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Choisir sa population pour gagner les élections ? Une études sur les municipales de 1953 à 1983

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Based on a regression analysis of French demographic and electoral data, 1953-1983, three relations suggested by theory appear confirmed: big cities tend to vote more for the right when compared to their own population the population of their suburbs is large; the distribution of the population of the urban area between the central city and the suburbs depends very significantly on the relation between the city's surface and the whole area's population ; the mayors of the central cities objectively influence the development of the distribution of the whole area's population in a way that is favorable to their reelection.