Brilliant! Fantastic! 👏

Well done! 👏

Me too 🙃

Yes! This is great! 👏

Yaaaay! Fanastic, great to hear! 🥳

@jssfr that makes sense... I sure hope we have elections in the future...

@jssfr I disagree about the first vote. In my district only the candidate from the green party has at least a chance to win against the conservative. So it makes sense for me to vote for the green candidate to challenge the conservative. Even my usual vote goes to the left party

@jssfr Not anymore. This was 3 years ago.

@jssfr
That doesn’t seem correct.
The 1st vote is for the district representative - which is first-past-the-post and thus voting for a party that has a realistic chance of getting to the majority in the district is sensible - especially if it’s about preventing another party from gaining the seat. In some districts (such as mine) parties that have a small share of the national vote can still have a strong local footprint and there the 1st vote is a good way to support them - but that’s not true for most districts.

The 2nd vote is proportional, so there small parties will have as much a chance as those with a large vote share. Nonetheless the party still needs to cross the 5% threshold, so voting for a party polling at below 3% is not a great strategy if one would want to prevent the AfD from gaining seats.

To use your German federal parliamentary election votes to maximize your influence on who gets into parliament:

First vote: Which candidate is likely to win in your particular local voting district? If you like that person, vote for her or him. If not, vote for the person with second best chance.

Second vote: Which parties have a reasonable chance to get into the next parliament? Choose among those.

Deviations from this send political signals, but influence outcome less.

@FediTips @jssfr

EDIT: You changed it. The current version is good.

Sorry, @FediTips , but your suggestion on what to do with your first vote is, I believe, the worst hint from you I've read thus far. With margin. (Which is to say I usually like what I read from you.)

A first vote for a party that has a tiny followership in your voting district and no reasonable chance to win that district is basically wasted, from an election-outcome point of view.

@jssfr

I already did. I knowe it will be bad tonight, the question is: how bad?

p.p.s. Okay, polls have closed in Germany, well done to everyone who voted and let's hope for the best in the weeks to come as a coalition government is formed.

(For those wondering, I don't make a habit of posting about elections on this account. I'll only do one-off posts if there's some kind of historically dangerous situation.)

Thanks! I've added a follow-up post, hope I've got this right:

https://social.growyourown.services/@FediTips/114053435332462030

Let me know if it's wrong, I can edit it.

I tried to make the original post as simple as possible, you have raised a really important nuance, thank you 🙏

Wondeful! Great to hear! 👏

Well done on voting anyway 💪

Thank you for voting to stop the AfD! 👏

Not only voting but also going to the streets as every logically thinking German should do in these times.
It's a pity that no plea to prohibit this party has gone to ballot, yet. I asked my parliamentary to do that and he tries...

Similar situation in many countries right now 😞

Perhaps some people are incapable of seeing danger until it hurts them specifically?

Hurrah! Wonderful! Brilliant to hear 🥳

Brilliant, well done! 👏

I've had a lot of feedback from people about this today, that's why I added the voting tip in the reply:

https://social.growyourown.services/@FediTips/114053435332462030

Apparently the candidate vote can be for a very small party as long as the candidate is doing well in that district.

The party vote does need to be for a party likely to get over 5% to have a likely effect.

Fantastic that you voted! 💪

Of course... ;) Trying to motivate everyone as well and promoting the left!