Data Vis Dispatch, July 9

With turnout on Sunday at its highest level in decades, French voters reversed the far right’s lead to elect an alliance of left-wing parties to a parliamentary plurality:

155 out of 577 French constituencies changed their political colors, some of them quite dramatically. One strategy that helped overcome Le Pen’s far-right National Rally was the targeted withdrawal of candidates from other parties in order to increase each other’s electoral chances:

Nevertheless, the rise of the National Rally in recent years should not be underestimated. Le Monde provided a detailed story:

Meanwhile, the headline result in Thursday’s U.K. general election surprised no one — a historic defeat for the Conservative Party. Tactical voting also played a big role here, with Labour and Lib Dem voters working together against Tory incumbents:

There were drastic swings in many constituencies:

Although Labour now holds a huge parliamentary majority, their share of votes was lower than expected from pre-election polling. Reasons for this include a split in the right-wing electorate and a late shift away from Labour just before Election Day:

What has Labour inherited? The results of 14 years of Conservative politics, including stagnant productivity, falling living standards, and struggling public services:

Now for an election that could hardly be more complicated: Thailand’s six-round senate race based on 20 occupational categories. This chart tries shed some light on the process — you can see that people elected in the “crossover” round also tended to finish at the top within their occupational group:

Did you know that world leaders are on average almost twice as old as the people they govern? Oh, and that some have been in office for a looong time:

Two visualizations on GDP. First, the Economist shows cost differences and working hours change international rankings. Then a look at how Selangor, a state on the west coast of Malaysia surrounding Kuala Lumpur, contributes almost half of the country’s GDP:

Oil exploration on indigenous territories and an effort to criminalize abortion as simple homicide — two sad stories from Brazil this week:

Although Russia does not disclose the number of its soldiers killed or injured in its invasion of Ukraine, various sources suggest that casualties recently passed a new milestone. Plus another rising death toll, of migrant workers in South Korea due to industrial accidents:

More on migration, including migrant children in the U.S. placed with untrustworthy guardians in the early Biden years, and a detailed analysis of immigrants in Germany:

In sports, the ongoing European Football Championship and people running away from bulls:

Our miscancellous section this week may be at the end, but is no less important. This year’s Global Gender Gap Report paints a depressing picture for Italian women, who lag far behind men, especially in economic participation. And NATO is strengthening its eastern border with Russia: