Inhalt Introduction 3 What are the main results? 4 Who voted for whom? 7 Clear differences in voting behaviour between east and west remain  7 Left-leaning women and right-leaning men?   7 A lot of volatility among the youngest  7 Significant shifts in voter behaviour by occupational group and education  8 How did the election campaign go? 10 Little movement in the opinion polls  10 A hot winter campaign?   11 The missing candidate effect  12 Focus on the campaign  13 Recapturing the digital space?   13 What has changed in comparison with the previous election? 15 It’s about something: highest voter turnout since reunification  15 A look at the electoral districts with the highest and lowest voter turnout   15 Voting by post: popular, but made more difficult by shorter deadlines   15 Voter migration   16 Who mobilised former non-voters?   19 Impact of a new electoral law: second votes and orphan constituencies   19 Decline in the number of marginal constituencies  21 What do the results mean for government formation? 24 What might hinder the upcoming coalition negotiations?  25 Bibliography 26 List of figures 26 About the authors 27