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Jan Köstering
Jan Tobias Köstering (born 22 October 1997) is a German politician and member of the Bundestag. A member of The Left, he has represented North Rhine-Westphalia since March 2025. Köstering was born on 22 October 1997 in Ratingen. He was educated at the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Gymnasium in Ratingen. He was a member of the Young Socialists in the SPD (Jusos). He graduated from high school in 2016 and moved to Nümbrecht. He is a mechatronics engineer. He is a member of Rote Hilfe e.V., Association of Persecutees of the Nazi Regime – Federation of Antifascists (VVN-BdA), and IG Metall. Köstering joined The Left in 2017 and is a member of the party's state executive in North Rhine-Westphalia. He is a member of the Nümbrecht Municipal Council, Oberberg District Council and the part's spokesman in Oberberg. He contested the 2022 North Rhine-Westphalia state election but the party failed to win any seats in the Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia. He was The Left's candidate in Obe ...
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Bundestag
The Bundestag (, "Federal Diet (assembly), Diet") is the lower house of the Germany, German Federalism in Germany, federal parliament. It is the only constitutional body of the federation directly elected by the German people. The Bundestag was established by Title III of the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany () in 1949 as one of the legislative bodies of Germany, the other being the German Bundesrat, Bundesrat. It is thus the historical successor to the earlier Reichstag (Weimar Republic), Reichstag. The members of the Bundestag are representatives of the German people as a whole, are not bound by any orders or instructions and are only accountable to their conscience. As of the current 21st Bundestag, 21st legislative period, the Bundestag has a fixed number of 630 members. The Bundestag is elected every four years by German citizens aged 18 and older. Elections use a mixed-member proportional representation system which combines First-past-the-post voting for co ...
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2022 North Rhine-Westphalia State Election
The 2022 North Rhine-Westphalia state election was held on 15 May 2022 to elect the 18th Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia. The outgoing government ( First Wüst cabinet) was a coalition of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and Free Democratic Party (FDP) led by Minister-President Hendrik Wüst. The CDU remained the largest party with 36% of votes, a small increase from 2017, while the opposition Social Democratic Party (SPD) declined to 27%. The Greens almost tripled their vote share to 18%. The FDP fell sharply to 6%, and the Alternative for Germany (AfD) slipped to 5%. Overall, the incumbent coalition lost its majority, though the opposition SPD and Greens also fell short of victory. After the election, CDU formed a coalition with the Greens. This was the first time the two parties had worked together on the state level in North Rhine-Westphalia. Hendrik Wüst was re-elected as Minister-President on 28 June, and his cabinet was sworn in the next day. Election date The ...
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Members Of The Bundestag For North Rhine-Westphalia
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Local Politicians In Germany
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1997 Births
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State List (Germany)
In Germany, the state list or state electoral proposal, ( ''German'': Landesliste or Landeswahlvorschlag) is the list of candidates of a party for the election to the Bundestag, or the elections to those state parliaments with mixed-member proportional representation and for the European Parliament elections if a party decides on a state rather than a federal list. In contrast to the vote on the candidates of the constituencies, who are elected directly ( Direktmandat), voters can usually only vote on the candidates on the state list as a whole by voting for a party with their second vote. Depending on the distribution of seats in parliament, the corresponding number of list candidates in the order of the list of the respective party are considered elected. The possibility of distributing votes to specific candidates on a state list is called cumulation and panachage and can change the order. This has been introduced in some states, such as , Bremen and , but has only been discu ...
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Federal Returning Officer
In Germany, the Federal Returning Officer ( when the office is held by a woman, when by a man) is the Returning Officer responsible for overseeing elections on the federal level. The Federal Returning Officer and his or her deputy are appointed indefinitely by the Federal Minister of the Interior; traditionally this position has been held by the President of the Federal Statistical Office of Germany The Federal Statistical Office (, shortened ''Destatis'') is a federal authority of Germany. It reports to the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The Office is responsible for collecting, processing, presenting and analysing statistical informati .... List of federal returning officers # Gerhard Fürst (1948–1964) # Patrick Schmidt (1964–1972) # Hildegard Bartels (1972–1980) # Franz Kroppenstedt (1980–1983) # Egon Hölder (1983–1992) # Hans Günther Merk (1992–1995) # Johann Hahlen (1995–2006) # Walter Radermacher (2006–2008) # Roderich Egeler (2008–2015) ...
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2025 German Federal Election
The 2025 German federal election was held in Germany on 23 February 2025 to elect the 630 members of the List of members of the 21st Bundestag, 21st Bundestag, down from 736 in 2021 due to reforms in seat distribution. The 2025 election took place seven months ahead of schedule due to 2024 German government crisis, the 2024 collapse of the Scholz cabinet, incumbent governing coalition. Following the loss of his majority, the chancellor #Snap election, called and intentionally lost a motion of confidence, which enabled the approval of a new election by the president. The 2025 election was the fourth early election in post-war German history, and the first since 2005 German federal election, 2005. Three opposition parties increased their votes in the election, compared with the 2021 German federal election, previous federal election in 2021. The conservative CDU/CSU alliance became the largest group in the Bundestag, with 28.5% of votes. Although this result was well below the 41.5% ...
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Oberbergischer Kreis (electoral District)
Oberbergischer Kreis is an electoral constituency (German: ''Wahlkreis'') represented in the Bundestag. It elects one member via first-past-the-post voting. Under the current constituency numbering system, it is designated as constituency 98. It is located in southern North Rhine-Westphalia, comprising the Oberbergischer Kreis district. Oberbergischer Kreis was created for the inaugural 1949 federal election. Since 2017, it has been represented by Carsten Brodesser of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). Geography Oberbergischer Kreis is located in southern North Rhine-Westphalia. As of the 2021 federal election, it is coterminous with the Oberbergischer Kreis district. History Oberbergischer Kreis was created in 1949. It was named ''Oberbergischer Kreis'' upon its creation, but renamed to ''Oberbergischer Kreis – Siegkreis II'' in the 1965 and 1969 elections. In the 1972 and 1976 elections, it was named ''Oberbergischer Kreis – Rhein-Sieg-Kreis II''. It returned to its ...
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Landtag Of North Rhine-Westphalia
The Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia is the state parliament (''Landtag'') of the German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia, which convenes in the state capital of Düsseldorf, in the eastern part of the district of Düsseldorf-Hafen, Hafen. The parliament is the central legislature, legislative body in the Politics of North Rhine-Westphalia, political system of North Rhine-Westphalia. In addition to the passage of laws, its most important tasks are the election of the List of Ministers-President of North Rhine-Westphalia, Minister-President of the state and the administration of the government. The current government is a coalition of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany, CDU and the Alliance 90/The Greens, Greens, supporting the cabinet of List of Ministers-President of North Rhine-Westphalia, Minister-President Hendrik Wüst since June 2022. The last 2022 North Rhine-Westphalia state election, state election took place on 15 May 2022. Legislature The State Parlia ...
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