2025 German Bundestag Election

The 2025 German Bundestag election, a collapse of the incumbent Governing SPD-Grüne-FDP Coalition resulted in a call for an early election that allowed for the CDU/CSU to regain their status as the largest party, as well as a significant increase in the Far-Right Alternative für Deutschland's voteshare

First (Constituency) Vote Results by Constituency

Second (Party) Vote Results by Constituency

The collapse that resulted in these elections was fundamentally because of the dismissal of FDP Finance Minister Christian Lindner over his refusal to support SPD Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Budget—the FDP left the SDP-Grüne-FDP Governing coalition that had ruled Germany since the 2021 Elections due to...

... said dismissal, leaving Grüne and the SPD with a minority in the Bundestag, resulting in a following vote of Confidence—called by Chancellor Scholz—that the government lost and officially called the 2025 Elections.

The results of the succeeding elections were a boone to all the parties who weren't in government, with the aforementioned CDU/CSU results allowing them to form government with the SPD, and the AfD attaining second place—however the results also allowed for Die Linke, and a new left wing party—BSW—to grow.

Overall, the AfD result is the most notable—and worrying, as while they underperformed Polling, this result signified a doubling of their 2021 support, growing throughout Germany and solidifying their strength in the now-former Eastern German states.

The SPD, the former leading member of the coalition, was reduced to 16%, their worst showing since 1887, and were—in the party vote—limited to barely winning their longtime stronghold of the manufacturing heavy Ruhr valley, as well as some cities in the Northwest of Germany, such as Bremen and Hamburg.