectly to the UMP. That's not even counting the MoDem.

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Here it is. A copy of a copy. But fun anyway:

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Interesting stuff. Especially interesting that, according to that book, the Ardeche Cevennes were "variable" back then. Does the book have anything on Lozere and Gard, especially the Cevennes there?

On a related topic, I fell across this map.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Interesting stuff. Especially interesting that, according to that book, the Ardeche Cevennes were "variable" back then. Does the book have anything on Lozere and Gard, especially the Cevennes there?

No; the set was based on Siegfried's stuff on the Ardeche so that's all they had.

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Ah, so that's why that little blob in the northwest is (still!) lefty.

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A cantonal government map for my second-favourite region.

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I fixed a few errors on my 1988 map



And made a DOMTOM map.

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Michel Crepeau, MRG. Mayor of La Rochelle for quite a long time, and also MP for the La Rochelle constituency. He polled around 2%, and won 11% in Charente-Maritime. Over 17% in his constituency. His favourite son showing in Charente-Maritime extended into other neighboring departments, even the ones that didn't have a traditional RadSoc tradition (I'm looking at you Vendee. Although Fontenay, where Crepeau was born, has quite a long RadSoc tradition).



Michel Debre, de Gaulle's first Prime Minister. By 1981, however, he had gone a bit cuckoo. Polled around 1.5% nationally. Despite representing Réunion from 1962 to 1988, his home department was Indre-et-Loire, where he polled 4%. For obvious reasons, I'm far from a fan.



Marie-France Garaud, originally close to Chirac, she split from the RPR and ran as true Gaullist of some sort. Later, she was an RPF MEP. Polled around 1.3% nationally. Her home department was the Vienne.

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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% )

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[Filuwaúrdjan]

Debre was always a bit cuckoo...

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Debre was always a bit cuckoo...

More so later on.

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% )

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How could I increase image's size ?

Have a look at the previous pages of this thread (or is the Reims Congress page?) and there are some similar maps I made.

You might find them interesting.

[big bad fab]

Crépeau's map is a regional one+traditional RadSoc one (Tarn-et-Garonne, Lot, Eure-et-Loir among others).

Debré's one is partly a Royer's map and partly old traditional right map (Jura, Haute-Savoie, Aube). The gaullist influence is very light, only visible in Gironde, Dordogne, left departements at the time.

Garaud's one is difficult because of a nationally low score. But I would say that, apart from her regional "stronghold" in Poitou and Touraine, it's a nationalist map, i.e. a map similar to first FN maps of the 80s.