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.