Old election posters, leaflets, etc

[Hans-im-Glück]

The Nazi poster is so surprisingly mundane.

That's a very famous poster.

Reproduced in just about every German highschool history textbook...

And this poster is  brilliant.

This poster shows with few resources, the feelings in Germany at that time. Millions of unemployed people and many who had the fear of a social crash. They watch to the viewer with their hopeless eyes. The only words on the poser are: Our only hope; Hitler.

The font the German parties used says a lot about their ideologies.

Yeah, Gothic Font = conservative. The NSDAP don't use this Font often. Most of the Conservatives love the Nazi, but they see themself as a modern, progressive party. So they use a more modern font, because they think: We are the future.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Yeah, Gothic Font = conservative. The NSDAP don't use this Font often.

...and ended up banning it using a genuinely bizarre pretext.

[Gustaf]

Translations for the ones I posted:

1. Anyone who votes for "the Workers' Party" votes for Moscow
2. Women of Sweden! Anyone who votes for "the Workers' Party" votes for the dissolution of family bonds, the feralizing of the children and the decline of morality.

4. Away with every tendency for seeking dictatorship. Vote with the Peoples' Party. 

[Filuwaúrdjan]

The Dutch Anti-Revolution ones are hilarious.

1. Anyone who votes for "the Workers' Party" votes for Moscow

Translation was not really needed

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

I must say, I like the PVP cow better than the KVP cow.

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More (older) PCF stuff












and SFIO stuff

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MRP stuff







RPF, 1951

[minionofmidas]

Yeah, Gothic Font = conservative. The NSDAP don't use this Font often.

...and ended up banning it using a genuinely bizarre pretext.

They didn't "ban" it. They replaced it with something legible outside Germany in official documents.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Yeah, Gothic Font = conservative. The NSDAP don't use this Font often.

...and ended up banning it using a genuinely bizarre pretext.

They didn't "ban" it. They replaced it with something legible outside Germany in official documents.

I was told differently, though I think you'd be more likely to be right. I hope that the bit about the bizarre 'official' reason is true, though.

[minionofmidas]

I hope that the bit about the bizarre 'official' reason is true, though.

Yes! And yes, it was a lie.

And, of course, with such a reasoning in 1941, all the newspapers immediately followed suit.

[Gustaf]

The Dutch Anti-Revolution ones are hilarious.

1. Anyone who votes for "the Workers' Party" votes for Moscow

Translation was not really needed

No, obviously not.

[Bunwahaha [still dunno why, but well, so be it]]

What remains the most famous in France, especially for the slogan:



François Mitterand 81, it says: 'The calm force'



Some liked to find a similarity with that 2007 Sarkozy's poster, that maybe wouldn't have been random:



The stuff says: 'Together everything becomes possible', and lol, I just found something that hadn't popped into my mind:



In red some link the word 'Together' to 'where are the other ones?', lol, so Sarkozy.



Others, 69:





81:





lol, so 80s



'anti-something', so French far-left



88:



Quite empty



Haha, 'L'Ardeur', I guess they referred to what could be 'zeal' in English, dunno on that epoch, but for a while now, for me it seems to me that 'ardeur' is mainly used and understand as the 'sexual ardor', lol, Chirac, pretentious... On a side note we pronounce 'ardeur' like 'harder', and in France we use 'harder/hardeur' to refer to males who make porn, one more lol.



Enjoy the good ol' Grady Le Pen in 2002:





And 2007:

First the impact of Marine Le Pen:



This poster made a lot of noise, and has been one of the big stuff that made Marine unpopular amongst the good ol' FN militants apparently.



There is an Arab but not a Black, maybe it couldn't be that much on the same year...

And well, enjoy a wall of 2007 poster:



Isn't Ségolène sexy here? Yeah, she is.



Interesting to note, when you compare to older posters that Hashemite posted here about France, that, beyond the fact that empty communication took over, the importance that took the face of the candidates on posters...

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Interesting to note, when you compare to older posters that Hashemite posted here about France, that, beyond the fact that empty communication took over, the importance that took the face of the candidates on posters...

I think the reason is quite obvious, I pointed out Fourth Republic posters for elections in which party lists and party systems played a large role. Modern ones are the presidential ones, which are far more personalized than party-based. Though the new electoral system for regional elections and Euro elections have personalized those elections a lot more (especially regionals, with the concept of 'President of Region' being a far more important position in popular minds than in 1986-1998, though the actual position is a Speaker of a legislature with a bit more powers).

I would also suppose than in the 1950s these posters were printed centrally in stocks for a nation-wide audience, but today posters are printed more locally for a more local audience (except for presidential votes).

Exception, of course, for personal machines such as the RPF in 1951 and the MoDem today, parties created by one man for one man and where the leader prominently figures on the poster, even if he is not candidate.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

The decline in artistic-design quality is very striking in the French posters.

[afleitch]

I remember feeling a tad guilty that the man second from the right was pretty good looking...

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Random comments on some of the presidential posters in France:

2007, Sarkozy: Fits in well with the reformist theme (vast open spaces), his fake populist crap ('ensemble'), bright new days are ahead (a theme used by the UMP before Sarkozy with 'imaginons la France d'apres') with the blue sky and the weird-looking alien birdy.
1981, Marchais: Clearly the candidate of the working-class and popular classes, with a dose of 'anti-everybody' common to Marchais' PCF.
1988, Mitterrand: Partly 'renewal' theme, but also fits in well, imo, with Mitterrand's moderate 1988 style, open to everybody etc.
2002, Le Pen: Nice guy, open to all, down to earth smiling guy
2007, Le Pen: the traditional 'anti-everybody' so typical of the far-right and the second poster with Le Pen as the candidate of everybody (workers, young cadres, kids, students, immigrants [rofl], middle-aged people).
2007, Royal: I can't help but think that she wanted to add a 'OMGZ A HOT WOMAN LETS VOTE FOR HER' appeal to men. La France Presidente isn't excellent grammar to me, but it's a typical electioneering populist slogan.
2007, Nihous: I can't help but add sexual innuendo... smiling guy, in the woods... what are you doing 'coquin'?
2007, trots: Do you fucking live in 1920? Besancenot's more 'modern' poster, which looks like some teen magazine cover, shows his younger and more modern style. Laguiller and Schivardi are typical of the old sectarian hard left, with manifestos of revolution rather than modern ads.

Other stuff of interest:


2002, Chirac first round: A 'rallying' theme common often to incumbents.

[Хahar 🤔]

I hope that the bit about the bizarre 'official' reason is true, though.

Yes! And yes, it was a lie.

And, of course, with such a reasoning in 1941, all the newspapers immediately followed suit.

Translation?

[Lief 🗽]

I hope that the bit about the bizarre 'official' reason is true, though.

Yes! And yes, it was a lie.

And, of course, with such a reasoning in 1941, all the newspapers immediately followed suit.

Translation?

It calls the font the "Jew-Letters" and orders that everyone switch to a new one.

[Psychic Octopus]

Blair stuff, fairly recent but I just thought I'd throw it in here out of fun. The second one is particularly in fresh memory. The first one is kind of fuzzy, sorry guys.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Blair stuff, fairly recent but I just thought I'd throw it in here out of fun. The second one is particularly in fresh memory. The first one is kind of fuzzy, sorry guys.

So Britain deserves something better than new Labour?   I see that the old saw about Britain and America being two countries divided by a common language still holds true.

[Smid]

Here are a collection of election campaign slogans from Australia, neatly compiled by the media:

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/gallery-e6frg6n6-1225864643488?page=1

[Smid]

This ad will be on tv in Australia this weekend:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q02ADpu7GWk

[Smid]

This ad was released last night in the lead-up to the Victorian State Election:

http://www.youtube.com/user/LiberalVictoria

[Phony Moderate]

From the 1945 UK General Election:

[minionofmidas]

"take a liberal dose of beveridge?" LOL!