Elections in Europe : June 2021 - November 2021
Elections in Europe : June 2021 - November 2021
Scientific Council
Prof. Dr. Sylvia Kritzinger, Prof. Dr. Marc Swyngedouw, Prof. Dr. Michal Kubát, Prof. Dr. Marc Debus, Prof. Dr. Rune Stubager, Prof. Dr. Piret Ehin, Prof. Dr. Irene Martín Cortés, Prof. Dr. Hanna Wass, Prof. Dr. Bruno Cautrès, Prof. Dr. Pierre Martin, Dr. Florent Parmentier, Prof. Dr. Theodore Chadjipandelis, Prof. Dr. Goran Čular, Prof. Dr. Gábor Tóka, Dr. Lorenzo Castellani, Prof. Dr. Diego Garzia, Prof. Dr. Ainė Ramonaitė, Prof. Dr. Philippe Poirier, Prof. Dr. Jānis Ikstens, Prof. Dr. Mark Harwood, Prof. Dr. Jacek Wojnicki, Prof. Dr. Marina Costa Lobo, Dr. Sorina Cristina Soare, Prof. Dr. Maria Oskarson, Prof. Dr. Alenka Krašovec, Prof. Dr. Olga Gyárfášova, Prof. Dr. Arjan Schakel
Directors of Publication
Ramona Bloj, Gilles Gressani
Editor-in-Chief
François Hublet
Scientific Advisor
Dr. Nicolas Leron
Editorial team
Jean-Sébastien F. Arrighi, Jean-Toussaint Battestini, Lucie Coatleven, Michał Ekiert, Charlotte von Born-Fallois, Adrian Fraus, Kalojan Hoffmeister, Charlotte Kleine, Mattéo Lanoë, Sofia Marini, Théophile Rospars, Johanna Schleyer, Victor Queudet
The Continental Review
How to report about elections in a Europe at war?
Until a few months ago, this question would have seemed to be of mostly historical relevance. Yet, as we write these lines, one European state is waging a war of aggression on another European state. Civilians are paying a high toll in a conflict they wished would never happen, a conflict which started when the … Continued
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The Continental Review
Introduction The past electoral semester has been rich in new political developments both quantitatively, by the number of elections that have taken place, and qualitatively. In this issue, we will review these dynamics from a European perspective, whilst paying special attention to local and regional specificities.Following this Continental Review prepared for you by BLUE’s editors, … Continued
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Elections in the European Union
Regional election in Saxony-Anhalt, 6 June 2021
Introduction State elections are often interpreted as “mood tests” for the federal government, especially when they take place in the year of a federal election. In fact, many state elections turn out to be infused with federal politics (Burkhart 2005; Völkl 2009). This pattern could hardly have been more clearly contradicted by the Saxony-Anhalt state … Continued
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Regional election in Île-de-France, 20-27 June 2021
In recent years, French regional elections have often been regarded as “mid-term elections” in which the President of the Republic and his party were put to the test. In 2021, this dimension of a ballot revealing the balance of political power is all the more clear as the French party system is confronted with a … Continued
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Regional election in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, 20-27 June 2021
On June 20 and 27, 2021, the seventh regional elections since the decentralization laws of 1982 and 1985 were held in France. These laws made the regions — which result from successive regroupings of the departments over the course of the 20th and 21st centuries — territorial authorities administered by regional councils elected by direct … Continued
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Regional election in Hauts-de-France, 20-27 June 2021
On June 20 and 27, 2021, the citizens of Hauts-de-France were called to the polls of the regional election. This election was marked by very low turnout: 32.84% in the first round and 33.18% in the second round compared to 54.81% and 61.24% respectively in the previous election in December 2015.While the election was held … Continued
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Regional election in Pays-de-la-Loire, 20-27 June 2021
A regional election was held in Pays de la Loire on June 20 and 27, 2021. Originally planned to take place in March, the vote was postponed due to the health crisis. Unlike in other European countries (such as, e.g., Germany), French regional council elections are organized on the same day in all regions. Voters … Continued
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Regional election in Occitania, 20-27 June 2021
The regional elections of June 20 and 27, 2021 are the first since the merger of the former French regions in 2015. The Occitanie region, born of the merger of the former Languedoc-Roussillon and Midi-Pyrénées regions in 2015, now represents 13% of the French metropolitan territory, with its six million inhabitants spread over 13 departments, … Continued
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Regional election in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, 20-27 june 2021
The June 2021 regional election in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (Aura) concerned the renewal of the 204 seats in the assembly of the new region. It corresponded to the regular end of the mandate of the regional councillors of all the regions of France, but also to the end of the mandate of all departmental councillors. Thus, for … Continued
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Regional election in Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, 20-27 June 2021
Far from resulting in an upheaval of the political equilibrium, the 2021 regional election in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur (PACA, Région Sud/South) has nevertheless nuanced and reflected the progression of some trends observable since the 1990s-2000s. A Much-followed Regional Election In the PACA region, the regional election could have gone unnoticed as at first glance it … Continued
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Territorial elections in Corsica, 20-27 June 2021
Gathering 67.98% of the votes in the second round of the 2021 territorial elections, Corsican nationalism reached a level of support unique in Europe for such a movement. Among the non-nationalist or unionist lists, only the moderate right-wing list made it to the second round, while remaining far from its ambitions of victory. It is … Continued
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Regional election in Guadeloupe, 20-27 June 2021
Unlike Martinique and Guyana, Guadeloupe is both a department and a region. The two authorities overlap and share the same territory, forming a DROM (overseas department/region) whose name has no juridical correspondence. In the light of the law and the constitution, only the department and the region exist.In 2021 the “dromatised” voters were called upon, … Continued
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Territorial election in French Guiana, 20-27 June 2021
“There will not have been the feared thunderclap. No region was tipped over to the Rassemblement National (National Rally, RN) in the evening of the second round of regional elections on Sunday 27 June, marked by a high abstention.” This was the first lesson that Le Monde drew at 8 pm from this election. (de … Continued
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Regional election in Réunion, 20-27 June 2021
Réunion, located in the Indian Ocean, is a French Overseas Department and Region (DROM), as well an Ultra Peripheral Region (UPR) of the European Union. As the regional council of Réunion is in charge of allocating local, national and European funding to regional projects, regional elections are closely followed by the island’s electorate. The Region … Continued
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French regional elections: short analyses
Centre-Val de Loire In 2015, the election to the Regional Council of Centre-Val de Loire had seen the National Front (FN, ID) win the first round with 30.49% of the vote, far ahead of the joint list of the center and the right (26.25%) and the list led by the Socialist Party (PS, S&D; 24.31%). … Continued
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Parliamentary elections in Bulgaria, 11 July 2021
The snap parliamentary election on July 11th came after the 45th National Assembly failed to provide for a regular government, and subsequently the president Rumen Radev dissolved the National Assembly and appointed a caretaker cabinet. The reasons behind the parties’ failure to form a regular government were twofold: from one side the level of political … Continued
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Regional elections in Calabria, 3-4 October 2021
Introduction In Mete (2020), referring to the regional elections of January 2020, but the same considerations can probably be extended to those of October 2021, speaks of the ‘political and media abandonment’ of Calabria, attributing this lack of interest not only to the ‘economic, political and demographic marginality’ of the region, but also to the … Continued
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Regional election in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, 26 September 2021
Situation before the election The election for the 8th state parliament of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern took place on 26 September 2021, at the same time as the Bundestag election and the election for the Chamber of Deputies in Berlin. In contrast to the other two elections of the election year 2021, however, this Landtag election was held … Continued
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Regional election in Berlin, 26 September 2021
The 2016 election to the Berlin House of Representatives gave rise to new political equilibria in the German federal capital. The ruling ‘Große Koalition’ had experienced a period in office marked by crises: its management of the refugee crisis, corruption scandals and the delay in the opening of the BER airport had led to much … Continued
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Parliamentary election in Germany, 26 September 2021
Initial situation The 2021 super-election year was special with regards to several aspects. For the first time in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany, the incumbent did not stand for re-election, i.e. there was no candidate who entered the election campaign with a chancellor’s bonus. For the first time, there were also three … Continued
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Regional election in Upper Austria, 26 September 2021
The context of the state election The last two state elections in Upper Austria in 2015 and 2021 took place under very different contextual conditions. While the 2015 Landtag election happened during the large refugee movement, the Covid-19 pandemic marked the 2021 election, which impacted the election campaign. Parties’ and their candidates traditional (“analogue”) campaign … Continued
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Parliamentary election in the Czech Republic, 8-9 October 2021
The legislative elections in Czechia on 8-9 October 2021 resulted in a significant political change. ANO (officially ANO 2011; the name originally stood for “Alliance of Dissatisfied Citizens”), the party of the PM Andrej Babiš, came a close second in terms of the popular vote, and even though it won the most mandates, it could … Continued
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Regional and municipal elections in Denmark, 16 November 2021
On November 16, 2021, local elections were held in all of the 98 municipalities and the five regions of Denmark. The electoral cycle is fixed with municipal and regional elections held simultaneously every fouth year on the third Tuesday of November (see also Kjaer 2020a, 2020b). The 2021 elections were held in the middle of … Continued
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Elections in candidate and EFTA countries
Parliamentary elections in Norway, 13 September 2021
Introduction After eight years in power, the Conservative-led coalition government of Erna Solberg had to step down on the 13th of September 2021. The left bloc in Norwegian politics — headed by the Labour Party leader Jonas Gahr Støre — had received an overwhelming share of the votes: Results revealed a historic majority to the … Continued
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Parliamentary election in Iceland, 25 September 2021
A parliamentary election took place in Iceland on the 25th of September 2021. Turnout was 80.1%. In the election the government coalition survived with a slight increase in its’ combined majority, and it is the first government that survives an election in Iceland since the collapse of the country‘s financial system in 2008 following the … Continued
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Elections in the M15
Italian municipal elections (Rome and Milan), October 2021
BLUE’s editorial team is following the local elections in the 15 European cities with more than one million inhabitants. On October 3-4 and 17-18, 2021, Milan and Rome, as well as a majority of Italian municipalities, renewed their municipal councils. A first round marked by the success of the left and the collapse of the … Continued
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