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List of members of the 20th Bundestag

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List of members of the 20th Bundestag
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This is a list of members of the 20th Bundestag, the federal parliament of Germany. The 20th Bundestag was elected in the 26 September 2021 federal election, and was constituted in its first session on 26 October 2021.[1] The 21st Bundestag succeeded the 20th Bundestag on 25 March 2025.

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The 20th Bundestag was the largest in history with 733 members, 135 seats larger than its minimum size of 598. Originally, it had 736 and comprised 206 members of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), 197 members of the CDU/CSU, 118 members of Alliance 90/The Greens (GRÜNE), 92 members of the Free Democratic Party (FDP), 83 members of the Alternative for Germany (AfD), and 39 members of The Left (LINKE), as well as one member of the South Schleswig Voters' Association, who sits as a non-attached member.[2]

Matthias Helferich, who was elected for the AfD, withdrew from its parliamentary faction before the first session of the Bundestag.[3] Deputies Johannes Huber and Uwe Witt also left in December 2021.[4] Robert Farle quit the AfD faction in September 2022,[5] as did Joana Cotar who also resigned from her former party in November.[6] Thomas Lütze defected from LINKE to the SPD in October 2023,[7] as did Sahra Wagenknecht, Amira Mohamed Ali, and eight others who joined Wagenknecht's namesake faction Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW) while staying in the LINKE seats.[8] The LINKE group dissolved on 6 December after announcing earlier in November that it could no longer form a parliamentary faction for falling below the 37-member minimum.[9] As a result, the AfD and SPD groups consisted of 78 and 207 members respectively.[10] The BSW was officially founded as a party on 8 January 2024.[11][12]

After the decision to dissolve the LINKE faction, the 28 remaining members of their party applied for and received group status on 2 February 2024. The ten members from the BSW, who had previously left LINKE, were also recognized as a group on the same day.[13] Thomas Seitz resigned from the AfD and its faction at the end of March 2024.[14] Melis Sekmen also defected, but from GRÜNE to the CDU in July 2024.[15] Dirk Spaniel also quit the AfD in October, followed by Volker Wissing, formerly from the FDP, in November to continue as a cabinet minister.[16][17] Witt was a member of the Centre Party from January to August 2022. He later joined Bündnis Deutschland on 23 December 2024.[18] Spaniel became the Values Union's first Bundestag member at the end of January 2025.[19]

Due to irregularities in the 2021 federal election in Berlin, there was a partial repeat of the election on 11 February 2024 in around 20% of the capital's electoral districts. With lost votes and lower voter turnout, there was a shift in mandates between the state associations of the SPD, GRÜNE, and LINKE, and the FDP lost a leveling seat, meaning that only 735 Bundestag members, of whom 90 are FDP, now sit.[20] The mandate changes were carried out by a Council of Elders resolution on 4 March.[21][22] Two CSU mandates were not filled after resignations, in accordance with a since-repealed provision in the Federal Elections Act that no vacant seats won by a party that has overhang seats in a German state may be filled.

The President of the Bundestag was Bärbel Bas (SPD).[23]

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Notes

  1. The AfD has put forward candidates for vice-president during a total of six ballots occasions during the 20th Bundestag, all of which have failed to reach the required majority.

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