On 22 May 2005, state elections were held in North Rhine-Westphalia, the most populous state of Germany, where the SPD had led the state government continuously since 1966. The election saw the government of Minister-President Peer Steinbrück defeated.

The 2025 election was the fourth early election in post-war German history, and the first since 2005. [1] Three opposition parties increased their votes in the election, compared with the previous federal election (2021). The conservative CDU/CSU alliance became the largest group in the Bundestag, with 28.5% of votes. Although this result was ...

The election of the German Federal Diet (Bundestag) 2005 took place on 18 September 2005. ↑ 1.0 1.1 The Christian Democratic Union and Christian Social Union of Bavaria call themselves "sister-parties". They do not operate in the same regions and form one group in the Bundestag.

Sep 18, 2005 · As of main election on 26 September 2021. Magazine: Results of earlier elections to the German Bundestag – only in German

Die Bundestagswahl 2005 fand am 18. September 2005 nach der vorzeitigen Auflösung des 15. Deutschen Bundestags statt. Bei der Wahl zum 16. Deutschen Bundestag wurde an diesem Tag in 298 von 299 Wahlkreisen gewählt. 614 Abgeordnete zogen in den 16. Bundestag ein. Union und SPD bildeten eine große Koalition.

The all dominating topics of the election campaign were unemployment and the state of the German economy. Other hot issues include a taxation reform and changes to the health insurance system. The ...

The 2005 German federal election was held on Sunday, September 18, 2005 to elect members of the Bundestag, Germany's federal parliament, after a failed vote of confidence for Gerhard Schröder on July 1st.

Federal elections were held in Germany on 18 September 2005 to elect the members of the 16th Bundestag. The snap election was called after the government's defeat in a state election, which caused them to intentionally lose a motion of confidence to trigger an early federal election. The outgoing government was a coalition of the centre-left …

On 18 September 2005, elections were held in 298 of 299 districts. Of the 61.6 million registered voters 77.7 per cent turned out at the polls. Official results, excluding Dresden, showed that neither the CDU nor the SPD had secured enough seats to easily form a ruling coalition.

22 November 2005: Angela Merkel elected new German chancellor; 12 November 2005: German Social and Christian Democrats agree on new government; 11 November 2005: Voting chaos in Germany expected