Roderich Egeler
President of the Federal Statistical Office
Press release September 17, 2009
New Elections Atlas of the 2009 Bundestag Election is online now
WIESBADEN – On the occasion of the Bundestag election to be held on 27 September 2009, the Federal Returning Officer offers a new Elections Atlas on his website which contains the results of the latest Bundestag election of 2005 and selected structural data for all Länder and constituencies. Already in election night, once the preliminary election result has been established, the results of the 2009 Bundestag Election will be included in the Elections Atlas, too.
At present, voter turnout and the results achieved by the individual parties at the 2005 Bundestag Election can be called up in the Elections Atlas for each Land and for all constituencies. The shares of the votes obtained by the parties and the voter turnout in the individual areas are presented in different colour shades.
There also are comprehensive structural data for each constituency relating to the following subject areas: population, educational level, stock of motor vehicles, construction activity and housing, mining and manufacturing, enterprises and local units (including insolvency proceedings), public finance, employment and social benefits. The structural data are shown in different colour shades, too.
The Elections Atlas is available free of charge as a flash version on the website of the Federal Returning Officer.
The structural data may also be downloaded for free as a pdf file or in the csv format.
Additionally, number 1 of the publications issued by the Federal Returning Officer on the Election to the 17th German Bundestag on 27 September 2009 is published these days. It is entitled “Ergebnisse und Vergleichszahlen früherer Bundestags-, Europa- und Landtagswahlen sowie Strukturdaten für die Bundestagswahlkreise“ (Results and comparative figures of earlier elections to the German Bundestag, the European Parliament and the Länder parliaments, and structural data for the Bundestag constituencies). It contains the results of the Bundestag elections held since 1949, the results of European elections since 1979 and the results of the elections to the Länder parliaments since 1946. The result of the 2005 Bundestag Election and the results of the latest elections to the Länder parliaments have been converted to the delimitation of constituencies valid for the Election to the 17th German Bundestag.
The issue is provided for free download as a pdf file.
The printed edition may be ordered directly from the distributing partner at a price of EUR 18.- [D] per copy:
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