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This is a list of candidates for the 2021 German federal election.. There were 6,211 candidates in total. Of these, 1,284 ran only in the 299 single-member constituencies while 2,851 ran only on party lists. 2,076 candidates ran in both a constituency and on a party list.
Federal elections were held in Germany on 26 September 2021 to elect the members of the 20th Bundestag. State elections in Berlin and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern were also held. . Incumbent chancellor Angela Merkel, first elected in 2005, chose not to run again, marking the first time that an incumbent Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany did not seek re-el
Germany uses the mixed-member proportional representation system, a system of proportional representation combined with elements of first-past-the-post voting.The Bundestag has 598 nominal members, elected for a four-year term; these seats are distributed between the sixteen German states in proportion to the states' number of eligible voters.
The ruling SPD has dropped to third from first place in the 2021 election, on 17%, followed by the Greens on 11.5% and the BSW on 8%. The FDP and Left party are polling just 4.5% and 3% respectively.
The following table lists all top candidates (or "chancellor candidates" from the 1961 federal election) who have stood for the major parties CDU/CSU and SPD in federal elections since 1949. In addition, the FDP's candidacy for chancellor in 2002 and the candidacies for chancellor of Alliance 90/The Greens since 2021 are listed.
Berlin held four polls on Sept. 26, 2021: the German national election, a state election, a vote for the city’s 12 district assemblies and a local referendum. The Berlin Marathon, held the same ...
Germany’s highest court on Tuesday ordered the 2021 national election to be partially repeated in Berlin because of severe glitches at many polling stations in the capital. The rerun is much too ...
The next election will be held on 26 September 2021, unless a State of Defence is called before then. Some opinion pollsters, mainly Forsa , ask voters which party leader or popular politician they would prefer as Chancellor since Angela Merkel announced to step down as Chancellor of Germany at the forthcoming election.