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English: Map of the results of the 2021 German federal election. The large map of Germany shows the winning vote strength in the country's 299 single-member constituencies. The map on the right shows the number of List Seat candidates elected by state. Each of the single-member constituencies are labelled on the left-hand side of the image.
Links to websites detailing election and referendum dates and results, as well as links to national electoral commissions can be found in Wikipedia:WikiProject Elections and Referendums/Useful sources. For creating results maps (for United States elections), the colors listed here should be used
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Referendums in Germany are an element of direct democracy. On the federal level only two types of a mandatory binding referendum exist – adopting a new constitution and regional referendums in case of restructuring the states .
Berlin held four polls on Sept. 26, 2021: the German national election, a state election, a vote for the city’s 12 district assemblies and a local referendum. The Berlin Marathon, held the same ...
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' number of eligible voters.
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).
A referendum will be held on a law if a President suspends it, and in a two-month period one tenth of the electorate requests a referendum, except if the Parliament again adopts the law with three three-quarters super-majority. Voter turnout needed is 50% of the number of the voters who participated in the last elections for the Parliament.