Germany announces final results of February 23 election
Germany's Federal Election Committee announced today the final results of the February 23 general election, saying that the overall result and the distribution of seats in the new Bundestag remained unchanged.
The CDU and its Bavarian sister party the CSU together received 28.5%, the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) 20.8%, and the Social Democratic Party (SPD) 16.4%.
The Greens won 11.6% and The Left (Die Linke) 8.8%. The liberal Free Democrats (FDP) were eliminated from the Bundestag with 4.3%, below the 5% threshold, as was the populist Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW) with 4.98%.
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In terms of seats, the CDU/CSU won 208, the AfD 152, the SPD 120, the Greens 85, the Left 64 and the SSW 1.
The BSW was not the only party to experience minimal changes in the absolute number of valid second votes. For example, the CDU received 1674 votes, the SPD 840 and the AfD 1632. In contrast, the FDP lost 121 votes, AA reports.
These changes were mainly the result of corrections to the results of the second preliminary vote in Lower Saxony (increase of 3.271), Bavaria (increase of 932) and Baden-Wurttemberg (increase of 912), it follows. KosovaPress.
