New Project: French Elections Revisited: ORGANIZATION THREAD

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A small fun project.

Starting with 1965, I'll do both 'primaries' between candidates that ran, lost, considered running but didn't, and so forth. Since I don't expect lots of traffic , I'll open the primaries of ALL parties to ALL voters - kind of open primaries... but please try to project yourself as a member of that party voting for the best candidate (aka, if you're a leftie, don't vote for Jean Royer in the UDR primaries just because you want a leftie to win!). Then, the winners will go on to duke it out in a general election.

I'll be the GO for this, so in the general election I will decide personally whether or not to include candidates that lost primaries but have serious digs on running... like Jean Royer, again, for example.

This will serve as the organization thread

Primaries for 1965 will be up soon.

[big bad fab]

OMG, "que cent fleurs s'épanouissent, que cent projets rivalisent" !

You keep on creating very interesting things.
And I'll be happy to take a small part in them !

Is this topic a fatal blow to your topic on 4-year presidential elections ?
I'll find some time to post in it next week, I think.

Anyways, for this one, it's very pleasing.

Yes, it's absolutely necessary that everyone votes as if he was a party member, whatever the party
(for example, I would vote for DSK over Mélenchon in 2006, had Mélenchon been candidate in the primaries).

[Antonio the Sixth]

You keep on creating very interesting things.
And I'll be happy to take a small part in them !

[big bad fab]

For 1965, do you intend to post an extreme-right primary ?
Tixier-Vignancour vs Le Pen ?

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Will we have an opportunity to participate in mock election and, eventuallym runoff?

Btw, I'd like to post and advertistment: vote in 2008 mock primary with diffrent candidates (Democratic later and General later): https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=101580.0

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Will we have an opportunity to participate in mock election and, eventuallym runoff?

Of course! The first round should open tomorrow afternoon, fyi.

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1965 Primary Results

UNR

President Charles de Gaulle (Haute-Marne) 5 votes / 100.00% nominated

Socialist Left

Write-in: Former Radical-PSU Prime Minister Pierre Mendès-France (Eure) 3 votes / 42.86% nominated
Radical Deputy Maurice Faure (Lot) 2 votes / 28.57%
CIR President of the General Council François Mitterrand (Nièvre) 1 vote / 14.29%
Former PSU Minister Édouard Depreux (Seine) 1 vote / 14.29%

PCF

Support for the candidate of the Socialist Left 3 votes / 60% endorsement of Pierre Mendès-France
Senator Jacques Duclos (Seine) 2 votes / 40%

MRP-CNI

Senator Jean Lecanuet (Seine-Maritime) 3 votes / 60% nominated
Former Prime Minister Antoine Pinay (Loire) 1 vote / 20%
Write-in: Mayor Gaston Defferre (Bouches-du-Rhône, SFIO) 1 vote

Far-Right

Former Deputy Jean-Louis Tixier-Vignancour (Basses-Pyrénées) 3 votes / 60%
Abstain 1 vote / 20%
Unspecified other 1 vote / 20%

Also candidates: Former Deputy Marcel Barbu (Drôme, DVG) and Senator Pierre Marcilhacy (Charente, PLE).
 

[big bad fab]

I hope that, in 1969, the incumbent will face real primaries in his party.

Of course in the left, as it would be far more interesting than in 1965.
But, even in the Gaullist movement, there would be other candidates than de Gaulle.

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I hope that, in 1969, the incumbent will face real primaries in his party.

Of course in the left, as it would be far more interesting than in 1965.
But, even in the Gaullist movement, there would be other candidates than de Gaulle.

As a note, I won't be developing an alternate history on this. The results of the preceding election will not influence the next election, since it would require me to turn this into a timeline, for which I have neither the time nor desire to do.

I also might have more than one things running at once...

[big bad fab]

OK. Fine !