Saarland newly chooses: Surprising distribution of seats in the Bundestag!

Saarland newly chooses: Surprising distribution of seats in the Bundestag!

The Saarland is represented in the new Bundestag with eight MPs. In the current distribution of seats after the Bundestag election, which was published on February 26, 2025, two seats each go to the CDU, the SPD and the AfD, while the left and the Greens each receive one seat. This development marks a significant change, since nine MPs from Saarland were previously in the Bundestag, including five by the SPD, two from the CDU and one each from the FDP and the AfD. Saarbrücker Zeitung reports that the CDU in Saarland in Saarland with 26.9 percent Second votes is.

The SPD follows at 21.9 percent, just before the AfD, which received 21.6 percent of the vote. With further results of 7.3 percent for the left, 7.2 percent for the Greens and 6.2 percent for the alliance Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW), a fragmented voter channel in Saarland, which differs from the stronger results of the Bundestag elections in 2021, is different when the SPD reached the absolute majority, followed by the CDU with 23.6 percent and the FDP with 11.5 percent, as the

The reform of the right to vote, in which overhang and compensation mandates have been eliminated, has also changed the face of the Bundestag. The new Bundestag will include 630 MPs in the future, instead of the previous 733. These changes are part of a trend to simplify the election process and to ensure efficient majority findings, which can now be a challenge without the combined mandates of the Greens and FDP, as the Stern notes.

The first projections were published and a live ticker offers daily updates to the new elections. The coalition calculator shows possible government alliances based on the new distribution of seats, whereby small parties have to overcome the five percent hurdle in order to be represented in the Bundestag. The Sainte-Laguë/Schepers procedure is used for the distribution of seats, which further influences the election outcome.