2011 State Elections in Germany

[minionofmidas]

Groß-Gerau wins a price as the first municipality (that I noticed) where the Schuldenbremse is under 60%. Even Darmstadt was 60.2%.

[Antonio the Sixth]

FDP will get in, final results around 47-44. Quite disappointing.

[minionofmidas]

Neu-Isenburg. Major suburb just south of Frankfurt.

CDU 43.9 (-8.1)
Greens 22.7 (+8.7)
SPD 22.0 (-1.3)

[Tender Branson]

With just 1 district left:

39.0% CDU
24.2% Greens
23.1% SPD
  5.3% FDP
  2.8% Left
  2.1% Pirates
  1.1% REP
  1.0% NPD
  0.9% ÖDP
  0.5% Others

[minionofmidas]

Kassel mayoral election, final result

Bertram Hilgen, SPD, incumbent 51.3
Ernst Wegener, CDU 23.4
Andreas Jürgens, Greens 15.0
3 also rans

Hilgen avoids a runoff.

[minionofmidas]

The city's own website is still down to me, but from the rumors on the FR liveticker, it seems the CDU is narrowly or narrowishly ahead of the Greens, who're at 25%. The SPD is in third. The FDP and FW are at 3.odd each, the Left is doing okay. The Pirates are mildly disappointed at being behind the FDP.

[minionofmidas]

Thank you, thank you, thank you Neue Presse. You are a greasy local rag but at least you get the numbers out.

CDU: 31,4 Prozent
Grüne: 25,1 Prozent
SPD: 22,8 Prozent
FDP: 3,2 Prozent
Die Linke: 5,7 Prozent

With a little under half the precincts.

[minionofmidas]

With 173 out of 200 precincts in, Greens are second (to the SPD) in Kassel city council.

[minionofmidas]

Final BW result!

turnout 66.2 (+12.
CDU 39.0 (-5.2) which is actually a solid gain in raw votes.
Greens 24.2 (+12.5)
SPD 23.1 (-2.1)
FDP 5.3 (-5.4)
Left 2.8 (-0.3)
Pirates 2.1
REP 1.1 etc

Now someone find the final seats.

[MaxQue]

Groß-Gerau wins a price as the first municipality (that I noticed) where the Schuldenbremse is under 60%. Even Darmstadt was 60.2%.

If that is not too complicated, what is Schuldenbremse?

[minionofmidas]

NOW it's time for the champagne.

CDU 60
Greens 36
SPD 35
FDP 7

no worries.

[Tender Branson]

http://www.statistik.baden-wuerttemberg.de/Wahlen/Landtagswahl_2011/Sitze.asp

says the following:

60 seats - CDU
36 seats - Greens
35 seats - SPD
  7 seats - FDP

It`s official: Greens-SPD is the new government !

Hooray !

[BenNebbich]

absolut!

[Antonio the Sixth]

NOW it's time for the champagne.

CDU 60
Greens 36
SPD 35
FDP 7

no worries.

138 seats ? I thought there were 139.

[minionofmidas]

NOW it's time for the champagne.

CDU 60
Greens 36
SPD 35
FDP 7

no worries.

138 seats ? I thought there were 139.

There are 120 plus what's needed to get things proportional. The problem is that, unlike in other states, the Ausgleich is done separately in four regions, which basically works as a small bonus for the largest party.

[minionofmidas]

'kay, I'm off. RhP somehow stopped updating an hour ago.

[Antonio the Sixth]

NOW it's time for the champagne.

CDU 60
Greens 36
SPD 35
FDP 7

no worries.

138 seats ? I thought there were 139.

There are 120 plus what's needed to get things proportional. The problem is that, unlike in other states, the Ausgleich is done separately in four regions, which basically works as a small bonus for the largest party.

Oh, I see. A uselessly complicated systems that partly screw proportionality.

But after all, that's fine, nationwide proportional would just have switched a CDU seat to the FDP.

[Middle-aged Europe]

Well... congratulations to Winfried Kretschmann for making history today. Baden-Württemberg's first non-CDU minister-president since 1953 and Germany's first Green minister-president ever.

[Хahar 🤔]

Ugh, the nuclear fearmongering worked.

[Franzl]

Ugh, the nuclear fearmongering worked.

Unsurprisingly. Germans are this way.

[DL]

One thing that few people have commented on is how badly the Linke party did in these state elections. I wonder if this could have some major ramifications for the next federal election in Germany. Right now the presence of the Linke party is a major obstacle to having a  progressive government and ditching the CDU. In the last election, they seemed to make some major gains in western Germany as a result of there being a lot of leftwing protest votes against the "Grand Coalition" and this combined with their traditional strength in the former DDR gave them 11% of the vote and a big enough chunk of seats in the Bundestag to seriously impair the chances of a new Red/Green government.

It now looks like with the SPD being in opposition federally and with the Green Party being on the move as well - the Linke party is starting to drop like a stone and will go back to being more or less a purely eastern party. This way mean them retreating back to the 6 or 7% nationally that they had as the PDS. I think this is significant because the weaker the Linke party is and the more their vote flows to the SPD and Greens, the better the chances of an SPD/Green majority in the Bundestag.

[BenNebbich]

Ugh, the nuclear fearmongering worked.

Unsurprisingly. Germans are this way.

off topic:

no; it is not fearmongering. i live for 20 years in landshut, a town next to a nuclear power plant ('isar I'). there is not even an evacuation plan for the 60.000 inhabitants, because it is senseless in case of a nuclear accident.

it is real fear. it is not 'angst'.

i pray weekly that they close the plant.

[Associate Justice PiT]

Ugh, the nuclear fearmongering worked.

Unsurprisingly. Germans are this way.

off topic:

no; it is not fearmongering. i live for 20 years in landshut, a town next to a nuclear power plant ('isar I'). there is not even an evacuation plan for the 60.000 inhabitants, because it is senseless in case of a nuclear accident.

it is real fear. it is not 'angst'.

i pray weekly that they close the plant.

     Fearmongering would have to be based on real fears or else it wouldn't work. Whether those fears are reasonable is another issue altogether.

[Tender Branson]

Map of District Winners:

 

[Tender Branson]

The people below are f***ing hippies (™ Franzl):