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The territory of the Federal Republic of Germany is currently subdivided into 299 constituencies.
- Constituencies - The Federal Returning Officer
Constituencies. The territory of the Federal Republic of...
- Constituencies - The Federal Returning Officer
Under Germany's mixed member proportional system of election, the Bundestag has 299 constituencies (Wahlkreise (German: [ˈvaːlˌkʁaɪ̯zə] ⓘ), electoral districts), each of which may elect one member of the Bundestag by first-past-the-post voting (a plurality of votes).
14. Sept. 2021 · Germany is a federal republic, which means that the Länder work more like small states with a lot of competences. There are 16 federal states in Germany, including three city-states, Berlin, Hamburg and Bremen. They each have a Parliament (Landtag), a constitution and a government, which is headed up by a Minister-President.
- Constituencies and Land Lists
- Distribution of Seats in The Bundestag
- Two Stages, Each Involving Two Calculations
- "Balance Seats" to Maintain Proportionality
- Coalition Negotiations
Half of the Members of the Bundestag are elected directly from Germany’s 299 constituencies, the other half via party lists in Germany’s sixteen Länder (states). Accordingly, each voter casts two votes in the elections to the German Bundestag. The first vote, allowing voters to elect their local representatives to the Bundestag, decides which candi...
The 598 seats are distributed among the parties that have gained more than five percent of the second votes or at least three constituency seats. Each of these parties is allocated seats in the Bundestag in proportion with the number of votes it has received. In 2013, the Bundestagintroduced a new method of distributing the seats between the partie...
The Sainte-Laguë/Schepers method is used to convert the votes into seats, in a two-stage process with each stage involving two calculations. First, the number of seats to be allocated to each Land is calculated, based on the proportion of the German population living there. Then the seats in each Land are allocated to the party lists in thatLand, b...
It is generally necessary to increase the size of the Bundestag to ensure that each party receives its guaranteed minimum number of seats when the seats are allocated using theSainte-Laguë/Schepersmethod. Then it must be ensured that the seats are distributed to the parties in line with their national share of the second votes. Additional "balance ...
The total of 736 seats in the Bundestag’s 20th electoral term can therefore be broken down into the 598 seats which represent the general minimum number of seats in Parliament; four "overhang seats", where a party (in this case the CSU) won more constituency seats than it would have been entitled to based on its share of the second votes, leading t...
Electoral system of Germany. The German federal election system regulates the election of the members of the national parliament, called the Bundestag. According to the principles governing the elections laws, set down in Art. 38 of the German Basic Law, elections are to be universal, direct, free, equal, and secret.
Germany is a European Parliament constituency for elections in the European Union covering the member state of Germany. It is currently represented by ninety-six Members of the European Parliament, the most of any European Parliament constituency.
