Interesting that that's way higher than those maps of Victorian church attendance in Cheshire (just happened to be the one I found) from the mid-19th century.It's interesting to compare the results of the MRP (which was a centrist Christian democratic party, the first time political Catholicism had really made overt inroads in France) with this map of regular Sunday massgoers as of 1960:
(map courtesy of geoelections.free.fr, which you should go look at if French election maps interest you)
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By this point did they still need to say that yes, you went to Mass, but it was with your mother or wife to avoid it killing your promotion prospects in public service?
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That sounds like more of a Third Republic thing, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it lingered.
Armand Brette was one determined man.
I know what you mean, there's nothing that leaves one more affably disposed towards Boney than trying to map the HRE in 1789.
France, November 1946
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Alright, the key has been completed and a few errors corrected around the edges. This should be it, but probably won't be, if only because I just said it was.
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Still a little odd to me that the main French centrist party (at the time) is known as 'The Radical Party'.
Technically the Radical Republican and Republican Socialist Party (PRRRS) if that helps to grasp its big tent-Ness. It was basically a mix of south-western France's notables and liberal reformers of both a right-liberal (néoradicaux like Mayer) and left-liberal (Mendès-France) tendency.
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Ah, so its name is in some ways a holdover from when free-trade liberalism was a radical concept, and it has since fallen victim to sinisterisme.
Smashing work, Max.
Can you explain the second Madagascar map to me, I suspect I'm not getting a subtlety of the voting system.
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In Algeria, Equatorial Africa and Madagascar, the electorate was divided into two colleges (or rolls, as the British would've called them) - one for "citoyens du statut français" (French-born citizens and those natives who had attained citizenship through education, military service or similar, and were fully under the jurisdiction of French law) and one for "citoyens du statut personnel" (everyone else). Only the former had been allowed to vote at all under the Third Republic, and the latter were massively underrepresented even under the Fourth.
For instance, in Madagascar in 1951, there were some 30,000 voters on the French roll and 850,000 on the statut-personnel roll, but the former got two seats and the latter three. There were only about 10,000 citoyens du statut français in all of Equatorial Africa, so I honestly have no clue why they kept the separate roll there but not in West Africa.
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The DOM-TOM still need to be filled out, and the key probably has to be expanded to get the Algerian Muslim shades back in, but this is the entire metropole.
Do not even mention the loi des apparentements, the Troisième Force or the Seine-Inférieure 1st constituency recount to me ever again.
EDIT: Haute-Vienne is supposed to be a 5% margin for the PCF.
Do not even mention the loi des apparentements, the Troisième Force or the Seine-Inférieure 1st constituency recount to me ever again.
EDIT: Haute-Vienne is supposed to be a 5% margin for the PCF.
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I suspected it was that, I was just confused because it was the only example I could see where the number of seats & therefore boundaries varied between the two.
The colours work well on the 1951 map!
Nothing to do with free trade though, more about laïcité and opposition to strong executive power, associated with monarchism.
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Seems I won't have to do that, because after this election, the Algerian second-college delegates all joined mainstream party groups. A lot of them went Radical, but a few of these Muslims sided with the MPR (well, Christian democracy actually squares pretty well with 50s-era political Islam if you ignore the whole "different religions" thing), Abderrahmane Bentounès (who had been a Socialist up until this point) randomly joined the CRAPS, and one of the Constantine delegates actually joined the RPF. This didn't have anything to do with which lists they were elected on either - all constituencies but one had one list get so far ahead that all its names were elected.
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Beautiful.
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Here it is in all its messy glory.
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I have no idea what happened in Algeria between 1946 and 1951 - the actualwar conflict emergency situation was still three years away at this point, but I assume there would've been some sort of crackdown on Algerian separatism, because the delegates from there seem to have been in a hurry to stop forming their own party groups.
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I have no idea what happened in Algeria between 1946 and 1951 - the actual
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Yes, after 1946 there were no free elections for Muslims in Algeria. The pied noirs and the administration made sure of that.
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That makes a depressing amount of sense, yes - also accounts for the hilariously lopsided results everywhere except Constantine-3 (which happened to have two republican lists standing).
Is the use of the unopposed colour here primarily meaning unopposed or majority unknown? I think it's a little misleading to use it for both without any distinction (an asterisk or something?) but I may have misunderstood how you've used it.