New right to vote: Berlin and Brandenburg before the Bundestag election 2024!
New right to vote: Berlin and Brandenburg before the Bundestag election 2024!
On February 23, 2025, around 4.5 million people in Berlin and Brandenburg are entitled to vote for the upcoming federal election. This election is shaped by a new voting right reform, which sets the number of deputies in the Bundestag to exactly 630, including 22 from Berlin and 21 from Brandenburg. This reform, which was adopted in 2023, brings fundamental changes, in particular the abolition of overhang and equalization mandates, which previously led to the Bundestag included up to 733 members. The new "second tuning process" (such as rbb24.de could.
direct mandates and overlay swings
Special attention is also paid to the reform because it has an impact on the allocation of the direct mandates. For example, some direct candidates from the SPD could go away empty -handed in Brandenburg, even though they won their constituencies. This scenario already became clear when the federal election manager was calculated, which showed that three SPD winners might remain without mandate. A similar risk to the left could be emerging, which hopes for at least three direct mandates to be able to move into parliament. In the meantime, Berliner Zeitung that the outgoing Bundestag Vice President Petra Pau (left) lost a significant defeat for your party. In addition to the voting right reform, two Brandenburg constituencies are adjusted due to population developments. The current constituency "Dahme-Spreewald-Teltow-Fläming III-Oberspreewald-Lausitz I" is reduced, while "Elbe-Elster-Oberspreewald-Lausitz II" is enlarged. Overall, the number of constituencies in Brandenburg remains at ten and in Berlin at twelve. It is still uncertain whether these regulations will remain in future elections or even in the Bundestag election afterwards, since the Union has already announced that he wants to withdraw the reform.| Details | |
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