French legislative election 2012

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List of contested elections per the ConCon:
http://www.conseil-constitutionnel.fr/conseil-constitutionnel/francais/elections-legislatives-2012/contentieux/contentieux-des-elections-legislatives-2012-tableau-general.114818.html

btw, Antonio, data.gouv has the results by department for the legislatives, so you could do some experiments with the 1986 system.

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Based on your experience, how many invalidations would you predict ? It would be disgusting if the left's majority (already underwhelming for losing more close races than it won) were further shortened.

It may be underwhelming and all... but let's not forget that the left's majority is - I think - bigger than it was in 1997 (and obviously way bigger than in 1988). And even a one seat majority is better than this:

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Could you please quit spamming and trolling, Verwoerd?

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BTW, for one I'm really hoping Devedjian survives. He's the only right-winger in the 92 who isn't a thug.

Well, Fromantin is a fairly good guy. There was an interesting article about him a few weeks ago in Le Monde, and he has the style of a moderate, pragmatic centre-rightist focused on governance rather than photo-ops and politicking.

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One of the new PS deputies - Olivier Ferrand (Bouches-du-Rhône 8th) - has died suddenly.

To make horrible things more horrible, his successor is a Guériniste stooge.