Breading

This article explains a term from the right to vote; on the term from botany see variegation .

Example of variegation: distributing votes to different parties

Under cross-voting ( fr. Panacher "make colored mix") is understood at a choice with people-more than one vote system, the distribution of several available voices by the voters on individual candidates of different electoral lists .

The absolute number of votes cast for individual candidates only influences the distribution of seats within their list (party); the number of seats for a list is determined by the total number of votes for all of their applicants (exception: " Inappropriateness of suburbs " in the municipal elections in Baden- Württemberg ).

The possibility of variegation exists in Switzerland in the parliamentary elections of the various levels.

In Germany , it is provided for in local elections in the federal states of Baden-Württemberg , Bavaria , Brandenburg , Hesse , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Lower Saxony , Rhineland-Palatinate , Saxony , Saxony-Anhalt , Schleswig-Holstein and Thuringia . In the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen and Hamburg , local and regional elections can be used.

Giving more than one vote to a candidate is called accumulating or heaping.

See also

• Local electoral law (Baden-Württemberg)
• Local electoral law (Bavaria)
• Suffrage (Bremen)
• Suffrage (Hamburg)
• Local electoral law (Hessen)
• Local electoral law (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania)
• Local electoral law (Lower Saxony)
• Local electoral law (North Rhine-Westphalia)
• Local electoral law (Rhineland-Palatinate)
• Local electoral law (Schleswig-Holstein)
• Local electoral law (Thuringia)

Web links

• Wahlrecht.de - Further information on variegation
• Optional dictionary Switzerland
• Explanatory video: how to choose correctly - Local elections in Hessen (hr) on YouTube

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Information from the state of Schleswig-Holstein on the 2013 local elections. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 19, 2012 ; Retrieved November 5, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ § 6 BremWahlG. Transparency portal Bremen, accessed on April 15, 2016 .  
3. ^ Parliamentary elections in Hamburg. Wahlrecht.de , accessed on December 26, 2010 .