German state and local elections, March 26th

[minionofmidas]

And (apart from 9 more districts) there's a 99% count of Frankfurt out - though info on moves within the parties are still missing.

CDU 36.0  34 seats (-2) 37.6
SPD 24.1 22 seats (-6) 23.0
Greens 15.3 14 seats (+1) 15.8
Left 6.6 6 seats (+4) 6.5
FDP 6.5 6 seats (+2) 6.5
FAG 3.8 4 seats (0) 3.5
BFF 2.8 3 seats (+2) 2.5
REP 1.5 1 seat (-2) 1.6
NPD 1.2 1 seat (+1) 1.4
ÖkoLinx 1.2 1 seat (0) 1.0
EL 1.0 1 seat (0) 0.4

Yeah, looking over the figures of altered ballots for the different Ortsbeiräte, I'd felt that the Greens would lose on the final figure.

[minionofmidas]

Neither really; remember that it's an independent city and that until 1945 it was actually in a different state than Frankfurt, by which time carmaking at Rüsselsheim already had a 30-year history. In fact, along the Main river there's two more municipalities between Frankfurt and Rüsselsheim, Kelsterbach and Raunheim, both also working class suburbs, with even higher immigrant proportions than Frankfurt and Rüsselsheim, with their economy heavily dependent on the airport these days (though Raunheim also has Opel workers). Technically Frankfurt and Rüsselsheim do border each other to the south of these places - that is to say, Rüsselsheim City Forest borders the airport.
As to estates and such...I'm not sure. The inner areas are old-growth, privately built. Then there's company-built housing (not necessarily still owned by Opel - I'd actually have to look into that. The Hoechst-built estates in Zeilsheim and Unterliederbach have not been company-owned for decades though, and I wouldn't be surprised if the same was true here.)
Parts of Raunheim and Kelsterbach look ... what's the opposite of "gentrified"? You know, they look as if they were built with much more middleclass people in mind than inhabit them now.
The whole Groß-Gerau district area has quite a leftist feel, of both the populist and "liberal" variants (the coolest in that respect is actually Mörfelden, south of the airport)... part of it used to be Communist strongholds during the Weimar Republic, as was Offenbach.
From 1925 to the onset of the Depression, and again for a short stint in 1931, Offenbach continuously had the highest unemployment of all German cities btw...in 1932, well over half the cities' population were living on the dole.

[minionofmidas]

Just three districts (Wetterau, Marburg-Biedenkopf and Bergstraße) still missing - and the official result from Frankfurt. What's taking so long about that one percent of ballots? Maybe they're counting Ortsbeiräte now and will release the official data together...
The last municipality result has just come in by the way, from lovely Büdingen in the Vogelsberg foothills. (Well Old Büdingen is lovely...looks sorta Tuscan really; I wonder how many of the 16K registered voters actually live there. Probably not much more than 20% I'd reckon...) And it's one of the biggest swings of the day actually when you ignore special circumstances like at Usingen, where the CDU ignored the filing deadline 5 years ago - in a place where it had a majority in 1997!
Here's Büdingen:
CDU 31.1 (-8.7)
SPD 30.7 (-10.3)
Greens 6.1 (-0.4)
NPD 1.8 (+1.
FWG 30.4 (+17.7)

[minionofmidas]

Hesse local election map:

http://www.election.de/specials/Wamehe06.html

Totally out of of date. (All the brown places are the ones that only declared today.)
We have a final result btw -

statewide, districts and the 5 cities: (three councils were made smaller, hence total seat reduction by 26)
parties
CDU 38.5 (+0.4) 739 (0)
SPD 34.7 (-3. 678 (-77)
Greens 9.2 (+0.1) 175 (-1)
FDP 5.8 (+0.6) 29 (-23)
PDS 1.0 (+0.6) 20 (+13)
NPD 0.4 (+0.2) 6 (+2)
WASG 0.2 (+0.2) 5 (+5)
DKP 0.1 (did not run anywhere) 1 (+1)
Animal Rights 0.0 (-0.1) 1 (0)
Women 0.0 (0) 1 (0)

at least technically non-party slates 8.6 (+2.5) 165 (+48)
of these
affiliated  to the statewide FWG's federation 5.2 102
joint lists of PDS and WASG, often with some local groups thrown in for good measure 2.1 36 what#s worse, such lists also existed last time around (tho' without WASG)
other 1.3 27

for a total de-facto Left performance of 3.3 (+?) 61 (+?)



And here's a list of Frankfurt candidates bounced into the council by the voters, followed by those bounced out:
CDU-
in
Bernadette Weyland list position: 38 final position: 18
Nina Teufel von Hallerstein : 41 : 19
Karl-Leo Schneeweis: 52: 32
Walter Seubert: 37: 34
out
Thomas Rätzle list position: 29
Bernhard Mertens: 32
Robert Lange: 33
Hildegard Berkert: 33
I gotta admit, Schneeweis is the only one among these that I've heard of (6th Ortsbeirat CDU leader)

SPD
in
Rita Streb-Hesse: 40: 10 former Bundestag member, council member before that, obviously elected on name recognition alone
Michael Paris: 51: 12 same except change "Bundestag" to "Landtag". I actually gave him 3 votes
Silke Seitz: 25: 19
Gregorios Zarcadas: 26: 20 so he conserved his council seat, then
Bernhard Ochs: 29: 22 former council member, former SPD 4th Ortsbeirat leader, didn't run for anything 5 years ago, and an altogether very nice guy whom I've known for 20 years, and thence of course voted for
out
Günter Dürr: 14 Man, I'm glad about that. Arrogant old right idiot and Green-hater. His identical twin Hans Busch also lost a good number of spots, though he got in.
Gert Wagner: 17
Jürgen Hupe: 19 Probably fell a victim of the 1st Ortsbeirat's (which he once led) extreme swing away from the SPD - to the left, mind
Jan Klingelhöfer: 21
Tarkan Akman: 22 Both youth organization candidates. I thought of voting for Akman on the strength of his ponytail and Turkish ancestry alone, but in the end I didn't. I felt that 12 votes for Social Democrats was plenty already...

Greens:
in Martina Feldmayer: 15: 13 was on the previous council, too.
out Wulfila Walter: 14. That's a man's name though it don't look it. Youth organization candidate - Frankfurt uni student union leader a couple years back, btw.

FDP
in Hannelore Otto: 9: 5
out Yanki Pürsün: 4. Seems the idea of a Turkish Free Democrat didn't go down too well with their supporters...