[Voting behavior of elderly people at the time of the elections for the Lower House of the Federal Republic on December 2, 1990].
Elderly citizens in Germany are interested in politics, thus, a high percentage of this population group took part in the 1990 federal elections. The turnout of the elderly is higher than that of younger voters. For more than 30 years there has been a stable majority for the Christian Democratic and Christian Social parties among the elderly. The Social Democrats and the Liberals are supported more by the younger generations. Because of this stable voting pattern it seems likely that before reaching the age of 60 years German voters tend to develop a more conservative attitude towards politics. Therefore, the theory that voters retain the party preference they chose in their younger years seems not to be valid, at least for a certain part of this population.