A physics study of elections: regularities, predictions and models on French elections.

Summary We study the spatio-temporal regularities present in the electoral results and the participation rates of the communes (or polling stations) of the French elections between 1992 and 2007. We then try to develop models, based on a simple imitation of agents in the same neighborhood, that are consistent with the data. A complement develops a model of an experiment, which deals with the modification of agents' choices by the knowledge of other agents' choices.