Constituency candidate
As a constituency candidate or constituency candidates a true Direct candidate if he or she is at a choice of one in Germany directly elected in a constituency or electoral district is applying. The applicant may have been nominated by one party or may stand as an individual applicant .
Applicants nominated by one party may not belong to any other party. Occasionally, party members also run as individual applicants without having been nominated by a party. If an individual applicant is not sufficiently well known, he or she is usually far behind the constituency candidates of the parties. Often, a certain number of registered voters from the relevant region must support the candidacy with a supporting signature within a certain period . The constituency candidate who won the most votes, i.e. the relative majority , won the mandate . Constituency candidates are elected by the first vote.
Bundestag elections
200 support signatures per constituency must be collected if the candidate was not nominated by a parliamentary party . The winner of the constituency moves directly into the Bundestag .
Local elections
Individual applicants are often represented in local councils, especially in smaller towns. In some places they even make up the majority of the municipal councils.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information from the Federal Returning Officer ( Memento of the original dated November 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed November 8, 2013
