French Communes mapgasm

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In honor of Hash's legislative predictions work, here's another project which took an absurd amount of time to complete. Right click either for super-colossal version:




Comments and suggestions are welcome.

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I hate to be mean, but how long did it take to complete this amazing map?

Six weeks (total) to complete both - readers of this board's French elections thread will remember that I posted the 2007 map back in April. I spent an hour or two on the maps every day.

Not to mention that I painstakingly hand-striped hundreds of tied communes between the two maps.

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Or you can infract the fact that homely hasn't partted Paris in arrondissements.
Yeah, this is the only (very minor) point where we can make a remark (I've done the same to Gaël in the past).
But I'm just sitting on my back and "scanning" your maps, Hash and homely, so...

Well, Fabien, now take a look at Paris (and Marseille, and Lyon... )

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A little communes summary for 2012:

Hollande won an estimated 12,000 communes; Sarkozy 16,000 communes; Le Pen 5,000.
Le Pen won or tied in at least one commune in every department outside the Petite Couronne except for Finistere.

Melenchon won about 500, mostly small ones in the South of France. He won the most communes by department in Aude and Drome.

Bayrou won 50 or 60 - most of which are in Pyrenees-Atlantiques, of course.

Eva Joly won in six communes: two in Ariege and one each in Hautes-Alpes (Eourres), Drome, Cotes-d'Armor (Tremargat) and Hautes-Pyrenees.

NDA barely won his hometown of Yerres and also won some tiny little hamlet in Lorraine called Molring.

Poutou, Arthaud and Cheminade didn't win any communes.

Somehow, though, Cheminade took 22.7% in Varmonzey, in the Vosges...

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Ever seen a map in 2.5% scale? As always, right click to super-size.

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How about the second round?

My best guess is 20,000 for Sarko, 17,000 for Hollande. I think he (Hollande) probably picked up 6,000 or 7,000 over the 2007 second round.

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Where is the 2012 map, though. It must be WAY prettier.

The great cartographic tetralogy is complete. Four maps, 150,000 communes, 100 million pixels, 200+ hours, 2.5% scales: pure, unadulterated mapgasm.

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It's back, mes amis! I think it even looks a bit like Van Gogh's night sky - the purple rendering of the FN result is (aesthetically) very beautiful.

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Resurrecting the Mapgasm thread with the trial run of an exciting new innovation. Three (generally) independent variables are simultaneously mapped with a comprehensive, continuous 4,096 color scale. Since the color scale is three-dimensional, I can't really show it effectively here, but it encompasses every point within the representative cube in the image.



I should be arrested for killing the mapping game.

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This just is INSANE. And brilliant, too. The map's a bit hard to decipher, but definitely worth looking into. Fantastic work!

Well, if you have requests for other départements or variables, let me know and I can "look into it"...

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I think this one might be a little easier to understand. Also includes Paris by arrondissement.

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Everything there is to know about the 2012 legislative elections: Calvados

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Savoie for Antonio.

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ARE YOU READY

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Six months in the making. It's quite the portrait of France's great crisis of electoral pluralism.

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This was a little birthday present for Hashemite - I think that the rest of you Francophiles might like it.