French legislative election 2012

[minionofmidas]

And unlike MA-3 Republicans in 2010, and NY-22 Democrats this year, your sacrificial lamb is at least not named Lamb.

[minionofmidas]

linky dinky?

[minionofmidas]

Oh right, chatroom. I was thinking liveblog like for the presidentials. Sorry.

[minionofmidas]

http://www.france24.com/en/election-resultats

This says 2-4 FN. Which is bizarre since it gives an exact number for everybody else...

[minionofmidas]

Two seats for MIM in Martinique. Both seats for Calédonie Ensemble in (you know where). All three Polynesian seats for Flosse's people, the third by 152 votes - the second was close as well. PS taking five out of seven seats in La Réunion, ie all the seats where it even reached the runoff. (Bello was elected on the first round of course, and the seventh seat was won by MoDem in a runoff vs UMP.) Saint Martin/St Bart's went UMP but was far closer than expected.

[minionofmidas]

UMP hold Lozère by 400 votes.

[minionofmidas]

How can there be no results from Wallis & Futuna yet?

[minionofmidas]

Socialists take both winnable seats in Savoie.

[minionofmidas]

Clean sweep in Finistère (including the rebel.)

And victoire á Auraillac!

[minionofmidas]

Guéant junior beaten.

[minionofmidas]

Marine Le Pen beaten according to France 2

by 118 votes. Ahem.
Also Pas de Calais is 11-1 for the Left.

[minionofmidas]

lolvendée. You know the traditional right wingyness of west central France is a dying tradition when the PS takes two seats in Vendée.

[minionofmidas]

I don't find her particularly hot for her age.

[minionofmidas]

I don't find her particularly hot for her age.

In the French politics that might be the hottest we have...

Quite possibly. But then she's not much more than half the age of ordinary "young" politicians.

A real shame about Collard. I had kind of hoped to be able to gloat at a completely undeserved PS sweep of the Gard. Oh well, at least the UMP is locked out in that beautiful place.

[minionofmidas]

I don't find her particularly hot for her age.

In the French politics that might be the hottest we have...

Quite possibly. But then she's not much more than half the age of ordinary "young" politicians.

Well, yes, when I remember about some threads here on this forum I always felt kinda jealous ^^.

A real shame about Collard. I had kind of hoped to be able to gloat at a completely undeserved PS sweep of the Gard. Oh well, at least the UMP is locked out in that beautiful place.

Him in the Assemblée gonna be something. The guy is a professional exciter, he also won a lot of famous and popular cases as lawyer, spent a lot on TVs before his political career, he knows what to do and how to do it.

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lol!

[minionofmidas]

Seybah Dagoma defeating Lancar by 70% in Paris, yeah!

Heh. She was born on the same day as Miro Klose. As a politician, that makes her quite young (and arguably better looking than the Le Pen brat ). While Klose is of course much the oldest member of the German EURO squad (and the only one left to be older than me).

[minionofmidas]

Is Poisson the only one to win back a constituency (Rambouillet) for the right ? Hash ?

Wallis & Futuna apparently. Though that was thanks to a triangulaire.

[minionofmidas]

Is Poisson the only one to win back a constituency (Rambouillet) for the right ? Hash ?

Wallis & Futuna apparently. Though that was thanks to a triangulaire.

South Corse-1 is a right pick up too, isn't it?

Oh, yes, of course.
But I meant... normal political territories

Ueva and Corsica are perfectly normal political territories. What you meant was, in France.

[minionofmidas]

One thing that is very clear from the results is that there is less stigma attached to the FN than a decade ago. And I'm not even really thinking of those places where an FN candidate can now expect to poll better in a two-candidate runoff than a mainstream Right candidate.

Absolutely. The number of left-FN races where the FN broke 40 or even 45% is terrifying.

Have you also had a look at the right-FN runoffs. In one or two of them, the Front candidate actually picked up more votes between rounds than the winner.

[minionofmidas]

Bouches-du-Rhône-8 : Olivier FERRAND (PS)

Olivier Ferrand sadly died this morning of an anevrism, aged 42, after its jogging.

"its"? Just because he's dead doesn't make him a thing.

Oh well. I blame your sleep deprivation. (RIP.)

[minionofmidas]

I know. I was joking. (And while it would have gotten that meaning across, what I wrote in French sounded totally wrong and John-Tory-style. God, has my "active" French gotten rusty... Passive comprehension is still good enough to read newspapers though.)