Five Percent Hurdle
The five percent hurdle (German language, German: Fünf Prozent Hürde), also called ''the five percent clause'', is the best known and most widely used electoral threshold for elections in Germany. Similar regulations exist in other countries with proportional representation. Background For the first Bundestag in 1949 West German federal election, 1949, the five percent hurdle applied separately to each States of Germany, federal state. On 25 June 1953, the Bundestag, German Bundestag passed a new federal election law, according to which it refers to the valid votes cast nationwide. In the 1990 German federal election, the five percent hurdle applied separately to Western Germany, West and East Germany as an exception due to the special situation immediately after German reunification. National minorities Some parties of national minorities are exempt from the five percent hurdle . For example, the South Schleswig Voters' Association (SSW) in Schleswig-Holstein, which represe ...
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