Ballot Papers

(1) The ballot papers and the required official return envelopes (Section 36 subsection (1)) shall be manufactured by the government.

(2) The ballot paper shall contain:

1. for constituency elections, the names of the candidates from the approved constituency nominations; in the case of constituency nominations by parties, also the names of these parties as well as any shortened form of their names they may use; in respect of other constituency nominations, also the distinctive identifying word;

2. for Land list elections, the names of the parties and any shortened form of their names they may use as well as the family and Christian names of the first five candidates from the approved Land lists.

(3) The order of the Land lists of parties shall be determined by the number of second votes which each obtained at the last Bundestag election in the Land concerned. The remainder of the Land lists shall follow the names of the parties in alphabetical order. The order of the constituency nominations shall be the same as the order of the corresponding Land lists. Other constituency nominations shall follow the names of the parties or the code names in alphabetical order.