German Election Results Thread

[Middle-aged Europe]

Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg-Prenzlauer Berg Ost is certainly an interesting district.

It's the district where Greens (27.4%) and Pirate Party (6.0%) were the strongest and CDU (11.9%) and FDP (6.1%) were the weakest in all of Germany.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Frankfurt maps. Did quite quickly due to possible loss of internet soonish - some minor errors possible.

[Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon]

Al the maps are great!  Soo... when can we expect the others?

[Torie]

SPD lose a load of seats in Berlin

My impression is that Berlin used to be a place of draft dodgers and surreal politics. Is it becoming a true capital?  What does it mean?

[Хahar 🤔]

SPD lose a load of seats in Berlin

My impression is that Berlin used to be a place of draft dodgers and surreal politics. Is it becoming a true capital?  What does it mean?

West Berlin is like any other Western European city, but the old Commies do exceedingly well in East Berlin (and East Germany in general, really). The Greens hold a constituency crossing the East/West border.

[Franzl]

Official preliminary result as reported by the Federal Returning Officer at 3:35 am:

CDU/CSU: 33.8%
FDP: 14.6%

SPD: 23.0%
Greens: 10.7%
Left: 11.9%

[Tender Branson]

Al the maps are great!  Soo... when can we expect the others?

Now:

[Franzl]

Seats:

CDU/CSU: 239 (+13)
FDP: 93 (+32)

SPD: 146 (-76)
Greens: 68 (+17)
Left: 76 (+22)


CDU/CSU/FDP: 332/622 = 53.4%
SPD/Green/Left: 290/622 = 46.6%

[Tender Branson]

Leading Party in every Constituency (List Vote):



Source: www.election.de

[Franzl]

I think it's time to consider building the wall again

[Tender Branson]

Final results for the 2 state elections:

Schleswig-Holstein:

CDU: 31.5% (-8.6%, 34 seats)
SPD: 25.4% (-13.2%, 25 seats)
FDP: 14.9% (+8.3%, 15 seats)
Greens: 12.4% (+6.2%, 12 seats)
Left: 6.0% (+5.2%, 5 seats)
SSW: 4.3% (+0.7%, 4 seats)
Pirates: 1.8% (+1.8%)
FW: 1.0% (+1.0%)
Others: 2.7%

CDU/FDP: 46.4% (49 seats)
SPD/Greens/Left/SSW: 48.1% (46 seats)

Brandenburg:

SPD: 33.0% (+1.1%, 31 seats)
Left: 27.2% (-0.8%, 26 seats)
CDU: 19.8% (+0.4%, 19 seats)
FDP: 7.2% (+3.9%, 7 seats)
Greens: 5.6% (+2.0%, 5 seats)
3 Nazis: 3.9% (-2.2%)
FW: 1.7% (+1.7%)
Others: 1.6%

Probably a Grand-Coalition between SPD and CDU.

[Jens]

Final results for the 2 state elections:

Schleswig-Holstein:

CDU: 31.5% (-8.6%, 34 seats)
SPD: 25.4% (-13.2%, 25 seats)
FDP: 14.9% (+8.3%, 15 seats)
Greens: 12.4% (+6.2%, 12 seats)
Left: 6.0% (+5.2%, 5 seats)
SSW: 4.3% (+0.7%, 4 seats)
Pirates: 1.8% (+1.8%)
FW: 1.0% (+1.0%)
Others: 2.7%

CDU/FDP: 46.4% (49 seats)
SPD/Greens/Left/SSW: 48.1% (46 seats)

Best result for SSV since the 50'ties - and a return of the Meyer family to the Landestag. The SSV president Flemming Meyer, the son of Karl Otto Meyer, who held SSV's sole mandate from the 70'ties until '96, is elected - That said, what a s... electoral system S-H uses. A 3 mandates majority with 1,7 %-points less.

[Jens]

Anybody like to make a map of SSV's 1th and 2nd votes? That would be great

[Hash]

Is Stuttgart suburbia in Baden-Wurttemburg that large and wealthy?

Somebody also explain what's up with FDP support in the Rhineland-Palatinate. I don't recall there being any wealthy suburbia or cities in those areas it does well in.

[Хahar 🤔]

If you cut out where they did well, what you're left with is West Germany ca. 1949. The Saar interests me. Is it Lafontaine?

[Jens]

If you cut out where they did well, what you're left with is West Germany ca. 1949. The Saar interests me. Is it Lafontaine?

Yes!

[Lief 🗽]

Der Stern has a nice interactive constituency map: http://www.stern.de/wahl-2009/wahl-2009-alle-zwischenergebnisse-der-wahlkreise-1511244.html

When's the last time a third party (not counting the CSU) won as many constituency seats as The Left did yesterday?

[Hash]

When's the last time a third party (not counting the CSU) won as many constituency seats as The Left did yesterday?

The FDP won a bunch of direct seats in northern Hesse in 1949-1953 or so. Maybe the DP won a few in 1949, though not 16 iirc.

[Middle-aged Europe]

When's the last time a third party (not counting the CSU) won as many constituency seats as The Left did yesterday?

In 1953, the FDP won 14 direct seats, the German Party won 11 direct seats, and the Centre Party won a single seat.

1949: FDP 12, Bavaria Party 11, German Party 5.

That's closest thing to the Left's direct seats in 2009.

[Meeker]

The leader of the FDP is gay? How progressive.

[Franzl]

The leader of the FDP is gay? How progressive.

It's a non-issue though.

[Meeker]

The leader of the FDP is gay? How progressive.

It's a non-issue though.

Are there/have there been any other major German political figures who have been openly gay?

[Franzl]

The leader of the FDP is gay? How progressive.

It's a non-issue though.

Are there/have there been any other major German political figures who have been openly gay?

The SPD mayor of Berlin is also openly gay. He may be party leader or chancellor candidate one of these days. He's certainly part of the left-wing of the party, however.

[Tender Branson]

Is Stuttgart suburbia in Baden-Wurttemburg that large and wealthy?

Somebody also explain what's up with FDP support in the Rhineland-Palatinate. I don't recall there being any wealthy suburbia or cities in those areas it does well in.

Take this purchasing power map of Germany into context:



Yes, the Stuttgart area is really well off. Also notice the region around Munich with the district Starnberg having the highest purchasing power in Germany, the Main-Taunus area north-west of Frankfurt, Southern NRW and the region around Hamburg.

The region is western Rhineland with the high FDP-share is probably due to the proximity of Luxembourg. Many people commute there to work in the financial and insurance sector I guess.

[Middle-aged Europe]

The leader of the FDP is gay? How progressive.

It's a non-issue though.

Are there/have there been any other major German political figures who have been openly gay?

Klaus Wowereit (SPD), Mayor of Berlin

Ole von Beust (CDU), Mayor of Hamburg

Volker Beck (Greens), Green party whip in the Bundestag

Klaus Lederer (The Left), The Left's state chairman in Berlin

Anja Hajduk (Greens), Minister of City Development and Environment of Hamburg

Karin Wolff (CDU), Minister of Education of Hesse


Those are the most important ones, I guess. I would only call the first three "major" though.