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German Politics and Society 36 (1): 84–104; Dostal, Jörg Michael. "The German Federal Election of 2017: How the wedge issue of refugees and migration took the shine off Chancellor Merkel and transformed the party system." Political Quarterly 88.4 (2017): 589–602. online; Faas, Thorsten, and Tristan Klingelhöfer.
Germany uses the mixed-member proportional representation system, a system of proportional representation combined with elements of first-past-the-post voting. The Bundestag has 598 nominal members, elected for a four-year term; these seats are distributed between the sixteen German states in proportion to the states' population eligible to vote.
Results of the 2017 German federal election; 2017 German federal election; ... This page was last edited on 18 December 2024, at 23:13 (UTC).
The center-left Social Democrats won the biggest share of the vote, narrowly beating outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel's center-right Union bloc.
An indirect presidential election (officially the 16th Federal Convention) was held on 12 February 2017 to elect the 12th President of Germany.Incumbent President Joachim Gauck announced on 6 June 2016 that he would not stand for re-election, citing his advancing age.
The 18th federal elections in Germany resulted in the re-election of Angela Merkel and her Christian democratic parliamentary group of the parties CDU and CSU, receiving 41.5% of all votes. Following Merkel's first two historically low results, her third campaign marked the CDU/CSU's best result since 1994 and only for the second time in German ...
December 10, 2024 at 7:49 AM. BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany is expected to hold a snap election on Feb. 23 after the collapse of Chancellor Olaf Scholz's coalition last month.
For the first time since 1945 a German far right party is projected to win in regional elections, exit polls show. Germany’s far-right party AfD set to win one state election, and is level in ...