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The 18th German Bundestag, which was elected on 22 September 2013, is composed of 631 members. This means it has nine more seats than after the last Bundestag elections in 2009. On Wednesday, 9 October 2013, the Federal Electoral Committee, chaired by Federal Returning Officer Roderich Egeler, unanimously determined the official final result of the Bundestag election. Compared to the official provisional result published on 23 September, the SPD parliamentary group has been allocated an additional seat, which means it now holds 193.
The other parties that were able to attract more than five per cent of the second votes cast and therefore enter the Bundestag have retained the seats originally allocated to them in the provisional result: The CDU won 255 seats, and the CSU 56, which means their joint parliamentary group has 311 seats. The Left Party holds 64 seats, while Alliance 90/The Greens have 63 members.
Of the Bundestag’s 631 members, 299 were directly elected in their constituencies, and 332 entered Parliament on their parties’ Land lists. 64 Land list seats are held by the CDU, 135 by the SPD, 60 by the Left Party, 62 by Alliance 90/The Greens and 11 by the CSU.
34.1 per cent of the second votes cast went to the CDU, 25.7 per cent to the SPD, 8.6 per cent to The Left Party, 8.4 per cent to Alliance 90/The Greens and 7.4 per cent to the CSU. In consequence, the CDU and CSU received a 41.5 per cent combined share of the second votes.
Of the parties that failed to enter Parliament because they attracted less than five per cent of the second votes and were unable to win three direct mandates, the Free Democratic Party (FDP) gained 4.8 per cent of the vote, the Alternative for Germany (AfD) 4.7 per cent, the Pirates 2.2 per cent, the NPD 1.3 per cent, the Freie Wähler 1 per cent, the Tierschutzpartei and the ÖDP 0.3 per cent each, the Republikaner, Pro Deutschland and Die Partei 0.2 per cent each, and the Rentner, BP, MLPD, Volksabstimmung and the Partei der Vernunft 0.1 per cent each. There were ten other parties whose – rounded – share of the second votes cast was 0.0 per cent each.
The total number of registered voters was 61,946,900, of whom 44,309,925 made use of their right to vote. This means the figure for voter turnout remained at 71.5 per cent in the final result, 0.7 per cent higher than in 2009. The number of invalid second votes was 583,069, which corresponds to a share of 1.3 per cent. (vom/10.10.2013).