Roderich Egeler
President of the Federal Statistical Office
Press release September 11, 2009
5.6 million registered voters with a migration background
WIESBADEN – As reported by the Federal Returning Officer, for the Bundestag election on 27 September 2009, some 5.6 million persons with a migration background will be entitled to vote. That is nearly 9 percent of the registered voters.Those figures have been obtained from data of the microcensus of 2007.
Just under 2.8 million of those registered voters are men (49.4%) and a good 2.8 million are women (50.6%). They include a total of approximately 426,000 first-time voters who completed their 18th year after the last Bundestag election, some 230,000 of whom are men and 196,000 women.
The total number of registered voters with a migration background consists of 2.6 million ethnic German repatriates, 2.1 million naturalised immigrants, just under 290,000 naturalised persons born in Germany, and 566,000 Germans who have at least one parent who is an ethnic German repatriate, a naturalised person or a foreigner.
3.3 million of the immigrants entitled to vote had a European citizenship before, just under half of whom a citizenship of a European Union member state. The most frequent countries of origin within the EU are Poland with 762,000 and Romania with 313,000 registered voters. Among the other states, the Russian Federation with 705,000, Kazakhstan with 442,000 and Turkey with 327,000 registered voters are most frequent. Among the naturalised Germans born here, the vast majority (149,000) had the Turkish citizenship before.
For further information please contact:
Karina Schorn,
tel: (+49-611) 75-2317,
e-mail: bundeswahlleiter@destatis.de