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Overhang mandates
The procedure for allocating seats and thus the provisions for calculating overhang mandates were modified by the 19th Act of 25 November 2011 to amend the Federal Elections Act (Federal Law Gazette I p. 2313). Detailed information to be provided soon.
 
Legal basis:
Bundestag election: Section 6 (5) of the Federal Elections Act (BWG)

Overhang mandates created in Bundestag elections (number right after the election)
 
Year of the  
Bundes-
tag election
Land
Number of overhang mandates
Party
1949
Bremen
1
SPD
 
Baden-Württemberg
1
CDU
1953
Schleswig-Holstein
2
CDU
 
Hamburg
1
DP
1957
Schleswig-Holstein
3
CDU
1961
Schleswig-Holstein
4
CDU
 
Saarland
1
CDU
1980
Schleswig-Holstein
1
SPD
1983
Hamburg
1
SPD
 
Bremen
1
SPD
1987
Baden-Württemberg
1
CDU
1990
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
2
CDU
 
Sachsen-Anhalt
3
CDU
 
Thüringen
1
CDU
1994
Baden-Württemberg
2
CDU
 
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
2
CDU
 
Sachsen-Anhalt
2
CDU
 
Thüringen
3
CDU
 
Sachsen
3
CDU
 
Bremen
1
SPD
 
Brandenburg
3
SPD
1998
Hamburg
1
SPD
 
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
2
SPD
 
Brandenburg
3
SPD
 
Sachsen-Anhalt
4
SPD
 
Thüringen
3
SPD
2002
Hamburg
1
SPD
 
Sachsen-Anhalt
2
SPD
 
Thüringen
1
SPD
 
Sachsen
1
CDU
2005
Hamburg
1
SPD
 
Brandenburg
3
SPD
 
Sachsen-Anhalt
4
SPD
 
Saarland
1
SPD
 
Sachsen
4
CDU
 
Baden-Württemberg
3
CDU
2009
Schleswig-Holstein
1
CDU
 
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
2
CDU
 
Sachsen
4
CDU
 
Thüringen
1
CDU
 
Rheinland-Pfalz
2
CDU
 
Bayern
3
CSU
 
Baden-Württemberg
10
CDU
 
Saarland
1
CDU
 
Last update: January 2012

See also: ©2012 The Federal Returning Officer