Wahlrecht.de

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Wahlrecht.de is a website that publishes information and opinions on German electoral law as well as the results of population surveys - especially Sunday questions . The site is operated by Matthias Cantow, Martin Fehndrich, Andreas Schneider and Wilko Zicht .

Election recommendations

Wahlrecht.de gives recommendations on how voters can use tactical voting to increase the weight of their votes. Among other things, the site provides information on the consequences of the negative voting weight , taking into account party preferences.

Sunday questions archive

The site has an archive of Sunday questions from the largest German polling institutes , dating back to around 1994. This includes surveys at both federal and state level. In addition to the proportions of the parties, Wahlrecht.de also provides information about the survey period, the number of respondents and the client. German polling institutes sometimes refer to Wahlrecht.de as a publicly accessible data source for requests for data on their Sunday questions. The institutes generally do not publish raw data. The data are used for political science and election sociological studies. In order to check the quality of the database, Jochen Groß compared random samples of the data from Wahlrecht.de with the media publications of the surveys. The samples were scattered over the years and institutes. Groß found no deviations. The data from Wahlrecht.de are used by Spiegel Online to display the course of the Sunday questions.

Suffrage issues, election results

Information that is less present in the mass media can also be found on the website. a. on changes in the right to vote or on lawsuits filed against the right to vote. These events are not only displayed, but usually also commented on. The website also archives the official final results of past elections.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.wahlrecht.de/kontakt.htm Contact - The authors of Wahlrecht.de
  2. ↑ Per Hinrichs, Hans Michael Kloth: Cheap candidate . In Der Spiegel , 37/2002, p. 46, accessed on June 24, 2015
  3. ↑ Jochen Groß: The prognosis of election results. Approaches and empirical performance . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2010, ISBN 978-3-531-17273-6 , p. 122 .