All 631 seats in the Bundestag, including 33 overhang and leveling seats 316 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered
61,946,900 0.4%
Turnout
44,309,925 (71.5%) 0.7pp
First party
Second party
Third party
Candidate
Angela Merkel
Peer Steinbrück
Gregor Gysi[a]
Party
CDU/CSU
SPD
Left
Last election
33.8%, 239 seats
23.0%, 146 seats
11.9%, 76 seats
Seats won
311
193
64
Seat change
72
47
12
Popular vote
18,165,446
11,252,215
3,755,699
Percentage
41.5%
25.7%
8.6%
Swing
7.7pp
2.7pp
3.3pp
Fourth party
Fifth party
Candidate
Jürgen Trittin & Katrin Göring-Eckardt
Rainer Brüderle
Party
Greens
FDP
Last election
10.7%, 68 seats
14.6%, 93 seats
Seats won
63
0
Seat change
5
93
Popular vote
3,694,057
2,083,533
Percentage
8.4%
4.8%
Swing
2.3pp
9.8pp
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.
Government before election
Second Merkel cabinet
CDU/CSU–FDP
Government after election
Third Merkel cabinet
CDU/CSU–SPD
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Federal elections were held on 22 September to elect the members of the 18th Bundestag of Germany.[1] At stake were all 598 seats to the Bundestag, plus 33 overhang seats determined thereafter. The Christian Democratic Union of Germany/Christian Social Union of Bavaria (CDU/CSU) of incumbent chancellor Angela Merkel won their best result since 1990 with nearly 42% of the vote and nearly 50% of the seats, just five short for an overall majority. The Free Democratic Party (FDP) failed to meet the 5% vote electoral threshold in what was their worst showing ever in a federal election, denying them seats in the Bundestag for the first time in their history.
As the FDP, the CDU/CSU's junior coalition partner, failed to get any seats and a red–green alliance, which governed Germany from 1998 to 2005, did not have enough seats for a majority, the only possible coalition without the CDU/CSU was a left-wing red–red–green coalition government. Merkel scared it off, and both the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and Alliance 90/The Greens ruled out governing with The Left. Ultimately, Merkel's party reached a coalition agreement with the then-main opposition party, the SPD, to form a grand coalition, the third in the country's history since World War II. The SPD leadership conducted a ratification vote by their broader membership before the agreement was made final. The grand coalition was renewed after the 2017 German federal election due to failure during the negotiations of a Jamaica coalition.
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