Erin's Erfurt III Experience

[Thande]

Municipality-free areas; especially unincorporated areas with no population. Most of them are forest, marsh, or lakes.

Ah, I suspected as much but didn't expect that in some of the areas with blank traces.

 

[Alex Richards]

Ah, I suspected as much but didn't expect that in some of the areas with blank traces.

I do like how their complete absence in the East is one of those very minor administrative differences that still shows up.

 

[Ares96]

I do like how their complete absence in the East is one of those very minor administrative differences that still shows up.

Tbf, even most western states don’t really have them - it’s mostly Niedersachsen and Bayern.

 

[Erinthecute]

Ah, I suspected as much but didn't expect that in some of the areas with blank traces.

It's fun to realise that the Nürnberg-Fürth-Schwabach-Erlangen urban area is surrounded on three sides by a 25,000 acre forest preserve.

 

[Erinthecute]

I do like how their complete absence in the East is one of those very minor administrative differences that still shows up.

Tbf, even most western states don’t really have them - it’s mostly Niedersachsen and Bayern.

Indeed, and the East could have them if they wanted - especially Mecklenburg-Vorpommern with its abundance of lakes. It's just an administrative quirk.

 

[HTOR]

The Bundestag election mapped by municipality or collective municipality (Verbandsgemeinde/Amt/equivalent); whichever included postal votes.

This is a really cool map. I love your style. Where do you find this data though?

 

[Erinthecute]

This is a really cool map. I love your style. Where do you find this data though?

All over the place. The Bundeswahlleiter should publish Kreis-level results with the final official result, but I had to go searching for all this. Some states had it all in one place (RLP, Hessen, Sachsen for example) but for places like NRW and Niedersachsen I had to go searching, primarily on wahlen.votemanager.de, which most states/Kreise/municipalities use to host their results. I also got a lot from zeit.de for Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Bayern, and Baden-Württemberg. For others, I had to just google around until I found the results hosted somewhere obscure or published on the municipality website.

 

[HTOR]

All over the place. The Bundeswahlleiter should publish Kreis-level results with the final official result, but I had to go searching for all this. Some states had it all in one place (RLP, Hessen, Sachsen for example) but for places like NRW and Niedersachsen I had to go searching, primarily on wahlen.votemanager.de, which most states/Kreise/municipalities use to host their results. I also got a lot from zeit.de for Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Bayern, and Baden-Württemberg. For others, I had to just google around until I found the results hosted somewhere obscure or published on the municipality website.

Thanks for the reply!

It must be tough to find them all, as even Tagesschau only have Kreis level results from some states. It is still worth looking at as it has Gemeinde-level results and even more local than that for Berlin, Hamburg, and some other good statistics too for those states. https://www.tagesschau.de/wahl/archiv/2025-02-23-BT-DE/

I've been following all your maps for a while and the Weimar Republik ones and althistory ones are particularly cool but the BRD ones are also really interesting!

 

[Erinthecute]

Thanks for the reply!

It must be tough to find them all, as even Tagesschau only have Kreis level results from some states. It is still worth looking at as it has Gemeinde-level results and even more local than that for Berlin, Hamburg, and some other good statistics too for those states. https://www.tagesschau.de/wahl/archiv/2025-02-23-BT-DE/

There's some good stuff there. For my map I opted for the lowest level which included postal votes, rather than going down to Gemeinde for every state like they do (mainly affects states like Thuringia and RLP) so Tagesschau's is even more granular, albeit a tad less accurate. Showing the postal vote districts for Berlin in a nationwide map is quite something as well!!

I've been following all your maps for a while and the Weimar Republik ones and althistory ones are particularly cool but the BRD ones are also really interesting!

Thank you so much!!!

 

[Erinthecute]

 

[Thande]

I'd love to see an animation of your Berlin maps (just the federal election ones I mean), it must be surreal to see how the Linke vote has moved around...

It's a bit hard to tell with the SPD vs BSW colours, but did BSW top the polls anywhere in Berlin?

 

[Erinthecute]

I'd love to see an animation of your Berlin maps (just the federal election ones I mean), it must be surreal to see how the Linke vote has moved around...

Perhaps I should go back and make some updated precinct maps using the same colour palette I use now. That would make comparison easier.

It's a bit hard to tell with the SPD vs BSW colours, but did BSW top the polls anywhere in Berlin?

No. Their best result was 14.5% in a precinct in Marzahn.

 

[Ares96]

Can I just say I hate the way they use separate geographic divisions for the postal vote?

 

[Erinthecute]

 

[Erinthecute]

 

[Alex Richards]

That is a very dramatic shift in strength there.

 

[Thande]

Very interesting. It almost looks unnatural to see that much red in 2021...

 

[iainbhx]

That is a very dramatic shift in strength there.

Hmm, looks at map, strong looking correlation with working class Turkish-German areas.