French Presidential Election; Results Thread (1st round)

[minionofmidas]

The SFIO (the pre-Mitterand socialist party; actually a rural centrist party with a curious love of overblown pseudo-Marxist rhetoric) was strong in the southwest of France, largely as a result of a network of strong party bosses in the area in the inter-war years keeping the corpse of the SFIO alive (remember this is the same time in which the PCF, basically, became the party of the industrial working class). The orginal reasons for SFIO strength there have a lot to do with the areas distance from Paris (Socialism being an attractive way of protesting) and, in some areas, religious/anti-clerical/sectarian geography (though you have to be careful with that. The link is stronger with Communist support in the South IIRC).

Somewhere I have some old maps. Wait a sec...

They've basically inherited the Napoleon III- era Republican stronghold there.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

They've basically inherited the Napoleon III- era Republican stronghold there.

Makes sense. Wasn't Jean Jaurès from that area as well?

I wonder what was with that strong Communist and Catholic state.

You mean the Seine Maritime department? It's very industrial and includes Le Havre.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Map of candidates by department:



There are probably some mistakes here and there; treat this as a first draft...

[minionofmidas]

Why didn't you include Nihous? (Or Schivardi? )

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Why didn't you include Nihous? (Or Schivardi? )

Because I didn't want to have to use half percentages (which would also be an excuse to avoid doing Voynet; her support was weirdly level)

I'll probably add him (Schivardi too!) at some point though.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

This map (not mine, obviously) is very interesting:

[minionofmidas]

Is there a link with circonscription results? Or is it a case of adding canton figures together?

Le Monde have a good flash graphic - you click on each departement then on each seat.

http://www.lemonde.fr/web/panorama/0,11-0@2-823448,32-901390,0.html

I can't find it for the second round.