[pp.int.general] Pirate Party of Hesse wins 31 Seats at the local election

[lilo]

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On 02/04/2011 12:15, Gregory Engels wrote:
> 
> Ahoy,
> 
> the news of the success of the Pirate Party of Hesse
> (who is one of observing members of PPI, since the
> last Conference) has already been reported on the
> Pirate Parties International general mailinglist,
> but some numbers has changed slightly as the
> official result where anounced, so I give you a short
> update and some background facts.
> 
> all in all during the local elections on the
> March 27th, the PP-DE-HE  have contested with
> 31 Lists on different levels of local councils
> - 7 cities, 10 districts, 3 towns and 11 "neighborhoods"
> 
> The results are between 1.1% and 6.25%, getting
> 1.2% on overall average in the whole Hesse
> (including the districts where no lists had been
> submitted)
> 
> This results in 31 elected parliament seats,
> 
> between 1 and 2 per council. In at least 5
> councils that mean that the Pirates will get
> their own parliamentary fraction status.
> (including in my own home city of Offenbach)
> 
> Some background facts: due to the election
> system used for local elections in Hesse, the
> contesting lists need to be at least 1/3 of all
> possible parliament seats in length, in order
> of not to waste any votes. (16 of 31 pirate
> lists where indeed to short, so potentially
> the overall result would be higher, if we
> had met this criterion)
> 
> There had been 490 pirate candidates on all
> lists combined. (PP-DE-HE has actually
> just below 900 members all together)
> 
> To get ballot access, 3753 supporters signatures
> had been collected and verified.
> 
> 8250 DIN-A1 posters had been ordered
> centrally by the PP-DE-HE (some local
> groups had additional posters of their own,
> but I don't know the numbers)
> 
> sincerely yours,
> 
> Gregory Engels
> International Coordinator
> Pirate Party of Germany

O M G

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