German Election Results Thread

[rob in cal]

Ok, stupid question from the US, did the Pirates run as a left leaning party? If so, than combined with Greens, Linke and SPD that would be really close to CDU/FDP vote total. Once again the threshold law rears it head.

[rob in cal]

I'm wondering if anyone has a link to a source with a full list of all the little parties that ran and their percentage of the vote. Most sources just show about 6% for sonstige and I'd like to know the ideoligical breakdown of that vote (I'm guessing Pirates and NDP are the biggest of the others).

[rob in cal]

I noticed that among the smaller parties (those below 5%) most of their voters didn't give them many first (constituency votes) but only the more important  (assuming they won more than 5% of course) second vote.  However, the NDP actually won more first than second votes.  If many NDP voters had done like most small party voters and given a bigger party their first vote, and assuming the majority of them voted for the CSU CDU perhaps the CDU could have won even more overhang mandates.