French election maps

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2007 vs. 1995 (2002 isn't a real election).

Swing (Atlas definition of swing, not the Brit one o/c)



Trend



I'm tempted to do some 1974 vs. 2007.

[big bad fab]

Very interesting.
2 points: Sarkozy of course grabbed the FN vote. And Chirac has disappeared: it explains Correze and all the Massif Central (especially western Massif Central)'s swing.

I think a 1969 vs 1995 would be fine: Pompidou-Chirac vs something else...

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I think a 1969 vs 1995 would be fine: Pompidou-Chirac vs something else...

1969 is especially hard to do because of the absence of a leftie (like 2002).

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74-07 swing!

[big bad fab]

OMG, Ille-et-Vilaine in the last (or first...) rank !

But not very different from 1995-2007.

For 1969-1995, just take Poher as the "left" candidate. I think we'd be surprised...

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Just compiled a 69-95 comparison. Not much use in doing a map as all departments
"swung" to the "left" except:

Alpes-Maritimes 27.68%
Bouches-du-Rhone 3.12%
Drome 4.34%
Gers 12.20%
Indre 0.74%
Loir-et-Cher 7.46%
Lot-et-Garonne 8.40%
Orne 5.46%
Rhone 1.88%
Haute-Savoie 9.04%
Paris 3.58%
Yvelines 3.12%
Var 12.88%
Vaucluse 22.98%

[big bad fab]

The swing's level would be interesting, not just the colour.
But, anyway, I'm not here to decide what you have to do. It's your thread !

[Associate Justice PiT]

Just compiled a 69-95 comparison. Not much use in doing a map as all departments "swung" to the "left" except:

Alpes-Maritimes 27.68%
Bouches-du-Rhone 3.12%
Drome 4.34%
Gers 12.20%
Indre 0.74%
Loir-et-Cher 7.46%
Lot-et-Garonne 8.40%
Orne 5.46%
Rhone 1.88%
Haute-Savoie 9.04%
Paris 3.58%
Yvelines 3.12%
Var 12.88%
Vaucluse 22.98%

     Wouldn't it be surprising if that weren't the case, considering the strength of Pompidou's performance? Or am I off-track here?

[Хahar 🤔]

Just compiled a 69-95 comparison. Not much use in doing a map as all departments "swung" to the "left" except:

Alpes-Maritimes 27.68%
Bouches-du-Rhone 3.12%
Drome 4.34%
Gers 12.20%
Indre 0.74%
Loir-et-Cher 7.46%
Lot-et-Garonne 8.40%
Orne 5.46%
Rhone 1.88%
Haute-Savoie 9.04%
Paris 3.58%
Yvelines 3.12%
Var 12.88%
Vaucluse 22.98%

     Wouldn't it be surprising if that weren't the case, considering the strength of Pompidou's performance? Or am I off-track here?

There was no leftist candidate in the second round.

[big bad fab]

Xahar, please read some posts before: Poher would be the "other", as Jospin was in 1995.

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Useless fact from the 1969-1995 comparison. There was no swing in the Aude. Poher and Jospin got the exact same.

[big bad fab]

Useless fact from the 1969-1995 comparison. There was no swing in the Aude. Poher and Jospin got the exact same.

That was, indeed, my point: Pompidou and Chirac had similar maps and Poher was, de facto, the left candidate. Many left voters in fact voted for him, even with "political disgust".

I precisely wanted to say that "la Chiraquie" et "la Pompidolie" were very similar.
Chirac has won only one "normal" election: 1995.
He lost a normal one in 1988, but it was still a seventies-eighties left-right map.

Pompidou ran only one presidential election.

Hence a comparison 1969-1995.

But forget it...

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[Filuwaúrdjan]

You can see where Pompidou's personal vote was strongest, can'st thou. Chirac too, but to a latter extent. The decline of the old Catholic-Anti Clerical divide is there as well.

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You can see where Pompidou's personal vote was strongest, can'st thou. Chirac too, but to a latter extent. The decline of the old Catholic-Anti Clerical divide is there as well.

Pompidou got over 80% in Cantal, btw.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

You can see where Pompidou's personal vote was strongest, can'st thou. Chirac too, but to a latter extent. The decline of the old Catholic-Anti Clerical divide is there as well.

Pompidou got over 80% in Cantal, btw.

I think that deserves a "lol".

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Btw, do you have figures for past Presidential elections by department [qm]. It'd be really nice if they were written up online somewhere.

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Btw, do you have figures for past Presidential elections by department [qm]. It'd be really nice if they were written up online somewhere.

The CDSP, though I'd be careful with the old constituency data in there.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Btw, do you have figures for past Presidential elections by department [qm]. It'd be really nice if they were written up online somewhere.

The CDSP, though I'd be careful with the old constituency data in there.

Diolch!

[Хahar 🤔]

Xahar, please read some posts before: Poher would be the "other", as Jospin was in 1995.

But the Communists stayed home in 1969, which is why there is such a large discrepancy.

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Xahar, please read some posts before: Poher would be the "other", as Jospin was in 1995.

But the Communists stayed home in 1969, which is why there is such a large discrepancy.

Around 65-70ish stayed home.

[big bad fab]

You can see where Pompidou's personal vote was strongest, can'st thou. Chirac too, but to a latter extent. The decline of the old Catholic-Anti Clerical divide is there as well.

Pompidou got over 80% in Cantal, btw.

I think that deserves a "lol".

It shows that even if it was Poher against him, Pompidou was THE candidate on whom voters decide, for or against him.

The electoral map of 1969 was a "gaulliste-pompidolienne", i.e. it was made of De Gaulle strongholds (former occupied France during WW2) and of "la Pompidolie" in the Massif Central (similar to "la Chiraquie").

Poher should have been stronger than that in the North West and the North East, in old MRP strongholds, but he wasn't indeed the centrist candidate, he was just the "other" candidate and gathered socialist, radical and even some communist voters.

As Chirac was the "other" candidate in 2002: the electoral map is a FN one.

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Requests? I'm quite bored now.

Thinking of doing a PS 1993 map.

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Thinking of doing a PS 1993 map.

Definitely a good idea. At this point, 1993 seems to be a nice year for the French Socialists.

[big bad fab]

Thinking of doing a PS 1993 map.

Definitely a good idea. At this point, 1993 seems to be a nice year for the French Socialists.

LOL