Germany 2005 federal election
Final results from ParlGov, read : CDU/CSU won 226 of 614 seats with 35.2% of the vote; 77.7% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 1.4 points on 2002.
- Germany
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Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Social Democratic Party of Germany | 222 | −29 | 34.2 | −4.3 | 16,194,665 |
| Christian Democratic Union of Germany | 180 | −10 | 27.8 | −1.7 | 13,136,740 |
| Free Democratic Party | 61 | +14 | 9.8 | +2.4 | 4,648,144 |
| PDS / The Leftwith Labour and Social Justice -- The Electoral Alternative | 54 | +52 | 8.7 | +4.7 | 4,118,194 |
| Alliance 90/The Greens | 51 | −4 | 8.1 | −0.5 | 3,838,326 |
| Christian Social Union in Bavaria | 46 | −12 | 7.4 | −1.6 | 3,494,309 |
| National Democratic Party | 0 | 1.6 | 748,568 |
± is the change against the Germany 2002 federal election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Social Democratic Party of Germany 16,194,665
- Christian Democratic Union of Germany 13,136,740
- Free Democratic Party 4,648,144
- PDS / The Left 4,118,194
- Alliance 90/The Greens 3,838,326
- Christian Social Union in Bavaria 3,494,309
- National Democratic Party 748,568
ParlGov lists parties with at least 1 percent of the vote or 2 seats, so the rows do not add up to the valid votes. How we read it.
ParlGov counts an alliance's votes and seats under its first party: such a row names the allies it counts.
Share of the vote
Turnout
77.7% of the 61,870,711 registered voters cast a ballot (48,044,134 ballots), down 1.4 points on 2002. 47,287,988 of them were valid votes. The lowest turnout of this kind in our data, which begins in 1949. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- CDU/CSU35.2% of votes36.8% of seats
- Social Democratic Party of Germany34.2% of votes36.2% of seats
- Free Democratic Party9.8% of votes9.9% of seats
- PDS / The Left8.7% of votes8.8% of seats
- Alliance 90/The Greens8.1% of votes8.3% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 2.1 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.8 by votes and 3.4 by seats; CDU/CSU led Social Democratic Party of Germany by 1.0 point of the vote. How these are computed.
Sources and licence
Sources and licence
- ParlGov 2024 Release (Döring and Manow), Harvard Dataverse (source). Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal
- Wikidata, party colours (P465) (source). Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal
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