State Election in Hamburg 1978

Judgement on parties and politicians. Attitude to political questions
at state level.

Topics: Willingness to participate in the impending metropolitan
council election and decision for an absentee ballot; voting for the
same party as in the last metropolitan council election; party
preference (list procedure and rank order procedure); time of personal
voting decision; election of personalities or matter-of-fact voting
decision; importance of federal-level political topics for one´s own
political decisions at state level; behavior at the polls in the last
metropolitan council election; party one cannot vote for; sympathy
scale for the leading state politicians as well as senate and
opposition; coalition preference; most important topics of state
politics with influence on one´s voting decision; suitability as a
coalition partner of the SPD and FDP in Hamburg; expected election
winner; expected influence of election result on the situation of the
Bonn SPD/FDP government; religiousness; union membership; party
inclination and party identification; characterization of residential
surroundings by means of occupational groups.