French election maps

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Nobody seems to care, but I've done 3 interesting departments (and I hope to have two biggies up by tomorrow)...

I read the article on the crazy UMP deputy from Moselle who killed his mistress last year, so I was inspired to do this map.



The Rhone



The Loire

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Some biggies now.

Meurthe-et-Moselle



Haute-Garonne



Drome



Ardeche

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I read the article on the crazy UMP deputy from Moselle who killed his mistress last year, so I was inspired to do this map.

Details!

Jean-Marie Demange was deputy for Thionville and mayor of Thionville from 1995 to 2008. He got depressed after losing to the PS in 2008, he got into violent arguments with his mistress (who left him after a while). In November last year, he went to her apartment, dragged her out on the balcony (in broad daylight) and killed her before committing suicide. A lot of people saw both incidents.

Imagine seeing your MP murdering someone in public.

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I also have a hard time seeing my MP killing somebody.

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Btw, it's fascinating to see how little voting patterns in the Ardeche have changed since the Third Republic. Left seems to be stronger in the SW now than back then, but that's close to being the only difference.

The left has built up a bit of strength up north (2nd constituency), a traditionally right-wing country. The PRG won it in 1997, and the PS won in it in 2007. Ironically, the UMP holds only one seat, the 3rd constituency, which includes the red lands of the southwest (the Cevennes).

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Tomorrow I'll copy something to do with the Ardeche that you might find interesting; it's in an old book on electoral geography.

Sure . Thanks!

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Btw, it's fascinating to see how little voting patterns in the Ardeche have changed since the Third Republic. Left seems to be stronger in the SW now than back then, but that's close to being the only difference.

The left has built up a bit of strength up north (2nd constituency), a traditionally right-wing country. The PRG won it in 1997, and the PS won in it in 2007. Ironically, the UMP holds only one seat, the 3rd constituency, which includes the red lands of the southwest (the Cevennes).

North of Ardèche is now a far suburb of Lyons-Vienne-Saint-Etienne metropolis (even the valley of Rhône between Lyons and Valence is almost one unique metropolis).

True. But to be fair, the PS won partly based on the divisions on the right. The combined right + FN has enough votes to win theoretically. It's just that the DVD candidate who polled 18% IIRC didn't transfer perfectly to the UMP. That's not even counting the MoDem.

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Interesting stuff. Especially interesting that, according to that book, the Ardeche Cevennes were "variable" back then. Does the book have anything on Lozere and Gard, especially the Cevennes there?

On a related topic, I fell across this map.

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A cantonal government map for my second-favourite region.

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I fixed a few errors on my 1988 map



And made a DOMTOM map.

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Michel Crepeau, MRG. Mayor of La Rochelle for quite a long time, and also MP for the La Rochelle constituency. He polled around 2%, and won 11% in Charente-Maritime. Over 17% in his constituency. His favourite son showing in Charente-Maritime extended into other neighboring departments, even the ones that didn't have a traditional RadSoc tradition (I'm looking at you Vendee. Although Fontenay, where Crepeau was born, has quite a long RadSoc tradition).



Michel Debre, de Gaulle's first Prime Minister. By 1981, however, he had gone a bit cuckoo. Polled around 1.5% nationally. Despite representing Réunion from 1962 to 1988, his home department was Indre-et-Loire, where he polled 4%. For obvious reasons, I'm far from a fan.



Marie-France Garaud, originally close to Chirac, she split from the RPR and ran as true Gaullist of some sort. Later, she was an RPF MEP. Polled around 1.3% nationally. Her home department was the Vienne.

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Debre was always a bit cuckoo...

More so later on.

Two maps showing the PS Reims Congres results.

The first is a map of the motions vote ( yellow=A, red=C, green=D, blue=E ).
The second map shows the results of the 2nd turn of the first-secretary election ( green=Aubry, blue=Royal, dark colours=more than 75% )

Ops...

How could I increase image's size ?

Have a look at the previous pages of this thread (or is the Reims Congress page?) and there are some similar maps I made.

You might find them interesting.

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Crépeau's map is a regional one+traditional RadSoc one (Tarn-et-Garonne, Lot, Eure-et-Loir among others).

Corse is a bit weird, especially Haute-Corse.

Garaud's one is difficult because of a nationally low score. But I would say that, apart from her regional "stronghold" in Poitou and Touraine, it's a nationalist map, i.e. a map similar to first FN maps of the 80s.

You think that map is hard to analyze? I made a Renouvin map a while ago

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Did the PS ever release the results for the first round of the first secretary election (Royal v. Aubry v. Hamon)?

I don't think they did. Probably too busy in their little civil war.

Re; Alsace, I'm surprised at how many leftish cantons there are up in the Vosges. Always assumed that that area was quite right-wing.

Until recently, a large part of the areas northwest of Mulhouse were potash mining areas. And Cernay is a largely working-class city.

Do note that some of those I classified as DVG were classified as Independents upon their election but get classified DVG since they caucus with the opposition. Saint-Amarin for example.

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Crépeau's map is a regional one+traditional RadSoc one (Tarn-et-Garonne, Lot, Eure-et-Loir among others).

Corse is a bit weird, especially Haute-Corse.

Garaud's one is difficult because of a nationally low score. But I would say that, apart from her regional "stronghold" in Poitou and Touraine, it's a nationalist map, i.e. a map similar to first FN maps of the 80s.

You think that map is hard to analyze? I made a Renouvin map a while ago

Yeah... But Renouvin is a real real joke (not a real royalist), whereas Garaud is only a real joke... (I mean, by 1981; now she is a real real joke)
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Renouvin's campaign video makes my history teacher seem interesting and engaging. Listen to his campaign video if you don't fall asleep .

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Bumpity. Any requests?

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Anyways. I was lucky enough to fall on an old RFSP article that had a map of the 1962 election by constituency. And I had a 1958 constituency map. So...

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The '62 map is fascinating. Like a different world in some ways, very familar in others. Can you do zoom-ins for the big cities?

(and obviously more maps like that for other years would be great, but I'm not going to pushy. I've done that sort of thing myself and know how long they can take).

The base map doesn't have an inset for urban areas, sadly.

I'll try to do more maps but in a lot of departments, I don't know which constituency is which.

I might do 1967 if I find data I can work with.

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I'm going to try to find a map with constituency numbers for you and with zoomings on big cities (constituency boundaries are the same from 62 to 81, IIRC).

Trugarez! That would be appreciated.

As for 1967, 1968 and so on, I'm afraid I've got only detailed datas on paper: if I can find some time, I may give you a "short" list with parties affiliation only. Please let me know which parliamentary elections are missing in your files.

I was planning on using the National Assembly records for those elections, but they're divided up by parliamentary group and not party. If you have stuff on party affiliation for the MPs in 1967 and so on I'd really appreciate that.

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The political evolution of Bretagne since in ten years is fascinating.

In 1998, right before the 1998 cantonal elections, the cantonal CG situation was the following in terms of left/right:



Today, after the 2008 elections, the situation is as follows:



For those who prefer things in terms of parties, here are the maps

1998



2008

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Sneak preview of upcoming stuff. Concerns old elections.



More similar stuff for Lille and Bordeaux, and also starting on a 1967 map, nationwide.

I'll also work on a big ass map of the Grande Couronne and Petite Couronne, by 1962 constituency.

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Tell him to make insets for big cities and IdF

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How do you make it for Grande and Petite Couronnes in 1962 ?
Remember it wasn't the same departements (and so, not the same constituencies).

Val d'Oise, Yvelines, Essonne, Val de Marne, Seine-Saint-Denis, Hauts-de-Seine and Paris were all created to replace Seine and Seine-et-Oise in 1967.

Ile-de-France maps I've sent you are OK from 1968 (sure) or 1967 (maybe) until 1981 included.

As for Corsica, your 1962 map is OK until 1973 included; national maps I've sent you are OK for 1978 and 1981.

Crap. I meant post-division maps, so 1967 onwards.

Anyways, cleaned up Salmon's base map (lots of black smudges and small pixels) for metro France and did the insets. Still working on the petite couronne base map, which should take quite a bit of time. Anyways, I did a 1978 map - Petite Couronne (however, I'll do the Petite Couronne 1978 map when my base map is finished).



I did 1978 because it's the top PCF result (86 seats). It's also quite interesting.

And I'll do 1981 next.

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The 1978 map is indeed interesting : almost a "classic" equilibrium between right and left.

Yeah, 1978 is the only one that was really a close election (there were other "close" elections, but 1978 is by far the closest).

And almost one of the few French legislative elections that was a surprise. The left was really expecting to win this one, they led all polls. But their voters didn't turn out.

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You want some "Red Belt"? Have this.