French Legislative Election 2017

[Zanas]

For the PC police I will happily rephrase it: to what extent would one say that large swathes of Valls' constituency can be considered socio-economically underprivileged sensitive urban zones?

There are rather poor zones in Évry and especially Corbeil. But Corbeil had been transformed into Dassault land, even if there was still a PCF tradition there. Lisses, Bondoufle and Villabé are much more suburbia.

[Zanas]

Seems like PCF won 92-01 (Faucillon), but lost 92-11 (Boudjenah).

Also, FI wins both Lille constituencies, which is a major LOL. 59-01 is very tight though, FI 50.1% !

[Zanas]

For the PC police I will happily rephrase it: to what extent would one say that large swathes of Valls' constituency can be considered socio-economically underprivileged sensitive urban zones?

There are rather poor zones in Évry and especially Corbeil. But Corbeil had been transformed into Dassault land, even if there was still a PCF tradition there. Lisses, Bondoufle and Villabé are much more suburbia.

Thank you.

And sorry I snapped at you, it was a case of "I can't let a sarcasm-joke-irony-play on words pass" on my behalf.

[Zanas]

There's a nice red territory just north of Paris with 92-01 and 93-01, 02, 04 and 06 all being contiguous. Obono seems to have won 75-17 which could also be touching.

[Zanas]

DLR won a seat ...

Yeah, Dupont-Aignan survived with 52% of the vote.

[Zanas]

Valls now officially won 50.3-49.7. Turnout only 36.6% in his district.

Yes !!

We have reports than he actually lost but than the mayorship of Corbeil-Essonne tampered with results.

Reports from whom?

The losing candidate AND camera crews (they were very obviously denied entry in the recount room).

Well it was clearly a mess, there will be a trial, and we'll see what the Conseil constitutionnel has to say about this. Being Corbeil and with Dassault's background, I wouldn't rule out a cancellation of the vote and a re-vote in a few months.

[Zanas]

It's official : 7/12 seats in Seine-Saint-Denis are FI or PCF (or both in a few cases) \o/

[Zanas]

It's official : 7/12 seats in Seine-Saint-Denis are FI or PCF (or both in a few cases) \o/

Perhaps you can explain how the UDI wins Seine-Saint-Dennis 5 when surrounded by the FI and COM?

Jean-Christophe Lagarde has made a stronghold for himself in Drancy and has managed to bleed clientelism in the nieghboring communes via elected officiales in cantons etc. So it's now a very safe seat for him, not really for the right in general. Plus, it was never as much of a communist or socialist stronghold as the surroundings.

[Zanas]

I was checking the results in Paris and see that LREM lost some votes in the second round compared to first round. Srategic voting to avoid a huge majority for Macron?

Paris 2nd
First Round: 18,463 Second Round: 18,347
Paris 4th
First Round: 17,726 Second Round 16,024 (would have won if hold all the votes)
Paris 14th
First Round: 17,654 Second Round: LREM 17,263

Right-wing voters coming back home when they saw that LR was at risk of being wiped out.

[Zanas]

Why can't Melenchon play nice with the Communists?

To be fair, the question can also exactly be asked in reverse.

Also, it's better they have two groups, that's twice the number of assisting positions, and they would have perpetually fought and eventually split rather sooner than later. And anyway, a 27-member group can't do much more than two 16-member and 15-member groups... They don't even have half a motion of no-confidence (58 seats needed) between them !