Unlike regular voting by the Bundestag, the vote to elect the chancellor is by secret ballot.

After being elected to the first German Bundestag, he relinquished his parliamentary mandate on 12 September 1949, when he was elected President by the Federal Convention ( Bundesversammlung ) defeating the Social Democrat leader Kurt Schumacher in the second ballot.

In addition, the Bundestag has a minimum threshold of either 5 % of the national party vote or three ( directly elected ) constituency representatives for a party to gain additional representation through the system of proportional representation.

This was partly due to the perception that the internal debate over the war in Afghanistan had been more honest and open than in other parties, and one of the MPs who had voted against the Afghanistan deployment, Hans-Christian Ströbele, was directly elected to the Bundestag as a district representative for the Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg-Prenzlauer Berg East constituency in Berlin, becoming the first Green to ever gain a first-past-the-post seat in Germany.

In Poland's Sejm and Germany's Bundestag ( elected through the Additional member system ), this threshold is 5 % ( or 3 constituency seats in the Bundestag, but directly won constituencies are kept, regardless ).

Germany, as mentioned earlier, has a " regular " threshold of 5 %, but a party winning three constituency seats in the Bundestag can gain additional representation even if it has achieved under 5 % of the total vote.

In Germany's Bundestag and the New Zealand House of Representatives, all these constituency members keep their seats.

He was a lead candidate of the PDS, winning direct election to the Bundestag for the Berlin Treptow – Köpenick constituency.

In 1957, he was elected into the German Bundestag ( with a 72 % majority in his constituency ).

She was elected to the Berlin parliament in 1995 and remained a member until 1998 when she was elected to the Bundestag for the Berlin Mitte-Prenzlauer Berg constituency.

In 2002, he became the first Green politician ever to be directly elected to the Bundestag when he received a plurality of the votes in the Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg Prenzlauer Berg East constituency.

Uelzen belongs to the Bundestag constituency of Celle-Uelzen.

By a vote of 338-320, the Bundestag voted to move the seat of government to Berlin.

In addition, owing to the city's legal status, citizens of West Berlin were unable to vote in elections to the Bundestag, and were instead represented by 20 non-voting delegates, indirectly elected by the city's House of Representatives.

The Bundestag can be dissolved by the president on the recommendation of the chancellor if the latter has lost a vote of confidence in the Bundestag.

The first vote, allowing voters to elect their local representatives to the Bundestag, decides which candidates are sent to Parliament from the constituencies.

The second vote is cast for a party list ; it determines the relative strengths of the parties represented in the Bundestag.

If a party has gained more direct mandates in a Land than it is entitled to according to the results of the second vote, it does not forfeit these mandates because all directly elected candidates are guaranteed a seat in the Bundestag.

During the 1990s, the FDP won between 6. 2 and 11 percent of the vote in Bundestag elections.

This percentage was enough to offset a decline in the CDU / CSU's vote compared to 2005, to create a CDU-FDP governing coalition in the Bundestag with a 53 % majority of seats.

A party must receive either five percent of the national vote or win at least three directly elected seats to be eligible for non-constituency seats in the Bundestag.

After some success at state-level elections, the party won 27 seats with 5. 7 % of the vote in the Bundestag, the lower house of the German parliament, in the 1983 federal election.

After the 1994 federal election, however, the merged party returned to the Bundestag, and the Greens received 7. 3 % of the vote nationwide and 49 seats.

In the first all-German elections in 1990, the PDS won only 2. 4 % of the nationwide vote, but under a one-time exception to Germany's electoral law entered the Bundestag with 17 deputies led by Gysi, one of Germany's most charismatic and articulate politicians.

In the 2005 federal election the Left Party received 8. 7 % of the nationwide vote and won 54 seats in the German Bundestag.

Polls early in the summer showed the unified Left list on a " high-altitude flight ," winning as much as 12 percent of the vote, and for a time it seemed possible the party would surge past the Alliance ' 90 / The Greens and the pro-business Free Democratic Party and become the third-strongest force in the Bundestag.

Nevertheless, the Left Party membership in Schleswig-Holstein narrowly passed a vote of confidence in favor of Heilmann, and he continues to serve in the Bundestag.

It was not revealed until much later that two Bundestag members ( Julius Steiner and Leo Wagner, both of the CDU / CSU ) had been bribed by the East German Stasi to vote for Brandt.

This vote is one of the few cases where a majority of all elected members of the Bundestag must be achieved, as opposed to a mere majority of those that are currently assembled.

In order to garner legislative support in the Bundestag, the chancellor can also call for a regular Motion of Confidence, either combined with a legislative proposal or as a standalone vote.

Only if such a vote fails may the President dissolve the Bundestag.

Articles 20 to 146 GG regulate the organization of Germany and legitimize and rule its bodies such as German Bundestag, Bundesrat of Germany or the government and the legislation based on the constitution.

The heated debate that resulted was settled by the Bundestag ( Germany's parliament ) only on 20 June 1991.

Although most legislation is initiated by the executive branch, the Bundestag considers the legislative function its most important responsibility, concentrating much of its energy on assessing and amending the government's legislative program.

The Bundestag members are the only federal officials directly elected by the public ; the Bundestag in turn elects the Chancellor and, in addition, exercises oversight of the executive branch on issues of both substantive policy and routine administration.

One striking difference when comparing the Bundestag with the British Parliament is the lack of time spent on serving constituents in Germany.

A practical constraint on the expansion of constituent service is the limited personal staff of Bundestag deputies.

The system was formally launched on 1 September 2005, and in 2008 the Bundestag moved to a new system based on its evaluation.

The Chancellor cannot be removed from office during a four year term unless the Bundestag has agreed on a successor.

The Bundestag is more powerful than the Bundesrat and only needs the latter's consent for proposed legislation related to revenue shared by the federal and state governments, and the imposition of responsibilities on the states.

The first Bundestag elections were held in the Federal Republic of Germany (" West Germany ") on 14 August 1949.

Following reunification, elections for the first all-German Bundestag were held on 2 December 1990.

September 2009, the 17th Bundestag convened on 27.

The first election to the Bundestag of West Germany was held on 15 August 1949, with the Christian Democrats emerging as the strongest party.

( Bundestag ) Dr. Wolfgang Thierse on March 13, 2009.

Besides Lafontaine, a number of other prominent SPD defectors won election to the Bundestag on the Left Party list, including a prominent leader of Germany's Turkish minority, Hakkı Keskin, German Federal Constitutional Court justice Wolfgang Neskovic, and the former SPD leader in Baden-Württemberg, Ulrich Maurer.

Cooperation between the two parties on a national level and in their single Bundestag delegation has been largely free of tensions.

The motion carried, and, on 4 October, the Bundestag voted in a new CDU / CSU-FDP coalition cabinet, with Kohl as the chancellor.

After the resignation of Adenauer in 1963, Erhard was elected Chancellor with 279 against 180 votes in the Bundestag on 16 October.