German Presidential election 2017 Results Voting Live Dates Opinion Exit Poll Candidates
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German Presidential election 2017 Results Voting Live Dates Opinion Exit Poll
German federal election Dates 2017
Presidential Election Date: 12 Februrary 2017
The election will choose the 12th President of the Federal Republic of Germany; incumbent President Joachim Gauck announced on 6 June 2016 that he will not stand for re-election, citing his advancing age.
The President will be elected by the Federal Convention, an electoral body that consists of all members of the current Bundestag and an equal number of electors, who are elected by the sixteen state parliaments. The President-elect will enter office on 18 March 2017 and will take the oath of office the same day in a joint session of the Bundestag and the Bundesrat.
German Presidential Election Voting Live 2017
Voting opened at 8 am (6am BST) and will continue until 6 p.m (5pm BST) when exit polls will give a first indication of the outcome.
German Presidential Election Results 2017
The 16th Federal Convention elected Frank-Walter Steinmeier on the first ballot. He will enter office on 19 March 2017
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Candidate
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Party | Supporting party | Votes | Percentage (%) |
| Frank-Walter Steinmeier | Social Democratic Party | SPD, CDU/CSU, Alliance '90/The Greens, FDP and SSW | 931 | 73.89 |
| Christoph Butterwegge | Independent | Die Linke (The Left) | 128 | 10.16 |
| Albrecht Glaser | Alternative for Germany | AfD | 42 | 3.33 |
| Alexander Hold | Free Voters | Free Voters and BVB/FW | 25 | 1.98 |
| Engelbert Sonneborn | Independent | Pirate Party Germany and Die PARTEI | 10 | 0.79 |
| Abstentions | 103 | 8.17 | ||
| Invalid votes | 14 | 0.11 | ||
| Total | 1253 | 99.44 | ||
| Eligible voters | 1260 | 100 |
Electoral system of Germany
The Bundestag has 598 nominal members, elected for a four-year term. Half, 299 members, are elected in single-member constituencies by first-past-the-post voting, while a further 299 members are allocated from party lists to achieve a proportional distribution in the legislature, conducted according to a form of proportional representation called the Mixed member proportional representation system (MMP). Voters vote once for a constituency representative, and a second time for a party, and the lists are used to make the party balances match the distribution of second votes. Seats are allocated using the Sainte-Laguë method. If a party receives more seats than its vote share entitles it to (overhang seats), additional "compensatory" seats are added to the total of 299 to give other parties a proportional number of seats.
Voters have two votes, one for the candidate in the single-member constituency and one for the party list in the multi-member constituency.
Candidates for Presidential Elections 2017
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Party
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Candidate | Previous service / Profession | Number of electors of the parties endorsing candidate |
| Social Democratic Party, endorsed by CDU/CSU, Alliance '90/The Greens, Free Democratic Party | Frank-Walter Steinmeier | Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs (2005-2009 and 2013-2017) and Vice Chancellor of Germany (2007-2009) | 1107 |
| Die Linke (The Left) | Christoph Butterwegge | Professor of Political Science at the University of Cologne (since 1998) | 95 |
| Alternative für Deutschland (Alternative for Germany) | Albrecht Glaser | Treasurer of Frankfurt (Hesse) (1997–2001) | 35 |
| Free Voters, endorsed by Brandenburg United Civic Movements/Free Voters | Alexander Hold | Judge and TV celebrity | 11 |
| Independent, endorsend by one elector of the Pirate Party | Engelbert Sonneborn | Career consultant | 1 |
| Pirate Party, South Schleswig Voters' Association | no candidate named or endorsed as yet | 11 | |
German Parties and leaders
This is a list of the parties (and their respective leaders) which would likely participate in the election.
| Party | Ideology | Leader(s) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Christian Democratic Union (CDU) | Christian democracy, Liberal conservatism | Angela Merkel | |
| Social Democratic Party (SPD) | Social democracy | Sigmar Gabriel | |
| The Left | Democratic socialism, Left-wing populism | Katja Kipping, Bernd Riexinger | |
| Alliance '90/The Greens | Green politics, Ecologism, Social Liberalism | Cem Özdemir, Simone Peter | |
| Christian Social Union (CSU) | Bavarian regionalism, Christian democracy | Horst Seehofer | |
| Free Democratic Party (FDP) | Liberalism, Classical liberalism | Christian Lindner | |
| Alternative for Germany (AfD) | Right-wing populism, Euroscepticism | Frauke Petry | |
German Composition of the Federal Convention
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Party
|
Bundestag members | State electors | Total electors | Percentage |
| CDU/CSU | 310 | 230 | 540 | 42.80% |
| Social Democratic Party | 193 | 191 | 384 | 30.50% |
| Alliance '90/The Greens | 63 | 84 | 147 | 11.60% |
| The Left | 64 | 31 | 95 | 7.50% |
| Alternative for Germany | 0 | 35 | 35 | 2.80% |
| Free Democratic Party | 0 | 36 | 36 | 2.80% |
| Pirate Party | 0 | 11 | 11 | 0.90% |
| Free Voters | 0 | 10 | 10 | 0,8% |
| South Schleswig Voters' Association | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0.10% |
| Brandenburg United Civic Movements/Free Voters | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0.10% |
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