BERLIN –
The Bundestag is due to the special electoral system is much larger than that in 2013. Sunday 709 delegates chosen and that are 78 more than in 2013. It is the greatest Diet ever. The record of 1994, 674 seats, is killed.
The party of chancellor Merkel, the CDU, has (together with the Bavarian zusterpartij CSU) 246 seats in the new Bundestag. The SPD party Martin Schulz 153.
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The conservative-liberal FDP will return to the German Second Chamber with eighty seats. The left-wing radical Who Left there in 69 won and the Greens 67.
Two times voices
In the system with 299 electoral districts agree to the voters two times. First a candidate and then a party. Because many voters vote for a particular party that is not their chosen candidate is, be it in the allocation under additional seats awarded to parties.
That is because that otherwise, in a proportional allocation deficit would come through the vote on the candidates.