Composition of the German federal assemblies according to parties

The following list shows the composition of the Federal Assembly for the election of the Federal President . Half of the members of the Federal Assembly are the members of the German Bundestag ; party membership is shown here. The other half is elected by the state parliaments; the parliamentary group that proposed the members for election is specified here.

Members of the Federal Assembly by party

Members in absolute numbers

election day	total	CDU / CSU	SPD	Alliance 90 / The Greens	FDP	The left	KPD	DP	BP	DZP	SSW	DRP	GB / BHE	NPD	REP	DVU	FW	AfD	Independent	Other
09/12/1949	0 1804 1	280	279		2088 2		40	28	34	21st	3	6th							1	WAV 24
07/17/1954	1018	3431 3	347		112		10	15th	15th	12	1	1	61						4th	HB 9
07/01/1959	1038	517	386		4th085 4			24	06th				20th
07/01/1964	1042	5486 5	445		6th105 6				03				02						1
05.03.1969	1036	482	7th449 7		083									22nd
05/15/1974	1036	501	470		065
May 23, 1979	1036	531	438		066														1
05/23/1984	1040	525	426	039	047														3
05/23/1989	1038	479	419	067	071										1				1
05/23/1994	1324	620	8th502 8	043	112	034									8th				2	Alliance 1 DLVH 1 FUA 1
05/23/1999	1338	547	8th565 8	096	056	065									7th	2
05/23/2004	1205	539	459	090	083	031					1					1			1
05/23/2009	1223	497	418	095	107	089					1			03		1	10		2
06/30/2010	1244	496	333	129	148	124					1			03			10
03/18/2012	1240	486	332	146	136	124					1			03			10			Pirates 2
02/12/2017	1260	539	384	147	36	95					1						10	35	1	Pirates  11 BVB / FW  1

Footnotes

¹ There were also 16 non-voting members from Berlin, nine of whom were from the SPD, four from the CDU and three from the FDP.
² incl. A member of the BDV
³ incl. 18 members of the NU as well as a national delegate nominated by the DP
⁴ incl. Three members of the DPS
⁵ incl. A member of the SVP
⁶ incl. A member of the DPS
⁷ incl. A member of the GPD / BHE
⁸ including a member of the SSW

Members in%

election day	CDU / CSU	SPD	Alliance 90 / The Greens	FDP	The left	DP	GB / BHE	BP	DZP	KPD	Others
09/12/1949 1	34.8	34.7		10.9		3.5		4.2	2.6	5.0	24.2 2
07/17/1954	42.3	34.1		11.0		1.5	6.0	1.5	1.2	1.0	1.5
07/01/1959	49.8	37.2		8.2		2.3	1.9	0.6			-
07/01/1964	46.6	42.7		10.1			0.2	0.3			0.1
05.03.1969	46.5	43.3		8.0							32.1 3
05/15/1974	48.4	45.4		6.3							-
May 23, 1979	51.3	42.3		6.4							0.1
05/23/1984	50.5	41.0	3.8	4.5							0.3
05/23/1989	46.1	40.4	6.5	6.8							0.2
05/23/1994	46.8	37.9	3.2	8.5	2.6						1.0
05/23/1999	40.9	42.2	7.2	4.2	4.9						0.7
05/23/2004	44.7	38.1	7.5	6.9	2.6						0.2
05/23/2009	40.6	34.2	7.8	8.7	7.3						1.4
06/30/2010	39.9	26.8	10.4	11.9	10.0						1.1
03/18/2012	39.2	26.8	11.8	11.0	10.0						1.3
02/12/2017	42.8	30.5	11.7	2.9	7.5						4th4.7 4

Footnotes

¹ The information relates to the voting members. Together with the non-voting members from Berlin, the following percentages result:

SPD: 35.1; CDU / CSU: 34.6; FDP: 11.1; KPD: 4.9; BP: 4.1; DP: 3.4; WAV: 2.9; DZP: 2.6; Others: 1.2

² 1949: of which WAV 3.0%
³ 1969: only NPD
⁴ 2017: of which AfD 2.8%

Web links

• The Federal Assemblies since 1949 - Documentation on bundestag.de
• Federal presidential elections from 1949 to 2010 ( Memento from October 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 5.3 MB)