Federal elections were held in West Germany on 14 August 1949 to elect the members of the first Bundestag, with a further eight seats elected in West Berlin between 1949 and January 1952 and another eleven between February 1952 and 1953. They were the first free federal elections in West Germany since 1933 and the first after the division of the country.

Federal elections were held on 22 September to elect the members of the 18th Bundestag of Germany. At stake were all 598 seats to the Bundestag, plus 33 overhang seats determined thereafter. The Christian Democratic Union of Germany/Christian Social Union of Bavaria of incumbent chancellor Angela Merkel won their best result since 1990 with nearly 42% of the …

Federal elections took place on 27 September 2009 to elect the members of the 17th Bundestag (parliament) of Germany. Preliminary results showed that the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU), and the Free Democratic Party (FDP) won the election, and the three parties announced their intention to form a new centre-right …

Federal elections were held in Germany on 24 September 2017 to elect the members of the 19th Bundestag.At stake were at least 598 seats in the Bundestag, as well as 111 overhang and leveling seats determined thereafter.. The Christian Democratic Union of Germany and the Christian Social Union of Bavaria (), led by incumbent chancellor Angela Merkel, won the …

German reunification (German: Deutsche Wiedervereinigung) was a geo-political event on 3 October 1990 by which the German Democratic Republic (GDR; German: Deutsche Demokratische Republik, DDR, or East Germany) was dissolved and its territory became part of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG; German: Bundesrepublik Deutschland, BRD, or West …

The 2011 Canadian federal election was held on May 2, 2011, to elect members to the House of Commons of Canada of the 41st Canadian Parliament.. The writs of election for the 2011 election were issued by Governor General David Johnston on March 26. Prime Minister Stephen Harper advised the Governor General to dissolve parliament after the House of Commons …

Electoral system. Germany uses the mixed-member proportional representation system, a system of proportional representation combined with elements of first-past-the-post voting.The Bundestag has 598 nominal members, elected for a four-year term; these seats are distributed between the sixteen German states in proportion to the states' number of eligible voters.

Federal elections were held in Germany on 6 November 1932. The Nazi Party saw its vote share fall by four percentage points, while there were slight increases for the Communist Party of Germany and the national conservative German National People's Party.The results were a great disappointment for the Nazis, who lost 34 seats and again failed to form a coalition government …

Federal elections were held in Germany on 19 January 1919, although members of the standing army in the east did not vote until 2 February. The elections were the first of the new Weimar Republic, which had been established after World War I and the Revolution of 1918–19, and the first with women's suffrage.The previous constituencies, which heavily overrepresented rural …

The German Bundesrat (lit. Federal Council; pronounced [ˈbʊndəsʁaːt]) is a legislative body that represents the sixteen Länder (federated states) of Germany at the federal level (German: Bundesebene).The Bundesrat meets at the former Prussian House of Lords in Berlin.Its second seat is located in the former West German capital of Bonn.. The Bundesrat participates in …