2005 German federal election
The election of the German Federal Diet (Bundestag) 2005 took place on 18 September 2005.
| Parties | Constituency | Party list | Total seats | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | +/− | Seats | +/− | Votes | % | +/− | Seats | +/− | Total | +/− | % | ||||
| Christian Democratic Union [1]) (Christlich-Demokratische Union) | 15,390,950 | 32.6 | +0.6 | 106 | +24 | 13,136,740 | 27.8 | -1.7 | 74 | -34 | 180 | -10 | 29.3 | |||
| Christian Social Union of Bavaria [1]) (Christlich Soziale Union in Bayern) | 3,889,990 | 8.2 | -0.8 | 44 | +1 | 3,494,309 | 7.4 | -1.6 | 2 | -13 | 46 | -12 | 7.5 | |||
| Social Democratic Party of Germany (Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands) | 18,129,100 | 38.4 | -3.5 | 145 | -26 | 16,194,665 | 34.2 | -4.3 | 77 | -3 | 222 | -29 | 36.2 | |||
| Free Democratic Party (Freie Demokratische Partei) | 2,208,531 | 4.7 | +1.1 | 0 | 0 | 4,648,144 | 9.8 | +2.5 | 61 | +14 | 61 | +14 | 9.9 | |||
| The Left Party.PDS (Die Linkspartei.PDS), since 2007: The Left (Die Linke) | 3,764,168 | 8.0 | +3.6 | 3 | +1 | 4,118,194 | 8.7 | +4.7 | 51 | +51 | 54 | +52 | 8.8 | |||
| Alliance '90/The Greens (Bündnis '90/Die Grünen) | 2,538,913 | 5.4 | -0.2 | 1 | 0 | 3,838,326 | 8.1 | -0.5 | 50 | -4 | 51 | -4 | 8.3 | |||
| National Democratic Party of Germany (Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands) | 857,777 | 1.8 | +1.6 | 0 | 0 | 748,568 | 1.6 | +1.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Other | 1,272,410 | 2.7 | – | 0 | 0 | 1,857,610 | 4.0 | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | |||
| Totals | 47,194,062 | 100 | – | 299 | – | 47,287,988 | 100 | – | 315 | +11 | 614 | +11 | 100 | |||
References
[change | change source]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 The Christian Democratic Union and Christian Social Union of Bavaria call themselves "sister-parties". They do not operate in the same regions and form one group in the Bundestag.