Zeit has created an interactive map which visualizes the leads to the 2024 European Union elections in 83,000 municipalities. The map in Discover Europe’s Most Detailed Electoral Map colours every electoral space in Europe primarily based on the politics of the main candidate within the election.
The map lets you evaluate the 2024 European Union election outcomes with the outcomes from 2014 and 2019. By switching between the 2014 and 2024 outcomes you possibly can see that there was a normal shift throughout a lot of Europe to extra right-wing events. The far-right particularly have made big features in France, Austria, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Latvia and Germany.
Zeit’s accompanying article (in German) explores among the most attention-grabbing outcomes to emerge in June’s election. For instance the article explores a sample throughout a lot of Europe the place inner-city areas are likely to vote for extra left-wing events than these in rural areas, who are likely to favor events of the proper.
The newspaper additionally notes that Poland as soon as once more appears politically break up alongside a 100 yr outdated border. In August, 1772, Russia, Prussia, and Austria signed a treaty that partitioned Poland. Poland regained its independence and reunited because the Second Polish Republic in 1918 after World Battle I. Nonetheless, the pre-1918 geographical divide appears to re-emerge within the outcomes of each Polish election. Zeit notices that on this European election ‘Within the western and northern areas that have been as soon as German, individuals vote otherwise (often extra liberally) than within the former Russian areas.’
The German newspaper additionally factors out the political variations between the Wallonia and Flemish areas in Belgium and the break up in Germany alongside the outdated West and East German border.
