[GPSCC-chat] Fw: Greens win BIG, very BIG in So.Germany!

[Spencer Graves]

       According to the link below, "The results gave the Greens 24.2% 
and their Social Democrat allies 23.1%, with Mrs Merkel's party on 39% 
and its Free Democrat (FDP) allies on 5.3%."  Thus, the Greens + Social 
Democrats got 47.3% (not 57.3%), with the Greens the senior partner by 
1.1 percentage points vs. 44.3% for the Christian Democratic Union + 
FDP.  The Greens still appear set to lead the government in the German 
state of Baden-Wuerttemberg, but that's not certain.  Other parties 
control 8.6% of the vote.  If the CDU+FDP coalition can capture 6 of the 
8.6 percentage points of other parties, they will continue to govern.  
The Greens + Social Democrats need 2.8 of the 8.6 to actually form the 
next government.  I assume that it will be easier for the Greens to get 
2.8% than it will be for the CDU to get 6%, but that's not certain;  if 
the latter were likely, I think the election results would likely have 
been written differently.  (The Greens were also set to gain in 
elections in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate, but I have not seen any 
results yet.)


       Spencer


On 3/28/2011 10:35 AM, Caroline Yacoub wrote:
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> From: shane que hee<squehee at ucla.edu>
> Sent: Sun, March 27, 2011 8:58:09 PM
> Subject: Greens win BIG, very BIG in So.Germany!
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> From: Bob Marsh<bob at marsh.name>
>> Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2011 15:16:28 -0700
>> Subject: Greens win BIG, very BIG in So.Germany!
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>> In the state of Baden-Wurttemberg in Southern Germany (home to 11M people) the
>> Greens got enough votes to become the lead party in a potential coalition with
>> the Social Democrats (SDP). The Greens and SDP combined received 57.3% of the
>> votes and the Greens got 1% more votes than the SDP, an amazing result!
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>> This is what can happen when states adopt proportional representation.
>>
>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12876083
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