Changes of Membership Since The Election of September 18, 2005
| Vacator | State and mode of election | Reason and date for vacancy | Successor | Date of succession | Seats |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Edmund Stoiber (CDU/CSU) | Bayern (list) | Resigned November 8, 2005 to stay in office as Minister-president of Bavaria | Johannes Singhammer (CDU/CSU) | November 11, 2005 | 614 |
| Dagmar Schmidt (SPD) | Nordrhein-Westfalen (list) | Died November 9, 2005 | Christoph Pries (SPD) | November 16, 2005 | |
| Günther Beckstein (CDU/CSU) | Bayern (list) | Resigned November 22, 2005 to stay in office as Minister of the Interior of Bavaria | Dorothee Bär (CDU/CSU) | November 23, 2005 | |
| Gerhard Schröder (SPD) | Niedersachsen (list) | Resigned November 23, 2005 | Clemens Bollen (SPD) | November 29, 2005 | |
| Peter Müller (CDU/CSU) | Saarland (list) | Resigned November 25, 2005 to stay in office as Minister-president of Saarland | Hermann-Josef Scharf (CDU/CSU) | November 30, 2005 | |
| Joschka Fischer (Greens) | Hessen (list) | Resigned August 31, 2006 | Omid Nouripour (Greens) | September 1, 2006 | |
| Friedbert Pflüger (CDU/CSU) | Niedersachsen (list) | Resigned November 24, 2006 to become minority leader in the Berlin Abgeordnetenhaus | Hans Peter Thul (CDU/CSU) | November 25, 2006 | |
| Matthias Berninger (Greens) | Hessen (list) | Resigned February 19, 2007 | Nicole Maisch (Greens) | February 20, 2007 | |
| Matthias Wissmann (CDU/CSU) | Baden-Württemberg (district 266 — Ludwigsburg) | Resigned June 1, 2007 | none (overhang seat) | 613 | |
| Hans-Jürgen Uhl (SPD) | Niedersachsen (district 51 — Helmstedt — Wolfsburg) | Resigned June 1, 2007 | Dieter Steinecke (SPD) | June 2, 2007 | |
| Reinhard Göhner (CDU/CSU) | Nordrhein-Westfalen (list) | Resigned July 7, 2007 | Cajus Caesar (CDU/CSU) | July 9, 2007 | |
| Peter Paziorek (CDU/CSU) | Nordrhein-Westfalen (district 131 — Warendorf) | Resigned September 1, 2007 | Stephan Eisel (CDU/CSU) | September 3, 2007 | |
| Reinhard Loske (Greens) | Nordrhein-Westfalen (list) | Resigned September 1, 2007 | Bettina Herlitzius (Greens) | September 3, 2007 | |
| Georg Fahrenschon (CDU/CSU) | Bayern (district 223 — München-Land) | Resigned November 8, 2007 | Marion Seib (CDU/CSU) | November 8, 2007 | |
| Carl Eduard von Bismarck (CDU/CSU) | Schleswig-Holstein (district 10 — Herzogtum Lauenburg — Stormarn-Süd) | Resigned December 10, 2007 | Helmut Lamp (CDU/CSU) | December 20, 2007 | |
| Margareta Wolf (Greens) | Hessen (list) | Resigned January 4, 2008 | Wolfgang Strengmann-Kuhn (Greens) | January 4, 2008 | |
| Johann-Henrich Krummacher (CDU/CSU) | Baden-Württemberg (district 259 — Stuttgart I) | Died February 25, 2008 | none (overhang seat) | 612 | |
| Anja Hajduk (Greens) | Hamburg (list) | Resigned May 8, 2008 to become Senator in Hamburg | Manuel Sarrazin (Greens) | May 13, 2008 | |
| Bernward Müller (CDU/CSU) | Thüringen (list) | Resigned May 9, 2008 to become Minister in Thuringia | Christian Hirte (CDU/CSU) | May 15, 2008 | |
| Hildegard Müller (CDU/CSU) | Nordrhein-Westfalen (district 107 — Düsseldorf I) | Resigned October 1, 2008 | Thomas Mahlberg (CDU/CSU) | October 7, 2008 | |
| Martin Zeil (FDP) | Bayern (list) | Resigned November 1, 2008 after becoming Minister in Bavaria | Erwin Lotter (FDP) | November 1, 2008 | |
| Jörg Rohde (FDP) | Bayern (list) | Resigned November 1, 2008 after becoming Deputy Speaker of the Bavarian Landtag | Daniel Volk (FDP) | November 1, 2008 | |
| Horst Seehofer (CDU/CSU) | Bayern (district 218 — Ingolstadt) | Resigned November 5, 2008 after becoming Minister-president of Bavaria | Matthäus Strebl (CDU/CSU) | November 10, 2008 | |
| Ditmar Staffelt (SPD) | Berlin (district 83 — Berlin-Neukölln) | Resigned January 12, 2009 | Eva Högl (SPD) | January 12, 2009 | |
| Ralf Göbel (CDU/CSU) | Bayern (district 213 — Southern Palatinate) | Resigned March 1, 2009 | Werner Wittlich (CDU/CSU) | March 1, 2009 | |
| Rainer Wend (SPD) | Nordrhein-Westfalen (district 133 — Bielefeld) | Resigned April 1, 2009 | Hildegard Wester (SPD) | April 1, 2009 | |
| Frank Schmidt (SPD) | Hessen (list) | Resigned May 25, 2009 to become Mayor of Löhnberg | Erika Ober (SPD) | May 25, 2009 | |
| Peter Jahr (CDU/CSU) | Sachsen (district 163 — Döbeln-Mittweida-Meißen II) | Resigned July 14, 2009 to become a member of the European Parliament | none (overhang seat) | 611 | |
| Lothar Bisky (Die Linke.) | Brandenburg (list) | Resigned July 14, 2009 to become a member of the European Parliament | Steffen Hultsch (Die Linke.) | July 14, 2009 | |
| Uwe Barth (FDP) | Thüringen (list) | Resigned September 28, 2009 to become a member of the Landtag of Thüringen | Patrick Kurth (FDP) | September 29, 2009 | |
| Bodo Ramelow (Die Linke.) | Thüringen (list) | Resigned September 28, 2009 to become a member of the Landtag of Thüringen | Frank Tempel (Die Linke.) | September 29, 2009 | |
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