German Federal Election - Sept. 24 - Results Thread

[President Johnson]

More turnout numbers for Baden-Württemberg (until noon):

Stuttgart: +4.3% with postal ballots

Freiburg: +6.8% with postal ballots

No surprise. Postal ballots are at a record high this time.

[President Johnson]

I assume high turnout like this will work in favor of SPD?

No. Why ?

All the state elections also had higher turnout and the SPD collapsed ...

Well, usually progressive parties benefit from higher turnout. Usually. This time it will help the AfD, which managed to mobilize plenty of non-voters in various state elections in last few years.

[President Johnson]

According to Tagesschau, turnout in cities is much higher than in rural areas compared to 2013.

[President Johnson]

The SPD still is 3.5 times as big as our social democratic party, it can always be worse

But half of 1998, when Chancellor Schröder got 40.9%. Terrible. We need a renewal.