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How does Germany fill its house of representatives?

A team project for MA279, Fall 2013

Team Members: Mary-Kate Litchfield, Katie Marsh, Chang Liu, Xingtong Lu, Ruoyu Wang

Outline:

• Number of Representatives
• Number of divisions within the country
• How many representatives each deserves
• Determine which rounding method is used to fill the house

Number of Representatives (Chang Liu)

The number of representatives of German is actually not a constant over time. And since west and east German has been separated during the cold war, the number of representative changes drastically during 1990-1994. To make it clear we use the table below to show the number of representatives over time.

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     Seat distribution in the German Bundestag (at the beginning of each session)

Bundestag Session Seats CDU/CSU SPD FDP Alliance '90 / The Greens1 The Left2 German Party Others Sonstige 1st Bundestag 1949–1953 402 139 131 52 – – 17 633 2nd Bundestag 1953–1957 487 243 151 48 – – 15 304 3rd Bundestag 1957–1961 497 270 169 41 – – 17 – 4th Bundestag 1961–1965 499 242 190 67 – – – – 5th Bundestag 1965–1969 496 245 202 49 – – – – 6th Bundestag 1969–1972 496 242 224 30 – – – – 7th Bundestag 1972–1976 496 225 230 41 – – – – 8th Bundestag 1976–1980 496 243 214 39 – – – – 9th Bundestag 1980–1983 497 226 218 53 – – – – 10th Bundestag 1983–1987 498 244 193 34 27 – – – 11th Bundestag 1987–1990 497 223 186 46 42 – – – 12th Bundestag 1990–1994 662 319 239 79 8 17 – – 13th Bundestag 1994–1998 672 294 252 47 49 30 – – 14th Bundestag 1998–2002 669 245 298 43 47 36 – – 15th Bundestag 2002–2005 603 248 251 47 55 2 – – 16th Bundestag 2005–2009 614 226 222 61 51 54 – – 17th Bundestag 2009–2013 622 239 146 93 68 76 – – 18th Bundestag 2013– 630 311 192 – 63 64 – –

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