2009 State and Federal elections in Germany

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Quick map of leading party (direct vote) in Thurigina so far:



Things may yet change, all mistakes mine.

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Yep, that's just one non-urban constituency among the top 19.

Presumably the one in Sächsische Schweiz?

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That's not top 19.

Yeah, I read too quickly sometimes...

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Party Vote maps for Saxony. There's a similar set of the 2004 elections on the gallery, for those that like to compare (keys are different though).

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More maps...

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Guess where the Catholics in the ex-GDR live.

Jena, obviously

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*ding* *ding* *ding*

We have a Loser!

Being serious for a moment, why have voters in Eichsfeld adopted such an, erm, "Western" voting pattern? Influence of local priests in the early '90's or just an identification thing?

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The vicinity of the Fulda area can't have hurt... nor can the fact that the local party was called CDU throughout the GDR... nor the fact that Althaus is from there.
Still, doesn't seem immediately obvious.

I go with a cheap "East Berlin of the Right" explanation then and will be oblivious to sane counter-arguments

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Sort of hard to tell that Völklingen was won by the Left...

Yeah, the trouble is that pink and reddish purple start to look a lot like each other when they get very light. It's clear enough in the context of the other maps though.

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See the tiny municipality just east of Saarlouis, Ensdorf? (Smallest place with the darkest shade on the Left Party map. Quite light blue on the winner map.) That's where the (main entrance to, anyhow) last deepshaft coalmine on the Saar is located. Due for closure in 2012 unless more subsidies are coughed up.

Interesting - I didn't think there were any left. Is most of the workforce local or moved in from other (closed) pits?

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Dude, how am I supposed to know that? Workforce moved in from the closed Saar pits would count as "local" in my book anyhow.

It was worth a try

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Quite a lot, unless it's a huge pit.

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Heh. A shaft that deep makes me think of where my Taid's dad worke. The other stuff is interesting as well

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NRW locals for the sheer hell of it:

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Sauerland (CDU) probably reelected in Duisburg.

Oh wow, Cologne city council (733 out of 800 precincts in):

SPD 28.9 (-2.1)
CDU 26.8 (-5.9)
Greens 22.0 (+5.4)
FDP 9.1 (+1.7)
"pro Köln" (Nazis) 5.3
Left 5.0 (+2.0)

Now I want borough results! EDIT: Found them. Greens topped the poll in Innenstadt, but not in Ehrenfeld (1.odd behind the SPD) or Lindenthal (0.1 behind the SPD and 7 points behind the CDU), as I would have considered possible on that citywide result.

Any chance of links so that maps can be made?

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(Now, a map by Stadtteile would be a lot more valuable to me. )

Working on that at the moment. Two questions:

1. on the wiki base map, there's a small area marked (I think) "No". Wtf?
2. some of the Stadtteile results on the election site have candidate names - so are municipal elections in NRW run like state ones?

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Different, yes, which may not be the same thing as better. Btw, you probably saved me about half an hour messing with the keys

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but wth Sürth? I actually know that area a little bit, and most overgrown-village-cum-inner-suburbs are worse, but big Green win wtf?

Did seem a little far from the city centre for the Green result. FDP did well there as well. Rich people who like trees?

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Just checked and the Greens got just under 15% there in the last federal election, 25% in the European election earlier this year and 13% in the last state election.

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There's a pretty strong correlation between SPD and pro-Koln, isn't there?

Probably another case of

It's a class issue, for the most part.

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Channel Four news (in a rare bit of coverage of these elections from the British media) mentioned something about a plane not crashing or something.

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My reaction as well. Only caught the end of it.

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Turnout tends to be higher in countries not polluted by Murdoch trash

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Just noticed that election.de's prediction thing suddenly has a lot more red on it: