 These choices are reflected politically into a strong center-left anchor, dominated by Socialist-radicals and independent Socialists, before whom the SFIO and the Socialist Party are not imposed.Since the Liberation, with the exception of a Gaullist period of 18 years with Jacques Hébert following death, the city of Cherbourg has voted in favour Socialist forces.Similarly, the right won the town hall of Octeville in 1989, for a term, by the division of the left.