Using clear maps and graphics, our impulse illustrates and explains the democratic imbalance at the Bavarian ballot boxes in the 2018 state elections and the 2021 federal elections.
The constituency of Schweinfurt is a prime example of this democratic imbalance: in the 2018 state election, the independent city had the lowest voter turnout in Bavaria at 58.38% (approximately 14 percentage points below the state average of 72.3%), but also the second-highest unemployment rate in Bavaria at 5.6%. At €21,379, the disposable per capita income was the fourth lowest.
In Starnberg, the city with the highest turnout in the 2018 state election, turnout was more than 20 percentage points higher (80.07%); the unemployment rate here was 2.5% and the disposable per capita income was (and is) the highest in the state at €37,934.
