German Election Results Thread

[KuntaKinte]

Terrible day for social democracy in Germany. I'm really depressed. Never thought this would get that bad.

[KuntaKinte]

so how much did the Pirates cost the left-wing?

I read on the internet the pirates got about 2%, what is much more i expected. Thanks to the record low turnout of course, at least to a degree.

[KuntaKinte]

@And-L

It's like Lewis Trondheim said.

What really scares me ist the decline of the two major parties. Together they are down to 55-57%.

[KuntaKinte]

Can we compare this to UK 1983? In a way?

In a way, yeah, although the distribution of seats of course is very different, because of the different effects of FPTP and MMP.
In both elections we've seen a major defeat for Social Democrats, while the other major parties didn't gain any votes at all.
Third parties won big in both elections, the Alliance in UK 1983 and FDP, Greens + Left in Germany this year.

[KuntaKinte]

SPD will hold Kiel and Lübeck.

In Kiel the SPD is leading by 10 points (based on 154/190).
In Lübeck the SPD candidate is leading by 7,5 pionts (based on 130/167).

[KuntaKinte]

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