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Post by Sibboleth on Mar 10, 2017 19:45:33 GMT
I've made a bunch of single member constituency level maps of this famous clusterfyck of an election and will make more. The election was the first to be held under the new MMP electoral system and the first to be held following the collapse of the 'First Republic' in a massive tidal wave of corruption scandals. The ultimate beneficiary of this, in one of those moments of absurd irony that even a hack writer would not dare contrive, Silvio Berlusconi...  Map above shows the winning Coalitions for the FPTP seats. Other maps will be of the List vote... |
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Post by Sibboleth on Mar 10, 2017 19:46:39 GMT
 Berlusconi's party, hastily assembled about thirty seconds before the election. No list in Puglia. |
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Post by Sibboleth on Mar 10, 2017 19:48:34 GMT
 The reformed ex-Commies, expected at first to win following the demise of their old Cold War foes. They continued with the PCI's long tradition of being a bit sh!t and screwing up elections... |
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Post by Sibboleth on Mar 10, 2017 19:50:35 GMT
 The reformed (and in some cases 'reformed') fascists; an incredible result for them compared with what the MSI used to manage. |
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Post by Sibboleth on Mar 10, 2017 19:53:48 GMT
 ...and the largest and most official part of the Great White Whale itself. The DCs split in all directions following the scandals of the early 1990s; the PPI was mostly made up of its left wing along with parts of the centre (including Giulio Andreotti, hardly an electoral asset by this point lmao). |
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Post by Sibboleth on Mar 10, 2017 19:54:52 GMT
So that's all four parties that polled over 10%. Next map will be of the Lega Nord...
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Post by Foggy on Mar 10, 2017 19:58:44 GMT
The Aosta Valley and South Tyrol come across as barely integrated with the rest of Italy at all.
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Post by Sibboleth on Mar 12, 2017 0:54:30 GMT
The Aosta Valley and South Tyrol come across as barely integrated with the rest of Italy at all. There's a reason for that... |
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Post by obsie on Mar 12, 2017 1:13:38 GMT
The reformed (and in some cases 'reformed') fascists; an incredible result for them compared with what the MSI used to manage. In Northern Italy, I can understand Trst and TrentBozen ("f***ing Slovenes" and "f***ing Germans" respectively). But why was what looks like the Ossola valley so fond of Not The Fascist Party? |
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Post by Sibboleth on Mar 12, 2017 16:52:55 GMT
F***ing Swiss maybe? But that's not a one-off either; strong AN results in 1996 and 2001 as well. Actually there's a tendency for AN to have done well in certain kinds of touristy areas (relative to whatever 'well' counts as in the region in question), but I don't know beyond that.
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Post by Sibboleth on Mar 12, 2017 16:53:22 GMT
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Post by obsie on Mar 12, 2017 18:05:29 GMT
F***ing Swiss maybe? But that's not a one-off either; strong AN results in 1996 and 2001 as well. Actually there's a tendency for AN to have done well in certain kinds of touristy areas (relative to whatever 'well' counts as in the region in question), but I don't know beyond that. It's curious, especially as an area which had a Resistance tradition, as opposed to two "frontier" towns that had been Italianised under Mussolini where the settler vote would have had an incentive to stay loyal. The touristy areas might suggest an influx of elderly and relatively wealthy retirees, but would those be that much more favourable to the MSI than other demographics? |
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Post by The Bishop on Mar 12, 2017 18:51:27 GMT
Lega Nord - do they even stand candidates in the south?
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Post by spqr on Mar 12, 2017 19:50:32 GMT
Lega Nord - do they even stand candidates in the south? Only as far south as Umbria and the Marche, I believe. Although that may be changing, as Matteo Salvini addressed a crowd in Naples only yesterday: www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-39245106 |
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Post by Sibboleth on Mar 14, 2017 0:29:28 GMT
 The unreformed Communists. Um. This map. Is. Weird. Er... |
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Post by carlton43 on Mar 14, 2017 0:42:51 GMT
Lega Nord - do they even stand candidates in the south? Only as far south as Umbria and the Marche, I believe. Although that may be changing, as Matteo Salvini addressed a crowd in Naples only yesterday: www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-39245106I lived on the Toscana/Umbria/Marche borders and Lega Nord opened party offices in our street a few years ago and makes more effort in elections. The rapid incursion of Arabs, Africans and Albanians to many towns is having a distinct effect on voting intentions. |
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Post by andrea on Mar 14, 2017 19:45:24 GMT
The deep red in Rifondazione's map in Puglia should be Bitonto constituency. Terlizzi was part of that constituency and it's Vendola's hometown. That year Rifondazione topped the poll in Terilizzi with a 25+% score.
I am not sure what is the expiation for the deep red in between Reggio Calabria and Locri.
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Post by Sibboleth on Mar 14, 2017 19:55:08 GMT
The deep red in Rifondazione's map in Puglia should be Bitonto constituency. Terlizzi was part of that constituency and it's Vendola's hometown. That year Rifondazione topped the poll in Terilizzi with a 25+% score. Yes. I suspect most of the 'wtf' stuff from smaller parties maps can be explained in terms of personal votes etc. |
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Post by Sibboleth on Mar 26, 2017 23:45:06 GMT
 Talking of odd maps... Anyway, the Segni Pact started off as a tendency of the DCs that supported scrapping proportional representation (because electoral reform is a magic bullet to all political problems as everyone knows) and soon became a political party. It changed its name a couple of times in responses to various mergers and splits and fought the 1994 election under the name of its leader, Mario Segni (son of former President and PM Antonio Segni). As well as DCs FOR REFORM it included a random assortment of people from other parties and none and was endorsed by former PSI PM Giuliano Amato. Rather bizarrely Segni ended up leading the electoral coalition for FPTP seats that included the PPI, but such was 1994. Rather amusingly he was defeated in his own FPTP constituency (Sassari) and was only returned as a Deputy on the PR list. Oh yeah, note that they weren't on the ballot in large parts of the country. |
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Post by Sibboleth on Apr 6, 2017 18:05:49 GMT
 Why, yes, Marco Pannella was from Abruzzo, how could you tell? And, again: not on the ballot in large parts of the country. |
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