Germany uses a proportional representation electoral system

The growing fragmentation of party systems confronts mixed-member proportional electoral systems with a trilemma. Combining the goals of proportionality and of a guaranteed representation of district winners makes it ever more difficult to also achieve a third goal: the fixed size of parliament.

If a party fails to meet the ... parties' lists in the individual Länder (federal states). The German electoral system is based on proportional representation, but contains elements of first-past-the-post....

The parties are represented on a proportional basis, in line with the share of the second votes they received. When allotting parliamentary seats to the parties, the first step is to determine how many seats each party is entitled to nationwide.

If a party fails to meet the ... parties' lists in the individual Länder (federal states). The German electoral system is based on proportional representation, but contains elements of first-past-the-post....

Germans elect their members of parliament with two votes. The first vote is for a direct candidate, who is required to receive a plurality vote in their electoral district. The second vote is used to elect a party list in each state as established by its respective party caucus. The Bundestag comprises, then, the seats representing each electoral district on the first vote and the seats allocated to maintain proportionality ...

Mixed Member Proportional Representation (or AMS in the UK) is a mix of Westminster’s First Past the Post electoral system and Party Lists. Members of the Bundestag are elected every four years by all German citizens over the age of 18.

The election of ‘additional’ representatives seeks to make the overall result of the election more proportional than it would have been if representatives were elected only via First Past the Post. Different MMP or AMS systems seek to achieve different levels of proportionality. Germany’s MMP system is at the very proportional end of that scale, with the overriding aim being for a party’s seat share in the Bundestag to closely match the party’s vote share in the Party List section of the election.

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Germany uses a form of proportional representation (PR) in its federal elections: each voter will vote for one candidate in their constituency, as well as one party’s list of candidates in their state.

Die am häufigsten benutzten ... personalisiertes Verhältniswahlrecht in sieben Ländern und eine übertragbare Einzelstimmgebung in den drei Ländern Irland, Malta und Australien. Bei der Listenwahl werden Wahllisten nach unterschiedlichen Modi verwendet....

Das personalisierte Verhältniswahlrecht (englisch mixed-member proportional representation, MMP) ist ein Mischwahlsystem (englisch mixed electoral system), welches eine Verhältniswahl politischer Parteien und einer Mehrheitswahl einzelner Abgeordneter miteinander kombiniert. Es findet bei den Wahlen zum Deutschen Bundestag und den Landtagen Anwendung und wird mittlerweile auch in verschiedenen anderen Staaten für Parlamentswahlen verwendet...