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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.
English: Map of the results of the 2021 German federal election. The large map of Germany shows the winning vote strength in the country's 299 single-member constituencies. The map on the right shows the number of List Seat candidates elected by state. Each of the single-member constituencies are labelled on the left-hand side of the image.
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
In the previous state election held on 27 October 2019, The Left became the largest party for the first time in any German state, winning 31.0% of votes cast. The Alternative for Germany (AfD) made the largest gains, increasing its vote share by almost 13 percentage points and became the second largest party with 23.4%. The Christian Democratic ...
The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), which had topped polls for the past two years in the state, won 29.2%, according to provisional official results by the State Electoral Commissioner ...
The 2024 European Parliament election was the first national election to be held in Germany since the 2021 federal election, in which former Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats CDU-CSU lost to the Social Democratic Party (SPD) led by Olaf Scholz [6] who formed a "traffic light coalition" with the Free Democratic Party (FDP) and the Alliance 90/The Greens.
The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) was the big winner of the evening, securing 33.2% in Thuringia in its first regional election yet, and also gaining almost as many votes as the ...
Regional elections take place every five years in Germany and each state can have their election at various dates. The German state of Brandenburg is set to head to the polls on September 22.