Reply #8: end results

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CDU 39.0
Greens 24.2
SPD 23.1
FDP 5.3
Left Party 2.8
Others 5.6

30 years after its inception the Green Party in Germany will for the first time provide a governor/state premier, in a state that has been governed by the conservative CDU since WWII. It is this very state, however, where the German anti-nuclear power movement started and celebrated its first triumph: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyhl

So it seems very fitting that they won today. But it's not just the headlines from Japan, not Chancellor Merkel's desperate but transparent moves to quickly reverse the fatal mistake to undo the nuclear power phase-out which had this effect. Most of all, it was once again a broad popular movement, against a multi-billion Euro project called "Stuttgart 21", which mobilized hundreds of thousands not just to gather and demonstrate, but to go to the election and vote: turnout rose from some 53.4% to 66.2%.