The Christian Democrats (CDU) won 35.2% of the vote, or 225 seats, against 34.3% for Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's Social Democrats (SPD).
The Christian Democrats (CDU) won 35.2% of the vote, or 225 seats the statement says
It is definitely correct, all I did was put "the statement says" after it, it did not change the meaning at all.