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The analysis of party-voter congruence and divergence in Germany’s 2025 federal election draws on around 330,000 users of the “Wahl-Kompass” voting advice application, who donated the data. Five salient campaign issues are analyzed: the debt...

This article analyzes party positions and political polarization in the German party system during the 2025 federal election using the online voting advice applications “Wahl-O-Mat” and “WahlSwiper”. The findings show a strong programmatic...

The coalition negotiations following the Austrian National Council elections in 2024 developed into the longest government formation in the Second Republic and led to an oversized three-party coalition of the ÖVP, SPÖ and NEOS for the first time...

Traditional seat apportionment methods focus on proportionality in order to ensure equal suffrage. They may violate a property called majority preservation, though, as we expose on a number of recent elections in Germany. As such, a coalition of...

The federal election on February 23, 2025, was marked by high polarization, which focused mainly on the issue of migration, leading to a record turnout of 82.5 percent. The Union (CDU/CSU) achieved 28.5 percent, but fell short of expectations, while...

The outcome of the Hamburg state election held on March 2, 2025, was principally shaped by city-specific issues, despite the extraordinary context of an early federal election just one week prior, which was triggered by the collapse of the federal...

The Austrian National Council election on September 29, 2024 marks the endpoint of the longest legislative period since the extension of the term of office in 2007. There have been five elections since then, and it was only the second time that it...