Germany’s electoral system, which combines direct constituency votes and proportional representation, means coalition negotiations will now determine the country’s next government.

Elections in Germany "are usually dull affairs" but, as Germans head for the polls this weekend, "this time it's different", said Sky News commentator Adam Boulton. The country's proportional ...

Germany’s proportional representation system means no single party is likely to secure enough votes to form a government on their own. All the other parties in the German parliament have said ...

The CDU-CSU won 28.5% of votes, with the far-right AfD in second place with 20% and Scholz's Social Democratic Party coming in third with 16.5%, according to ZDF exit polls data.