Paris 2008

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Mayoral election is next year, right? Might as well stick this thread up the same time as London's

[Gabu]

2007 is next year?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Oh sh*t. Time is not really my strong point...

[Tetro Kornbluth]

It still reads "Paris 2007" for all the non-title posts in this thread, Al.

In other words this thread is a failure.

[minionofmidas]

No it doesn't.

Paris, Lyon and Marseille use a grotesquely intricate election system btw.

[Hash]

Nice thread.

Delanoe has a good chance to retain his seat I think.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Paris, Lyon and Marseille use a grotesquely intricate election system btw.

*is curious*

[minionofmidas]

Paris, Lyon and Marseille use a grotesquely intricate election system btw.

*is curious*

Seems to have been amended by now, if this site is to be trusted.

Used to be that, in normal towns, two thirds of seats were proportional and the remainder went top-up to the winner (and winner meant second-round winner, with lists over 10% advancing to runoffs unless someone took 50% on the first round...) - ensuring a solid majority for whoever won but a few seats to the opposition to make its voice heard.
In Paris, Lyon and Marseille that system was used for the arrondissements, or the secteurs (of two arrondissements each, with the old arrondissements now only statistical entities) in marseille. And at the same time, each Arrondissement sent a (roughly proportional to population) no. of deputies to the city council - taken proportionally from the Arrondissement council.