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German federal election, 2013

Index German federal election, 2013

Federal elections were held on 22 September to elect the members of the 18th Bundestag of Germany. [1]

81 relations: Agence France-Presse, Al Jazeera, Allensbach Institute, Alliance 90/The Greens, Alternative for Germany, Angela Merkel, ARD (broadcaster), Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany, BBC News, Berlin Treptow – Köpenick (electoral district), Bernd Lucke, Bundestag, CDU/CSU, Chancellor of Germany, Chancellor of Germany (1949–present), Christian Democratic Union of Germany, Christian Social Union in Bavaria, Coalition agreement, Coalition government, Dachau concentration camp, Deutsche Presse-Agentur, Deutsche Welle, Dietmar Bartsch, Euroscepticism, Federal Constitutional Court, Federal Returning Officer, Financial Times, First-past-the-post voting, Forsa Institute, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Free Democratic Party (Germany), Gerhard Schröder, German federal election, 1990, German federal election, 2002, German federal election, 2009, Germany, Global Times, Grand coalition (Germany), Gregor Gysi, Guido Westerwelle, Hannelore Kraft, Jan van Aken, Jürgen Trittin, Katrin Göring-Eckardt, Klaus Ernst, Leveling seat, List of Bundestag constituencies, Lower Saxony, Max Mannheimer, Merkel-Raute, ..., Mixed-member proportional representation, Negative vote weight, North Rhine-Westphalia, Oman Daily Observer, Overhang seat, Party-list proportional representation, Peer Steinbrück, Percentage point, Political symbolism, Rainer Brüderle, Reuters, Rhineland-Palatinate, Sahra Wagenknecht, Sigmar Gabriel, Social Democratic Party of Germany, Spiegel Online, States of Germany, The Guardian, The Left (Germany), The New York Times, The Star (Malaysia), Third Merkel cabinet, Thuringia, Vice-Chancellor of Germany, Vorpommern-Rügen – Vorpommern-Greifswald I, Webster/Sainte-Laguë method, West German federal election, 1987, Wolfgang Schäuble, World War II, Yahoo! News, YouGov. Expand index (31 more) »

Agence France-Presse

Agence France-Presse (AFP) is an international news agency headquartered in Paris, France.

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Al Jazeera

Al Jazeera (translit,, literally "The Island", though referring to the Arabian Peninsula in context), also known as JSC (Jazeera Satellite Channel), is a state-funded broadcaster in Doha, Qatar, owned by the Al Jazeera Media Network.

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Allensbach Institute

The Allensbach Institute, formally the Allensbach Institute for Public Opinion Research or Allensbach Institute for Public Opinion Polling (Institut für Demoskopie Allensbach), is a private conservative opinion polling institute based in Allensbach, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

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Alliance 90/The Greens

Alliance 90/The Greens, often simply Greens (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen or Grüne), is a green political party in Germany that was formed from the merger of the German Green Party (founded in West Germany in 1980 and merged with the East Greens in 1990) and Alliance 90 (founded during the Revolution of 1989–1990 in East Germany) in 1993.

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Alternative for Germany

Alternative for Germany (Alternative für Deutschland, AfD) is a right-wing to far-right political party in Germany.

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Angela Merkel

Angela Dorothea Merkel (Kasner, born 17 July 1954) is a German politician serving as Chancellor of Germany since 2005 and leader of the centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) since 2000.

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ARD (broadcaster)

ARD (full name: Arbeitsgemeinschaft der öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunkanstalten der Bundesrepublik Deutschland – Consortium of public broadcasters in Germany) is a joint organisation of Germany's regional public-service broadcasters.

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Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany

The Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany (Grundgesetz für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland) is the constitution of the Federal Republic of Germany.

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BBC News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs.

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Berlin Treptow – Köpenick (electoral district)

Location of constituency in Berlin Berlin Treptow – Köpenick is one of the 299 single member constituencies used for the German parliament, the Bundestag.

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Bernd Lucke

Bernd Lucke (born 19 August 1962) is a German economist and politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Germany.

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Bundestag

The Bundestag ("Federal Diet") is the German federal parliament.

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CDU/CSU

CDU/CSU, unofficially the Union parties (Unionsparteien) or Union, is the Christian democratic political alliance of two political parties in Germany, the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) and Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU).

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Chancellor of Germany

The title Chancellor has designated different offices in the history of Germany.

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Chancellor of Germany (1949–present)

The Federal Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany (in German called Bundeskanzler(in), meaning "Federal Chancellor", or in) for short) is, under the German 1949 Constitution, the head of government of Germany.

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Christian Democratic Union of Germany

The Christian Democratic Union of Germany (Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands, CDU) is a Christian democratic and liberal-conservative political party in Germany.

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Christian Social Union in Bavaria

The Christian Social Union in Bavaria is a Christian-democratic and conservative political party in Germany.

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Coalition agreement

In multiparty democracies, a coalition agreement is an agreement between the parties that form the cabinet.

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Coalition government

A coalition government is a cabinet of a parliamentary government in which many or multiple political parties cooperate, reducing the dominance of any one party within that "coalition".

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Dachau concentration camp

Dachau concentration camp (Konzentrationslager (KZ) Dachau) was the first of the Nazi concentration camps opened in Germany, intended to hold political prisoners.

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Deutsche Presse-Agentur

Deutsche Presse-Agentur GmbH (DPA; German Press Agency) is a German news agency founded in 1949.

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Deutsche Welle

Deutsche Welle ("German wave" in German) or DW is Germany's public international broadcaster.

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Dietmar Bartsch

Dietmar Gerhard Bartsch (born 31 March 1958) is a German politician, former Federal Whip (Bundesgeschäftsführer) of the Party of Democratic Socialism (1997–2002, 2005–2007) and Die Linke (2007–2010) and member of the Bundestag.

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Euroscepticism

Euroscepticism (also known as EU-scepticism) means criticism of the European Union (EU) and European integration.

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Federal Constitutional Court

The Federal Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht; abbreviated: BVerfG) is the supreme constitutional court for the Federal Republic of Germany, established by the constitution or Basic Law of Germany.

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Federal Returning Officer

In Germany, the Federal Returning Officer ("Bundeswahlleiter") is the Returning Officer responsible for overseeing elections on the federal level.

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Financial Times

The Financial Times (FT) is a Japanese-owned (since 2015), English-language international daily newspaper headquartered in London, with a special emphasis on business and economic news.

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First-past-the-post voting

A first-past-the-post (FPTP) voting method is one in which voters indicate on a ballot the candidate of their choice, and the candidate who receives the most votes wins.

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Forsa Institute

The forsa Institute for Social Research and Statistical Analysis (forsa Gesellschaft für Sozialforschung und statistische Analyse mbH), forsa for short, is one of the leading market research and opinion polling companies in Germany.

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Frank-Walter Steinmeier

Frank-Walter Steinmeier (born 5 January 1956) is a German politician serving as President of Germany since 19 March 2017.

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Free Democratic Party (Germany)

The Free Democratic Party (Freie Demokratische Partei, FDP) is a liberal and classical liberal political party in Germany.

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Gerhard Schröder

Gerhard Fritz Kurt Schröder (born 7 April 1944) is a German politician, and served as Chancellor of Germany from 1998 to 2005, during which his most important political project was the Agenda 2010.

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German federal election, 1990

Federal elections were held in Germany on 2 December 1990 to elect the members of the 12th Bundestag.

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German federal election, 2002

Federal elections were held in Germany on 22 September 2002 to elect the members of the 15th Bundestag.

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German federal election, 2009

Federal elections took place on 27 September 2009 to elect the members of the 17th Bundestag (parliament) of Germany.

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Germany

Germany (Deutschland), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland), is a sovereign state in central-western Europe.

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Global Times

The Global Times is a daily Chinese tabloid newspaper under the auspices of the People's Daily newspaper, focusing on international issues from China's perspective.

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Grand coalition (Germany)

In modern Germany with its parliamentary system of government on federal and on state level, grand coalition (Große Koalition) describes a governing coalition of the two biggest parties in one parliament.

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Gregor Gysi

Gregor Gysi (born 16 January 1948) is a German attorney and key politician of the political party The Left (Die Linke).

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Guido Westerwelle

Guido Westerwelle (27 December 1961 – 18 March 2016) was a German politician who served as Foreign Minister in the second cabinet of Chancellor Angela Merkel and as Vice Chancellor of Germany from 2009 to 2011, being the first openly gay person to hold any of these positions.

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Hannelore Kraft

Hannelore Kraft (née Külzhammer; born 12 June 1961) is a German politician.

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Jan van Aken

Jan van Aken (1614 – 25 March 1661 (buried)) was a Dutch Golden Age painter and engraver.

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Jürgen Trittin

Jürgen Trittin (born 25 July 1954) is a German Green politician.

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Katrin Göring-Eckardt

Katrin Dagmar Göring-Eckardt (born Katrin Dagmar Eckardt; 3 May 1966), better known as Katrin Göring-Eckardt, is a German politician from the German Green Party (officially known as Alliance '90/The Greens; Bündnis 90/Die Grünen).

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Klaus Ernst

Klaus Ernst (born 1 November 1954 in Munich) is a left-wing German politician and was a leading member of the Labour and Social Justice Party and now The Left.

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Leveling seat

Leveling seats (Danish. Tillægsmandat, Swedish. Utjämningsmandat, Norwegian. Utjevningsmandater, Icelandic. Jöfnunarsæti, German. Ausgleichsmandat), commonly known also as adjustment seats, are an election mechanism employed for many years by all Scandinavian countries and Iceland in elections for their national legislatures.

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List of Bundestag constituencies

Under Germany's mixed member proportional system of election, the Bundestag has 299 constituencies, each of which elects one member of the Bundestag by first-past-the-post voting (i.e. a plurality of votes).

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Lower Saxony

Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen, Neddersassen) is a German state (Land) situated in northwestern Germany.

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Max Mannheimer

Max Mannheimer (6 February 1920 – 23 September 2016) was an author, painter and survivor of the Holocaust.

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Merkel-Raute

The Merkel-Raute (German for "Merkel rhombus") is what has been termed Merkel diamond or Triangle of Power by English-speaking media: a hand gesture made by resting one's hands in front of the stomach so that the fingertips meet, with the thumbs and index fingers forming a rough quadrangular shape.

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Mixed-member proportional representation

Mixed-member proportional (MMP) representation is a mixed electoral system in which voters get two votes: one to decide the representative for their single-seat constituency, and one for a political party.

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Negative vote weight

Negative vote weight (also known as inverse success value) refers to an effect that occurs in certain elections where votes can have the opposite effect of what the voter intended.

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North Rhine-Westphalia

North Rhine-Westphalia (Nordrhein-Westfalen,, commonly shortened to NRW) is the most populous state of Germany, with a population of approximately 18 million, and the fourth largest by area.

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Oman Daily Observer

Oman Daily Observer is an English-language daily broadsheet published from Muscat, the capital of the Sultanate of Oman.

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Overhang seat

Overhang seats can arise in elections under the traditional (i.e. as it originated in Germany) mixed member proportional (MMP) system, when a party is entitled to fewer seats as a result of party votes than it has won constituencies.

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Party-list proportional representation

Party-list proportional representation systems are a family of voting systems emphasizing proportional representation (PR) in elections in which multiple candidates are elected (e.g., elections to parliament) through allocations to an electoral list.

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Peer Steinbrück

Peer Steinbrück (born 10 January 1947) is a German politician who was the chancellor-candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) in the 2013 federal election.

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Percentage point

A percentage point or percent point (pp) is the unit for the arithmetic difference of two percentages.

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Political symbolism

Political symbolism is symbolism that is used to represent a political standpoint.

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Rainer Brüderle

Rainer Brüderle (born 22 June 1945) is a German politician and member of the FDP.

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Reuters

Reuters is an international news agency headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

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Rhineland-Palatinate

Rhineland-Palatinate (Rheinland-Pfalz) is one of the 16 states (Bundesländer) of the Federal Republic of Germany.

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Sahra Wagenknecht

Sahra Wagenknecht (born 16 July 1969) is a German left-wing politician, economist, author and publicist.

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Sigmar Gabriel

Sigmar Hartmut Gabriel (born 12 September 1959) is a German politician who was Minister for Foreign Affairs from 2017 to 2018 and Vice-Chancellor of Germany from 2013 to 2018.

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Social Democratic Party of Germany

The Social Democratic Party of Germany (Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands, SPD) is a social-democratic political party in Germany.

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Spiegel Online

Spiegel Online (SPON) is one of the most widely read German-language news websites.

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States of Germany

Germany is a federal republic consisting of sixteen states (Land, plural Länder; informally and very commonly Bundesland, plural Bundesländer).

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Left (Germany)

The Left (Die Linke), also commonly referred to as the Left Party (die Linkspartei), is a democratic socialist political party in Germany.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Star (Malaysia)

The Star is an English-language, tabloid-format newspaper in Malaysia.

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Third Merkel cabinet

The third cabinet of Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel was sworn in on 17 December 2013.

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Thuringia

The Free State of Thuringia (Freistaat Thüringen) is a federal state in central Germany.

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Vice-Chancellor of Germany

The Deputy to the Federal Chancellor, widely known as the Vice Chancellor of Germany is, according to protocol, the second highest position in the Cabinet of Germany.

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Vorpommern-Rügen – Vorpommern-Greifswald I

Vorpommern-Rügen – Vorpommern-Greifswald I is an electoral constituency (German: Wahlkreis) represented in the German Bundestag.

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Webster/Sainte-Laguë method

The Webster/Sainte-Laguë method, often simply Webster method or Sainte-Laguë method, is a highest quotient method for allocating seats in party-list proportional representation used in many voting systems.

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West German federal election, 1987

Federal elections were held in West Germany on 25 January 1987 to elect the members of the 11th Bundestag.

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Wolfgang Schäuble

Wolfgang Schäuble (born 18 September 1942) is a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) whose political career has spanned more than four decades.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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Yahoo! News

Yahoo! News is a news website that originated as an internet-based news aggregator by Yahoo!.

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YouGov

YouGov is an international Internet-based market research and data analytics firm, headquartered in the UK, with operations in Europe, North America, the Middle East and Asia-Pacific.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_federal_election,_2013

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