West versus East.
In Paris, political forces are changing, but the territorial divide remains.
The capital experienced a parenthesis of uniformity from 1983 to 1995 when, twice, Jacques Chirac made the "grand slam", winning the twenty arrondissements, and that the right, in 1993, left only one constituency to the PS (in the 11th).
Then, from 1995 to 2017, whether in municipal or legislative elections, the right reigned in the west, unstoppable in the 6th, 7th, 8th, 15th and 16th, and the left dominated in the east, overwhelmingly in the 11th, 13th, 18th, 19th and 20th.
Emmanuel Macron's election in 2017 was a political and territorial earthquake.
The president-elect landed one of his best scores in the capital, supplanting the right in the 5th and pushing it back in much of the 15th and 17th;
and doubling the left in its strongest strongholds of the 10th and 11th.
François Fillon had resisted in the most right-wing neighborhoods (7th, 8th, 16th) and…
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