Won the constituency, but not received a mandate – the 23 pitch birds

Fighted, won and yet no place in the Bundestag. 23 politicians had to be very brave. You have posted, stood your feet flat at the election, finally conquered your constituency and go away empty -handed in the distribution of seats in the Bundestag. This is new. Traditionally, all electoral winners were rewarded with a direct mandate. But now the voting right reform is reaching for the first time. Accordingly, not all victorious constituency candidates automatically enter the Bundestag.

How come? In Germany, proportion of proportion is the highest bid. The number of MPs should agree with the percentage of the votes received. Now a party can conquer more constituencies in a federal state than she gets to percent. These were the so -called overhang mandates. Legally problematic in several ways. The corresponding party collects more mandates, but the federal state is also overrun. The distortion in favor of the party could be compensated for by additional seats. The balancing mandates came to the overhang mandates. The problem was headed by changing the party landscape. The current Bundestag floats to 733 MPs. The standard size was actually 598 MPs.

Now it is slimmed down, in the future it will only be 630. The traffic light has pulled the emergency brake with the reform. However, if there are more constituency winners than the party is entitled to, the order is based. Only the winners with the best first vote results receive a direct mandate as long as the party is due to the percentage. Once they are used up, the winners will remain disregarded. In principle, this is correct for the overhang and equalization mandates. Tragic in individual cases: 23 electoral winners are left out in 2025. 18 constituency winners of the Union do not come to parliament, 15 of them from the CDU and three of the CSU. In addition, four AfD and one SPD winner go away empty-handed.

Stefan Glaser (CDU)-constituency of Lörrach-Müllheim/Baden-Württemberg-33.2 percent

Christoph Naser (CDU)-constituency of Tübingen/Baden-Württemberg-31.7 percent

Volker Ullrich (CSU)-constituency of Augsburg-Stadt/Bavaria-31.1 percent

Dominik Sienkiewicz (CDU)-constituency Trier/Rhineland-Palatinate-30.8 percent

Alexander Raue (AfD)-constituency of Halle/Saxony-Anhalt-30.6 percent

Claudia Küng (CSU)-constituency of Munich-Süd/Bavaria-30.4 percent

Maximilian Mörseburg (CDU)-constituency Stuttgart II/Baden-Württemberg-30.4 percent

Marcus Kretschmann (CDU)-constituency Groß-Gerau/Hessen-30.3 percent

Sebastian Brehm (CSU)-constituency of Nuremberg-Nord/Bavaria-30.2 percent

Anna-Maria Bischof (CDU) – constituency Schwalm -Eder/Hessen – 30.1 percent

Alexander Föhr (CDU)-constituency Heidelberg/Baden-Württemberg-29.2 percent

Leopold Born (CDU) – constituency of Frankfurt am Main II/Hessen – 27.4 percent

Ursula Groden-Kranich (CDU)-constituency Mainz/Rhineland-Palatinate-27.3 percent

Sertaç bilgin (CDU)-constituency of Ludwigshafen-Frankenthal/Rhineland-Palatinate-27.1 percent

Steffi Burmeister (AfD)-constituency Rostock-Landkreis Rostock II/Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania-26.8 percent

Astrid Mannes (CDU) – constituency Darmstadt/Hessen – 26.7 percent

Petra Nicolaisen (CDU)-constituency Flensburg-Schleswig/Schleswig-Holstein-26.5 percent

Yannick Schwander (CDU) – constituency of Frankfurt am Main I/Hessen – 26.0 percent

Ulrike Hiller (SPD) – constituency Bremen I/Bremen – 25.2 percent

Christian Kriegel (AfD) – constituency of Leipzig I/Saxony – 25.0 percent

Melis Sekmen (CDU)-Mannheim/Baden-Württemberg-24.7 percent

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