Bavaria: official final result of the federal election 2021 is available – Bavaria

On Monday in Fürth, the Bavarian State Returning Officer established the official final result for the federal election on September 26th in the Free State. Accordingly, the CSU was the strongest force in Bavaria with 31.7 percent of the vote, followed by the SPD with 18.0 percent and the Greens with 14.1 percent. The FDP received 10.5 percent, the AfD 9.0 percent and the Free Voters 7.5 percent. The left came to 2.8 percent, other parties together 6.4 percent, announced the state election office on Monday on its website. This means that there have been no more changes to the preliminary official final result published on the night of September 27th.

There was confusion about the publication of the final result after the meeting of the state election committee last Friday. Initially, with reference to the federal election law, the state returning officer reserved the right not to make the results public until October 15, when the federal returning officer announces the overall results from all federal states. After the first countries made their results public on Monday, Bavaria followed suit.

The turnout in the 2021 federal election has increased slightly compared to 2017: According to the official final result, 79.9 of the eligible voters took part in the vote, after 78.1 percent in 2017. The proportion of postal voters has risen dramatically. It increased from 37.3 percent in 2017 to 62.4 percent this year.

With regard to the elected MPs, the regional returning officer assumed on September 27th that 116 of the total of 735 seats in the Bundestag were Bavarian candidates. 45 would therefore go to the CSU, 23 to the SPD and 18 to the Greens, who won a direct mandate for the first time. The FDP achieved 14 seats, the AFD twelve and the Left four seats. With this distribution, postponements until next Friday are highly unlikely, but theoretically possible because the distribution of the election results in the individual federal states to the respective state lists of the parties is mutually dependent.

.
source site