French regional elections, 2015

[bryant.coleman]

The exit poll results for the first round will be out within 90 minutes time (7:00 pm GMT). The second round will be held on next Sunday.

Here are the results from the latest opinion polls:

Odoxa:

Front national - 30%
Les Républicains - 29%
Parti socialiste - 22%

Harris Interactive

Front national - 28%
Les Républicains - 27%
Parti socialiste - 24%

Elabe

Front national - 28.5%
Les Républicains - 28%
Parti socialiste - 23%

[zenitzz]

France is in desperate need of conservative leadership. If they don't address the immigration and terrorist issues they will lose everything. They will be unrecognizable and will be a place I would never want to visit.

Obama wants to do the same thing to America. That is why conservatives have to win in 2016!

[saddampbuh]

fingers crossed

[Xubu]

This is an unprecedented result of one of the largest and most important countries in the EU.

I am very curious what the result will be as Front National finally wins the most votes.

I hope the debate will start here.

[Xubu]

fingers crossed

Why?

[bryant.coleman]

First round results:

Front national - 30.8%
Les Républicains - 27.2%
Parti socialiste - 22.7%

The FN is leading in 6 out of the 13 regions.

Full results here:

http://www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeurs/article/2015/12/06/regionales-les-resultats-commune-par-commune_4825784_4355770.html

* Marion MARÉCHAL-LE PEN received 40.55% of the vote in PACA.
* Marine LE PEN got 40.64% in Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardie.
* Florian PHILIPPOT 36.06% in Alsace-Champagne-Ardenne-Lorraine.
* Sophie MONTEL on 31.48% in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté.
* Christophe BOUDOT on 25.58% in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (2nd place).
* Nicolas BAY received 27.71% in Normandie (2nd place).
* Philippe LOISEAU on 30.49% in Centre-Val de Loire.

[bryant.coleman]

Second Round Results:

The FN failed to win any of the 13 regions, with the center-right winning 7 and the center-left 5. Corsican nationalists won in the island of Corsica. Marine Le Pen could gather only 42.23% of the vote in the second round, despite winning 40.64% in the first round. Marion Maréchal-Le Pen also lost in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, managing to get only 45.22% of the vote.

Full results here:

http://www.lemonde.fr/elections-regionales-2015/article/2015/12/13/les-resultats-des-elections-region-par-region_4831146_4640869.html

[zenitzz]

The heading should had read "Socialists lost regional elections for conservatives in France" The media has been quiet about last week socialist loss in several key countries in Europe. Reality catching up. Meanwhile in America the media is pushing us backwards

[Xubu]

First round results:

Front national - 30.8%
Les Républicains - 27.2%
Parti socialiste - 22.7%

The FN is leading in 6 out of the 13 regions.

Full results here:

http://www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeurs/article/2015/12/06/regionales-les-resultats-commune-par-commune_4825784_4355770.html

* Marion MARÉCHAL-LE PEN received 40.55% of the vote in PACA.
* Marine LE PEN got 40.64% in Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardie.
* Florian PHILIPPOT 36.06% in Alsace-Champagne-Ardenne-Lorraine.
* Sophie MONTEL on 31.48% in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté.
* Christophe BOUDOT on 25.58% in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (2nd place).
* Nicolas BAY received 27.71% in Normandie (2nd place).
* Philippe LOISEAU on 30.49% in Centre-Val de Loire.

Surprising result

[J. J. Phillips]

It's a disappointing result, but not surprising to me. It's always seemed like a minority of the French that are willing to even admit there is an Islam problem in their country, and that the problem will likely mean the destruction of their country and culture.

As far as I'm concerned, they've voted for their extinction. Let them have it.

Every Charlie Hebdo massacre, every Paris attack, every French Jew tortured to death or Jewish French child shot in a school, every Jihadi massacre. The French have voted for it. Let them live and die with it. Let them go dancing to their graves satisfied with the final post-beheading thought: at least we stopped the FN.

[bryant.coleman]

It's a disappointing result, but not surprising to me. It's always seemed like a minority of the French that are willing to even admit there is an Islam problem in their country, and that the problem will likely mean the destruction of their country and culture.

No. It is not. The FN managed to secure 28% of the vote, and they almost won two of the regions. Such an outcome would have been unimaginable a few years ago. Also, you have to remember that less than 70% of the French population is native. Getting more than 40% of that vote means that the FN is the most popular party right now, among the native French.

[alpher]

It's a disappointing result, but not surprising to me. It's always seemed like a minority of the French that are willing to even admit there is an Islam problem in their country, and that the problem will likely mean the destruction of their country and culture.

No. It is not. The FN managed to secure 28% of the vote, and they almost won two of the regions. Such an outcome would have been unimaginable a few years ago. Also, you have to remember that less than 70% of the French population is native. Getting more than 40% of that vote means that the FN is the most popular party right now, among the native French.

Unfortunately that less than 70% now will become fewer and fewer over time, native French are dying breed.
To me it sounded more like NOW or Never, I do pity French.