[adsche]

Actually, I should add that even in the unlikely extreme scenario, the upper bound would be the number of candidates on the parties' lists (Landeslisten). Even if a party would have a right to more seats, they cannot fill more than they have approved candidates on their lists. One could determine this actual upper bound by looking at each state's lists, which are public of course, but I haven't quickly found them compiled in one place, so I won't bother.

(Berlin's pirate party once won a surprisingly high share in the state parliament but wasn't able to fill all seats, because they were polling way lower when compiling their list.)

[Dunedan]

> (Berlin's pirate party once won a surprisingly high share in the state parliament but wasn't able to fill all seats, because they were polling way lower when compiling their list.)

That's not correct. They had 15 candidates and won 15 seats.

For all the nitty-gritty details check paragraph 4.5 on page 67 of the official election results [1].

[1]: https://www.berlin.de/wahlen/historie/berliner-wahlen/ergebn...

[Dagonfly]

Apparently, this might actually happen this time. (https://twitter.com/mneunho/status/1435887122649686024).

If the Bundestag becomes as massive as predicted (800+), the CDU and AfD lists are too short.