Berlin city elections 1946 by borough - for your amusement

[minionofmidas]

Western Zones
Charlottenburg SPD 48.0 CDU 29.1 FDP 12.5 SED 10.4 turnout 88.2
Kreuzberg SPD 56.4 CDU 21.1 SED 15.0 FDP 7.5 turnout 93.2
Neukölln SPD 56.4 SED 18.2 CDU 17.6 FDP 7.9 turnout 92.3
Reinickendorf SPD 51.9 CDU 20.9 SED 18.2 FDP 9.0 turnout 92.9
Schöneberg SPD 49.7 CDU 28.2 FDP 12.3 SED 9.9 turnout 91.2
Spandau SPD 56.4 CDU 22.4 SED 11.0 FDP 10.2 turnout 92.4
Steglitz SPD 44.8 CDU 32.1 FDP 15.9 SED 7.2 turnout 91.1
Tempelhof SPD 51.8 CDU 26.9 FDP 12.0 SED 9.3 turnout 92.4
Tiergarten SPD 53.4 CDU 24.5 SED 13.8 FDP 8.3 turnout 91.5
Wedding SPD 53.1 SED 23.5 CDU 17.6 FDP 5.9 turnout 91.2
Wilmersdorf SPD 46.6 CDU 31.3 FDP 15.8 SED 6.3 turnout 90.3
Zehlendorf SPD 41.2 CDU 38.9 FDP 13.2 SED 6.8 turnout 88.2

Soviet Zone
Friedrichshain SPD 46.1 SED 31.0 CDU 16.6 FDP 6.3 turnout 94.5
Köpenick SPD 38.0 SED 29.2 CDU 22.7 FDP 10.0 turnout 94.5
Lichtenberg SPD 43.3 SED 28.9 CDU 20.2 FDP 7.6 turnout 94.6
Mitte SPD 47.7 SED 28.5 CDU 17.6 FDP 6.2 turnout 91.3
Pankow SPD 42.4 SED 28.0 CDU 18.9 FDP 10.7 turnout 94.4
Prenzlauer Berg SPD 45.3 SED 30.6 CDU 17.1 FDP 7.0 turnout 93.6
Treptow SPD 40.8 SED 31.1 CDU 19.3 FDP 8.9 turnout 92.3
Weißensee SPD 40.8 SED 31.0 CDU 20.5 FDP 7.7 turnout 94.8

[joevsimp]

hmm, so the communists didn't win any boroughs in the eastern zone?

[Hash]

Maps needed!

[minionofmidas]

hmm, so the communists didn't win any boroughs in the eastern zone?

Yeah. The SPD won everywhere.

Variation is much stronger across the western boroughs than the eastern, but that goes with the territory - the very bourgeois southwest corner is here, but so are the old KPD strongholds of Wedding and Neukölln.

Commies being stronger everywhere eastern than in those places just goes to show the relevance (and, with the SPD winning everywhere, the limits) of being in control of things up to the election.

[minionofmidas]

Maps needed!

Can't find a good clean map of the districts as they stood from 1938 to 1979. This (also featuring the 1938 changes and the funny nazi name for Friedrichshain) is the best I can do.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/de/e/e4/1938_Neuordnung.jpg

[minionofmidas]

technically that's 1938-51, but the changes that year affect only the city line in Spandau.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Maps needed!

Can't find a good clean map of the districts as they stood from 1938 to 1979. This (also featuring the 1938 changes and the funny nazi name for Friedrichshain) is the best I can do.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/de/e/e4/1938_Neuordnung.jpg

Working on it.

[minionofmidas]

I've added turnout.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Anyone else think the CDU map is funny?

[minionofmidas]

It's what I would have expected.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

It's what I would have expected.

Well, yeah. It's still funny though

Anyways, you have to explain stuff. The difference between CDU and early FDP voters, say. Gaitskell noted in his diary about a decade later that many people thought that the FDP were neo-nazis (his choice of wording as well).

[minionofmidas]

There's not much of a difference except the surprisingly low FDP result in Zehlendorf. Actually, I found the Commie result there surprisingly high, too. Given that their prewar peak there was 10%...
Lower turnout in bourgeois areas did happen in Frankfurt in the first fifteen years after the war or so as well.
Elsewhere in Germany, religion is obviously an issue in CDU-FDP splits at least into the 60s (and to some slight degree til today). But that wouldn't go for Berlin, whose Catholic population was sizable but composed of internal migrants and their descendants (and fairly working class). Also, the CDU lost voters to the FDP across Germany 46-50. The first set of elections was often much closer to what we'd see again from the late 50s on. Seems that the FDP did indeed have some acceptance issue to overcome (or maybe Prots just understood that the West German CDU would be dominated by Catholics despite the new nonsectarian rhetoric. Which presupposes that the split is understood to be permanent. Which would have been not understood in 1946.)

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Did the upheavals of the war change the makeup of the area a little then? Actually I'm vaguely tempted to try maps of Weimar elections in Berlin, if you know where some base maps might be found.

[Middle-aged Europe]

(also featuring the 1938 changes and the funny nazi name for Friedrichshain)

Freaks.

[minionofmidas]

Did the upheavals of the war change the makeup of the area a little then? Actually I'm vaguely tempted to try maps of Weimar elections in Berlin, if you know where some base maps might be found.

Just use the one above, except with the transferred areas in their previous district. ?

(also featuring the 1938 changes and the funny nazi name for Friedrichshain)

Freaks.

Well, Friedrichshain is where he lived and was murdered. By his girlfriend's ex-pimp who was also an RKB leader (just as he was an SA one.)

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Yeah, but it's not easy to follow in places.