French Presidential Election Maps
77 years afterwards beingness invaded yesteryear Nazi Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany over i 3rd of votes cast inward a French Presidential election went to a fascist.
We accept to inquire ... 'why'?
Results of the French presidential election reveal the same geographical split upward which emerged inward the first circular vote for the president. This geographical split upward reveals that Le Pen is close pop inward the north-east of French Republic as well as along the Mediterranean coast. Comparatively she has far less back upward inward the residue of the country.
The Guardian as well as the Financial Times both accept presidential election maps showing how French Republic voted inward yesterday's election. The Guardian has mapped the bulk for Macron as well as Le Pen inward each department. The FT map has broken the results downward farther as well as shows the per centum of votes cast for Macron as well as Le Pen yesteryear commune. Both maps reveal the same geographical split upward inward Le Pen's popularity. As the Guardian reports Le Pen's heartland is inward "the rust belt bordering Kingdom of Belgium as well as along the Mediterranean coast".
The New York Times has begun to analyse why these 2 areas of French Republic powerfulness last attracted yesteryear a candidate of the far right. The newspaper uses 2 maps to compare votes for Le Pen amongst the 2016 unemployment rate. There surely seems to last a potent correlation betwixt the charge per unit of measurement of unemployment inward a subdivision as well as the reveal of votes cast for Le Pen.
However, fifty-fifty though Le Pen's strongest back upward was inward the northward as well as south, the New York Times points out that Macron was however the close pop candidate inward 'most demographic groups', including inward places amongst high unemployment. According to the Financial Times unemployment isn't the strongest predictor of the Le Pen vote. In fact unemployed voters inward urban areas were non meaning voters for Le Pen.
The Financial Times has identified educational levels as well as social cast equally the strongest predictors of Le Pen voters. Macron's vote portion nationally was highest inward areas amongst few working cast jobs. The strongest indication for an expanse voting for Le Pen was education. Le Pen 'gained close votes inward areas where the marking of teaching was relatively low'.
If y'all are interested inward exploring the votes farther hence the NYT's primary French Presidential election map is a skillful house to start. The map shows the results yesteryear commune. You tin dismiss equally good mouse-over a subdivision expanse on the map to persuasion a breakdown of the votes yesteryear candidate as well as the per centum of the electorate who voted. The map equally good includes a reveal of annotations highlighting interesting areas inward French Republic where Macron or Le Pen accept to a higher house average support.
