Roderich Egeler
President of the Federal Statistical Office
Press release September 28, 2009
Official provisional result for the 2009 Bundestag election
WIESBADEN/BERLIN – On 28 September 2009, at 3.35 a.m., the Federal Returning Officer has announced the official provisional result of the election to the 17th German Bundestag on 27 September 2009.
With a voter turnout of 70.8 percent (2005: 77.7 percent), the parties obtained the following shares in the total number of valid second votes votes cast:
| - SPD: | 23.0 Percent | (2005: 34.2 Percent) |
| - CDU: | 27.3 Percent | (2005: 27.8 Percent) |
| - FDP: | 14.6 Percent | (2005: 9.8 Percent) |
| - DIE LINKE: | 11.9 Percent | (2005: 8.7 Percent) |
| - GRÜNE: | 10.7 Percent | (2005: 8.1 Percent) |
| - CSU: | 6.5 Percent | (2005: 7.4 Percent) |
| - Sonstige: | 6.0 Percent | (2005: 3.9 Percent) |
In the 2009 Bundestag election, the share of invalid second votes was 1.5 percent (2005: 1.6 percent).
In the 2009 Bundestag election, the share of invalid first votes was 1.7 percent (2005: 1.8 percent).
According to Section 1 para. 1 of the Federal Elections Act, the newly-elected Bundestag will consist of 598 Members of the Bundestag plus 24 excess mandates. The total number of Members of the Bundestag will hence amount to 622 (2005: 614 Members).
According to the official provisional result, the following parties will be represented with the following number of mandates (including excess mandates) in the 17th German Bundestag:
| - SPD: | 146 seats | (2005: 222), | including 64 constituencies | (2005: 145) |
| - CDU: | 194 seats | (2005: 180), | including 173 constituencies | (2005: 106) |
| - FDP: | 93 seats | (2005: 61), | including 0 constituencies | (2005: 0) |
| - DIE LINKE: | 76 seats | (2005: 54), | including 16 constituencies | (2005: 3) |
| - GRÜNE: | 68 seats | (2005: 51), | including 1 constituencies | (2005: 1) |
| - CSU: | 45 seats | (2005: 46), | including 45 constituencies | (2005: 44) |
The provisional distribution of seats by Länder containing the number of Land list seats won by each party is available in a table on the Federal Returning Officer’s website.
This website also contains comprehensive further information and tables concerning the 2009 Bundestag election.
According to the official provisional result, the excess mandates are distributed to the following parties as follows:
| - CDU: | 21 excess mandates | including 1 | in Schleswig-Holstein |
| 2 | in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern | ||
| 4 | in Sachsen | ||
| 1 | in Thüringen | ||
| 2 | in Rheinland-Pfalz | ||
| 10 | in Baden-Württemberg | ||
| 1 | in Saarland | ||
| - CSU: | 3 excess mandates | in Bayern |
The other parties do not gain any excess mandates.
The provisional results of the 2009 Bundestag election for the Federation, the Länder and the individual constituencies are available on the Federal Returning Officer’s website
www.bundeswahlleiter.de
Issue no. 2 “Vorläufige Ergebnisse nach Wahlkreisen” (Provisional results by constituencies), a publication of the Federal Returning Officer on the 2009 Bundestag election, also contains a record of the provisional results. Issue no. 2 may be downloaded free of charge as a pdf-file from the Federal Returning Officer’s website.
The printed edition may also be obtained from booksellers or directly ordered from the Federal Statistical Office’s Publication Service at a price of EUR 18.- [D] per copy:
www.destatis.de/publikationen
The Federal Returning Officer expresses his sincere thanks to the more than 600,000 of voluntary workers in the electoral boards. “Your commitment has a constitutive share in the successful performance of the 2009 Bundestag election and provides an important service to our democracy.” His sincere thanks are also given to the thousands of persons who have kept the election process running smoothly by working at the electoral offices, at authorities or at the Deutsche Post AG postal services.
The final official result of the 2009 Bundestag election will be determined and announced by the Federal Electoral Committee at a public meeting at the German Bundestag in Berlin, presumably held on 14 October 2009.
For further information please contact:
Margitta von Schwartzenberg,
tel: (+49-611) 75-2754,
e-mail: bundeswahlleiter@destatis.de