State Election in the Saarland 1980

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

Topics: willingness to participate in the coming state election and
decision for an absentee ballot; party preference (list procedure and
rank order procedure for the state parliament election as well as the
Federal Parliament election); time of personal voting decision;
personal change in party voted for; satisfaction with the top candidate
of one´s preferred party; behavior at the polls in the last state
parliament election; sympathy scale for the leading state politicians
as well as state government and opposition; most important political
problem at the state level with influence on one´s own voting decision;
attitude to an absolute majority of one party in the state parliament;
coalition preference; importance of federal-level political topics on
one´s own political decision at state level; expectation that the
Greens will take seats in the state parliament; preference for prime
minister; preference for federal chancellor; expected election winner;
expected influence of the candidacy of Franz-Josef Strauss on the
chances of the CDU/CSU in the Federal Parliament election as well as in
the state parliament election; union membership; religiousness; party
inclination and party identification.