French election maps

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2007 legislative in Finistere



There, on the other hand, patterns aren't much different (Cornouaille went to the right starting in the 1920s or so, but has come back to the left like in 1910...)

For the left, generally: Quimper (urban centre, middle-class and moderate), the major fishing centres on the coast of south Cornouaille, and usually Concarneau and Douarnenez (old sardine communist areas), the industrial hub of Brest which is expanding into its suburbs (unlike in 1910, when there were no real suburbs and only faubourgs which were already socialist), the Monts-d'Aree and the area east of Morlaix which is old anti-clerical democratic land.

For the right: the old clerical Leon (now lots of wealthy coastal towns), the more clerical Montagnes Noires, residential coastal towns in Cornouaille, sometimes Crozon (which is wealthy).

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Last year's European elections in Pays de la Loire. Purple is Philippe de Villiers, orange is Sylvie Goulard (MoDem), yellow is Jacques Généreux (FG), and white (in that small town in northern Sarthe that's a tie) is Brigitte Neveux (FN).

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Good job!

The UMP's dominance overall hides some details about the Greenies (they're obviously strong in urban areas, where the UMP only won because of the division of the left's vote). The congregation of Green communes in Loire-Atlantique is party suburban but its also all around Notre-Dame-des-Landes where they want to build the controversial airport.

The town won by the FG is Allonnes, a working-class Renault-driven suburb of Le Mans and PCF stronghold.

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I found this map in Siegfred's famous book on western France (which I'm reading on-and-off, it's quite heavy) quite interesting and lol-worthy.



Compare it to a map of the MPF/de Villiers in Vendée, like the Euros map.

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Just want to put it out there that results by commune of the 1995 presidentials and 1997 legislative are available on teh interwebs now:

1995: http://www.politiquemania.com/presidentielles-1995-commune.html
1997: http://www.politiquemania.com/legislatives-1997-commune.html

On a side note, Politiquemania (which is, ftr, the best forum/website on French politics there is; for starters there are no MPF-FN trolls!) also has a list of regional councillors and general councillors available, with accurate party labels.

regional: http://www.politiquemania.com/conseillers-regionaux.html
general: http://www.politiquemania.com/conseillers-generaux.html

Finally, on my side, I hope to be making some maps of the 1951 and 1956 elections soon enough and I might throw some comparisons in key communities between 95 and 07.

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for those of you who speak French and have JSTOR access (if you don't, I can get it for you); this article on the electoral sociology of French Protestants is good stuff: http://www.jstor.org/stable/30124976?seq=1

A comparison of various excerpts from Siegfried's 1910 stuff on the topic and the 2007 results in Ardeche are funny.

It also offers an answer to an old question I had concerning the left's strong showing in the Bas-Rhin in 1919 (see here: https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/GALLERY/2007_11_07_09_8_29_50.png). It seems, in the Bas-Rhin atleast, that the left's base was in the 4 Protestant majority cantons (Sarre-Union, La Petite Pierre, Drulingen and Bouxwiller) and in 1924 also in Soultz-sous-Forets (which my archives indicates is a Protestant canton).

I personally find the voting patterns of rural Protestant enclaves in France one of the most fascinating topics in French electoral sociology, especially with the distinction in the voting patterns of the Calvinists compared to those of the Lutherans. I don't know if I've ever written anything about Alsatian Protestantism and its voting patterns, but it's a quite interesting topic and is even interesting in 2007 (it involves finding the differences in rural Alsace's universal conservatism and right-wing vote).

Of course, if anybody has anything on the Jewish vote in France, I'd be very interested.

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Great article! I'll try to muddle through with my limited French.

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More interesting articles and stuff:

This one on EE is actually very good and goes beyond the traditional analysis: http://www.ifop.com/media/pressdocument/240-1-document_file.pdf

One of the best analyses of the geography and sociology of Corsican nationalism (using regionals data): http://www.ifop.com/media/pressdocument/237-1-document_file.pdf

and a gift:



which comes from this 36-page analysis of French catholics:
http://www.ifop.com/media/pressdocument/238-1-document_file.pdf

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A "percentage of Catholics who are practicing" map would be interesting (very high in a few spots, very low in a few others).

[big bad fab]

A "percentage of Catholics who are practicing" map would be interesting (very high in a few spots, very low in a few others).

You can mix the 2 maps.

In the 2nd map, Gers, Gironde, Lot, Gard, Var, Hautes-Alpes are ridiculously high. Probably also Tarn, Aude and Alpes-Maritimes.
Yvelines, Hauts-de-Seine and Paris are very interesting and really accurate, I think.

Of course, "practising" is ridiculously high everywhere, as going to a church, just because of relatives' baptisms, marriages and deaths and just for Easter and Christmas, isn't practising....

As for the Protestants and their voting patterns in rural areas, it's all the funnier as spreading of Protestants and Catholics very locally has a random history: some local lords even switched many times during Religions Wars....
And all the funnier when you know how French people are no longer religious at all now, whether Protestant or Catholic.
In fact, many of these patterns stem from parents' votes, nothing else. But, as it take many generations to change, especially in rural areas, it's funny to "read" religious lines in local maps.
Fascinating, indeed.

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I decided to look at which cities offered electoral results for cantons and polls inside city limits... Rennes has a great site, as does Lyon and Nice. Here's Rennes:

2010 regionals (runoff)
canton de Rennes-Bréquigny: PS 56.31, UMP 22.06, GRN 21.62
canton de Rennes-Centre: UMP 39.31, PS 38.54, GRN 22.15
canton de Rennes-Centre-Ouest: PS 47.35, UMP 28.94, GRN 23.71
canton de Rennes-Centre-Sud   : PS 50.07, GRN 25.11, UMP 24.82
canton de Rennes-Est: PS 46.92, UMP 28.38, GRN 24.71
canton de Rennes-le-Blosne: PS 61.44, GRN 20.3, UMP 18.26
canton de Rennes-Nord: PS 49.82, UMP 27.59, GRN 22.59
canton de Rennes-Nord-Est: PS 47.93, UMP 32.08, GRN 20
canton de Rennes-Nord-Ouest (parts within the commune of Rennes only): PS 58.66, UMP 21.55, GRN 19.79
canton de Rennes-Sud-Est: PS 54.83, GRN 24.63, UMP 20.54
canton de Rennes-Sud-Ouest: PS 49.04, UMP 25.87, GRN 25.09

map: http://www.rennes.fr/fileadmin/user_upload/Telechargements/Cantonales_elections2008_carte_exhaustive.pdf

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I'm making a few first-round maps by commune for the 2007 election, and I'd be willing to make some on request. Keep in mind that they take forever and I am unlikely to do Pas de Calais/Nord.

I also can do strength maps for any candidate in departements beginning with A, Bouches-du-Rhone, most of Ile-de-France and Pyrenees-Atlantiques.

Here are two to begin:

Eure



Lozere (The one orange commune, Saint-Maurice-de-Ventalon, was won by Bove)



Should I continue?

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yes!

I hope you're using Geoclip as a major source for this instead of the Interior Ministry, that would make your life way easier. I can pull together a basic analysis for most of the departments, btw, if anybody's interested.

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Any requests?

(And yes, I am using Geoclip, thank you. I don't know what I would do without it.)

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Any requests?

(And yes, I am using Geoclip, thank you. I don't know what I would do without it.)

I'm biased, but the Breton departments and the Pyrenees-Atlantiques would be great. Especially the latter, actually.

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You will have Pyrenees-Atlantiques (big swathes of yellow await!) tomorrow.

I will do Bretagne afterwards.

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Here is Pyrenees-Atlantiques. Enjoy.

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...and Finistere:

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Lozère and Finistère are very... neat and unsurprising, but, for these reasons, very interesting.

Gironde, Ille-et-Vilaine and Yvelines would be great !

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I will do those soon.

For now, here's a hideous map of Lozere: First round, 2002

Blue: Chirac (all >10% communes are colored as if they were >20% communes, because the >10% colors for blue and green are nearly identical)
Purple: Le Pen
Red: Jospin
Green: Saint-Josse (!)
Orange: Various communists (Besancenot, Hue and Laguiller all won at least one commune)




Hashemite, where are you getting those commune maps that you've used for your 2007 second round results?

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Hashemite, where are you getting those commune maps that you've used for your 2007 second round results?

Geoclip. I get a blank map up and take a screenshot of it.

Saint-Josse winning communes isn't remotely surprising. He won a lot of communes, and, on the topic of that and 2002; a map of Somme, 2002 would be extremely interesting.

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Hilarious, not hideous. Lozere is wonderful; three quarters of the population re-fight the Wars of Religion every election, and the rest fight over environmental issues.

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Great maps homelycooking! If you get the chance please could you do Dordogne 2007 by departement? I ask as this is a part of France I'm very familiar with.

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I'd be happy to. Here's my request queue so far:

1. Yvelines '07: tonite
2. Somme '02: tomorrow, since it's huge
3. Dordogne '07: weekend
4. Ile-et-Vilaine '07: weekend
5. Gironde '07: weekend

Here's a few maps from BdR in the meantime:

'02 first round (yellow is Bruno Megret, orange is Hue)



'02 second round (what a snore...)



'07 first round

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Here's a map of the 1995 runoff in the 13: