Voice splitting
Of vote splitting is called by a two-vote electoral law, if a voter his people's voice , are (first vote) a candidate who does not for the party vote selected (second vote) party compete.
With personalized proportional representation , voters can exercise influence over the representation of a party they did not vote for. The split of votes has no effect on the distribution of seats between the parties, as long as there are no overhang mandates and applicants are not selected who do not stand for a party that overcomes the threshold clause .
Supporters of parties with promising direct candidates are usually not interested in a vote splitting, as they usually prefer a local representation of their constituency to the alternative, namely an unknown list candidate (if the direct candidate is not well protected on the list ).
Vote splitting in the election to the German Bundestag
In the 2005 Bundestag election , according to representative election statistics, 24.5% of voters split their votes (including ballot papers that were only partially invalid).
Among the voters (second vote) of the FDP it was 71.0%; 65.3% for the Greens . In the case of the Left , which had a number of direct candidates in the East with a certain chance of success, it was only 27.9%; at the SPD 13.3%. The fewest splinters were recorded with the CDU (9.3%) and CSU (8.2%), which had certain opportunities in practically every constituency.
Among the voters of other parties, 50.9% did not vote for a direct candidate from (possibly another) other party, although it must be taken into account that the smaller parties often did not put up any direct candidate at all. Of the voters with an invalid second vote (which includes second votes not cast), 27.7% cast a valid first vote.
In absolute numbers, almost exactly half of the split votes cast their second votes for the FDP or the Greens.
The proportion of vote splinters has increased significantly compared to previous federal elections.
Individual applicants
Anyone who wants to give their first vote to an individual applicant or an applicant whose party has not drawn up a corresponding state list is forced to split votes. The federal electoral law determines that the second vote is not counted in such a case if the individual applicant is elected to the Bundestag. If an applicant is successful from a party in the constituency that also competes with a state list but fails due to the threshold clause, the second votes of the voters of this applicant are also disregarded.
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- ↑ Voting behavior in the 2005 Bundestag election by gender and age ( memento of the original from June 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file; 667 kB)
