2016 Rhineland-Palatinate State Election Results by Municipality
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Description
Voting results for the SPD, CDU, GRÜNEN, FDP, DIE LINKE, and AfD parties from the 13 March 2016 state election in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. The dataset, published by the Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie, includes vote shares at the association municipality level and changes from the 2011 election. Results for other parties are summarized under a single category.
Use Cases
Mapping regional support for political parties based on municipal-level vote shares.
Analyzing electoral gains and losses for major parties compared to the 2011 state election.
Studying the geographic distribution of support for the AfD party in its early electoral history.
Strengths
Data is provided at the detailed association municipality level.
Includes comparative metrics showing change from the 2011 election in percentage points.
Published by the official German Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy.
Limitations
Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Data may reflect geographic and temporal bias inherent to a single state election.
Provenance
Source
Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie
Collection Method
Official state election results aggregated to the municipal level.
Time Range
2016-03-13
Freshness
Last updated 2024-06-30 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
Geography
Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Data is provided in WMS (Web Map Service) format, which may require specific GIS software for access and analysis.