*** Welcome to piglix ***

German election, 2013

German federal election, 2013
Germany
← 2009 22 September 2013 2017 →

All 598 seats in the Bundestag, as well as 33 overhang seats
316 seats needed for a majority
Registered 61,946,900 Decrease0.4%
Turnout 44,309,925 (71.5%)
Increase0.7 pp
  First party Second party Third party
  Angela Merkel 2013 (cropped).jpg Peer Steinbrück in Münster (2012) - 2.jpg Gregor Gysi (2013).jpg
Leader Angela Merkel Peer Steinbrück Gregor Gysi
Party CDU/CSU SPD Left
Leader since 10 April 2000 - -
Leader's seat Vorpommern-Rügen-Greifswald North Rhine-Westphalia list Berlin Treptow–Köpenick
Last election 239 seats, 33.8% 146 seats, 23.0% 76 seats, 11.9%
Seats won 311 193 64
Seat change Increase72 Increase47 Decrease12
Popular vote 18,165,446 11,252,215 3,755,699
Percentage 41.5% 25.7% 8.6%
Swing Increase7.8 % Increase2.7 % Decrease3.3 %

  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
  Jürgen Trittin y Katrin Göring-Eckardt 2013.JPG Rainer Brüderle-Carschten2.jpg Bernd Lucke (2014).jpg
Leader Jürgen Trittin &
Katrin Göring-Eckardt
Rainer Brüderle Bernd Lucke
Party Green FDP AfD
Leader since - - 14 April 2013
Leader's seat Lower Saxony list &
Thuringia list
- -
Last election 68 seats, 10.7% 93 seats, 14.6% did not contest
Seats before 0
Seats won 63 0 0
Seat change Decrease5 Decrease93 Steady0
Popular vote 3,694,057 2,083,533 2,056,985
Percentage 8.4% 4.8% 4.7%
Swing Decrease2.3 % Decrease9.8 % Increase4.7 pp

German Federal Election 2013 - Results By Constituency.svg
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


Angela Merkel
CDU/CSU

Angela Merkel
CDU/CSU

The 2013 German federal election was held on Sunday, 22 September, to elect the members of the 18th Bundestag of Germany. At stake were all 598 seats to the Bundestag, plus 33 overhang seats determined thereafter. The Christian Democratic Union/Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU) of Chancellor Angela Merkel won their best result since 1990, with nearly 42% of the vote and nearly 50% of the seats (five short for an overall majority). However, their coalition partner, the Free Democrats (FDP), failed to meet the 5% vote threshold in what was their worst showing ever in a federal election, thus denying them seats in the Bundestag for the first time in their history.

Merkel's party reached a coalition agreement with the then-main opposition party, the Social Democrats, (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.

In the last federal election in 2009, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU); its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU); and the Free Democratic Party (FDP) won the election with Angela Merkel as Chancellor and Guido Westerwelle as Vice-Chancellor.


...
Wikipedia

...