Abstract
Voting in municipal and general elections. Evolution from 1965 to 1971 in towns of over 30 000 inhabitants, by Elisabeth Dupoirier and Gérard Grunberg The maintaining of their strength by the centre parties in municipal elections seems to run against the tendancy towards a bi-polarisation of the political forces which has become more and more evident since 1962 in general elections. A detailed comparison of the voting clusters of the electorate since 1965 in these two types of elections in towns of over 30 000 inhabitants enables us to perceive the differences between them. There is a certain bi-polarisation in municipal elections, though it has come later and is less general. Even when the comparative strength is inversed in municipal elections - a phenomenon which is fairly rare - common elements in municipal and general election clusters give the general structure of the political forces a real unity. The change in relative strength in general elections must have an influence in general elections any attempt to implant the centre in municipal elections is bound to fail. [Revue française de science politique XXII (2), avril 1972, pp. 238-268]
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