Mapping Berlin's Election

Yesterday voters inwards Berlin went to the polls inwards the 2016 Berlin nation election. Angela Merkel's centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) political party achieved its lowest e'er resultant inwards Berlin. getting only 17.5% of the vote. The anti-immigration Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) political party achieved a frightening 14.1%. The Social Democrats (SPD) got the virtually votes of whatsoever party, alongside 21.6% of the vote.

The Berliner Morgenpost's 2016 Berlin Election map allows y'all to come across how each political party performed inwards every election seat. Each electoral expanse on the map is colored to stand upward for the political political party that got the highest percentage of the vote.

If y'all click on a political party advert inwards the map legend y'all tin likewise come across the 10 districts where the political party got its highest percentage of the the vote. For example, if y'all click on 'AfD' y'all tin come across that the anti-immigration political party got its biggest percentage of the vote inwards seats which were inwards the quondam East Germany.

You tin sentiment the Berliner Morgenpost's analysis of the vote yesteryear using the links running along the bottom of the map. The 'Rechtruck' link, for example, shows a choropleth sentiment of the AfD's vote percentage across the capital. This shows that the political party performed reasonably good across the urban centre too entirely failed to larn below 5% of the vote inwards 33 of the 653 electoral areas.