Bundestag election 2025: This is how you prepare yourself optimally!

Bundestag election 2025: This is how you prepare yourself optimally!

Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald, Deutschland - The early Bundestag election 2025 in Germany is scheduled for February 23, 2025. As Südkurier , are entitled to participate in the election of all German citizens aged 18, if they have been at least Months live in Germany or have entered the electoral register in good time. There is also the possibility to take part in the election under certain conditions as living abroad as abroad. The election notifications are sent several weeks before the election day and contain information about the election date, the opening hours and the polling station.

eligible voters have the option to either take part in the postal vote or choose the polling station, whereby the polling stations are open from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. For postal voting, an option is necessary, the application of which can be made by email or personally to the municipality. The electoral system in Germany is based on a personalized proportion of proportions, in which voters can give both a first and a second vote. The first vote serves to choose a direct candidate in the constituency, while the second vote is crucial for the distribution of seats in the Bundestag. Parties must receive at least 5% of the second votes to get seats in the Bundestag, with an exception for parties with at least three direct mandates.

constituencies and electoral system

The Bundestag originally has 598 seats, but has currently grown to 733 members due to overhang and equalization mandates. An election right reform of 2020 has caused up to three overhang mandates to be offset. There are a total of 38 constituencies in Baden-Württemberg. The constituencies in the Südkurier region include:

• constituency 282: Lörrach - Müllheim
• constituency 285: Rottweil - Tuttlingen
• constituency 286: Black Forest baar
• constituency 287: Constance
• constituency 288: Waldshut
• constituency 293: Bodensee
• constituency 295: Zollernalb - Sigmaringen

The Wahl-O-Mat 2025 is available for political orientation for the voters. The latest information on the 2025 federal election is provided in a news sticker.

In the Bundestag election 2021, according to Bundestag elections-bw.de that the CDU in Baden-Württemberg won 33 of 38 constituencies. Five constituencies, on the other hand, went to other parties: the Greens won the electoral circles Stuttgart I, Karlsruhe-Stadt, Heidelberg and Freiburg, while the SPD won the Mannheim constituency. This was particularly remarkable, since the CDU recently won no constituency in Baden-Württemberg in the 2009 federal election.

The current voting right enables the election group winner not move into parliament if their place is not covered by the second vote result, which the election mechanisms in Germany further complicated.

-transmitted by West-Ost-Medien