Official results from Germany elections


By Associated Press
Published September 18th 2005 in Seattle Post Intelligencer

BERLIN -- Official results in Germany's parliamentary election Sunday, with votes counted in 298 of 299 districts. Voting in the final district, in the eastern city of Dresden, has been delayed until Oct. 2.

Final vote percentages and seat totals from the last election, in 2002, in parentheses:

Social Democrats: 34.3 percent, 16.15 million votes (38.5 percent, 251 seats).

Christian Democrats: 35.2 percent, 16.59 million (38.5 percent, 248 seats).

Free Democrats: 9.8 percent, 4.62 million votes (7.4 percent, 47 seats).

Greens: 8.1 percent, 3.83 million votes (8.6 percent, 55 seats).

Left Party: 8.7 percent, 4.09 million votes (Ex-communist Party of Democratic Socialism: 4 percent, 2 seats).

The remaining approximately 4 percent of the vote was split among more than 20 smaller parties and independent candidates.

Turnout: 77.7 percent (79.1 percent).