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Schon 2016 holte die AfD in BaWü 15.1% bei den Landtagswahlen; gestern warens 18.8%.
In Sachsen-Anhalt warens 2016 24%, Umfragen zeigen heute 39% für die AfD.

Das sind schlicht andere Dimensionen.

Diese Karte ist der Albtraum aller Rot-Grün-Blinden

Bezüglich Baden-Württemberg bin ich nicht sicher, ob man aus einer Wahl die dermassen von der Frage, welche *Person* die nächste Landesregierung anführt, dermassen viel strukturelle Prozesse/Erklärungen reinlesen sollte...

How did they vote in Nürnberg yesterday?

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Never show these two plots to a Dutch political scientist...

As always: the upside-down U

For both parties, this would be the - by far - worst result ever in BaWü. For the FDP, it would be the first time ever that they would not make it in the Landtag in one of the last remaining FDP strongholds.

Crazy exit polls - and a historical disaster for the FDP and the SPD.

First official results suggest an overall really high turnout for Swiss standards.

Finally, Swiss citizens strongly reject a green initiative demanding the introduction of a new climate funds + an initiative on cash provision from the national bank (yet, the direct counter proposal demanding almost the same is clearly supported).

In addition, the Swiss population voted in favour of changing its taxation system that had previously benefitted more traditional marriages, in which only one person was earning a salary. This is the largest Swiss tax reform since the introduction of the VAT.

First polls suggest a clear rejection of the far-right initiative that demanded to cut fees for public broadcasting in half.

Indeed...

And while not happening in Switzerland, today's regional elections in neighbouring Baden-Württemberg have also large implications for the country, since BaWü and Switzerland have strong economic, social, and political ties.

Most interesting and most important (next to the direct democratic votes) are probably the local elections in the biggest city of Switzerland, Zurich, where left-wing parties aim to keep their majority in government and parliament.

Today will be a super election Sunday in Switzerland!

- National direct democratic votes (Cash, Large Tax Reform, Fees for Public broadcasting serviced, climate funds)
- Cantonal Elections (Nidwalden, Obwalden, Glarus), national council by-elections in AR
- Local elections (Zurich, Vaud, Fribourg)

Ja, also die Durchschnittswerte für die Altersgruppen sind averaged über alle Länder. Daraus kann man leider absolut gar nichts ableiten, weil das massiv verzerrt ist durch Länder, die viele junge Menschen haben (also Indonesien, Thailand, Indien, etc.).

In Ländern wie Schweden kommt problematisch dazu, dass die Gruppe der als Gen-Z definierten Männer dann einfach auch winzig klein ist, bei repräsentativem Sample und n=500.

Da Europäische Länder massiv ältere Gesellschaften haben als Länder wie Südafrika, Indien, Thailand, oder Indonesien, dies aber nicht korrigiert wird, kann man aus den Altersunterschieden eigentlich absolut nichts rauslesen, da dies maximal verzerrt ist von unterschiedlichen Kontexten.

Die Ländergrösse ist eigentlich nicht das Problem der Studie, da die Samples in den Ländern etwa gleich gross sind. Aber das Problem ist, dass die Länder sehr unterschiedliche Altersstrukturen aufweisen, diese jedoch durch fehlende Gewichtung nicht gegenkorrigiert wurden.

It is just straight dangerous to put up such narratives when you only present average values across 29 completely different countries with different age structures and *DON'T ADJUST* for this.

Deleting X and only posting on Bluesky was a great decision, not only because X seems to be a bad place but also because it’s so boring here.

My feed here is mostly middle aged men posting way too many very uninteresting details about their lives. Brings my scrolling time basically down to zero.

Yes, fully understood! My comments stem from a more general impression when I hear/read people talking/writing about Swiss politics

And while the direct democratic system might have helped mitigate certain conflicts, it also made it possible for Switzerland to become a pioneer in far-right politics, with deeply xenophobic anti-immigration initiatives already present in the early 1970s and continuing to the present day.

What strikes me the most is how many people do not seem to be aware of how deeply exclusionist Switzerland's democracy has always been - sometimes "by design" (female suffrage, voting rights for foreigners, disabled people), sometimes "by consequence" (low turnout, low responsiveness).

It's actually quite interesting how many fundamental misperceptions exist about the Swiss political system and its institutions.

"Switzerland highly resilient to populism and polarization"

*cries bitterly in Swiss*