Germany Election Maps

[Filuwaúrdjan]

I've made some maps of recent elections in Frankfurt (thankee to the other beardy-weirdy here for the data ) and thought, as not everyone looks through the gallery often, I might as well make a thread to stick them in as well. The thread isn't called Frankfurt Election Maps because maps of other places will be added at some point as well (and why make two threads when one will do). Anyway...

Larger (which also means clearer and generally prettier) versions of the maps posted here are always to be found in the Gallery. And, lo, other maps have been posted.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

2005 Bundestag election

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2006 City Council elections

[MaxQue]

What is the FAG?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Mayoral (Oberbürgermeister) elections. So actually Lord Mayoral in English. 2001r was a runoff election.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

[Хahar 🤔]

What is the FAG?

Wonderful maps, BTW. Could you post a map of income to put it into perspective?

[Hash]

What is the FAG?

"Flughafenausbaugegner Frankfurt"

Airport something Frankfurt.

[minionofmidas]

What is the FAG?

FlughafenAusbauGegner. Anti-Airport Expansion list. That issue's been festering (once again) for ten years now. Note the highly concentrated support base.

Name's a pun with the former name of the company managing the airport, which now calls itself Fraport because the old name was disadvantageous in business dealings with English speaking countries.

[minionofmidas]

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Such data is not being compiled by government here.

The best I could give you is unemployment figures... or twenty year old figures on social housing...

[minionofmidas]

Also, there's this cutie from the gallery, also mostly on 20-year old data:

[Hash]

What is the very high working class district in the bottom southwest? Airport?

[minionofmidas]

What is the very high working class district in the bottom southwest? Airport?

Yep. Just a handful of people (like...double digits), and I think they're all workers in temporary company housing.

[Silent Hunter]

Don't think that data's exactly accurate- it's pre-reunification for a start if its from 1988.

[minionofmidas]

Don't think that data's exactly accurate- it's pre-reunification for a start if its from 1988.

1987, actually. I was rounding.

[Jake]

What's the story with the center district with high support from the FDP?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

What's the story with the center district with high support from the FDP?

Posh urban area. FDP actually came second there in 2005.

[minionofmidas]

Yeah... the West End. Just compare the Class map.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Hesse Landtag election, using the new standard key thingy.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

2003 election in Bavaria; direct seats again. Not entirely sure if they're the results on the boundaries used at the time or on new boundaries. Not that it matters. This is the base map, if you like, for the forthcoming election in Bavaria.

(and, yes, I know that "2008 Bavaria Election" looks weird or wrong. So what).

[albertagirl]

How is the political climate in Germany at the moment?  I paid attention when Merkel got in, but have slipped slightly in paying attention to it.

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2003 election in Bavaria; direct seats again. Not entirely sure if they're the results on the boundaries used at the time or on new boundaries. Not that it matters. This is the base map, if you like, for the forthcoming election in Bavaria.

(and, yes, I know that "2008 Bavaria Election" looks weird or wrong. So what).

I have a Bavarian map, from election.de IIRC, that includes insets for major cities. Would you like to see?

[Verily]

How is the political climate in Germany at the moment?  I paid attention when Merkel got in, but have slipped slightly in paying attention to it.

The SPD is struggling due to the Grand Coalition and have lost a lot of support to the Left Party and (to a lesser extent) to the Greens. The CDU has better held its support, but some have accused Merkel of running to the left of the SPD (or else have accused the SPD of running to the right of Merkel), making support fo the major parties somewhat confused.

Current polls suggest that a CDU-FDP coalition might be possible after the next election, but more likely is another result with no obvious coalition emerging, which might force the SPD to work with the Left Party in an SPD-Green-Left coalition. (The Greens and the FDP flat-out refuse to work with each other.) No one wants another Grand Coalition.


Of course, the balance of the parties would be different; while the SPD is currently just slightly smaller than the CDU, it would be a lot smaller after a new election, and the Left Party would be much larger. A good estimate of a result might be:

CDU/CSU: 34%
SPD: 25%
Left: 14%
Green: 12%
FDP: 12%
Others: 3%

... Which would mean no majority for CDU-FDP (or SPD-Green, obviously).

[Tender Branson]

How is the political climate in Germany at the moment?  I paid attention when Merkel got in, but have slipped slightly in paying attention to it.

The SPD is struggling due to the Grand Coalition and have lost a lot of support to the Left Party and (to a lesser extent) to the Greens. The CDU has better held its support, but some have accused Merkel of running to the left of the SPD (or else have accused the SPD of running to the right of Merkel), making support fo the major parties somewhat confused.

Current polls suggest that a CDU-FDP coalition might be possible after the next election, but more likely is another result with no obvious coalition emerging, which might force the SPD to work with the Left Party in an SPD-Green-Left coalition. (The Greens and the FDP flat-out refuse to work with each other.) No one wants another Grand Coalition.


Of course, the balance of the parties would be different; while the SPD is currently just slightly smaller than the CDU, it would be a lot smaller after a new election, and the Left Party would be much larger. A good estimate of a result might be:

CDU/CSU: 34%
SPD: 25%
Left: 14%
Green: 12%
FDP: 12%
Others: 3%

... Which would mean no majority for CDU-FDP (or SPD-Green, obviously).

An average of the last 4 polls:

CDU - 36.3%
SPD - 25.2%
The Left - 12.5%
FDP - 11.4%
Greens - 10.8%
Others - 3.8%

Only Forsa is predicting a CDU-FDP coalition right now.