French regional election - December 6 and 13, 2015

[The Last Northerner]

Any early predictions on the results? In the metropole -  9 - 2 - 2? I somehow don't see the FN breaking into western France.

[The Last Northerner]

Holy smokes Batman... this colour-coded map shows just how strong the far-right loony FN has become:

I'm a bit suprised (and dissapointed) that LR didn't win the popular vote nationally and PS held on to Bretagne. Wouldn't they be upset about the regional gerrymandering reorganization?

[The Last Northerner]

I'm a bit suprised (and dissapointed) that LR didn't win the popular vote nationally and PS held on to Bretagne. Wouldn't they be upset about the regional gerrymandering reorganization?

Bretagne eventually remained intact as a region, without any changes. Why would they be upset about this?

They didn't get Loire-Atlantique (which looks slighly more right wing than the rest) back despite the previous PS' Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault being from there and talking about reunification.

[The Last Northerner]

~~**Praying for France**~~

I would, rather, pray for the rest of us. The French can go to hell.

Damning an entire nationality right after a terrorist attack?.... and I thought you hated Greeks...

[The Last Northerner]

  Is the FN failure to win that surprising?  They invariably due poorly in run-off elections.  I can remember reading about how the FN was about to win maybe a dozen seats in the 1994 National Assembly elections and laughing about how ridiculous that assertion was. 

I thought they were favored to eek out narrow victories in PACA/NPDC (but nowhere else). Regional powers in France are relatively weak and this is a lot different than a high-stakes national presidential election. Voting for the FN in the former does not mean electing Marine Le Pen as President.