The political supply in the 2007 French Presidential election:

Important information on the preferences of French voters has been collected from the large-scale experiment on the approval voting rule and the evaluation voting (2,1,0) rule, that took place during the French presidential elections on april 22nd, 2007. After a description of the experimental design, we show that most voters seriously use the possibility of broader expression generated by the two tested voting rules. The aim of this paper is to provide an extensive analysis of the situation of political supplies in terms of simple political characteris-tics, derived from a MCA on the ballot data: groups of candidates are associated to different political supplies with no a priori conjectures about political programs, societal trends or candidates ’ valence. Classification JEL: D71, C93