German Federal Election 2021 - Who will succeed Angela Merkel?

[Zanza]

Will be interesting if either Greens or FDP leadership is willing to go into a coalition with their non-favored big party. And whether their grassroots members will actually be willing to support it.

[Syt]

https://www.reddit.com/r/germany/comments/pwe7c9/if_germany_used_the_us_electoral_college_2021/

I already did this for the 2017 election. Have fun comparing them.
Please note that this is just for fun, voting behaviours would certainly change if another electoral system were in place.
To determine the electoral votes for each federal state, I used a the same system the US does: Each federal state gets two seats in the senate and some seats in the House of Representatives relative to their population. Each state has as many electoral votes as their seats in the senate and the House of Representatives combined. To find out how many seats in the House of Representatives (435 seats in total) each state gets, I used the Huntington–Hill method that is also used in the US for this purpose. I used each federal state's results from the recent federal elections of 2021 (you can find the raw data here) and looked at the "Zweitstimme", as that is the vote you cast for a specific party, rather than the "Erststimme", which is the vote you cast for a local representative. For the political affiliation of each party, I used the ones Wikipedia lists to stay as neutral as possible.
I hope you find this as interesting as I do ^^

[Syt]

More maps

Where parties are stronger/weaker, geographically.



Interesting to see the former GDR really standing out with regards to Linke, AfD, Greens, and to lesser extent CDU.

[Valmy]

It is interesting how distinct East Germany remains after 30+ years.

[crazy canuck]

It is interesting how distinct East Germany remains after 30+ years.

Yeah, and Bavaria - after how long...

[The Larch]

More maps

Where parties are stronger/weaker, geographically.



Interesting to see the former GDR really standing out with regards to Linke, AfD, Greens, and to lesser extent CDU.

So, in the district where the Greens are the strongest nationally is also where the CDU and FDP are at their weakest? Makes sense, I guess. Super hipster part of Berlin?

[Syt]

I think so

[Zanza]

It is interesting how distinct East Germany remains after 30+ years.

Yeah, and Bavaria - after how long...

Bavaria is a distinct political entity since 555 AD, when the older Bavarian duchy  was founded by the Merovingians. 

[Duque de Bragança]

It is interesting how distinct East Germany remains after 30+ years.

Yeah, and Bavaria - after how long...

Bavaria is a distinct political entity since 555 AD, when the older Bavarian duchy  was founded by the Merovingians. 

No reminder that "true" Bavaria was not part of Germania in Roman times? Not even part of Roman Germania. [spoiler]Roman though[/spoiler]
Disappointed. 

[Maladict]

Did the Greens not bother to run in Saarland?

[Zanza]

Did the Greens not bother to run in Saarland?

They violated some rules when forming their party list for Saarland and were disqualified. An amateurish mistake really.

[Syt]

Did the Greens not bother to run in Saarland?

Their party list was rejected. Following internal conflicts, the federal arbitration committee of the Greens excluded the Saarlouis organization of the Greens from the vote for the party list. The federal election commission then rejected the party list because this exclusion violated democratic principles.

[Maladict]

Interesting, thanks 

[Duque de Bragança]

Did the Greens not bother to run in Saarland?

They violated some rules when forming their party list for Saarland and were disqualified. An amateurish mistake really.

Seems like the French Greens. 

[Barrister]

Did the Greens not bother to run in Saarland?

They violated some rules when forming their party list for Saarland and were disqualified. An amateurish mistake really.

Seems like the French Greens. 

And our Canadian Greens!