French Presidential Election 22 April 2007 Thread

[afleitch]

Turnout in Paris:

24,6% until 11:30 compared to 20,4% in 2002.

This is bad for Royal, isn´t it ? Paris normally votes Socialist and if the national turnout is 10% higher compared to 2002, 4% in Paris is no good sign. But we´ll see ...

Woops, my fault. The Paris region is a swing region:

Thanks to Kireevs site:

http://www.electoralgeography.com/en/countries/f/france/2002-president-elections-france.html

it shows for 2002's first round:

Ile-de-France:

Chirac: 19,1 %
Jospin: 16,8 %
Le Pen: 16,0 %

So, not so bad for Royal ...

Do remember that some parts of Paris were Chirac's 'fiefdom.' Without him it will be interesting to see how things go.