The results came in last night, I was at party HQ as our various agents rang in to tell us the result from the polling station as we filled in the data one piece at a time.
The final result:
Xavier Garcia, Parti Socialiste: 40.54%
Lauriano Azinherinha, UMP: 59.46%
A surprisingly good result for Garcia in fact, in the [...]
On Sunday night, I received the results to Round 1 of the by-election. They make for interesting reading!
I had to deal with it in an Excel spreadsheet and figure out who was who, but YOU get this nice handy chart:
So, there are a number of interesting conclusions I draw from this. (Note the French use a [...]
As voters in Pasteur, Cimiez and Libération vote in the first round of the by-election for Nice 6, I’ll take you through the choice they face. There are 11 candidates in total from the extreme left all the way to the extreme right. The two winners from today will go through to round 2 next Sunday. [...]
On Sunday, habitants of the 6th canton (district of a town) of Nice will go to the polls to elect a new Conseiller Général (It’s kind of like a Local Councillor).
This is a by-election, after the elected UMP candidate was disqualified for breaking the rules on funding. The area in question is Nice 6, which [...]
