EP elections 2014 - Results Thread

[palandio]

You can find similar phenomenons in Munich, Frankfurt, Hamburg,...
One common pattern (rarely found in its pure form) is that you have from the inner city to the suburbs:
A small right-leaning core which tends to favor conservative parties (ÖVP, CDU/CSU) and even more classical liberal parties (NEOS, FDP). Often with extensions into inner city upper-class residential areas (M-Altbogenhausen, F-Westend, HH-Rotherbaum...).
Then the conservative vote share drops into the low range and classical liberal vote share decreases, but not as sharply. Instead you get into the Green strongholds.
Still remaining in densely inhabitated areas, we come into territory where rents are lower, here at first the radical-left and then social-democratic parties have some of their strongholds.
Outside of this zone we have a mix of conservative leaning low-density residential areas and social-democratic leaning housing estates.
This extends to the suburbs: Basically you can predict the voting behavior from the settlement structure. Since many independent communes were reluctant to build estates, they are on average more classically conservative leaning than their counterparts inside the city limits.

[palandio]

It seems to me that in most cases it's the more center-oriented parties that don't want to ally with the far-right crazies. Funny that here the FPÖ takes the position of the more sane party and the KNP is regarded as "obscurants". In the US KNP would probably be regarded as some standard paleo-libertarian party, maybe even "moderate Republicans" like Ron Paul has been called. (In my eyes KNP and Svobodni are pseudo-libertarian far-right fringe parties that make the FPÖ look sane.)