🇩🇪 Germany
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About elections in Germany
I built ElectioMap to map national elections around the world. This is the Germany hub on ElectioMap — it brings together the 8 Germany elections I cover: 6 with the official results, vote and turnout shares to two decimal places (and, where the electoral authority publishes an official regional breakdown, an interactive map you can explore region by region), plus previews of 2 upcoming votes.
The political system of Germany
Germany (the Federal Republic of Germany) is a federal parliamentary republic in Central Europe and the European Union's most populous member state and largest economy. It is a founding member of the EU and the eurozone and a leading member of NATO. Legislative power at federal level rests chiefly with the Bundestag, the directly elected lower house, whose members choose the head of government, the Federal Chancellor; a second chamber, the Bundesrat, represents the 16 federal states (Länder) and must consent to many laws. The president is a largely ceremonial head of state elected by a special Federal Convention. The Bundestag is elected at least every four years by mixed-member proportional representation: each voter casts a first vote (Erststimme) for a local candidate in one of 299 single-member constituencies, decided by first-past-the-post, and a second vote (Zweitstimme) for a party list in their state. It is the second vote that is decisive — it sets each party's overall share of seats, with constituency winners and list candidates together filling that quota. A party must win at least 5% of the national second vote, or three constituencies, to share in the proportional distribution, a threshold designed to keep tiny parties out of parliament. For decades the compensating "overhang" and "levelling" seats caused the Bundestag to balloon — it reached 709 members in 2017 and 735 in 2021 — until a 2023 reform capped it at a fixed 630 seats from the 2025 election. German politics was long dominated by two big-tent parties: the centre-right CDU/CSU (the "Union", an alliance of the CDU, which stands everywhere except Bavaria, and the Bavarian CSU) and the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD). Around them sit the environmentalist Greens, the liberal, pro-market FDP, the socialist Left (Die Linke), and, increasingly, the right-wing populist Alternative for Germany (AfD), which entered the Bundestag in 2017 and rose to second place by 2025; the left-populist Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW) emerged in 2024. Governments are almost always coalitions: Angela Merkel led CDU/CSU-led coalitions from 2005 to 2021, after which Olaf Scholz formed a three-party "traffic-light" coalition of SPD, Greens and FDP; its collapse in 2024 triggered the February 2025 snap election that returned the Union to power under Friedrich Merz. A persistent feature of recent elections has been a sharpening divide between west and east, where the AfD has become the strongest party. Germany also elects 96 members of the European Parliament — the EU's largest national delegation — by proportional representation with no electoral threshold. Elections are administered by the Federal Returning Officer (Die Bundeswahlleiterin) and official results are published at bundeswahlleiterin.de. This page collects German federal (Bundestag) election results since 2017 together with the 2019 and 2024 European Parliament elections, each with an interactive map of the vote by state.
Elections covered on this page
Each election listed here has its own page with the full breakdown by party or candidate and an interactive map of the result.
- Germany Parliamentary Election 2025 — full results from Feb 23, 2025.
- Germany Parliamentary Election 2021 — full results from Sep 26, 2021.
- Germany Parliamentary Election 2017 — full results from Sep 24, 2017.
- Germany European Parliament Election 2024 — full results from Jun 9, 2024.
- Germany European Parliament Election 2019 — full results from May 26, 2019.
- Germany Berlin State Election 2026 — preview ahead of voting on Sep 20, 2026.
- Germany Mecklenburg-Vorpommern State Election 2026 — preview ahead of voting on Sep 20, 2026.
- Germany Saxony-Anhalt State Election 2026 — full results from Sep 6, 2026.
How these results are compiled
Every figure on ElectioMap is taken from the official electoral authority for Germany — the national election commission or equivalent body that certifies the count. I enter vote and turnout percentages exactly as published, to two decimal places and without rounding, and show seat totals wherever a chamber is being filled. When ElectioMap covers an election live, the page updates automatically as official figures are released. For the full sourcing and update policy, see Data & Methodology and the Editorial Policy.
Frequently asked questions
When is the next election in Germany?
The next national election ElectioMap is tracking in Germany is the Berlin State Election 2026, scheduled for Sep 20, 2026. Live results will appear on its page as soon as counting begins.
Where does ElectioMap get its Germany election results?
All Germany figures come from the official electoral authority that certifies the count, entered exactly as published to two decimal places. See the Data & Methodology page for the full sourcing and update policy.
Can I see Germany results by region?
Where the electoral authority publishes an official regional breakdown, the Germany election page includes an interactive map — click a region to see how each party or candidate performed there. Where no official per-region data exists, the page shows the certified national result and says so.