German Election Results Thread

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Think I'll use the Ortsbezirke as maps can be up quicker that way.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Ortsbezirke 1.

[minionofmidas]

*drool*

No place like home.

Singular of Ortsbezirke is Ortsbezirk, though, and this thing could do with a turnout map.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

*drool*

No place like home.

Singular of Ortsbezirke is Ortsbezirk, though, and this thing could do with a turnout map.

I'm thinking of one large turnout map when all the result ones are done. It'd be a lot quicker to do than these because it's only one thing (as opposed to six).

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Ortsbezirk 2.

[KuntaKinte]

Funny how the SPD and FDP vote is almost perfectly converse, especially in the Ortsbezirk 1.

[minionofmidas]

Bockenheim, meet the West End; West End, meet Bockenheim; West End and Bockenheim, meet a few odds and ends tagged onto you: The "Diplomatenviertel" ("Edelbockenheim", as a friend of mine called it trying to describe where an address was); a little bit of US Housings, with another older odd little estate and a bit of mostly new land next to it, at what everybody except the City of Frankfurt would describe the southwestern part of the Dornbusch; Bockenheim-Süd partially cleared and rebranded as the "City-West"; the Kuhwaldsiedlung; and the Postal Estate that most people would consider in Rödelheim.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Ortsbezirk 3. Btw, while I've gone in order so far (and will usually continue to do so) I might get a few suburban ones out of the way fairly early. Or might not. Who knows.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Ortsbezirk 4.

[minionofmidas]

Not that it matters, but 240 is statistically in North End East but is politically in the Bornheim-East End Ortsbezirk anyways.


There is definitely something wrong with the official result in that southernmore CDU stronghold precinct in the North End. Though I've no clue how it happened, exactly.

Apart from that, the northwesternmore precinct is not really North End at all, the Holzhausenviertel (the two precincts south of that) is ridiculously posh, the southern fringe had more war damage and thus has more postwar housing.

Approximately half the voters (less of the population) in that Port precinct are in the little northwestern hook, and the rest is scattered across the area. Until about 2000 the port had a precinct of its own, now it's paired with residential territory.
And a note on the two southwesternmost East End precincts. Not long ago they used to vote alike. Then they started building the new posh houses at the Weseler Werft, so the easternmore started trending posh. And having more residents. And higher turnout. So in the recent precinct reorganization, they moved some of its old growth, ordinary Lower East End, parts over into its western neighbor, further accentuating the difference.


Are you using a uniform color scheme for the whole set?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Are you using a uniform color scheme for the whole set?

Yes; the plan is to stick them all together into citywide maps at the end.

[minionofmidas]

Is this on hold on account of that stupid boring unnecessary election in England?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Is this on hold on account of that stupid boring unnecessary election in England?

No; another one will be up either tomorrow or later today. It will probably be on hold, and because of said stupid boring unnecessary election, for at least a week after the sixth day in May.

[minionofmidas]

Is this on hold on account of that stupid boring unnecessary election in England?

No; another one will be up either tomorrow or later today. It will probably be on hold, and because of said stupid boring unnecessary election, for at least a week after the sixth day in May.

Oh. Great.

I would have sympathized if it were on hold, you know.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Ortsbezirk 5. The massive area around the airport has not been included, though will be on the citywide combination maps. Some minor errors possible.

[minionofmidas]

Bumpity.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Bumpity.

Comment on the last map uploaded here and there might be another one up soon...

If I can, you know, get my email (which has the file with the figures in it) to work properly.

[minionofmidas]

Bumpity.

Comment on the last map uploaded here and there might be another one up soon...

Eh, old Sachsenhausen and the 1890s era area southwest of it should be obvious enough. Downstream from old Sachsenhausen is poshland, upstream is the new poshish (but not all-posh) stuff built on the former slaughterhouse grounds (the long pale yellow precinct). South of the railway line is mostly more suburban than urban in character... excempting the area just south here... but not all of it is posh though a lot is. Some weird non-social housing tower blocks where the precincts are smaller. And Binding Brewery east of that, of course. And then there's the estatelands in the "Gleisdreieck", ie the Heimatsiedlung (the one SPD precinct in Sachsenhausen with the huge Left and ridiculous CDU tally, Bauhaus architecture, quite dense) and the ugly 50s Fritz-Kissel-Siedlung south of it which is full of elderly workingclass Heimatvertriebene. The precinct east of the Heimatsiedlung is sort of mixed, partly rather like the Kissel estate but not part of it. And two blocks that look exactly like the Heimatsiedlung and were built at the same time and were supposed to be yet another estate that never got built.
And then there's Oberrad and Niederrad. Old dependent villages of Frankfurt that later turned working class suburbs/commuter villages (in the 19th century). Oberrad got bombed flat quite badly in march 1945, nobody really knows why. That southeastern Oberrad precinct is another place with ugly-looking non "social" highrises - it's very visible from the motorway coming in from the south, and a friend of mine once told he always claims it's part of Offenbach when he drives guests in along that road.
Niederrad has interwar and postwar estatelands to the west but also a rather nice old "urban" core (and a tiny even older "village" core north of that) and a posh zone at the southeast corner.

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[Filuwaúrdjan]

Might be an idea; I've found the file, but it won't download for some reason.

[minionofmidas]

Magnus Gäfgen grew up on the Fritz Kissel estate.

[minionofmidas]

MVP will lose a seat to Hesse at the next review. Which isn't officially out yet, but the numbers it will use are. (We review every year except election years... but we only apportion seats by states and check whether any seat is really obscenely above or below target - 25% over or under (on election day as well as the date the review's based on) being considered totally illegal, and 15% undesirable... but bearable.) Anyways, it's clear that the new seat in Hesse will be created from parts of the Hanau, Wetterau and Fulda constituencies, and that Fulda will move north somewhat to take in part of Werra-Meißner-Hersfeld. But there are two proposals on which places exactly are to be included in the new constituency.





The latter map is preferrable; it includes part of "only" three districts (Wetterau, Main-Kinzig, Vogelsberg, but not Fulda) and also moves the Fulda constituency out of the Vogelsberg district entirely. Besides, I think this is winnable for the SPD though it would go CDU in an even year. The other one is not winnable short of a landslide. Numbers reference current constituencies - 175 Fulda, 177 Wetterau, 180 Hanau. And 174 Gießen, which also includes the remainder of Vogelsberg district. (This would recreate the 30s to 70s district boundary, with Alsfeld District in Gießen and Lauterbach District in the new, as yet unnamed, constituency. Probably Gelnhausen-Schlüchtern-Lauterbach or some such. Although Spessart-Vogelsberg might work too.)

I can't seem to find anything on a six-seat MVP; it's rather remarkable that the Fuldaer Zeitung has a journalist who cared to report, and it's my only source right now (as there are no official publications yet).

[minionofmidas]

Check your email.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Ortsbezirk 6. These suburbs appear to be different to those in the previous set. Errors possible.

[minionofmidas]

Ah, where to begin.

Anything post 94 here is fairly useless. There is very little "suburban" (in the sense I meant I used it the last time around - though of course in another sense everything here except maybe the northeast Griesheim projects* is suburban) about the west part of the city. Parts of western Unterliederbach, that's about it.

*Excempted in that they're close to and linked to the Gallus, not on account of how they vote (or rather how that minority of residents who're both enfranchised and care votes.)

[minionofmidas]

Southern Zeilsheim:



The Hoechst AG housing its workers, once upon a time.