German Election Results Thread

[Хahar 🤔]

Ok, stupid question from the US, did the Pirates run as a left leaning party? If so, than combined with Greens, Linke and SPD that would be really close to CDU/FDP vote total. Once again the threshold law rears it head.

doesn't matter, they don't get any seats without 5% of the vote.

Read the last sentence.

Is it odd that I can't find this thread from the board page?

[Хahar 🤔]

I guess these results are best for everyone.

Ok, stupid question from the US, did the Pirates run as a left leaning party? If so, than combined with Greens, Linke and SPD that would be really close to CDU/FDP vote total. Once again the threshold law rears it head.

doesn't matter, they don't get any seats without 5% of the vote.

Read the last sentence.

Is it odd that I can't find this thread from the board page?

It's been stickied.

Ah, that would explain it.

[Хahar 🤔]

For anyone interested, socialist results in the past:

Year	Seats	Seat %	Vote %
1871	2	0.5%	3.2%
1874	7	2.3%	6.8%
1877	12	3%	9.1%
1878	9	2.3%	7.6%
1881	12	3%	6.1%
1884	24	6%	9.7%
1887	11	2.8%	10.1%
1890	35	8.8%	19.7%
1893	44	11.1%	23.3%
1898	56	14.1%	27.2%
1903	81	20.4%	31.7%
1907	43	10.8%	28.9%
1912	110	27.7%	34.8%
1919	165	39%	37.9%
1920	102	22.2%	21.7%
1924 I	100	21.2%	20.5%
1924 II	131	26.6%	26%
1928	153	31.2%	29.8%
1930	143	24.8%	24.5%
1932 I	133	21.9%	21.9%
1932 II	121	20.7%	20.4%
1933	120	18.5%	18.3%
1949	131	32.6%	29.2%
1953	151	31%	31%
1957	169	34%	31.7%
1961	190	38.1%	36.2%
1965	202	40.7%	39.3%
1969	224	45.2%	42.7%
1972	230	46.4%	45.8%
1976	214	43.1%	42.6%
1980	218	43.9%	42.9%
1983	193	38.8%	38.2%
1987	186	37.4%	37%
1990	239	36.1%	33.5%
1994	252	37.5%	36.4%
1998	298	44.5%	40.9%
2002	251	41.6%	38.5%
2005	222	36.2%	34.2%

[Хahar 🤔]

How are overhang mandates member-specific? If an overhang member leaves the Bundestag, is the constituency simply unrepresented?

[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.

[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?

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What would the results be if all the left parties and all the right parties ran together?

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What would the results be if all the left parties and all the right parties ran together?

First we have to define what is "left" and what is "right":

Left: SPD, Left, Greens, Pirates, ARP

Right: CDU/CSU, FDP, NPD, REP, DVU

Don't know what to do with the ÖDP, the conservative Bavarian version of the Greens. They are probably completely "center".

Anway, with the above classification you get the following numbers for Germany:

Right: 50.4%
Left: 48.1%

That's about right. I'm more interested in constituency numbers, actually.

[Хahar 🤔]

FDP map is opposite of PDS map.

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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.

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Ah, yes, then.

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Perhaps this ought to be unstickied.

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Will I now be eaten by a bear?

[Хahar 🤔]

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.

Is that what you fellows call apostrophes?

[Хahar 🤔]

Kind of hard to tell PDS from SPD.