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If people knew their votes wouldn't be wasted, perhaps more people would vote 'Bibeltreu' than nowadays.

I know, and this is why I shudder at the thought of even just tens of thousands of PBC list-voters: those must be real hardcore creationists; and they proselytize. Just checked prior results (the first figure is votes on party lists, the second votes for directly elected candidates):

  1. 65,651/26,864
  2. 71,941/46,379
  3. 101,645/71,106
  4. 108,605/57,027

That's solid growth in list votes.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Wed Feb 27th, 2008 at 04:46:42 AM EST
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That's
1994-8:    +10%/+73%
1998-2002: +41%/+53%
2002-5:     +7%/-20%
Maybe they've reached their ceiling.

We have met the enemy, and he is us — Pogo
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Feb 27th, 2008 at 05:02:22 AM EST
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Given that turnout grew 1994-8 and fell 2002-5, and that the latter was only three years, I think those growths are comparable. (The direct vote isn't truly comparable for minor parties: if they don't manage to put a candidate on the ballot paper, potential PBC voters can't draw the X.)

On the other hand, I checked how they fared in recent regional elections where they ran, and that does indicate a ceiling:

Baden-Württenberg: 2001-20,528, 2006-26,759
Rhineland-Palatinate: 2001-5,379, 2006-4,973
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern: 2002-1,312, 2006-1,957
Bremen: 2003-1,009, 2007-960
Hessen: 2003-6,674, 2008-did not run
Lower Saxony: 2003-7,819, 2008-5,851
Hamburg: 2004-1,571, 2008-did not run

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.

by DoDo on Wed Feb 27th, 2008 at 06:16:02 AM EST
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