French mock legislative elections, 2007 - 1st round

[Antonio the Sixth]

Will President Bayrou get a solid majority ? Will PS or UMP manage to get a prominent position in the Parliament ? You decide !


Rules are a bit more complicated than for previous mock elections. First, you are divided in ten constituencies ( counting one "rest of the world" ), as you can see :



Candidates running for each constituency :

First Constituency : ME, NH, VT, MA, RI, CT NY

- Daniel Bensaïd ( LCR )
- Jean-Pierre Brard ( PCF )
- François Hollande ( PS - incumbent )
- Jean-Michel Baylet ( PRG )
- Yves Cochet ( greens )
- Jean Lassalle ( AD-UDF )
- Pierre Lellouche ( UMP )
- Carl Lang ( FN )

Second Constituency : PA, NJ, DE, MA, DC, WV

- Arlette Laguiller ( LO )
- Maxime Gremetz ( PCF )
- Henri Emanuéli ( PS )
- Noël Mamère ( greens )
- Hervé Morin ( AD-UDF )
- Jean-François Copé ( UMP - incumbent )
- Bruno Gollnisch ( FN )

Third Constituency : VA, NC, SC, GA

- Daniel Gluckstein ( PT )
- Jean-Claude Sandrier ( PCF )
- Jean-Christophe Cambadélis ( PS )
- Emile Zuccarelli ( PRG )
- Martine Billard ( greens )
- Corinne Lepage ( AD-cap21 )
- Bernard Accoyer ( UMP - incumbent )
- Martine Lehideux ( FN )

Fourth Constituency : FL, AL, MS, TN, KY

- Christian Picquet ( LCR )
- André Chassaigne ( PCF)
- Arnaud Montebourg ( PS )
- François de Rugy ( greens )
- Marielle de Sarnez ( AD-UDF )
- Patrick Devedjian ( UMP - incumbent )
- Philippe de Villiers ( MPF )
- Bruno Mégret ( MNR )

Fifth Constituency : LA, AR, TX, OK, KS, NM

- Jacqueline Fraysse ( PCF )
- Jack Lang ( PS )
- Jean-Pierre Chevènement ( MRC )
- Antoine Waechter ( MEI )
- Maurice Leroy ( AD-UDF )
- Jean Saint-Josse ( CPNT )
- Christian Estrosi ( UMP - incumbent )
- Dominique Souchet ( MPF )
- Jacques Bompard ( FN )

Sixth Constituency : OH, MI, WI, MN

- Alain Krivine ( LCR )
- Marie-George Buffet ( PCF )
- Julien Dray ( PS - incumbent )
- Yann Wehrling ( greens )
- Thierry Benoit ( AD-UDF )
- Françoise de Panafieu ( UMP )
- Louis Aliot ( FN )

Seventh Constituency : IN, IL, IA, MO

- Roseline Vachetta ( LCR )
- Jean-Jacques Candelier ( PCF )
- Laurent Fabius ( PS )
- Christiane Taubira ( PRG )
- Alain Lipietz ( greens )
- Philippe Folliot ( AD-UDF )
- Alain Juppé ( UMP - incumbent )
- Jean-Claude Martinez ( FN )

Eighth Constituency : ND, SD, NE, MT, ID, WA, WY, CO, UT, AZ

- Nathalie Arthaud ( LO )
- Alfred Marie-Jeanne ( MIM )
- Manuel Valls ( PS )
- Brice Lalonde ( GE )
- Jean-Christophe Lagarde ( AD-UDF )
- Pierre Méhaignerie ( UMP - incumbent )
- Patrick Louis ( MPF )
- Michel de Rostolan ( FN )

Ninth Constituency : CA, NV, OR, AK, HI

- Eric Pecqueur ( LO )
- Jean-Paul Lecoq ( PCF )
- Michel Sapin ( PS )
- Georges Sarre ( MRC )
- Dominique Voynet ( greens )
- Anne-Marie Comparini ( AD-UDF - imcumbent replacing François Bayrou )
- Frédéric Nihous ( CPNT )
- Etienne Pinte ( UMP )
- Fernand Le Rachinel ( FN )

Tenth Constituency : Rest of the world

- Olivier Besancenot ( LCR )
- Marie-Hélène Amiable ( PCF )
- Pierre Moscovici ( PS - incumbent )
- Denis Baupin ( greens )
- Gilles Artigues ( AD-UDF )
- Hervé Mariton ( UMP )
- Marine Le Pen ( FN )


The constituency where you vote depends to you home state. Post the name of the candidate or of the party for which you want to vote.

[Antonio the Sixth]

I vote for Pierre Moscovici ( PS ).

[Antonio the Sixth]

Tenth Constituency. Abstain/blank.

My other endorsements:
1: Pierre Lellouche (UMP)
2: Hervé Morin (UDF)
3: Please commit suicide.
4: Ugh. François de Rugy (Greens)
5: Antoine Waechter (MEI) or Maurice Leroy (UDF)
6: Thierry Benoit (UDF) or Yann Wehrling (Greens)
7: Philippe Folliot (UDF)
8: Pierre Méhaignerie (UMP)
9: Frédéric Nihous (CPNT)

Really sorry. I had no more ideas for CPNT candidates. If you really want, I can "move" Nihous from 9th to 10th.

[Antonio the Sixth]

For the moment, we have only 4 votes for 10 constituencies.
Please, I beg you, vote to keep this topic alive !

[Antonio the Sixth]

Hervé Mariton ( UMP ).
Perhaps you should consider having less constituencies, especially if the participation rate remains low.

Right. I did the dramatic error to think that we could mobilize far more people, but nobody seems to be really interested in my idea...

[Antonio the Sixth]

So, I guess I'm in the 10th constituency. Though my MP in real life and for who I've voted in real life is in 7th one, Philippe Folliot. I can tell you that he is officially in NC but actually it is never mentionned anywhere and he never speaks about it, he is clearly a local Bayrou. Héhé, I even tend to think he could be in NC because he would have too much ego for being with that other big ego that is Bayrou. That said the guy has clearly no intentions for the national scale, he clearly stays on the local one.

In my TL, UDF didn't split in the MoDem and NC.

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I chose Moscovici because he seems being one of the most intelligent socialists. I read his book about Sarkozy and it's very moderate compared with other books like Bayrou's.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Damn, my constituency is awful. Well, I must go to Moscovici.

I chose Moscovici because he seems being one of the most intelligent socialists. I read his book about Sarkozy and it's very moderate compared with other books like Bayrou's.

Well, he is not the worst, by far, but frankly, he misses strength, without strength intelligence is nothing, or he has to be an adviser, but, unluckily, it seems that his personal ambition is too big to be an adviser.

We're speaking about politicians, not philosophers...

That's why it makes of him, maybe someone intelligent, but finally someone ineffective for his ideas, because he isn't able to well manage his ambition, and, in the end, it makes of him a mild without power. That's why I wasn't really enthusiastic to go for him. But well, we have to deal with what we have, that wouldn't be elections otherwise!

You should be right. I didn't see him as paticularly ambitious, not more than every other socialist anyways ! However, I agree with you that he isn't absolutely charismatic.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Don't forget this thread...

[Antonio the Sixth]

Closure of the vote

Results by constituency :

First
- Hollande : 1 ( 100% ) Elected

Second
- Morin : 0 ( 30% ) Qualified
- Copé : 0 ( 25% ) Qualified
- Emanuéli : 0 ( 20% ) Qualified
- Gremetz : 0 ( 8% )
- Mamère : 0 ( 6% )

Third
- Lepage : 0 ( 35% ) Qualified
- Accoyer : 0 ( 30% ) Qualified
- Cambadélis : 0 ( 15% )

Fourth
- Montebourg : 0 ( 30% ) Qualified
- Sarnez 0 ( 30% ) Qualified
- Devedjian : 0 ( 20% )

Fifth
- Estrosi : 1 ( 50% ) Qualified
- Fraysse : 1 ( 50% ) Qualified

Sixth
- Dray : 0 ( 30% ) Qualified
- Benoit : 0 ( 25% ) Qualified
- Buffet : 0 ( 20% ) Qualified
- Panafieu : 0 ( 15% )

Seventh
- Folliot : 1 ( 100% ) Elected

Eighth
- Valls : 1 ( 100% ) Elected

Ninth
- Pinte : 1 ( 100% ) Elected

Tenth
- Moscovici : 2 ( 67% ) Elected
- Mariton : 1 ( 33% )


As you noticed, I arbitrarily set the percentages when there was no vote. Second round coming soon.