Your favorite map of France
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Lol, even the banlieues (Parisian ghetto suburbs) rejected the left and centre...
According to that map, literally every departement outside of the Paris city walls voted for National Rally, lololol...
No wonder the media here (i.e. the other side of the world) was finding every "queer leftist" they could, within Paris, to disparage the result and paint it as the second coming of Petainism...
If you zoom in a bit on the map, the pink spot is the city of Paris proper, with all the landmarks and some crime-ridden areas in the north - and the three other spots are some of the suburbs, with the one on top being the notorious Saint Denis suburb.
That said, I'll do you one better - the minority overseas territories voted for Le Pen in the past presidential election.
Oh yeah, you’re right. I massively overestimated the size of “Ile-de-France”, and assumed the three surrounding blue départements were Seine-et-Marne, etc, rather than the orange bits, as you point out…
Can’t actually see that without zooming in significantly…
But still, as you say, those places voted for NF, as did Lyon and Marseille, both of which have banlieues as well (and Calis, where most of the refugees end up eventually, for that matter), so…
It’s pretty significant.
Though as someone else said, if history shows anything, it’s that the Ile-de-France doesn’t really care what the rest of France thinks, politically. Seemingly they haven’t for roughly 200 years…
Actually, you had the right idea. Paris makes up a tiny part of the modern Ile de France.
True, it's been worst in the past 200 years, but they haven't cared for more than 1000 years! Some idiots have actually been destroying their own city as revenge for the outcome.