Another interesting figure is, how voters have transferred to AFD:

• 1.8M come from previously non-voters
• 1M from CDU/CSU (Christian conservatives)
• 890k from FDP (Liberal capitalistes)

My 2-cents analysis about this, the right parties have decided to fight on AFD’s turf, focus their campaign on immigration, insecurity, reduce welfare, shifting the whole debate to the extreme right, in an attempt to steal the voters from AFD. But very predictively, this only help to legitimize the extreme right rhetoric et topics and unsurprisingly traditionally right voters ended up voting for extreme right this time.

It’s troubling that 20% of people, with exception of those who grew up under nazi rule, voted for nazis.

Edit: You can also see the split between east and west Germany extremely well

Final graphic shows why the far-right hates education. I’m probably jumping to conclusions, but I wonder if their relatively low popularity among higher-educated voters is due to:

1. Voters being more aware of their history (a “… doomed to repeat it” sort of thing)
2. Better at spotting populist lies (I don’t know enough about German politics to know how populist the Left Party is)
3. Leading more comfortable lives, thus less inclined to reach for extremes.

It’s an undemocratic thought, but sometimes I wish there were some sort of aptitude test right before casting a vote. Or at the very least, a quick quiz to confirm you’re aware of the party’s key program points. Obviously, both options are ripe for abuse.

Young people between the ages of 18 and 24 leaned to the extremes, casting their ballot more often for the far-right AfD and the Left Party.

Kind of misleading. Their AfD vote was roughly the same as other age groups, but they had the most support for the Left Party.

Millennials having the highest vote for the AfD is embarrassing, however.

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