Spain election maps

[Velasco]

Madrid, May 2003:



Explanations later. Julio, you can tell us something about the Tamayazo. Look, Sanse is still red . Also, I'm trying to make some Argentine maps (there are some uploaded to a blog of mine, link in the globe under my display name or through the profile). One of these days I'll finish the map of Buenos Aires province and maybe I'll open a thread about that fascinating and incomprehensible country.

[Velasco]

Aragon 2011:



I believe this map might appear in a jackson Pollock's exhibition. I have no time to spread on the subject. Let's say that the Elections to the Aragonese Corts were held on May 22, 2011. The outcome was as follows:

PP 41% winning 30 seats (+7); PSOE 29.97% winning 22 (-8); PAR 9.45% winning 7 (-2); CHA 8.5% winning 4 (nc); IU 6.37% winning 4 (+3).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elections_to_the_Aragonese_Corts,_2011

Those percenteges are over votes to candidature, whereas in the Wiki entry percentages are 'valid' votes (including blank/NOTA). In the following link, the electoral history of Aragon:

http://www.historiaelectoral.com/aaragon.html

As for the regionalist/nationalist parties in Aragon. Link (to the Spanish version, cause the English one is a meaningless stub) to the wiki entries of center-right Aragonese Party (PAR):

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partido_Aragon%C3%A9s

And to the left-wing Chunta Aragonesista (CHA, Aragonese Union):

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chunta_Aragonesista

The CCA (Compromise for Aragon) is a split of PAR led by a former mayor of Teruel. It won in several small villages and got 3% in Teruel province (only 0.7% region-wide).

I have uploaded this to my blog alongside with some weird Mexican and Argentine maps, including one Gubernatorial election where the brother of Marcelo Bielsa (coach of the glorious Athletic de Bilbao) ran.

[Niemeyerite]

Wow, the Aragon map is beautiful (el bipartidismo ha muerto)! But, it was better when it was uglier and red was dominating the maps...

And the 2003 election in Madrid was the last time Sanse was won by PSOE, so I like the map. I probably hate the 2003.2. map, you'll have to show it for me. What I know is that my father couldn't vote in 2003.1. but voted in 2003.2. (people did the opposite thing )

[Velasco]

Some maps of elections in Asturias. Below, the 2007 Regional Election:


This one of the May 2011 and March 2012 elections is slightly different from those who are posted in the first posts of this thread.



Edit: I tried to make more distinguishable FAC and PP colours on one hand and PSOE and IU on the other hand.

[Velasco]

Andalusia 2012:

Leading party by municipality.



Results in Seville by district and in neighbouring municipalities. It's a pretty polarized city as you can see.

[Velasco]

Some weird maps of the Andalusian election. This one covers the area of the Bay of Cadiz and Jerez de la Frontera and shows the strenght of the main parties.

This one is the Bay of Algeciras (Campo de Gibraltar) and the comarca of La Janda, also in the province of Cadiz. I have no data for the Rock of Gibraltar

[Velasco]

2011 General Elections in Madrid: Congress of Deputies.

Compare this map with the one of the 2011 Municipal Elections posted in the previous page.

[Niemeyerite]

Ugh.

[Velasco]

Ugh.

Veo que te doy una de cal y otra de arena

Do you like these ones? Party strength by municipality in the 2012 election in Asturias. Some patterns are really obvious, especially regarding IU and UPyD.

[Velasco]

2011 General Elections in the city of Barcelona (results by district):

PSC's downfall with regard the 2008 Election is pretty obvious. The list headed by Carme Chacón fell from 42.84% in 2008 to 25.73% in 2011. Still, it won a plurality in 6 of the 10 Barcelona's districts. CiU repeated as well with Josep Antoni Duran i Lleida at the top of the list, managing to win a 27.66% (20.66% in 2008) and winning in the city by the first time, as it happened in the Municipal Elections 6 months before. PP got 21.33% (18.32% in 2008). ICV-EUiA got 10.04% (6.36% in 2008) and ERC a 7.14% (6.98%). Escons in Blanc got 1.84% and UPyD 1.29% (0.24% in 2008). Ciutadans (C's) got a 0.95% in 2008 and didn't run in 2011. Given the ideological similarities between the Catalan party and UPyD, it seems clear that the latter received voters from the first.

2011 Municipal Elections in the city of Valencia (also results by district):

Results of the General Elections (Congress of Deputies) in the same city on November 20, 2011

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The main differences between the results of the May Municipals and the November General Elections (Congress of Deputies) are in the results of the coalition Compromís and UPyD. The PSOE scarcely managed to improve in November the terrible results of May and the results of the PP and IU (called EUPV in Valencia) were practically identical.

The coalition Compromís is comprised by the Valencian Nationalistic Bloc, Initiative of the Valencian People (IdPV, former EUPV members) and ecologists. The candidate for the mayoralty was Joan Ribó, before coordinator of EUPV (IU). In the General Elections, adding the Equo greenies to the coalition, the candidate was a former mayor of Sueca, Joan Baldoví, who was elected as the only representative of the Valencian nationalism in Madrid. EUPV (IU) managed to gain another seat in the province of Valencia. In the 2008 General Elections only PP (53.47% in the city) and PSOE (38.02%) won seats, while EUPV came in a distant third with a 3.23%. UPyD obtained a 1.15% and a coalition previous to Compromís, but comprised by the same parties, only got a 0.79%.

UPyD's candidate for the Generals in Valencia was the actor Toni Cantó who, with a somewhat populist speech, managed to get the third place in the Valencian capital and won a seat in the Congress of Deputies, the only one that UPyD obtained outside Madrid.

[Velasco]

2011 General Elections in the Region of Madrid:



The file size has been reduced. I'll be posting similar maps of the 2011 General Elections in other electoral districts (provinces or single-province regions).

[Niemeyerite]

I saw this yesterday on your blog. Glad to see Sanse is "less blue" than Alcobendas, Colmenar, Tres Cantos and other towns in the region.

[Velasco]

I saw this yesterday on your blog. Glad to see Sanse is "less blue" than Alcobendas, Colmenar, Tres Cantos and other towns in the region.

And it's slightly more red, cause it's the only municipality in the northern periphery of Madrid where PSOE breaks 25% (more concretely, 26.65%), but still PP got 49.45% of the vote and UPyD 10.76%, while IU came behind with 8.43% and Equo only got 1.78%. A bit disappointing for IU and Equo, given that you had an IU/ later independent green mayor. 

However, my favourite area in the Madrid region is La Sierra Norte, just for the trivial reason that some small villages gave curious results, like Puebla de la Sierra, where 3 people voted for Anticapitalistas, a 6.38% of the 47 votes cast. With the same percentage in the whole Madrid there would be 2 guys or gals of the anticapitalist left in the Congress of Deputies, but the list only got a 0.13%. I'd like to meet the three anticapitalist guys or gals living in that village

[Niemeyerite]

I saw this yesterday on your blog. Glad to see Sanse is "less blue" than Alcobendas, Colmenar, Tres Cantos and other towns in the region.

And it's slightly more red, cause it's the only municipality in the northern periphery of Madrid where PSOE breaks 25% (more concretely, 26.65%), but still PP got 49.45% of the vote and UPyD 10.76%, while IU came behind with 8.43% and Equo only got 1.78%. A bit disappointing for IU and Equo, given that you had an IU/ later independent green mayor.  

However, my favourite area in the Madrid region is La Sierra Norte, just for the trivial reason that some small villages gave curious results, like Puebla de la Sierra, where 3 people voted for Anticapitalistas, a 6.38% of the 47 votes cast. With the same percentage in the whole Madrid there would be 2 guys or gals of the anticapitalist left in the Congress of Deputies, but the list only got a 0.13%. I'd like to meet the three anticapitalist guys or gals living in that village

Cuando vino Tomás Gómez a Sanse se quedo impresionado por la afluencia al mitin que preparamos. Y la campaña fue todo un bombazo aquí, así que supongo que tiene algo que ver. De hecho, la noche electoral en Madrid había uno llorando (en Ferraz) y le dijo a una compañera: bueno, por lo menos en Sanse habremos ganado [la alcaldía], no?. Obviamente no lo hicimos, tras tres años de PSOE dividido en el pueblo y en plena marea azul, y además un partido de izquierdas local que son "los más guays" y nos quitan votos en las locales (mi padre, socialista de toda la vida, los ha votado 3 veces -no en 2011-). Pero visto ahora objetivamente parece ser que algo hicimos bien para que la tonalidad en las regionales fuera un rojo un pelín más oscuro... O quizá no tiene nada que ver y siempre hemos sido más rojos, no sé. Prefiero pensar que sí jaja..

Pero una cosa, tengo entendido que el PSOE sacó un 27% en Sanse (e IU superó el 10%) y un 25 y pico % en Alcobendas... No sé si son mis fuentes o las tuyas las incorrectas, espero que sean las mías porque yo no he hecho ningún mapa todavía y me fastidiaría jajaja

[Velasco]

Pero una cosa, tengo entendido que el PSOE sacó un 27% en Sanse (e IU superó el 10%) y un 25 y pico % en Alcobendas... No sé si son mis fuentes o las tuyas las incorrectas, espero que sean las mías porque yo no he hecho ningún mapa todavía y me fastidiaría jajaja

Alcobendas: PP 53.11%; PSOE 24.7%; UPyD 11.38%; IU 6.44%; Equo 1.68%.

http://www.infoelectoral.mir.es/min/busquedaAvanzadaAction.html;jsessionid=87EBEDC0825E6AC71BE218A513803820.app2

The data that I gave before for San Sebastián de los Reyes is the same (archivo electoral del Ministerio del Interior).

Probablemente confundiste las generales con las autonómicas de 2011; es probable que IU sacara más del 10% en estas últimas en Sanse.

[Niemeyerite]

Pero una cosa, tengo entendido que el PSOE sacó un 27% en Sanse (e IU superó el 10%) y un 25 y pico % en Alcobendas... No sé si son mis fuentes o las tuyas las incorrectas, espero que sean las mías porque yo no he hecho ningún mapa todavía y me fastidiaría jajaja

Alcobendas: PP 53.11%; PSOE 24.7%; UPyD 11.38%; IU 6.44%; Equo 1.68%.

http://www.infoelectoral.mir.es/min/busquedaAvanzadaAction.html;jsessionid=87EBEDC0825E6AC71BE218A513803820.app2

The data that I gave before for San Sebastián de los Reyes is the same (archivo electoral del Ministerio del Interior).

Ah, sí, perdona. Creía que el mapa era sobre las regionales. Las generales sí cuadran (ahora lo veo claro: ELECCIONES GENERALES jajaja). Ahora sí cobra sentido, porque ya me extrañaba a mí: aquí UPyD sacó muy poco en las regionales y sin embargo superó a IU en las generales. Yo lo llamaría el efecto Izquierda Independiente.

[politicus]

Plz keep it in English, this is interesting stuff for us honkies as well.

[Velasco]

Plz keep it in English, this is interesting stuff for us honkies as well.

OK, my (bad) translation of what Julio was telling in the previous post:

"When Tomás Gómez (general secretary of the Madrid PSOE's branch and rival of Rubalcaba) came to Sanse (San Sebastián de los Reyes, a suburban municipality to the north of Madrid city), he got impressed with the concurrence in the rally that we (the local socialists) have prepared. The campaign here was a smash hit. In the election night there was someone crying in Ferraz (PSOE's HQs in Madrid) and told to a comrade, 'at least we won in Sanse, didn't we?' Obviously we didn't, after three years of internal division in the town and in the middle of the blue's (PP) high tide and, besides, an independent left local party that steal our votes because they are the coolest. My father, diehard socialist, voted for the independent left three times, but not in 2011. However, looking with some perspective, it seems that we did something good here to see the colour red slightly darker... or maybe it has not relation and we've been always more red than our neighbouring municipalities, I don't know"

[Niemeyerite]

Plz keep it in English, this is interesting stuff for us honkies as well.

OK, my (bad) translation of what Julio was telling in the previous post:

"When Tomás Gómez (general secretary of the Madrid PSOE's branch and rival of Rubalcaba) came to Sanse (San Sebastián de los Reyes, a suburban municipality to the north of Madrid city), he got impressed with the concurrence in the rally that we (the local socialists) have prepared. The campaign here was a smash hit. In the election night there was someone crying in Ferraz (PSOE's HQs in Madrid) and told to a comrade, 'at least we won in Sanse, didn't we?' Obviously we didn't, after three years of internal division in the town and in the middle of the blue's (PP) high tide and, besides, an independent left local party that steal our votes because they are the coolest. My father, diehard socialist, voted for the independent left three times, but not in 2011. However, looking with some perspective, it seems that we did something good here to see the colour red slightly darker... or maybe it has not relation and we've been always more red than our neighbouring municipalities, I don't know"

Haha, thanks, Dani. I think I'd have been able to translate that, but I was in a hurry and I had to write fast, something I can't do in English. And I enjoy writing in Spanish in an English-only forum . People should learn our great language!!!!

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Dicho esto, el mapa mola mucho. Se lo voy a enseñar a los líderes del PSOE aquí en Sanse para que tengan un motivo para ser optimistas, creo que se lo merecen, porque cada pasito que dan, va el PSOE nacional y retrocede 10 pasos (sea Pepiño, sea Ponferrada, sea un "monarquísmo" de algún lider...).

That said, the map rocks. I'll show it to PSOE leaders in Sanse [my town], so they have a reason to be optimistic, I think they deserve it, because each little step they advance, the national PSOE goes back 10 (Pepiño Blanco -former Secretary of Transportation- corruption cases, Ponferrada scandal, some random socialist standing up for the monarchy...).

Me llama la atención San Martín de Valdeiglesias, pasaron de un alcalde facha a uno socialista (el que estuvo hasta 2007) en 2011, es muy bipartidista en tu mapa y además muy azul... Qué pueblo tan raro.

It draws my attention that San Martin de Valdeiglesias elected a socialist mayor in 2011 (the same mayor they had before 2007, when PP won), that it's very bi-partisan in your map and very blue... What a strange place.

[Velasco]

2008 and 2011 General Elections in Barcelona (province)



In the city of Barcelona there was a 17% swing against PSC-PSOE. Outside the city, the swing against the Catalan socialists was around 20% in most of the municipalities. In the insets, leading party by district in the city.

Some examples of PSC's 2011 (2008) results in the main cities and regional centers:

Barcelona 25,73% (42,84%); L'Hospitalet 38,81% (57,58%); Badalona 32,6% (52,9%); Terrassa 29,6% (49,84%); Santa Coloma 41,18% (61,16%); Mataró 25,86% (46,1%); Vilanova i La Geltrú 30,24% (50,06%); Vic 14,14% (32,32%).

[Niemeyerite]

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

[batmacumba]

Shouldn't ERC's and CiU's colors be exchanged?

[Velasco]

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

it might be even worse. PSOE's federal executive is handling badly the crisis of the Catalan Socialists. A few days ago the PSC presented a watered-down federalist project, with proposals for constitutional changes, recognition of the plurality of nationalities inside Spain, etcetera. Clearly not sufficient, given how things are going in Catalonia. Nobody in Ferraz has noticed it, only Soraya Díaz attended the PSC's press meeting in Madrid. PSOE needs Catalan Socialists to win elections and, instead of helping them, they are helping to sink PSC a bit more. There is no project to face the "wizard independentism " ("independentismo mágico" in Joan Herrera's words) of Artur Mas and ERC. PSOE has a complex and is afraid of the reaction of the Spanish nationalism in the rest of the country and PSC is diminished opposite to the Catalan nationalism. At least that's my opinion and I know public opinion in Spain is not very favourable to federalism, but the Spanish socialists are still a bunch of cowards in my view.

Shouldn't ERC's and CiU's colors be exchanged?

Do you mean ERC replacing CiU as the main nationalist force? Maybe, who knows? Still, I think CiU has between 750,000 and 1 million of "captive" votes, people too moderate or conservative to vote for the Republican Left of Catalonia. On the other hand ERC is not too leftist nowadays or, at least, they are subordinating everything to the Independence referendum. That includes support for Artur Mas in the Catalan Parliament and for the budget, with cutbacks and all of that.

[Niemeyerite]

PSOE is dead, I know...

[Velasco]

PSOE is dead, I know...

PSOE is still the second party, it's not dead still. I really don't understand why socialists aren't moving up. Rubalcaba has a strange obsession with pacts these days -and PP is laughing in his face- and it seems that everybody in his party is pretty lost. Instead of being defeatist, I think socialist militants should rebel against the direction and reclaim real changes, because it might be too late if PSOE has a bad result in the European elections.

Oh, I see that batmacumba meant that CiU and ERC colours should be exchanged in the map. I prefer CiU in yellow instead of dark blue and PSC's red and CiU's yellow make the colours of the Catalan flag, and with the ERC's purple we have the colours of the Spanish Republican flag

What do you prefer, the old-fashioned CiU propaganda or the new logo? I hate especially the smile on the latter, I don't know why.