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Maps to the Thuringia election: Left, CDU and AfD - where the parties are particularly strong

2019-10-28T13:46:55.064Z


The Left wins the Thuringia election, but in some places is just ahead of the competition. Where the CDU could hold their strongholds and where the AfD dominates - the overview in maps.



The victory of the left in the state election in Thuringia runs across the state: in 38 of the 44 constituencies, the party of Prime Minister Bodo Ramelow strongest force. In four constituencies, the CDU was ahead by provisional results, in two dominated the AfD.

The strongest cut off the left in the cities, in individual constituencies, it was only just under 40 percent. In Erfurt, Jena, Weimar, Nordhausen and Suhl, their distance from the competition was particularly high. In Jena, for example, the party came to a good 37 percent of the second votes and was more than 20 percentage points ahead of the competition. In rural areas, the left was weaker, in the northwestern district of Eichsfeld with its two constituencies, they came only to about 15 percent of the vote.

There, however, could score the CDU . The region is strongly Catholic - a historical feature in East Germany. Here, the party achieved a share of almost twice as high as in the country section: In the constituency Eichsfeld I it came to more than 40 percent. The Christian Democrats were also northeast of Weimar and in parts of the Wartburgkreis lying west strongest force. On results clearly under 20 per cent came the CDU in the cities Erfurt, Jena and Gera.

The AfD was only in two constituencies strongest force. But in 30 constituencies, she came in second place, in some places she was only a few hundred votes behind the left. In a few constituencies, the party narrowly missed the 30-percent mark, so in the district of Gera and parts of the Altenburg country, the Saale-Orla district and in the district of Saalfeld-Rudolstadt.

The remaining parties did not become the strongest second vote in any constituency. The SPD got its best result in and around Gotha, the city where the SPD forerunners united in 1875. (Why the SPD in Gotha is so strong, read here.) The constituency Gotha II was also the only one in which the SPD could win a direct mandate with candidate Matthias Hey.

The Greens are traditionally strong in the cities. They performed best at the university locations of Erfurt, Jena, Weimar and Ilmenau, where they achieved double-digit results in several electoral districts. In 34 of the 44 electoral districts, the Greens came to less than five percent, the weakest were their results in the southeast and northeast of Thuringia.

For the FDP , the gap between strong and weak constituencies is smaller than for other parties. Liberals are in many places around five percent. The party in Jena got its best values ​​with a good seven percent. In the southwest of Thuringia, the Liberals tended to be weaker.

Source: spiegel

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