European Elections 2009 (France)

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

Yes, but PS at 18% in the South-West. South-West.

Yes, South-West! And South-West is a strong place for PS but for it's most of all a good place for left in general so far-left and alternative left too so I expected higher greenies and higher far-left. I'm curious of Toulouse's results.

Very good for Rennes. I tend to see this city as a Toulouse of the north generally speaking.

No, alternative left and radical left are strong in Toulouse area, but not in Aquitaine or rural South-West.
And Greens in France are strong in Paris and Banlieue, in Bretagne and in the eastern frontiers (Alsace, Savoies, etc).

I know less Aquitaine, and I control less election track records than both of you do, but knowing enough Midi-Pyrénées I've been surprised by these results, that said, when I thought South-West I thought Midi-Pyrénées, Aquitaine and especially Languedoc-Roussillon are pretty different, that may explain that South-West is not like IDF. That said, with the results of South-East, even with Aquitaine and Languedoc-Roussillon we could have hoped here.

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

After having watched results of départements of Midi-Pyrénées here, PS well resisted.

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

Marine le Pen got the sit.

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Marine le Pen got the sit.

A so beautiful night, with Bayrou down and the mess again and again in the PS !

And now, "patatras", Marine IS elected...
NO French election night is perfect...

(And I've been unable to listen to Valérie Pécresse)

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Clairoix, Oise

UMP 24.96
Green 15.33
FN 14.19
PS 12.07
MD 8.32
Left 6.04
NPA 4.73

Montpellier: UMP 24.5, Green 23.16, PS 17.1, Left 7.64, MD 7.61, FN 5.64, NPA 5.54
Mulhouse: UMP 26.35, Green 18.05, PS 16.22, FN 10, MD 8.64
Lille: PS 25.55, UMP 20.87, Green 20.47, MD 8.85, FN 5.98, Left 5.13
Hénin-Beaumont: FN 27.92, PS 16.34, UMP 11.53, Greens 10.68, Left 8.82, NPA 6.69, MD 6.47

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Other seat results:

West

UMP 27.15% / 3
PS 17.28% / 2
Greens 16.64% / 2
Libertas 10.27% / 1
MoDem 8.48% / 1

Sud-Ouest

UMP 26.89% / 4
PS 17.71% / 2
Greens 15.82% / 2
MoDem 8.6% / 1
PG-PCF 8.15% / 1

The annoying sod Melenchon is now an MEP. The fake peasant Bove is now an MEP.

Massif-Centre

UMP 28.56% / 3
PS 18.1% / 2
Greens 13.33% / 1

East

UMP 29.3% / 4
PS 16.89% / 2
Greens 14.52% / 1
MoDem 9.43% / 1
FN 7.66% / 1

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South East

UMP 29.34% / 5
Greens 18.27% / 3
PS 14.49% / 2
FN 8.49% / 1
MoDem 7.37% / 1
PCF-PG 5.9% / 1

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With IDF outstanding:

UMP 24
PS 12
Greens 10
MoDem 5
Left + PCR 4
FN 3
Libertas 1

NPA won't get anything.

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So, Aurélie Filipetti won't be MEP (she was 3rd on the PS list in the East and is a former Green from Paris and is a supporter of Royal). She was put on the list because her national constituency may disappear in the future redistricting....

And Isabelle Thomas has, AGAIN, lost an election (she was 3rd on the PS list in the West).
You must be so happy, Hash !

And, thanks God, NPA is completely out.

So, just one bad news: we'll have to hear Marine Le Pen's voice for some time... Argh...

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Bordeaux: UMP 31.54, Greens 22.34, PS 15, MD 9.25, Left 5.99
Marseille: UMP 27.85, Greens 16.33, PS 15.89, FN 11.6, Left 7.84, MD 6.17
Grenoble: Greens 29.04, UMP 21.22, PS 19.09, MD 7.52, Left 6.87
Toulouse: UMP 30.07, Greens 22.05, PS 16.96, Left 7.92, MD 7.45, NPA 5.17
Nantes: UMP 25.78, Greens 25.54, PS 17.95, MD 8.18, Libertas 5.27
Neuilly: UMP 65.17, Greens 11.83, MD 5.95
Versailles: UMP 43.41, Greens 15.4, MD 9.67, Libertas 8.05, PS 7.84
Le Havre: UMP 21.84, Greens 17.66, PS 12.94, PCF 10.62, FN 8.26, NPA 5.6
Annecy: UMP 31.55, Greens 23.19, PS 12.69, MD 9.06, FN 5.67

And Isabelle Thomas has, AGAIN, lost an election (she was 3rd on the PS list in the West).
You must be so happy, Hash !

rofl. I'm very happy this local irrelevant piece of crap won't be an embarrassing MEP.

Anyways, time to check who's in and out.

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It seems as if the Greens stole the urban vote from the PS and MoDem.

So, the PS is older and older in its electorate.

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Left Front: Marie-Christine Vergiat (DVG) has won, Jean-Luc Mélenchon (PG) has won, Jacky Hénin (PCF) has won, Patrick Le Hyaric (PCF) will win, Elie Hoarau (PCR) has won. 2 PCF, 1 PG, 1 PCR, 1 DVG

UMP now:

SudEst

1 – Françoise Grossetete (Loire): MEP
2 – Damien Abad: President of the Young Centrists. NC
3 – Dominique Vlasto (Bouches du Rhône): MEP
4 – Gaston Franco (Alpes-Maritimes): Former RPR deputy
5 – Nora Berra (Rhône): Candidate in 2004 (5th spot)

NordOuest

1 – Dominique Riquet (Nord): Mayor of Valenciennes. Radical
2 – Tokia Saifi (Nord): MEP. Radical
3 – Jean-Paul Gauzes: MEP
4 – Pascale Gruny (Aisne): Saint-Quentin municipal councillor

Ouest

1 – Christophe Bechu (Maine et- Loire): President of the Maine-et-Loire General Council
2 – Elisabeth Morin (Vienne): MEP, Poitou-Charentes regional councillor (ex-President)
3 – Alain Cadec (Côtes d’Armor): Côtes d’Armor general councillor. Adjoint to the MoDem Mayor of Saint-Brieuc

SudOuest

1 – Dominique Baudis (Haute-Garonne): Former UDF Mayor of Toulouse and deputy. 1994 UDF-RPR list top candidate.
2 – Christine de Veyrac (Haute-Garonne): MEP, President of the UMP Fed in Haute-Garonne
3 – Alain Lamassoure (Pyrénées-Atlantiques): MEP
4 – Marie-Thérèse Sanchez-Schmidt (Pyrénées-Orientales): Adjointe to the Mayor of Perpignan

Est

1 – Joseph Daul (Bas-Rhin): MEP, President of the EPP-ED Parliamentary Group
2 – Véronique Mathieu (Vosges): MEP, Radical ex-CPNT
3 – Arnaud Danjean (Saône-et-Loire): Ran against Arnaud Montebourg in ‘07.
4 – Michèle Striffler (Haut-Rhin): Adjointe to the Mayor of Mulhouse. Modern Left.

Massif-Centre

1 – Jean-Pierre Audy (Corrèze): MEP
2 – Sophie Auconie (Indre-et-Loire): Tours municipal councillor. NC
3 – Brice Hortefeux (Puy-de-Dôme): Minister of Labour, Auvergne regional councillor (former MEP and top candidate in 2004)

Hortefeux actually won when his spot was just a symbolic thing. Haha.

PS

Nord-Ouest

1. Gilles Pargneaux, first secretary of the Lille federation
2. Estelle Grellier, Haute-Normandie regional councillor and defeated legislative candidate (2007)

Est

1. Catherine Trautmann, MEP
2. Liem Hoang Gnoc, quasi-Trot economist of some sort

Sud-Est

1. Vincent Peillon, MEP (Nord-Ouest)
2. Sylvie Guillaume, Rhône-Alpes regional councillor

Sud-Ouest

1. Kader Arif, first secretary of the Haute-Garonne federation
2. François Castex, MEP

Eric Andrieu, mayor of Villerouge-Termenès (pop. 158), has not been elected

Ouest

1. Bernadette Vergnaud, MEP
2. Stéphane Le Foll, MEP

As said above, Isabelle Thomas has lost yet another election. ROFL.

Massif-Centre

1. Henri Weber, MEP (Nord Ouest)

Cécile Jonathan, the joke who got pissed at me on my blog, has lost

FN: Gollnisch, the Le Pen family
MoDem: Jean-Luc Bennahmias, Corinne Lepage, Sylvie Goulard (in fact, she's Francois Goulard's daughter-in-law), Robert Rochefort, Jean-François Kahn
Greens: Hélène Flautre, Jean-Paul Besset, Yannick Jadot, Nicole Kiil-Nielsen, José Bové, Catherine Grèze, Sandrine Bélier, Michèle Rivasi, François Alfonsi, Malika Benarab-Attou. With Alfonsi, France will send one regionalist to the Euro Parliament.

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What must also be noted, which is a fascinating point about French far-right voters, is that NOT ANY dissident from the National Front is able to succeed:

Carl Lang and Jean-Claude Martinez are really trounced tonight by the FN, even in their own local base of Nord and Languedoc.

When you are a far-right voter, you are loyal to the party of the Chief, of the Führer... Jean-Marie Le Pen in this case.

It will really be very interesting to see, when JMLP is gone, how they will vote, faced with 2 or more extreme-right candidates.

But when Le Pen will really quit the scene ?
Are we so sure he won't be candidate in 2012 ? Maybe he'll say he's the only one able to gather 500 mayors' signatures required to be candidate ?
Or so present in the campaign that we won't know if this is Daddy or PanzerGirl who is candidate ?

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Parti Breton: 2.36% in Bretagne
EAJ: 1.98% in the Pyrenees-Atlantiques
ETA Batasuna: 2.70% in the Pyrenees-Atlantiques

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Lyon: UMP 30.84, Greens 23.7, PS 15.51, MD 8.74

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Paris: UMP 29.97, Greens 27.46, PS 14.69, MoDem 8.31, Left 5.05

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Only Val-d'Oise left before FINAL NATIONAL RESULTS!

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Maps

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With IDF outstanding:

UMP 24
PS 12
Greens 10
MoDem 5
Left + PCR 4
FN 3
Libertas 1

NPA won't get anything.

C'mon Val-d'Oise, already. Anyways, this should be the final result:

UMP 29 (Rad 3, GM 2, NC 2)
PS 14
Greens 14
MoDem 6
Left + PCR 5 (PCF 2, PCR 1, DVG 1, PG 1)
FN 3
Libertas 1

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Maps

In Paris, 4th, 5th and 12th arrondissements are decidedly no longer right strongholds....

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A link towards a quite fine interactive map.

http://q.liberation.fr/flash/electionseuropeennes2009/carte-France-dept-circ.swf

[Antonio the Sixth]

Gandrange, Moselle:

PS 29.15
UMP 16.74
FN 11.96
MoDem 9.57
NPA 9.27
Greens 8.67
Left 3.14

Good idea to show Gandrange results : they know better than anyone what Sarkozy is able to do.

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Gandrange, Moselle:

PS 29.15
UMP 16.74
FN 11.96
MoDem 9.57
NPA 9.27
Greens 8.67
Left 3.14

Good idea to show Gandrange results : they know better than anyone what Sarkozy is able to do.

What happened there?

[Antonio the Sixth]

Gandrange, Moselle:

PS 29.15
UMP 16.74
FN 11.96
MoDem 9.57
NPA 9.27
Greens 8.67
Left 3.14

Good idea to show Gandrange results : they know better than anyone what Sarkozy is able to do.

What happened there?

Almost one year ago, the Gandrange's Arcelor-Mittal factory announced that it would close and all workers would be fired. Sarkozy personally came here and solemnly claimed that he would save the factory and that nobody would lose his job. Some moths after, the factory closed. But at this time, nobody cared about, and Sarkozy succeeded in improving ( a bit ) his popularity.

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Preventing yet another Sarkozy debate...

For sake of completion, IDF:

UMP 29.6% / 5
Greens 20.86% / 4
PS 13.57% / 2
MoDem 8.52% / 1
PCF-PG 6.32% / 1
FN 4.4%
NPA 3.48%
Libertas 3.28%
AEI 2.97%
DLR 2.44%
Anti-Zionist 1.3% (2.83% in the 93)
DVE-La Terre sinon rien 1.03%

Clichy-sous-Bois: UMP 21.42, PS 17.62, Greens 13.83, FN 7.35, PCF 6.94, MD 6.29, NPA 5.87, Anti-Zionist 5.18. lol PS