Luxembourg 2013

[minionofmidas]

Quite hard to understand if you're not familiar with it or a similar dialect of German!

Isn't that true of any language, though?

Not quite. In fact, for me as a North German it is easier to understand Dutch than Letzeburgisch (or Schwizerdütsch, for that matter). For ZuWo, as a Swiss, it is obviously the other way round. The differences between German dialects, especially the North German (Low Saxon) and the Southwestern (Allemannic) ones are quite strong, with High German serving as a bridge.

While out here in the middle, Luxemburgish is, barely, sorta, with occasional gaps, understandable. While Swiss* and Dutch are not.

*okay, not quite true.

[minionofmidas]

Reading more about the spying scandal that brought on these elections.

They bugged the Grand Duke?

Why?

Was it just that the Luxembourg intelligence services really don't have anything to do so they just started bugging every single person to occupy their time?

What makes you think there is a western world secret service that has done anything else with the sixtillions shoved down their throats since 9/11?

[minionofmidas]

It seems that a list vote gives exactly one vote to each candidate on the list... if you change your ballot to vote for candidates from multiple lists, how many votes maximum can you give to a single candidate?

EDIT: Found it on the website. The answer is two.

[minionofmidas]

That 2009 comparison figure is the whole municipality result (or if you click it at constituency level, the whole constituency result), so no worthwhile info on swings until any municipality is wholly in.

[minionofmidas]

And we have a full result. (Tiny municipality alert!)

Waldbredimus, in the east.

CSV 41.2 (-4.9, and that's certainly not supported by partial results from elsewhere)
DP 17.8 (+7.3, ditto)
Greens 14.6 (-1.1)
LSAP 10.9 (-2.5)
ARD 6.8 (-2.9)
dei Lenk 3.8 (+0.8, these latter three look like they might hold all over)

EDIT: And another one, Remich. Just as tiny and in the same part of the country... and an even bigger CSV loss (35.2, -9.1), with LSAP as well as DP gaining.

[minionofmidas]

Yeah, CSV definitely is losing quite a bit of votes, without their dominant party status getting into any kind of doubt of course.

[minionofmidas]

Turnout: 90.0% (down from 90.8% in the last election)

Voting in Luxembourg is compulsory... and when you request a postal ballot, unless you're 75 or over, you need to give them a good reason and some proof of it.

[minionofmidas]

The sky is falling!

[minionofmidas]

Under pure proportional, the Pirates and Communists would have gained seats in the South. Alas, I think there is a 4% threshold within the constituencies.

I think they're just using D'Hondt.