[pp.int.general] PPDE 2.1% in state elections

[Stephane Bakhos]

Congrats to PPDE!


On Mon, 28 Mar 2011, Justus Römeth wrote:

> Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 23:21:32 +0200
> From: Justus Römeth <roemeth at gmail.com>
> Reply-To: Pirate Parties International -- General Talk
>     <pp.international.general at lists.pirateweb.net>
> To: pp.international.general at lists.pirateweb.net
> Subject: Re: [pp.int.general] PPDE 2.1% in state elections
> 
> Ahoy
>
> What the recent elections show is that it is immensely important to be on as 
> many possible voting possibilities as possible. (ie have candidates in as 
> many voting districts as possible). In Germany you usually cast two votes, 
> one for a candidate in a city and one for a list the parties give down. The 
> votes for the list were usually also higher in districts where we had people 
> running for a direct mandate (this was also true in the elections in Hamburg 
> and Saxony-Anhalt earlier this year). So if you have manpower available, 
> convince them to run for any office they can, even if they are not that 
> interested in actually being elected, as it just improves the overall 
> percentages you are going to get and also to spread the word (of our 
> existence)
>
> Greetings from sunny (well, its dark now) Göttingen
>
> -J
>
> On 28.03.11 14:09, Gregory Engels wrote:
>>
>>  On 28.03.2011, at 12:53, Josef Ohlsson Collentine wrote:
>> 
>> >  Would love to know more details from someone that knows more about the 
>> >  results...
>>
>>  The results of the local elections of HESSE are so called "trend results"
>>  - meaning, that
>>  only about half of the votes has been counted so far, due to the
>>  complicated elction
>>  method used (a single voter could have up to 93 votes to spread across the
>>  kandidates
>>  of his preference, mixing parties lists together. )
>>
>>  The full results will be annpunced on tuesday, and on thursday the names
>>  of the electees
>>  will be anounced. Until then the trend result can and will change up to a
>>  single procent
>>  or so, resulting in a possible change of seates the Pirate Party of Hesse
>>  have won.
>>
>>  Actual result shows expected 30 elected Pirates in Hesse. (this can change
>>  till thursday, tough)
>>
>>  so stay tuned.
>>
>>  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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