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German federal election, 2017
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All 598 seats in the Bundestag, as well as 46 overhang and 65 leveling seats
355 seats needed for a majority
Registered61,688,485
Turnout46,976,341 (76.2%)
Increase4.7%
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Angela Merkel Martin Schulz Alexander Gauland
& Alice Weidel
Party CDU/CSU SPD AfD
Leader since 24 September 2002 19 March 2017 23 April 2017
Leader's seat Vorpommern-Rügen-Greifswald I North Rhine-Westphalia Brandenburg & Baden-Württemberg
Last election 311 seats, 41.5% 193 seats, 25.7% 0 seats, 4.7%
Seats won 246 153 94
Seat change Decrease65 Decrease40 Increase94
Popular vote 15,317,344 9,539,381 5,878,115
Percentage 32.9% 20.5% 12.6%
Swing Decrease8.6% Decrease5.2% Increase7.9%
  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 

Leader Christian Lindner Dietmar Bartsch
& Sahra Wagenknecht 		Katrin Göring‑Eckardt
& Cem Özdemir
Party FDP Left Greens
Leader since 7 December 2013 13 October 2015 10 November 2012
18 January 2017
Leader's seat North Rhine-Westphalia Mecklenburg-Vorpommern & North Rhine-Westphalia Thuringia & Baden-Württemberg
Last election 0 seats, 4.8% 64 seats, 8.6% 63 seats, 8.4%
Seats won 80 69 67
Seat change Increase80 Increase5 Increase4
Popular vote 4,999,449 4,297,270 4,158,400
Percentage 10.7% 9.2% 8.9%
Swing Increase5.9% Increase0.6% Increase0.5%
The left side shows constituency winners of the election by their party colours. The right side shows Party list winners of the election for the additional members by their party colours.
Chancellor before election

Angela Merkel
CDU/CSU

Elected Chancellor

Angela Merkel
CDU/CSU

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Federal elections were held in Germany on 24 September 2017 to elect the members of the 19th Bundestag. At stake were all 598 seats in the Bundestag, as well as 111 overhang and levelling seats determined thereafter.

The Christian Democratic Union/Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU), led by Chancellor Angela Merkel, won the highest percentage of the vote with 33%, though suffered a large swing against it of more than 8%. The Social Democratic Party (SPD) achieved its worst result since the Second World War with only 20% of the vote. Alternative for Germany (AfD)—which was previously unrepresented in the Bundestag—became the third party in the Bundestag with 12.6% of the vote, whilst the Free Democrats (FDP) won 10.7% of the vote and returned to the Bundestag after losing all their seats in the 2013 election. The other parties to achieve representation in the Bundestag were the Left and the Greens, who each won close to 9% of the vote. In the 709 member Bundestag, the CDU/CSU won 246 seats (200 CDU and 46 CSU), SPD 153, AfD 94, FDP 80, the Left (Linke) 69, and the Greens 67. A majority is 355.

For the second consecutive occasion, the CDU/CSU reached a coalition agreement with the SPD to form a grand coalition, the fourth in post-war German history. The new government took office on 14 March 2018. The agreement came after a failed attempt by the CDU/CSU to enter into a "Jamaica coalition" with the Greens and the Free Democrats, which the latter pulled out of citing irreconcilable differences between the parties on migration and energy policy.

Background

At the previous federal election in 2013, the incumbent government—composed of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), the Christian Social Union (CSU), and the Free Democratic Party (FDP)—had failed to maintain a majority of seats. The FDP[1] failed to get over 5% of the vote in 2013, denying the party seats in the Bundestag for the first time in its history. In contrast, the CDU/CSU obtained their best result since 1990, with nearly 42% of the vote and just short of 50% of the seats. The CDU/CSU then successfully negotiated with the Social Democrats (SPD) to form a grand coalition for the third time.[2]

In March 2017, the SPD chose Martin Schulz, the former President of the European Parliament, as their leader and chancellor candidate. Support for the SPD initially increased; however, the CDU afterward regained its lead, with polls generally showing a 13–16% lead over the SPD.

Date

German law requires that a new Bundestag shall be elected on a Sunday or on a nationwide holiday between 46–48 months after the last Bundestag's first sitting (Basic Law Article 39 Section 1).[3] In January 2017, then-President Joachim Gauck scheduled the election for 24 September 2017.[4]

After the election, the 19th Bundestag has to hold its first sitting within 30 days. Until that first sitting, the members of the 18th Bundestag will remain in office (Basic Law Article 39 Section 1 and 2).[3]

Electoral system

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' population eligible to vote.

Every elector has two votes: a constituency and a list vote. 299 members are elected in single-member constituencies by first-past-the-post, based just on the first votes. The second votes are used to produce an overall proportional result in the states and then in the Bundestag. Seats are allocated using the Sainte-Laguë method. If a party wins fewer constituency seats in a state than its second votes would entitle it to, it receives additional seats from the relevant state list. Parties can file lists in each single state under certain conditions; for example, a fixed number of supporting signatures. Parties can receive second votes only in those states in which they have successfully filed a state list.

If a party by winning single-member constituencies in one state receives more seats than it would be entitled to according to its second vote share in that state (so-called overhang seats), the other parties receive compensation seats. Owing to this provision, the Bundestag usually has more than 598 members. The 18th and current Bundestag, for example, started with 631 seats: 598 regular and 33 overhang and compensation seats. Overhang seats are calculated at the state level, so many more seats are added to balance this out among the different states, adding more seats than would be needed to compensate for overhang at the national level in order to avoid negative vote weight.

In order to qualify for seats based on the party-list vote share, a party must either win three single-member constituencies or exceed a threshold of 5% of the second votes nationwide. If a party only wins one or two single-member constituencies and fails to get at least 5% of the second votes, it keeps the single-member seat(s), but other parties that accomplish at least one of the two threshold conditions receive compensation seats. (In the most recent example of this, during the 2002 election, the PDS won only 4.0% of the party-list votes nationwide, but won two constituencies in the state of Berlin.) The same applies if an independent candidate wins a single-member constituency (which has not happened since 1949). In the 2013 election, the FDP only won 4.8% of party-list votes; this cost it all of its seats in the Bundestag.

If a voter has cast a first vote for a successful independent candidate or a successful candidate whose party failed to qualify for proportional representation, their second vote does not count to determine proportional representation. However, it does count to determine whether the elected party has exceeded the 5% threshold.

Parties representing recognized national minorities (currently Danes, Frisians, Sorbs and Romani people) are exempt from the 5% threshold, but normally only run in state elections.[5]

Parties and leaders

Altogether 38 parties have managed to get on the ballot in at least one state and can therefore (theoretically) earn proportional representation in the Bundestag.[6] Furthermore, there are several independent candidates, running for a single-member constituency. The major parties that are likely to either exceed the threshold of 5% second votes or to win single-member constituencies (first votes) were:

Name Ideology Leading
candidate(s) 		2013 result
Votes (%)[a] Seats
rowspan="2" style="background:Template:CDU/CSU/meta/color;"| CDU/CSU CDU Christian Democratic Union of Germany
Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands 		Christian democracy Angela Merkel[b] 34.1%
255 / 631
CSU Christian Social Union in Bavaria
Christlich-Soziale Union in Bayern 		7.4%
56 / 631
style="background:Template:Social Democratic Party of Germany/meta/color;"| SPD Social Democratic Party of Germany
Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands 		Social democracy Martin Schulz 25.7%
193 / 631
style="background:Template:The Left (Germany)/meta/color;"| Linke The Left
Die Linke 		Democratic socialism Dietmar Bartsch
Sahra Wagenknecht 		8.6%
64 / 631
style="background:Template:Alliance 90/The Greens/meta/color;"| Grüne Alliance 90/The Greens
Bündnis 90/Die Grünen 		Green politics Cem Özdemir
Katrin Göring-Eckardt 		8.4%
63 / 631
style="background:Template:Free Democratic Party (Germany)/meta/color;"| FDP Free Democratic Party
Freie Demokratische Partei 		Liberalism Christian Lindner 4.8%
0 / 631
style="background:Template:Alternative for Germany/meta/color;"| AfD Alternative for Germany
Alternative für Deutschland 		National conservatism Alexander Gauland
Alice Weidel 		4.7%
0 / 631

Traditionally, the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) and Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU), which refer to each other as 'sister parties', do not compete against each other. The CSU only contests elections in Bavaria, while the CDU contests elections in the other fifteen states. Although these parties have some differences, such as the CSU's opposition to the previous government's immigration policies,[7] the CDU and CSU share the same basic political aims and are allowed by the Regulations of the Bundestag to join into one parliamentary Fraktion (a parliamentary group composed of at least 5% of the members of the Bundestag, entitled to specific rights in parliament) after the elections,[8] as they do in the form of the CDU/CSU group.

As the CDU/CSU and the Social Democratic Party (SPD) were likely to win the most seats in the election, their leading candidates are referred to as 'Chancellor candidates'. This does not, however, mean that the new Bundestag is legally bound to elect one of them as Chancellor.

Opinion polling

Main article: Opinion polling for the German federal election, 2017
The polls are from September 2013 (the last federal election) up to the current date. Each coloured line specifies a political party.

Results

Constituencies won

The CDU/CSU and the SPD remained the two largest parties in the Bundestag, but both received a significantly lower proportion of the vote than they did in the 2013 election.

Party list election results by state: blue denotes states where CDU/CSU had the plurality of votes; cyan denotes states where AfD had the plurality of votes, and pink denotes states where the SPD had the plurality of votes
Additional member seats by state.

The AfD received enough votes to enter the Bundestag for the first time, taking 12.6 percent of the vote—more than double the five percent threshold required to qualify for full parliamentary status. It also won three constituency seats, which would have qualified it for proportionally-elected seats in any event.

The FDP returned to the Bundestag with 10.7 percent of the vote. Despite improving their results slightly and thus gaining a few more seats, the Left and the Greens remained the two smallest parties in parliament.

The disproportionality of the German federal election 2017 was 3.90 according to the Gallagher Index
Party Constituency Party list Total
seats 		+/–
Votes % Seats Votes % Seats
bgcolor="Template:Christian Democratic Union of Germany/meta/color" | Christian Democratic Union (CDU)[c] 14,030,751 30.2 185 12,447,656 26.8 15 200 −55
bgcolor="Template:Social Democratic Party of Germany/meta/color" | Social Democratic Party (SPD) 11,429,231 24.6 59 9,539,381 20.5 94 153 −40
bgcolor="Template:Alternative for Germany/meta/color" | Alternative for Germany (AfD)[d] 5,317,499 11.5 3 5,878,115 12.6 91 94 +94
bgcolor="Template:Free Democratic Party (Germany)/meta/color" | Free Democratic Party (FDP) 3,249,238 7.0 0 4,999,449 10.7 80 80 +80
bgcolor="Template:The Left (Germany)/meta/color" | The Left (DIE LINKE) 3,966,637 8.6 5 4,297,270 9.2 64 69 +5
bgcolor="Template:Alliance 90/The Greens/meta/color" | Alliance 90/The Greens (GRÜNE) 3,717,922 8.0 1 4,158,400 8.9 66 67 +4
bgcolor="Template:Christian Social Union in Bavaria/meta/color" | Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU)[c] 3,255,487 7.0 46 2,869,688 6.2 0 46 −10
style="background-color:Template:Free Voters/meta/color;" | Free Voters 589,056 1.3 0 463,292 1.0 0 0 0
style="background-color:Template:Die PARTEI/meta/color;" | Die PARTEI 245,659 0.5 0 454,349 1.0 0 0 0
style="background-color:Template:Human Environment Animal Protection/meta/color;" | Human Environment Animal Protection 22,917 0.0 0 374,179 0.8 0 0 0
style="background-color:Template:National Democratic Party of Germany/meta/color;" | National Democratic Party 45,169 0.1 0 176,020 0.4 0 0 0
style="background-color:Template:Pirate Party Germany/meta/color;" | Pirate Party Germany 93,196 0.2 0 173,476 0.4 0 0 0
style="background-color:Template:Ecological Democratic Party/meta/color;" | Ecological Democratic Party 166,228 0.4 0 144,809 0.3 0 0 0
style="background-color:Template:Basic Income Alliance/meta/color;" | Basic Income Alliance – – – 97,539 0.2 0 0 New
style="background-color:Template:V-Partei³/meta/color;" | V-Partei³ 1,201 0.0 0 64,073 0.1 0 0 New
German Centre – – – 63,203 0.1 0 0 New
Democracy in Motion – – – 60,914 0.1 0 0 New
Bavaria Party 62,622 0.1 0 58,037 0.1 0 0 0
AD-DEMOCRATS – – – 41,251 0.1 0 0 New
Animal Protection Alliance 6,114 0.0 0 32,221 0.1 0 0 New
Marxist–Leninist Party 35,760 0.1 0 29,785 0.1 0 0 0
Party for Health Research 1,537 0.0 0 23,404 0.1 0 0 New
German Communist Party 7,517 0.0 0 11,558 0.0 0 0 New
Human World 2,205 0.0 0 11,661 0.0 0 0 New
The Greys 4,300 0.0 0 10,009 0.0 0 0 New
Bürgerrechtsbewegung Solidarität 15,960 0.0 0 6,693 0.0 0 0 0
The Humanists – – – 5,991 0.0 0 0 New
Magdeburger Garden Party 2,570 0.0 0 5,617 0.0 0 0 New
Alliance for Germany 6,316 0.0 0 9,631 0.0 0 0 0
you. 772 0.0 0 3,032 0.0 0 0 New
The Right 1,142 0.0 0 2,054 0.0 0 0 New
Socialist Equality Party 903 0.0 0 1,291 0.0 0 0 0
Bergpartei, die "ÜberPartei" 672 0.0 0 911 0.0 0 0 New
Party of Reason 242 0.0 0 533 0.0 0 0 0
The Violets – for Spiritual Politics 2,176 0.0 0 – – – 0 0
Alliance C 1,717 0.0 0 – – – 0 New
New Liberals 884 0.0 0 – – – 0 New
The Union 371 0.0 0 – – – 0 New
Family Party 506 0.0 0 – – – 0 0
The Women 439 0.0 0 – – – 0 New
Renter's Party 1,352 0.0 0 – – – 0 New
Others 100,889 0.2 0 – – – 0 –
Independents 2,458 0.0 0 – – – 0 0
Invalid/blank votes 586,726 – – 460,849 – – – –
Total 46,976,341 100 299 46,976,341 100 410 709 +78
Registered voters/turnout 61,688,485 76.2 – 61,688,485 76.2 – – –
Source: Bundeswahlleiter
Popular Vote
CDU/CSU
 
 32.93%
SPD
 
 20.51%
AfD
 
 12.64%
FDP
 
 10.75%
DIE LINKE
 
 9.24%
B'90/GRÜNE
 
 8.94%
Others
 
 4.99%
Bundestag Seats
CDU/CSU
 
 34.70%
SPD
 
 21.58%
AfD
 
 13.26%
FDP
 
 11.28%
DIE LINKE
 
 9.73%
B'90/GRÜNE
 
 9.45%

Results by state

Second Vote ("Zweitstimme", or votes for party list) by state[9]

State Union SPD AfD FDP Linke Grüne Others
style="background:Template:CDU/CSU/meta/color;"| style="background:Template:Social Democratic Party of Germany/meta/color;"| style="background:Template:Alternative for Germany/meta/color;"| style="background:Template:Free Democratic Party (Germany)/meta/color;"| style="background:Template:The Left (Germany)/meta/color;"| style="background:Template:Alliance 90/The Greens/meta/color;"|
 Baden-Württemberg 34.4 16.4 12.2 12.7 6.4 13.5 4.5
 Bavaria 38.8 15.3 12.4 10.2 6.1 9.8 7.5
 Berlin 22.7 17.9 12.0 8.9 18.8 12.6 7.0
 Brandenburg 26.7 17.6 20.2 7.1 17.2 5.0 6.3
 Bremen 25.0 26.3 10.0 9.3 13.5 11.0 4.3
 Hamburg 27.2 23.5 7.8 10.8 12.2 13.9 4.5
 Hesse 30.9 23.5 11.9 11.6 8.1 9.7 4.4
 Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 33.1 15.1 18.6 6.2 17.8 4.3 4.9
 Lower Saxony 34.9 27.4 9.1 9.3 6.9 8.7 3.6
 North Rhine-Westphalia 32.6 26.0 9.4 13.1 7.5 7.6 3.8
 Rhineland-Palatinate 35.9 24.2 11.2 10.4 6.8 7.6 3.9
 Saarland 32.4 27.2 10.1 7.6 12.9 6.0 3.9
 Saxony 26.9 10.5 27.0 8.2 16.1 4.6 6.7
 Saxony-Anhalt 30.3 15.2 19.6 7.8 17.8 3.7 5.7
 Schleswig-Holstein 34.0 23.3 8.2 12.6 7.3 12.0 2.7
 Thuringia 28.8 13.2 22.7 7.8 16.9 4.1 6.5

Additional member seats by state

Second Vote ("Zweitstimme", or votes for party list) seats allocated by each of the 16 states by party.

State[9] seats CDU/CSU SPD AfD FDP LINKE GRÜNE Total
 Baden-Württemberg 0 16 11 12 6 13 58
 Bavaria 0 18 14 12 7 11 62
 Berlin 2 2 4 3 2 3 16
 Brandenburg 0 3 5 2 4 1 15
 Bremen 1 0 1 0 1 1 4
 Hamburg 3 0 1 2 2 2 10
 Hesse 0 7 6 6 4 5 28
 Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 0 2 3 1 3 1 10
 Lower Saxony 5 6 7 7 5 6 36
 North Rhine-Westphalia 4 15 15 20 12 12 78
 Rhineland-Palatinate 0 8 4 4 3 3 22
 Saarland 0 2 1 1 1 1 6
 Saxony 0 4 8 3 5 2 22
 Saxony-Anhalt 0 3 4 2 4 1 14
 Schleswig-Holstein 0 5 2 3 2 3 15
 Thuringia 0 3 5 2 3 1 14

Constitution of the 19th Bundestag

The father of the house of the 19th Bundestag, Hermann Otto Solms

On 24 October 2017 the 19th Bundestag held its opening session, during which the Bundestag-members elected the Presidium of the Bundestag, i.e. the President and the Vice Presidents of the Bundestag. By tradition the biggest parliamentary group (in this case the CDU/CSU-group) has the right to propose a candidate for President of the Bundestag and following the rules of order every group has the right to be represented by at least one Vice President in the presidium. However, the Bundestag may decide to elect additional Vice Presidents. Every member of the presidium had to be elected by an absolute majority of the members of the Bundestag (in this case 355 votes). Until the election of the President of the Bundestag, the father of the house, the member of parliament with the longest membership, presided over the opening session.[10]

  • Since he had been a member of the Bundestag for 45 years (since 1972), Federal Minister of Finance Wolfgang Schäuble would have been the father of the house.[11] However, since Schäuble was also a candidate for President of the Bundestag and would therefore likely have had to declare his own election, he refused the office. Hermann Otto Solms, who had been a member of the Bundestag for 33 years (1980–2013 and since 2017), stood in for him.[12][13]
  • The CDU/CSU group proposed Wolfgang Schäuble to be President of the Bundestag.[14] Schäuble was elected on the first ballot (501 yes votes, 173 no votes, 30 abstentions, 1 invalid vote).
  • The CDU/CSU group proposed Hans-Peter Friedrich to be a Vice President of the Bundestag.[15] Friedrich was elected on the first ballot (507 yes votes, 112 no votes, 82 abstentions, 2 invalid votes).
  • The SPD group proposed Thomas Oppermann to be a Vice President of the Bundestag. Oppermann was elected on the first ballot (396 yes votes, 220 no votes, 81 abstentions, 6 invalid votes).
  • The AfD group proposed Albrecht Glaser to be a Vice President of the Bundestag.[16] On 2 October 2017 the groups of the SPD, the FDP, The Left and Alliance 90/The Greens criticised the nomination because of controversial remarks about Islam and the basic right of religious freedom made by Glaser during the AfD's election campaign and asked the AfD group to nominate someone else to the post. The AfD group declined to accede to the request and nominate someone else.[17] Glaser failed to get a majority on three ballots, although even a plurality would have been sufficient on the third (first ballot: 115 yes votes, 550 no votes, 26 abstentions, 12 invalid votes, second ballot: 123 yes votes, 549 no votes, 24 abstentions, 1 invalid vote, third ballot: 114 yes votes, 545 no votes, 26 abstentions).
  • The FDP group proposed Wolfgang Kubicki to be a Vice President of the Bundestag. Kubicki was elected on the first ballot (489 yes votes, 100 no votes, 111 abstentions, 3 invalid votes).
  • The Left group proposed Petra Pau, who has held this position since 2006, to be a Vice President of the Bundestag. Pau was elected on the first ballot (456 yes votes, 187 no votes, 54 abstentions, 6 invalid votes).
  • The Alliance 90/Greens group proposed Claudia Roth, who already held this position in the previous legislative session, to be a Vice President of the Bundestag.[18] Roth was elected on the first ballot (489 yes votes, 166 no votes, 45 abstentions, 3 invalid votes).

The AfD's seat in the Presidium will remain vacant until the group proposes a candidate who is able to secure a majority.

Government formation

Jamaica Coalition

The SPD's leader and Chancellor candidate Martin Schulz and other party leaders stated that the SPD would not continue the current grand coalition government after unsatisfactory election results.[19] Following the SPD's announcement that it would return to the opposition, the media speculated that Chancellor Angela Merkel might need to form a Jamaica coalition (black-yellow-green) with the Free Democrats and the Greens as that was the only viable coalition without the AfD or The Left, both of which had been ruled out by Merkel as coalition partners before the election.[20] On 9 October 2017 Merkel officially announced that she would invite the Free Democrats and the Greens for talks about building a coalition government starting on 18 October 2017.[21][22]

In the final days of the preliminary talks, the four parties had still failed to come to agreement on migration and climate issues.[23] Preliminary talks between the parties collapsed on 20 November after the FDP withdrew, arguing that the talks had failed to produce a common vision or trust.[24]

Grand coalition

After the collapse of these coalition talks, the German President appealed to the SPD to change their hard stance and to consider a grand coalition with the CDU/CSU.[25] On 24 November, Schulz said he wants party members to be polled on whether to form another grand coalition with CDU/CSU after a meeting with President Frank-Walter Steinmeier the day before.[26] According to CDU deputy leader Julia Klöckner, talks were unlikely to begin until early 2018.[27] On 6 December the SPD held a party congress in which a majority of the 600 party delegates voted to start preliminary coalition talks with the CDU/CSU.[28] This decision was met with reluctance by the party's youth wing, which organised protests outside the convention hall.[29] Martin Schulz's backing of the coalition talks was interpreted by media organisations as a u-turn, as he had previously ruled out considering a grand coalition.[30][31][32]

On 12 January, the CDU/CSU and the SPD announced that they had reached a breakthrough in the preliminary talks and agreed upon an outline document to begin formal negotiations for the grand coalition.[33] On 21 January, the SPD held an extraordinary party conference of 642 delegates in Bonn.[34] The conference voted in favour of accepting the conclusion of preliminary talks and launching formal coalition negotiations with the CDU/CSU.[35] The formal coalition talks finally began on 26 January.[36][37]

On 7 February, the CDU/CSU and SPD announced that the final coalition agreement had been reached between the parties to form the next government.[38] According to terms of the agreement, the SPD received six ministries in the new government including the finance, foreign affairs and labour portfolios while the CDU received five and the CSU three ministries. The agreement stipulated there would be rises in public spending, an increase in German financing of the EU and a slightly stricter stance taken towards immigration.[39][40] SPD chairperson and Europe expert Martin Schulz was to step down as party leader and join the cabinet as foreign minister,[41] despite having previously stated that he would not serve under a Merkel-led government.[42] However, only days after these reports were published, Schulz renounced his plan to be foreign minister reacting on massive criticism by the party base.[43] The complete text of the coalition agreement was published on 7 February.[44] The coalition deal was subject to approval of the approximately 460,000 members of the SPD in a postal vote.[45][46] The results of the vote were announced on 4 March. In summary, 66% of respondents voted in favour of the deal and 34% voted against it.[47] Approximately 78% of the SPD membership responded to the postal vote.[47] The result allowed the new government to take office immediately following Bundestag approval of Merkel's fourth term on 14 March 2018.[48]

Notes

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  1. ^ Second votes (party list)
  2. ^ As current Chancellor and leader of the CDU; Horst Seehofer is the current leader of the CSU.
  3. ^ a b The Christian Democratic Union and the Christian Social Union of Bavaria call themselves sister parties. They do not compete against each other in the same states and they form one group within the Bundestag.
  4. ^ Including Frauke Petry, who will not take the AfD whip or sit with the party.

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