German Election Results Thread

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Dortmund. Not as hilariously polarised as Essen, though some patterns are familiar. And, yes, The Left did indeed beat the CDU in much of the inner North.

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Leipzig.

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Comparing the Leipzig maps to the Dresden one is interesting.

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Comparing the Leipzig maps to the Dresden one is interesting.

Many more Left wins (obviously), but otherwise sort of comparable.

Is Leipzig's centre posher than Dresden's?

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What is Dresden's centre?

The bit in the middle,  most of which had above average Left results - which is obviously not true of Leipzig, thus the question.

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I think I'll randomly take you up on that in a few months time

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Yeah, that would explain things.

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Wiesbaden The Left's best area was somewhere where they did badly in the state election earlier in the year, fwiw.

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Nuremberg. My German isn't good enough to know what's done with the areas I've blanked out - I can make any changes easily if they were combined with other areas for electoral purposes.

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It said something somewhere near the maps about these areas "being nearly uninhabited and combined with a neighboring area for election purposes (see text above)".

Yeah, I sort of got parts of that, though wasn't entirely sure, but...

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Exactly.

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Anyway, just thought I'd note that I'll sort-of do requests now. So long as there's a map with the relevant boundaries on it, and the actual numbers.

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I'll take you up on that. I'd like to see a constituency map with CDU and FDP added together and likewise for SPD, Greens, and PDS.

Would you prefer local government districts? They're more detailed in most areas.

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Ah, I remember that from 2005. Hilarious.

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Leading party in Frankfurt by postal precinct. Whether this sort of map is all that useful when you consider that four parties won postal precincts and that a fifth polled strongly in some others isn't the point. Pretty!

(standard key used)

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Yeah... there is something I can do about that, isn't there...

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Yeah... there is something I can do about that, isn't there...

Are you thinking what I'm thinking, or of a precinct map?`Or both?

First one, then the other

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Perhaps this ought to be unstickied.

DON'T QUESTION MY AUTHORITY!

Er... yeah... it probably should be. At some point. When I remember.

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A bigger picture can be found in the gallery.

Minor errors possible. They key is the same as: https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/GALLERY/8_27_09_09_9_06_22.PNG except that the lowest numbers shown on those keys are usually a little lower on the above (which makes no difference to the actual map).

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Again, a bigger picture may be found in the gallery. Other notes apply also.

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Because I filed the one in the wrong place - has now been moved.

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Is there anything you, you know, want to know?

Depends how much time you have at the moment

Obviously comments on the reasons for the patterns of support for each party would be nice, but if you don't have that long, then Bornheim's voting patterns look interesting and Gutleut-Bahnhofsviertel had a weird result that could do with some explaining.

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Interesting

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Also interesting

Btw, looking over all the maps done so far, the general patterns of support for most parties seem to be quite similar in most cities in the West, except that SPD support seems to be more concentrated in cities historically dominated by heavy industry. Is this one of those questions that answers itself or is there a different explanation?

Also, is (asking just about Frankfurt now) the division of the bourgeois vote (too tempting) between CDU and FDP mostly about age, or occupation (managerial versus professional or whatever)?

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Hmmm... what is this based on - the Ruhr?

Mostly, yeah. I was wondering whether this is because of 'political' factors (political culture, organisation, etc) or socio-economic ones. Or maybe a combination of the two.

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The joke about mentioning 'heavy industry' is that it can mean almost anything you want it to

Actually, I was just thinking of a way of putting 'industrial city without as many historic, administrative, service, etc. functions' in a way that didn't read as 'industrial city without as many historic, administrative, service, etc. functions', which reads pretty clunky.

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No idea, but was curious; sometimes that sort of thing is known, sometimes it isn't. One of the funniest things about elections (IMO anyway) is the radically different versions of who supports who told by people from different parties, newspapers or whatever.

Both questions relate to my... er... 'serious'... interests, in case you couldn't tell

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Both questions relate to my... er... 'serious'... interests, in case you couldn't tell

You have 'serious' interests? First I hear about it.

I used inverted commas for a reason.

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Btw, I'm wondering about how to do the precinct maps. Maybe breaking the city into parts and doing those and posting them up and then (at the end) stitching them all together.