German federal election, 2013

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22 September 2013

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All 598 seats in the Bundestag, as well as 33 overhang seats 316 seats needed for a majority

Registered	61,946,900 0.4%
Turnout	44,309,925 (71.5%) 0.7 pp
	First party	Second party	Third party

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	72	47	12
Popular vote	18,165,446	11,252,215	3,755,699
Percentage	41.5%	25.7%	8.6%
Swing	7.8 %	2.7 %	3.3 %

	Fourth party	Fifth party	Sixth party

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	5	93	0
Popular vote	3,694,057	2,083,533	2,056,985
Percentage	8.4%	4.8%	4.7%
Swing	2.3 %	9.8 %	4.7 pp

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

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.

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