2025 German Federal Election
After the traffic-light collapse23 February 2025 · The Berlin Republic · 630 seats, 316 for a majority
A federal election was held in Germany on 23 February 2025 to elect the 630 members of the 21st Bundestag, down from 736 in 2021 due to reforms in seat distribution. The 2025 election took place seven months ahead of schedule due to the 2024 collapse of the Scholz governing coalition.
Chancellor before
Olaf Scholz
SPD
Chancellor after
Friedrich Merz
CDU
Largest force
CDU/CSU
208 of 630 seats
Turnout
82.5%
The result
| Share of the chamber | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CDU/CSU | Friedrich Merz | 208 | +11 | 14.160.402 | 28.5% | +4.4 | |
| AfD | Alice Weidel | 152 | +69 | 10.328.780 | 20.8% | +10.4 | |
| SPD | Olaf Scholz | 120 | -86 | 8.149.124 | 16.4% | -9.3 | |
| Greens | Robert Habeck | 85 | -33 | 5.762.380 | 11.6% | -3.1 | |
| Die Linke | Jan van Aken & | 64 | +25 | 4.356.532 | 8.8% | +3.9 | |
| SSW | — | 1 | 0 | 76.138 | 0.1% | +0.0 | |
| BSW | Sahra Wagenknecht | 0 | — | 2.472.947 | 5.0% | — | |
| FDP | Christian Lindner | 0 | -91 | 2.148.757 | 4.3% | -7.1 |