French constituency names, stuff and so forth

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Charente-Maritime

Circ 01: La Rochelle
Circ 02: Aunis
Circ 03: Vals de Saintonge
Circ 04: Haute-Saintonge
Circ 05: Royan—Oléron

Deux-Sevres

Circ 01: Niort
Circ 02: Marais Poitevin—Mellois
Circ 03: Gâtine
Circ 04: Bressuirais—Thouarsais

Vienne

Circ 01: Poitiers-Nord
Circ 02: Poitiers-Sud
Circ 03: Montmorillon
Circ 04: Haut-Poitou—Châtellerault

Charente

Circ 01: Angoulême—Horte et Tardoire (Canadian constituency names FTW!)
Circ 02: Cognac et Sud-Charente
Circ 03: Confolens—Ruffecois
Circ 04: Angoulême-Nord

Revised other names in here.

Maybe Aquitaine next... who knows?

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Indre-et-Loire

Circ 01: Tours
Circ 02: Amboise
Circ 03: Touraine
Circ 04: Chinonais
Circ 05: Basse-Touraine

Loir-et-Cher

Circ 01: Blois
Circ 02: Grande Sologne—Romorantin-Lanthenay
Circ 03: Petite Beauce

Indre

Circ 01: Châteauroux—Val de l'Indre
Circ 02: Champagne Berrichonne
Circ 03: Brenne

Cher

Circ 01: Bourges—Sancerrois
Circ 02: Vierzon
Circ 03: Berry

Loiret

Circ 01: Orléans-Sud—Val de Loire
Circ 02: Orléans-Nord
Circ 03: Orléans-Est—Val de Loiret
Circ 04: Montargis
Circ 05: Pithiverais

Eure-et-Loir

Circ 01: Chartres
Circ 02: Dreux—Thimerais
Circ 03: Nogent-le-Rotrou
Circ 04: Beauce—Dunois

OK, promised, IdF next!

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I'm sorry, but the French National Assembly has just voted a law allowing the governement to redistrict "circonscriptions législatives".

So, the present map will be, in a year or less, completely changed.

What is more, "circonscriptions législatives" aren't generally based on "historical" lands or "pays" if you prefer. So it's really difficult to give precise names and you are obliged to alternate between names of towns or rivers and "historical" names: a bit frustrating.

Your "Pithiverais" district in Loiret could be named "Gâtinais", but not exactly, for example.
The most awful are districts in the Petite Couronne (Hauts-de-Seine, Val-de-Marne, Seine-Saint-Denis) and in most of the Grande Couronne (apart from rural Seine-et-Marne, Vexin français in Val-d'Oise and Hurepoix or some other districts in Yvelines).

Paris is the only one were you can give homogenous names (of historical boroughs).

I think a funnier idea would be to try to give other names to regions (Guyenne-Périgord-Landes-Béarn instead of Aquitaine ! Lyonnais-Savoie-Dauphiné instead of Rhône-Alpes !) and departments (Rouergue instead of Aveyron).

Anyway, bon courage for this thread.

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I'm sorry, but the French National Assembly has just voted a law allowing the governement to redistrict "circonscriptions législatives".

So, the present map will be, in a year or less, completely changed.

I know. I'm just bored.

What is more, "circonscriptions législatives" aren't generally based on "historical" lands or "pays" if you prefer. So it's really difficult to give precise names and you are obliged to alternate between names of towns or rivers and "historical" names: a bit frustrating.

Many remind me of Saskatchewan federal constituencies.

Your "Pithiverais" district in Loiret could be named "Gâtinais", but not exactly, for example.
The most awful are districts in the Petite Couronne (Hauts-de-Seine, Val-de-Marne, Seine-Saint-Denis) and in most of the Grande Couronne (apart from rural Seine-et-Marne, Vexin français in Val-d'Oise and Hurepoix or some other districts in Yvelines).

I already have a Gâtine district in the Deux-Sevres.

I think a funnier idea would be to try to give other names to regions (Guyenne-Périgord-Landes-Béarn instead of Aquitaine ! Lyonnais-Savoie-Dauphiné instead of Rhône-Alpes !) and departments (Rouergue instead of Aveyron).

Anyway, bon courage for this thread.

That would be too quick.

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BTW, le Figaro has written about the recent by-election in Gironde-8 that it is the largest "circonscription" in France.
Le Télégramme de Brest wrote the same for Finistère-6....

It's of course wrong in both cases, as, in Landes, Côte d'Or, Alpes de Haute Provence, Haute-Corse, even Aveyron, Haute-Marne, Creuse or Gironde (Médoc), there are big constituencies.

Do you know which is the largest ?

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BTW, le Figaro has written about the recent by-election in Gironde-8 that it is the largest "circonscription" in France.

Yeah, I saw that, but I have a hard time believing that.

Le Télégramme de Brest wrote the same for Finistère-6....

Lol.

It's of course wrong in both cases, as, in Landes, Côte d'Or, Alpes de Haute Provence, Haute-Corse, even Aveyron, Haute-Marne, Creuse or Gironde (Médoc), there are big constituencies.

Do you know which is the largest ?

Probably French Polynesia-2, I'd say.

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Probably French Polynesia-2, I'd say.

Yeah, right. But I meant only "métropole". I can't find it.
Never mind, it's really without any interest.

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France to get a redistring!? Good.

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Probably French Polynesia-2, I'd say.

Yeah, right. But I meant only "métropole". I can't find it.
Never mind, it's really without any interest.

Guyane-2 is actually the largest, not Polynesie-2.

Some big metro ones are Landes-1, Gironde-8, Finistere 6, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence-1, Cote-d'Or-4.

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I did Aquitaine. Of course, the same caveat applies. These things called "constituencies" are hard to name since they vandalize traditional countries.

Gironde

Circ 01: Bordeaux-Nord
Circ 02: Bordeux-Centre
Circ 03: Bordeaux-Sud—Bègles
Circ 04: Cenon
Circ 05: Médoc
Circ 06: Landes Bordelaises
Circ 07: Graves
Circ 08: Guyenne—Arcachon
Circ 09: Entre-Deux-Mers
Circ 10: Libournais
Circ 11: Blayais

Landes

Circ 01: Landes de Gascogne—Mont-de-Marsan
Circ 02: Aguais
Circ 03: Airais

Pyrénées-Atlantiques

Circ 01: Pau-Centre
Circ 02: Béarn-Est
Circ 03: Béarn-Nord
Circ 04: Pays Basque (Pais Vasco)
Circ 05: Bayonne
Circ 06: Labourd (Lapurdi)

Dordogne

Circ 01: Périgueux—Périgord Blanc
Circ 02: Bergeracois
Circ 03: Périgord Vert
Circ 04: Périgord Noir

Lot-et-Garonne

Circ 01: Agen—Albret
Circ 02: Marmande
Circ 03: Vallée du Lot

I also attempted to do Paris using a map of topographical features, knowledge of historical boroughs, and current-day neighborhoods.

Paris

Circ 01: Paris-Centre—Le Marais
Circ 02: Paris-Quartier Latin
Circ 03: Saint-Germain-des-Prés
Circ 04: Paris-Centre-Ouest
Circ 05: L’Enclos Saint-Laurent
Circ 06: Paris-Centre-Est
Circ 07: Paris-Faubourg Saint-Antoine
Circ 08: Bercy—Bois de Vincennes
Circ 09: Paris-Faubourg Saint-Marcel
Circ 10: Montparnasse
Circ 11: Paris-Centre-Sud
Circ 12: Paris-Grenelle
Circ 13: Vaugirard
Circ 14: Paris-Auteuil
Circ 15: Passy
Circ 16: Monceaux
Circ 17: Paris-Batignolles
Circ 18: Montmartre
Circ 19: Paris-La Villette
Circ 20: Paris-Buttes Chaumont
Circ 21: Paris-Charonne

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Bas-Rhin

Circ 01: Strasbourg-Centre—Koenigshoffen
Circ 02: Strasbourg-Sud
Circ 03: Strasbourg-Nord—Schiltigheim
Circ 04: Illkirch-Graffenstaden
Circ 05: Sélestat—Alsace Centrale
Circ 06: Molsheim—Vosges Centrale
Circ 07: Saverne—Alsace Bossue
Circ 08: L’Outre-Foret
Circ 09: Kochersberg—Haguenau

Haut-Rhin (these constituencies are sh**t)

Circ 01: Colmar
Circ 02: Kayersberg et les Hautes-Vosges
Circ 03: Sundgau—Ochsenfeld-Ouest
Circ 04: Hardt
Circ 05: Mulhouse
Circ 06: Mulhouse-Nord—Ochsenfeld
Circ 07: Cernay—Guebwiller

Belfort

Circ 01: Belfort-Centre
Circ 02: Belfort-Ouest—Giromagny