West German federal election, 1949

[DC Al Fine]

What an awesome writeup!

[DC Al Fine]

I voted CDU btw. I had toyed with the idea for voting for another rightist party before, but the FDP/various conservative/nationalist/Catholic parties hold little appeal to me.

[DC Al Fine]

It appears you've missed out the description for the Radical Social Freedom Party; they could be my vote so I'll wait for you to clarify.

Will this be a series?

Ah sorry about that one.  And yes, it will. 

Ah if that's the case, I'm going to change my vote. I like to keep weird parties alive.

[DC Al Fine]

German Party. C'mon guys, we need some smaller groups in parliament

[DC Al Fine]

Any particular reason for the strength of the Communist vote?

We have some actual communists on the forum

[DC Al Fine]

I would have voted for the CDU.

And lol @ the people voting FDP here.

I suspect a lot of this is people voting for he current FDP, i.e. socially liberal right wingers. If you made a modern German election with CDU/CSU, SPD, FDP and KPD, the results would be pretty similar I imagine.

[DC Al Fine]

Are we running through the elections as they happened or as we voted [them to happen].

As we vote.  The SPD is certain to become the largest party at this point.  I'm waiting to see a tie-breaking vote between the Union and the FDP.

Excellent news.

C'mon leftists; we can't have Schumacher die before he has any chance of power.

Kind of surprised at how well KPD is doing. I know there's a couple commies on the board, but who are the others? It's not like SPD has gone 3rd way on you guys yet

[DC Al Fine]

"Libertarian" parties are often fronts for right-wing nationalists. See for example the great proportion of neo-Confederate Paul supporters.

The FDP didn't have a "Libertarian" platform back then. It had a Liberal (and thus sort of Libertarian) minority wing and a Nationalist majority wing.

That explains a lot. I was wondering how market liberal could have won FPTP seats in 49.