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Max's election maps and assorted others

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Ares96 said:
This better, @ajross?
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Ah, no, sorry, I phrased that confusingly: Bürgerblock would have been a more specific one for one that did include the DNVP.

All I'm saying is, you wouldn't have had these problems in interwar Austria - where even the official results just straight up have tables entitled 'combined results of the Marxist/non-Marxist parties'.
 
ajross said:
Ah, no, sorry, I phrased that confusingly: Bürgerblock would have been a more specific one for one that did include the DNVP.
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Right, so what would I call Z-DVP-DDP then? My first thought was something liberal, but describing the Zentrum as liberal is a bit, um.
ajross said:
All I'm saying is, you wouldn't have had these problems in interwar Austria - where even the official results just straight up have tables entitled 'combined results of the Marxist/non-Marxist parties'.
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Finnish ones did that a few times in the 70s at least.
 
I have something of a soft spot for the pre-BaWü boundaries of the BRD.

Also the referendum to merge Baden into Württemberg was dodgy as all hell.
 
Nanwe said:
I still have a municipality map for the Saar protectorate somewhere if you’re interested.
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I know, I traced over it (coloured in) to get the Kreise.
Alex Richards said:
I have something of a soft spot for the pre-BaWü boundaries of the BRD.

Also the referendum to merge Baden into Württemberg was dodgy as all hell.
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My understanding is they still don't get along.
 
And a slightly corrected version right off the bat - mainly adding some cities in Bayern that were suppressed by the Nazis and restored after the war. There's probably still a lot of errors - I'm concerned about Rheinland-Pfalz especially, since it's never had a comprehensive Kreisreform, so can't have a wiki article for one and consequently no maps of the situation before. The states in the DDR are also pure conjecture, since they were suppressed in 1950 (a year after this is supposed to be) and all the Kreise redrawn with them.

Kreise 1949/50
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The reason I did the above. Note that the list mandates are probably all wrong - I copy-pasted them from earlier maps, and have no clue where I actually got them. Will have proper calculations (and majority shading - I actually have the constituency results in a spreadsheet somewhere) done before this is over.

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Today's progress. Still to be done: insets for Bremen, Dortmund, Essen (possibly one big Ruhr inset, haven't decided yet) and Hannover, possible alterations to the party colour scheme to differentiate the CDU and Zentrum better, and of course, the rest of the shades.

The asterisks indicate seats won by right-wing pacts (or anti-SSW pacts in the case of Flensburg). The CDU and FDP also stood down for one another in the other four Hamburg seats.

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I was going to update the BRD on this to reflect boundaries immediately before the Gebietsreformen of the 60s and 70s (so roughly 1964), but the German Wikipedia's decision to self-immolate for copyright reform made that a bit difficult. So.

In 1952, the DDR abolished federalism and instituted 12 districts (Bezirke) to replace its earlier five states. This was the result.

Kreise 1952
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These boundaries more or less persisted until the Wende, with a few exceptions:
- In 1967, western sections of Halle (Saale) were split off to form the new city of Halle-Neustadt, which was supposed to be a prototype of the new socialist city. It was merged back into Halle during the Wende, and today serves as a prototype of the post-communist sinkhole.
- The second constitution, passed in an April 1968 "referendum", integrated East Berlin into the republic as Berlin, Hauptstadt der DDR, a de facto 13th district.
- Greifswald, which grew fast after the DDR's largest nuclear power station came online in 1974, was split off from its Landkreis and made a separate city at some point in the 70s.
There were also small changes to the Landkreise, but these are, again, inaccessible to me.
 
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I always forget that the FDP used to win constituency seats.

Now I think on it, it's a bit weird that the below-threshold parties (apart from Greens and SED when they were in this category) don't go gung-ho on a seat and try to get in that way. No List seats until you win half a dozen, of course, but it would be better than nothing.
 
Uhura's Mazda said:
I always forget that the FDP used to win constituency seats.

Now I think on it, it's a bit weird that the below-threshold parties (apart from Greens and SED when they were in this category) don't go gung-ho on a seat and try to get in that way. No List seats until you win half a dozen, of course, but it would be better than nothing.
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Worth remembering that they are quite large - even in 1949 the average electorate was about 100,000.
 
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