Loan voice
With Leihstimme is known colloquially one electoral vote , the one voters for electoral reasons other than their preferred party are. One speaks more appropriately of the supporting voice . The term is legally irrelevant; a vote cast for a nomination applies as it was cast, without the motivation of the voter for tactical or other considerations influencing the effects of the vote with regard to democratic legitimation .
function
The electoral tactical intention of the voter is in most cases to give the "loan vote" to a smaller party that is in a coalition with the preferred party of the voter or is striving to do so . The tactically elected party should be enabled in order, one in a restrictive clause prescribed minimum number of votes (in parliament and all state parliaments: five-percent clause ) or mandates ( basic mandate clause ) and thus a place in the Parliament to achieve. Ultimately, a government coalition according to the wishes of the voter should be achieved. There is empirical evidence for this assumption, which mainly deals with the effect of the results of the Sunday question on the outcome of the election.
literature
- Wichard Woyke / Udo Steffens: Keyword: elections. A guide for voters and candidates . Leske + Budrich Verlag, Opladen 1984, 176 pages, ISBN 3-8100-0516-9 (also published as a special edition by the State Center for Civic Education North Rhine-Westphalia )
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cf. Section 34 of the Federal Election Act, which regulates that voting results from the voting slip alone, without any further considerations of the voter being able to be taken into account when counting or scoring.
- ↑ z. B. Jürgen Maier, Frank Brettschneider: Effects of survey reporting on voter behavior: An online experiment on the state elections in Baden-Württemberg 2006, Rhineland-Palatinate 2006 and Hesse 2008. In: Nikolaus Jackob , Harald Schoen and Thomas Zerback: Social research on the Internet. Methodology and practice of the online survey , VS Verlag.