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The Social Democratic Party has its origins in the General German Workers' Association, founded in 1863, and the Social Democratic Workers' Party, founded in 1869. The two groups merged in 1875 to create the Socialist Workers' Party of Germany (German: Sozialistische Arbeiterpartei Deutschlands).
The largest by members and parliament seats are the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), with its sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU) and Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). Germany also has a number of other parties, in recent history most importantly the Free Democratic Party (FDP), Alliance 90/The Greens , The Left , and more ...
With 25.7% of total votes, the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) recorded their best result since 2005, and emerged as the largest party for the first time since 2002. The ruling CDU/CSU , which had led a grand coalition with the SPD since 2013 , recorded their worst ever result with 24.1%, a significant decline from 32.9% in 2017 .
Under Germany's mixed member proportional system of election, the Bundestag has 299 constituencies (Wahlkreise (German: [ˈvaːlˌkʁaɪ̯zə] ⓘ), electoral districts), each of which may elect one member of the Bundestag by first-past-the-post voting (a plurality of votes).
The Christian Democratic Union of Germany and the Christian Social Union of Bavaria , led by incumbent chancellor Angela Merkel, won the highest percentage of the vote with 33%, though it suffered a large swing against it of more than 8%. The Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) achieved its worst result since post-war Germany at 21%.
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In Germany's federal electoral system, a single party or parliamentary group rarely wins an absolute majority of seats in the Bundestag, and thus coalition governments, rather than single-party governments, are the usually expected outcome of a German election. [1]
Party Votes % Swing Seats +/– Constituency Party-list Total Alliance 90/The Greens (GRÜNE) 1,586,192 32.6 2.3 58 0 58 11 Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) 1,168,975 24.1 2.9 12 30 42 0 Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) 535,489 11.0 1.7 0 19 19 0 Free Democratic Party (FDP) 508,429 10.5 2.2 0 18 18 6 Alternative for Germany ...