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?
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?
More dissatisfaction with the political system, less presence of the old parties.
The Bavaria of the former GDR.
Wasn't Saxony a stronghold (the stronghold) of the SPD at those times?Or rather, the Saxony of Weimar and the Empire.
Wasn't Saxony a stronghold (the stronghold) of the SPD at those times?
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.Wasn't Saxony a stronghold (the stronghold) of the SPD at those times?
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!
Could you add the aggregate map too, just to have them all in one place?Estimates using my White vote maps:
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.
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.
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.
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.