Germany has a mix of representative and majority votes. Everybody gets one vote for the candidate in their county, which is majority vote and one for a party list on the state level, which is representative vote. This leads to all kinds of shenanigans, such as the CDU and SPD being overrepresented, the Bundestag getting larger and larger to at least mostly make up for that and people getting told to :vote: :vote: with both of their :vote: s.
You cast two votes on the ballot: one for your local candidate in your voting district and one for the general representation (the percentages you've posted.)
You are always gonna get at least as many seats as is proportional to your share of the votes. But also every candidate that wins their voting district will get into parliament. This is no issues in most cases as parties will have a bigger share than direct candidates. Except the CSU (sister party of the CDU, replaces the CDU in Bavaria) gets very little overall share but a fuck ton (almost all) of direct candidates because of ages of local corruption in Bavaria.
All of these people will get into the parliament, even though there is no overall representation for them. So unless the SPD has significantly more share, they will have less seats.
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Germany has a mix of representative and majority votes. Everybody gets one vote for the candidate in their county, which is majority vote and one for a party list on the state level, which is representative vote. This leads to all kinds of shenanigans, such as the CDU and SPD being overrepresented, the Bundestag getting larger and larger to at least mostly make up for that and people getting told to :vote: :vote: with both of their :vote: s.
It's a very strange system.
You cast two votes on the ballot: one for your local candidate in your voting district and one for the general representation (the percentages you've posted.)
You are always gonna get at least as many seats as is proportional to your share of the votes. But also every candidate that wins their voting district will get into parliament. This is no issues in most cases as parties will have a bigger share than direct candidates. Except the CSU (sister party of the CDU, replaces the CDU in Bavaria) gets very little overall share but a fuck ton (almost all) of direct candidates because of ages of local corruption in Bavaria.
All of these people will get into the parliament, even though there is no overall representation for them. So unless the SPD has significantly more share, they will have less seats.