German Election Results Thread

[Gustaf]

What's up in SH ?

CDU 31, SPD 25.5, FDP 15.5, GRE 12, SSW 4, LINKE 6.5, OTH 5.5

OK, no Black-Yellow there ...

According to the ZDF they have a 1-aseat majority due to some strange law.

[Gustaf]

Now, a east-west breakdown on that would be fun.

ARD-prognosis West-Germany - East-Germany

All voters, not only the unemployed ones.

CDU/CSU 34,5 - 29,0
SPD 23,5 - 18,0
FDP 16,0 - 11,0
Linke 9,0 - 27,5
Grüne 11,5 - 8,5
Pirate 2,0 - 2,0
NPD ?? - 3,0
Other 4,0 - 1,0 (in West incl NPD, in East without)

CDU biggest party in the East? huh

[Gustaf]

Can someone give me a concise explanation of the German seat-allocation system? I'm almost getting it but not quite.

What I've got is this: you have 2 votes. One for a candidate, FPTP like in the US or UK and one for a party (like in Sweden). If you get too few seats in the FPTP-system you get compensated in some way but if you get too many you can keep them (the überhang). But I'm not clear on the details.