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Are there any official results out yet somewhere over the interwebs?

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by talos (mihalis at gmail dot com) on Sun Sep 27th, 2009 at 05:11:32 PM EST

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Official results site:

http://www.bundeswahlleiter.de/

Right now 270 out of 299 districts are reporting. It should be near 99% soon.

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by DoDo on Sun Sep 27th, 2009 at 05:31:01 PM EST
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Unless some precints in Saxony are still outstanding, it seems the Pirate Party (1.9%) really beat the Neo-Nazis of the NPD (1.4%), though not the combination of the three far-right parties (1.4+0.5+0.1 = 2%). The only other sub-5% dwarf of note is the undead Animal ProtectionParty (0.6%).

For JakeS: the creationists of the also undead Party of Bible-Faithful Christians scored 0.1% (40,000 votes at this stage of counting).

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by DoDo on Sun Sep 27th, 2009 at 05:39:11 PM EST
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Unfortunately it seems that Cem didn't get his direct mandate in Stuttgart, Ströbele still seems to be the only one for the greens.

by nanne (zwaerdenmaecker@gmail.com) on Sun Sep 27th, 2009 at 05:57:20 PM EST
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Apart from fighting against surveillance and for free intertubes, I think an important role for the pirates will be to have the better "a vote for us is a vote against the establishment" story. Quite a large part of the far-rights votes is more from general discontent with the people in charge then from actual support for the far-rights policies.

Those voters deserve a better alternative.

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by A swedish kind of death on Mon Sep 28th, 2009 at 06:42:45 AM EST
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The official results are on the site of the Bundeswahlleiter.

by nanne (zwaerdenmaecker@gmail.com) on Sun Sep 27th, 2009 at 05:33:43 PM EST
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For Brandenburg, check the regional election site. As of now, 3,281 out of 3,644 precints were counted.

Again focusing on what goes on below the 5% limit:

NPD 2.6% (all new; 5 years ago, the 3 far-right partiesagreed to not run against each other, but now the NPD wanted and did take over)
Free Voters (localists) 1.7% (all new)
DVU (far-right, "völkisch" version) 1.2% (-4.9)

...
* Republicans (also far-right, tax-cut version) 0.2% (all new)

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by DoDo on Sun Sep 27th, 2009 at 05:51:30 PM EST
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