The Piratenpartiei of North Rhine Wesphalia have, at the first count, 8,1% of the votes and so entered the state parliament.

The next state elections are Lower Saxony in January next year. This is the state where I live and we will be working hard to equal or better today's results.

Andrew

It will be hard to beat 20 MPs

I was thinking in percentage terms but why not reach for the sky.

To date over half a million people have now voted Pirate!

Andrew

"To date over half a million people have now voted Pirate!"

That's a great stat. You have a source for that? That's worth sharing wider

Yes -http://www.wahlrecht.de/news/2012/landtagswahl-nordrhein-westfalen-2012.htm
The Pirate Party got 617,732 direct votes and 608.957 party votes. Over half a million votes in one election.

But we can do better than that
Following is a list of the minimum number of votes Pirates recent German state elections and the Swedish European elections in 2009 with references

A total of 1,049,882 so "Over a million people voted Pirate Party"


2012 North Rhine Westphalia 617,732
http://www.wahlrecht.de/news/2012/landt ... n-2012.htm

2012 Saarland 35,656
http://www.wahlrecht.de/news/2012/landt ... d-2012.htm

2012 Schleswig-Holstein 97,246
http://www.wahlrecht.de/news/2012/landt ... n-2012.htm

2011 Berlin 73.333
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wahl_zum_A ... erlin_2011

2009 Sweden EU 225,915 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_P ... 09_(Sweden)