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

[Jake Daynes]

Congratulations guys!

On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 3:15 AM, Gregory Engels <
Gregory.Engels at piratenpartei-hessen.de> 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
>
> mobile: +49 172 853 44 91
> skype:gregory.engels
> jabber:dichter at jabber.piratenpartei.de
>
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-- 
Sincerely,
Jake Daynes
Official Representative of the Pirate Party of Canada
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