State Election in Lower Saxony 1994

Judgement on parties and politicians at the state parliament election
in Lower Saxony.
Topics: Eligible voter status of respondent; city
size; most important political problems of Lower Saxony; intent to
participate in the election; intent to use absentee ballot; party
preference (first vote and second vote as well as rank order
procedure); certainty and time of personal voting decision; behavior at
the polls in the last state parliament election; attitude to an SPD
one-party government; coalition preference; sympathy scale for the
parties on state as well as federal level and for the top politicians
at the federal as well as state level; satisfaction with the SPD-Greens
government in Lower Saxony and the opposition parties CDU and FDP as
well as with the achievements of the Federal Government; knowledge
about the top candidates for the state parliament election; preference
for prime minister; assumed unity of the top candidates of the SPD and
CDU with their respective state parties; judgement on the economic
situation of Lower Saxony and economic forecast; assessment of personal
economic situation and expected further development; comparison of the
economic situation of Lower Saxony with the rest of the federal
territory; ability of an SPD-led or CDU-led state government in
economic questions, the fight against unemployment, the fight against
crime, improving the situation in the housing market, environmental
protection and solving the questions of applicants for political
asylum; satisfaction with the situation in the housing market; tenant
status; satisfaction with avoiding a strike in the metal industry of
Lower Saxony as well as judgement on the wage increases agreed to;
expected winner in the state parliament election in Lower Saxony;
expected chances for a one-party government of the SPD and assessment
of the chances of the FDP, the Statt-Party and the Republicans to
obtain seats in the state parliament; judgement on the election
campaign effort of party members for their parties; union member in
household; religiousness; unemployed and close persons whose job is
endangered; party inclination and party identification.