2016 Rhineland-Palatinate State Election Results by Municipality

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