German Bundestag Election 2017: CDU Second Vote Share by District

Rhineland-Palatinate results from the German federal election held on 24 September 2017. The dataset contains thematic maps showing the share of second votes for the CDU party at the district and association municipality level. It was published by the Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie and last updated in June 2024.

Use Cases

• Create choropleth maps of CDU support based on the percentage share data.
• Analyze regional strongholds and weaknesses of a major political party based on district-level results.
• Compare electoral geography across different administrative levels using the included association municipality data.
• Study gains and losses in party support using the percentage point change data mentioned in the description.

Strengths

• Focuses on a specific, significant national election held on 24 September 2017.
• Provides data at two administrative levels: district and association municipality.
• Includes percentage share as well as gains and losses in percentage points, as noted in the description.
• Published by the official German Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy (Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie).

Limitations

• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data is specific to the state of Rhineland-Palatinate and the 2017 election, limiting temporal and geographic scope.

Provenance

Source

Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie

Collection Method

Likely compiled from official electoral results.

Time Range

2017-09-24

Freshness

Last updated 2024-06-30 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany