Well, its official. Sarkozy has been replaced by Hollande, who received 51.7% of the votes. A closer match than what I thought it would be based on the first round. Parisian voters had a slightly higher preference for Hollande at 55.6%, and interestingly enough, the vote was split geographically right down the middle, with the right of Paris voting for the politically left candidate and the left of Paris voting for the politically right candidate.
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| Map of the 2012 French Presidential election results in Paris. Source: Google Politics. |
http://www.google.fr/elections/ed/fr/results
I wonder how many voters actually abstained or voted for no-one ("vote blanc"). In France, the two actually means different things where the former is when you don't vote at all, but the later is where you put in a ballot that specifies that you vote for neither candidate. Right now, it is a moot point since vote blanc counts the same as not voting at all. But it would still be interesting to know how many people did not like either candidate.
I wonder how many voters actually abstained or voted for no-one ("vote blanc"). In France, the two actually means different things where the former is when you don't vote at all, but the later is where you put in a ballot that specifies that you vote for neither candidate. Right now, it is a moot point since vote blanc counts the same as not voting at all. But it would still be interesting to know how many people did not like either candidate.
There you have the numbers :
ReplyDeletehttp://elections.interieur.gouv.fr/PR2012/FE.html
5.8% vote blanc.