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Largest party by electoral district in the German federal election (sh.itjust.works)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

US Military can't vote in German elections. The only voting population involved with the military would be NATO Aircom and even that German population would be small compared to the 80%+ turnout.

Lippe which includes GFM-Rommel-Kaserne voted CDU with 27%.

Even in Grafenwöhr CDU was around 27%.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I kind of assumed there'd be lots of German servicepeople on those bases too. Interesting that it doesn't work that way.

So why do you think Kaiserslautern went AfD?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

I want to say the anti American sentiment but also Kaiserslautern is the 2nd stop in Germany from France (first being Saarbrücken). So there may be anti immigration influence.

Additionally Kaiserslautern has lost a ton of manufacturing capabilities with the withdraw of Pfaff and Opel in the area may have caused many loss of jobs and general upset of the population.