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France Says "Non!" to the Far Right, Overwhelmingly Rejects Marine Le Pen for Emmanuel Macron

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Hecuba's daughter5/07/2017 4:24:35 pm PDT

re: #296 Belafon

That one is showing by percentage won, not just win/loss.

It has the same problem. What if 106 of the departments each had .1% of the total population, while one department had the remaining 89.4% of the population. So one candidate could win 80% of the vote in the 106 districts but it wouldn’t matter if the other candidate won by “only” 60% in the last district. The map could be a sea of bright red, but the one district with most of the population be the one that mattered. If each district has approximately the area and population that wouldn’t matter — but that’s generally not true.