Angela Merkel has won her quaternary term every bit High German Chanvellor. However the biggest intelligence of this High German election has to hold out the rising of the far correct AfD party. It appears that both the centre-right CDU together with centre-left Social Democrats lost voters to the controversial AfD. Despite retaining ability inwards a coalition regime Merkel's CDU political party achieved their worst results since 1949. The Social Democrats likewise had their poorest results since 1945.
The AfD nevertheless has made huge inroads since the final High German election. The Berliner Morgenpost's 2017 Wahlkarte interactive map provides a useful guide every bit to where the AfD has gained the virtually votes. If y'all direct the 'Shift to the right' pick y'all tin dismiss take in a choropleth take in of the AfD's vote part inwards each constituency. This reveals that the AfD is virtually pop inwards constituencies inwards the sometime East Germany. On average it appears that the political party polled at to the lowest degree 10-20% to a greater extent than votes inwards nearly every sometime East High German constituency than they did inwards constituencies inwards the sometime West Germany.
The Financial Times has mapped where each of Germany's political parties direct keep gained together with lost votes inwards the country. This map shows how the AfD picked upward votes across the whole country. It likewise reinforces the fact that it was far to a greater extent than pop inwards the sometime East Germany. The FT map likewise shows that the CDU together with SPD lost popularity across the whole of Germany.
The rising of the AfD is beingness seen every bit a populist reaction against Germany's credence of refugees. These maps hint that the underlying crusade of this anti-refugee take in powerfulness hold out tied to income inequality. It for sure appears that the less economically secure sometime East High German constituencies were to a greater extent than receptive to the AfD's anti-refugee message than the to a greater extent than economically secure constituencies inwards the westward of the country.
