Is the former East Germany only able to vote for parties on the more extreme ends of politics or something? And what's with Saxony anyway?
OTL Election maps resources thread
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Uhura's Mazda
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I was going to ask for Freie Wahler, but judging by your reaction to the FDP map I think it might kill you.
Thande
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Very good work @Oryxslayer , especially the margins of victory maps. Striking how the SPD fades in the secondary vote map compared to the first, which is pretty much the opposite of the situation with the Conservatives and Labour in London under a similar voting system (i.e. here Tory voters generally are or were more inclined than Labour ones to vote for a different party with their list vote).
Thande
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Nowhere near as detailed as @Oryxslayer 's maps, but here is my own contribution to the German election mapping, using the same pie chart style as I do for London and county council elections. (Weirdly, I didn't even have to change the dates on my spreadsheets, as English county councils are elected in the same years as German federal elections...odd coincidence).
More dissatisfaction with the political system, less presence of the old parties.
The Bavaria of the former GDR.
Someone requested the margin of victory maps for the state level:
Overall, it is natural for the big two to lose votes on the second ballot - voters vote for the candidate closer to their views with a chance to win on the first ballot, vote for their true alliance on the second. However, at the state level, there are some clear trends. AfD voters rarely split their ticket, the most shocking example of this was in Thuringia where the AfD only got .2% more votes on the second ballot. even in Saxony, the AfD only picked up a little over 1% of the vote, it was more the CDU just lost theirs. Bavaria saw around 6% of the vote leave the CSU, whereas 2.7% left SPD and AfD gained 2%, which is why it sticks out on the seat map. In the northeast; Lower Saxony, Hamburg, Bremen, and a little bit of North-Rhine Westphalia saw the SPD lose a whole lot more of their vote then the CDU - in Bremen the CDU actually gained .2%!
Oh and I am not doing Die PARTEI or Freie Wähler - too few votes to justify for such a detailed map. If someone else wants to trudge through that data, be my guest!
Oh and I am not doing Die PARTEI or Freie Wähler - too few votes to justify for such a detailed map. If someone else wants to trudge through that data, be my guest!
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Zimmerwald1915
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Especially Leipzig. It saw the foundation of Lasalle's AAVD, was the stronghold of the Independents while they were a thing, and unless I'm reading the map wrongly was the site of Die Linke's best result in Saxony even into 2017.
I might do some maps for the minor parties, obviously a different scale is needed but I'm currently going through Die PARTEI and it's not too bad.
Zimmerwald1915
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Could you add the aggregate map too, just to have them all in one place?Estimates using my White vote maps:
There's probably something to be said about the most Democratic white income group is the richest, but it's a story we all know already and is only going to intensify from here.
Thande
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For a while I have been considering trying to consolidate all election maps for major U.S. offices in a presidential year onto one map.
As I am currently laid up with a sprained ankle, I've given it a go. Small preview below.
As I am currently laid up with a sprained ankle, I've given it a go. Small preview below.
Sorry to hear about your ankle, @Thande. I know what that feels like.
Also, that map is awesome.
But you do know we're going to start demanding more of them.
Also, that map is awesome.
But you do know we're going to start demanding more of them.
Thande
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My thinking is that I will work backwards from this one. The only question being whether it is worth doing odd-numbered years or just even-numbered ones. The advantage to the former is that I could put all the special elections in between 2014 and 2016 onto the 2015 map, and otherwise you would never see odd-numbered elections in states like Mississippi. But it would leave a lot of the map grey.Sorry to hear about your ankle, @Thande. I know what that feels like.
Also, that map is awesome.
But you do know we're going to start demanding more of them.
Maybe a combination of both? If there are a lot of elections on an odd-numbered year, you could make one specially. Otherwise, just lump them together with the even-numbered year map.
I just remembered there were seven faithless electors last year, and that all but one of them were pledged to Clinton.
Update for Missouri:
This seems to be the best resolution imgur is capable of. I might have to break this map into 4 or more separate parts when all is said and done.
You can tell where all the cities are - they have miniscule seats.