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The expatriate vote in the French presidential and legislative elections of 2012: a case of unintended consequences

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posted on 2023-06-08, 13:53 authored by Susan CollardSusan Collard
In the 2012 legislative elections, 11 new deputies were elected representing newly created constituencies for the French expatriate community. The Right-wing UMP that initiated this legislation expected to create a clutch of safe seats for its own party, because expatriate voters have, since extra-territorial voting was introduced in 1981, always given massive support to the Right. Yet although this trend was maintained for the presidential election, the outcome was unexpectedly reversed for the legislative elections, when only three of the eleven new seats were won by the UMP. This article explains the background to these elections and analyses their results.

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  • Published

Journal

Parliamentary Affairs

ISSN

0031-2290

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Issue

1

Volume

66

Page range

213-233

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  • Politics Publications

Notes

Special issue: French presidential and parliamentary elections 2012

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  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2013-03-18

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