With their ‘zweitstimme’ or ‘second vote’, they choose a party. Every party that crosses a 5% threshold gets seats in the Bundestag proportional to its share of second votes. Taking constituency seats into account, the contingents are topped up from party lists
In 2013 the CDU got
relatively few list seats
because it had so many
constituency seats
CDU-CSU
SPD
Others
236 Constituency
58
5
59 List
124
116
With their ‘zweitstimme’ or ‘second vote’, they choose a party. Every party that crosses a 5% threshold gets seats in the Bundestag proportional to its share of second votes. Taking constituency seats into account, the contingents are topped up from party lists
In 2013 the CDU got relatively few list seats
because it had so many constituency seats
CDU-CSU
SPD
Others
236
Constituency
59
List
58
124
5
116
With their ‘zweitstimme’ or ‘second vote’, they choose a party. Every party that crosses a 5% threshold gets seats in the Bundestag proportional to its share of second votes. Taking constituency seats into account, the contingents are topped up from party lists
In 2013 the CDU got relatively few list seats because it had so many constituency seats
CDU-CSU
SPD
Others
236
Constituency
59
List
58
124
5
116