Germany Federal election 2025 — Results
Election day: February 23, 2025
- CDU/CSU: 28.52%, 208 seats
- AfD: 20.80%, 152 seats
- SPD: 16.41%, 120 seats
- Grüne: 11.61%, 85 seats
- Die Linke: 8.77%, 64 seats
- BSW: 4.98%, 0 seats
- FDP: 4.33%, 0 seats
- SSW: 0.15%, 1 seats
Turnout: 82.50%
About this election
The electoral system
This was the first federal election under Germany's reformed electoral law, which capped the Bundestag at a fixed 630 seats and abolished the overhang and levelling seats that had inflated previous parliaments. Under the new "second-vote coverage" rule, a party's seat total is set strictly by its share of the second vote, and some constituency winners can fail to take their seats if their party's list entitlement is already filled. The 5% threshold (or three constituencies) still applies, and it proved decisive in 2025. The figures here are the second vote.
Compiled and reviewed from official results by ElectioMap. See our data methodology.
In numbers
- 7.72 points separated CDU/CSU from AfD — 3,831,622 votes.
- CDU/CSU converted 28.52% of the vote into 208 of 630 seats (33.02%), 4.50 points more than its vote share.
- The top two shared 49.32% of the vote between them, and 5 lists cleared 5%.
- CDU/CSU moved +4.38 points against the 2021 federal election (24.14% → 28.52%).
- Support for CDU/CSU ranged from 37.18% in Bayern to 17.82% in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern — a spread of 19.36 points across 16 regions, and it led in 8 of 16.
Calculated from the official figures on this page and from the other elections of this type in our archive.
Understanding this election
- How We Check an Election Figure — the checks every number passes before publication
- How Live Election Data Is Collected and Verified — from ballot box to published figure
- Why Official Results Sometimes Take Weeks — the stages between the count and the legal result