Germany Election Maps

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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.

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2005 Bundestag election

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2006 City Council elections

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

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

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

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Hesse Landtag election, using the new standard key thingy.

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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).

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2008 Hamburg elections

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What is the super-CDU area in the center?

Hafen City which is, I think, the Hamburg version of the Docklands in London (not sure if you'll get the reference. Google LDDC if you don't).

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2003 party vote maps. Not sure whether it's the second vote or both the second and first votes combined. Either way, the Bavarian elections site is awful.

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Anyways, Al uses a shade of red for the Left that strongly connotes SPD to me, because the SPD actually has used that particular shade in the past.

lol

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Mmm... trouble is I tend to associate purple with a certain British political party of the 1980's...

But I'll probably change the winning-party colour to purple anyway; the reddish-orange is harder to tell from the rose-ish red then it looked last night.

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Hmm.

While working on the secondvote maps for Berlin, I noticed that that general rusty-red shade turns "quite" brownish when it gets dark. Hmm. Just looks offensive, even though it's not supposed to be.

I'll switch the Left colour to purple then; but, in order to demonstrate that I've not totally given in to the forces of sanity, only in the East

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Secondvote maps

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NRW 2005

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I'm not too familiar with NRW. I assume the very red area is part of the Ruhr?

Yep. It's the area between Duisburg and Hamm.

What's the intensely CDU area in the east with little FDP presence?

The Sauerland and the area around Paderborn. Don't know much about it, other than that it's rural and catholic (and has trees). IIRC Lewis has family ties to the area, so he might know more.

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I assume the next NRW election is next year?

It'll be in 2010 unless they've changed the length of terms.

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Mid-short answer: "WA" is newspeak (hey, Al is Ingsoc, right?)

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Doh. I do hope that that isn't similar to, say, confusing southern Shropshire with northern Herefordshire...

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Mid-short answer: "WA" is newspeak (hey, Al is Ingsoc, right?)

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Doh. I do hope that that isn't similar to, say, confusing southern Shropshire with northern Herefordshire...

Eh, there's some just as dark bits in the Sauerland (a working definition of which would be the Hochsauerland, Soest, Olpe, and rural and/or southern parts of the Märkischer districts. I suppose one might want to exclude the northern fringe of Soest, but...). Which is almost as Catholic, but (historically) a poor upland smallholding region. Paderborn counts as part of East Westphalia, a well-defined region despite its awkward name, although, as it were: quintessential East Westphalia is further north, and Protestant. The Sauerland is more likely to look to Dortmund as a sort of metropolis-outside-the-region-proper.
The Paderborn region used to be its own prince-bishopric, while the Sauerland was mostly a Cologne possession, with some small states at its western fringe.

Is the Sauerland (overall) somewhat less CDU than Paderborn because it's slightly less Catholic or because of the other differences [qm]

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Note: pink seat in the centre of Leipzig is SPD, the one NE of that is PDS.

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Note that in the 2005 election the combined SPD-Left-Green vote was over 50% in both Saxony and Thuringia (actually it might have been just over 60% in the latter). Voting patterns in the East are much looser than in the West and are often strongly influenced by personalities and so on.
Regardless, the main reason for Saxony remaining such a Left (SPD especially) stronghold (in terms of elections, if not state governments) throughout the Weimar period was the strength of the party organisation and related organisations and subcultures. What was left of this that survived the Nazi State was totally destroyed by the Stasi State.