Talk:2007 French legislative election

message: quite a few rules are missed out :you can find them in the french version.
Indeed I am curious if more can be explained regarding the election seeing as some parties with higher number of votes get less seats than those with less numbers of votes. --71.106.239.91 02:40, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not sure about the French election rules, but one party geting the majority of seats with cumulative less number of votes happens rather frequently in the US. See the article on gerrymandering. Jon 13:10, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  gaps in the explanation  of election rules

message: Did the french, I wonder, consider having a sixth republic instead of a 13th assembly becuase of the supperstition that the number 13 brings misfortune. Alec - U.K. 15:14, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  13 

message: Right now, the UDF is included in the right-wing "Presidential Majority" alliance in the chart. However, it isn't at all clear whether the UDF will remain a part of the alliance given that Bayrou and the UDF seriously challenged Sarkozy and the UMP in the presidential election. Moreover, Bayrou has suggested that he may endorse Royal and the Socialists in the second round. Would it then be appropriate to keep the UDF separate from both coalitions until it becomes clear which coalition (if any) they will be a part of? —Cuiviénen 18:48, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  UDF in the Right-wing Alliance? 

message: Any polls yet?  I saw in the IHT (I think) that the first polls showed a big lead for the "Presidential Majority" (UMP, pro-Sarkozy side of UDF, MPF etc) but I have not seen actual numbers.
Amcalabrese 17:30, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Polls 

message: What is the source of the aggregate party voting figures given in this article? Intelligent Mr Toad 08:36, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Sources

message: I think the whole coverage of these elections have been contradictory, rather than just this article. And the reason lies with the kind of results that were being flashed by various pre-election polls. None of them have seemed to get it right. .bandishhh 11:15, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Polls 2 

message: Just a detail. If Dr. Salem Kacet operated on Gérard Vignoble, then the former must be a cardiac surgeon, rather than a cardiologist.
190.161.184.28 22:26, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Cardiologist

message: Two questions:
* In French legislative elections, do the candidates appear on the ballot paper in alphabetical order, or in random order, or in some other order? I ask because at the Interior Ministry website giving the results for each district, the candidates appear in an order which is neither alphabetical nor random, nor in order of number of votes. The major party candidates are usually grouped at the top, but the MoDem candidate is frequently listed last.
* When listing French surnames in alphabetical order, are the elements "de" "de la" and "du" taken into account? Thus (to take an example), which is the correct alphabetical order here?
**Yves Contassot
**Françoise de Panafieu
**Marianne Druon 
or 
**Yves Contassot
**Marianne Druon 
**Françoise de Panafieu
Intelligent Mr Toad 07:03, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Because the candidate needs an absolute majority among those who voted at the first turn AND at least 25% of the votes among all those who have an electoral card. Lang had an absolute majority, but failed to have 25% of the votes (he needed more than 18,000 votes and had only about 17,000 ). Tazmaniacs 15:47, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

text: Juppé was in no obligation to resign, it was just because Fillon said that any minister running for a seat in the Assembly and loses needs to resign. Also, no law states that a minister needs to be a MP or Senator. You could me a minister, like a Senator could be one. --Petrovic-Njegos 17:01, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Ballot papers

message: As an idle passing observer, I think it would be very useful to have statistics on how many constituencies each party contested the second round.  If that's easy found, sticking that statistic alongside vote share would be most useful for sating at least my idle curiosity. Bastin 17:06, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Second round statistics

message: Substituted at 15:36, 29 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Assessment comment

message: Hérisson grognon (talk) 19:22, 12 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plural or singular?