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2024 Legislative Elections in France

In July of 2024, I took a week off after the legislative elections in France. I had a specific goal. I wanted to replicate the striking animation called “Shifting Winds of Belgian Politics” by Karim Douieb.

As I often do, I tackled the technical difficulty one step at a time.

I manually assigned a left-right position to each political party, and looked at the repartition of votes along that scale:

Then I replicated the wind effect where each particle flows to the right or to the left, with a trail.

Here is the embed of the notebook for the wind effect:

The legislative elections in France are 577 independent races, and generally have two rounds. After the first round, I first fetched the data for the participation (the vote is not mandatory in France, so the participation is an important metric). And I applied the wind effect to the participation:

Here is the embed of the notebook for the participation:

I produced another map only for the evolution of the extreme right parties, between the 2022 and 2024 elections:

Here is the embed of the notebook for the extreme right:

Finally, I reproduced the left/right wind effect, as in the Belgian elections, but for the 2022 and 2024 legislative elections in France:

Here is the embed of the notebook for the shifting winds: