2017 German federal election

The **2017 German federal election** was held in Germany on 24 September 2017. The Christian Democratic Union won 33% of the vote, but both them and the Social Democratic Party lost many seats. The Alternative for Germany and Free Democratic Party both entered parliament and made great gains.

### Major

These parties have received at least 4% of the national vote in the last German federal election, and are predicted to win seats in this next election.

- Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU): led by Angela Merkel. The party is liberal conservative and pro-European Union. Together with the Christian Social Union of Bavaria (CSU), a conservative party.
- Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD): led by Martin Schulz. The party supports social democracy and is pro-European Union.
- The Left: led by Sahra Wagenknecht and Dietmar Bartsch. The Left is a democratic socialist party.
- Alliance '90/The Greens: led by Katrin Göring-Eckardt and Cem Özdemir. The party supports green politics and is pro-European Union.
- Free Democratic Party (FDP): led by Christian Lindner. The party supports classical liberalism and economic liberalism. The FDP is also pro-European Union.
- Alternative for Germany (AfD): led by Alice Weidel and Alexander Gauland. The party is nationalistic and is against the European Union.

### Minor

These parties received at least 1% of the national vote in the last German federal election.

- Pirate Party Germany: led by Patrick Schiffer. The party supports Pirate politics and is socially liberal.
- National Democratic Party of Germany (NDP): led by Frank Franz. The NDP is a neo-Nazi party.
- Free Voters: not a registered political party. The association attracts many conservative voters in the south.

## Opinion polls

Below is the monthly average of opinion polls towards the election.

## Results

|rowspan=2 colspan=2|Parties|colspan=3|Party list|colspan=3|Total seats||||||||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|bgcolor=black||CDU/CSU|align=right|15,317,344|align=right|32.93%|align=right|8.61%|align=right|246|align=right|65|align=right|34.7%|
|bgcolor=#FF0000||Social Democratic Party|align=right|9,539,381|align=right|20.51%|align=right|5.22%|align=right|153|align=right|40|align=right|21.6%|
|bgcolor=#009EE0||Alternative for Germany|align=right|5,878,115|align=right|12.64%|align=right|7.94%|align=right|94|align=right|94|align=right|13.3%|
|bgcolor=#FFFF00||Free Democratic Party|align=right|4,999,449|align=right|10.75%|align=right|5.99%|align=right|80|align=right|80|align=right|11.3%|
|bgcolor=#CD1811||The Left|align=right|4,297,270|align=right|9.24%|align=right|0.65%|align=right|69|align=right|5|align=right|9.7%|
|bgcolor=#008B00||Alliance '90/The Greens|align=right|4,158,400|align=right|8.94%|align=right|0.49%|align=right|67|align=right|4|align=right|9.4%|
|colspan="8" style="background: #C0C0C0"|||||||||||||||
|bgcolor=#63B8FF||Free Voters|align=right|463,292|align=right|1.00%|align=right|0.03%|align=right|0|align=right|0|align=right|0.0%|
|bgcolor=#B5152B||Die PARTEI|align=right|454,349|align=right|0.98%|align=right|0.80%|align=right|0|align=right|0|align=right|0.0%|
|bgcolor=#EEEEEE||Human Environment Animal Protection|align=right|374,179|align=right|0.80%|align=right|0.48%|align=right|0|align=right|0|align=right|0.0%|
|bgcolor=#8B4726||National Democratic Party|align=right|176,020|align=right|0.38%|align=right|0.90%|align=right|0|align=right|0|align=right|0.0%|
|bgcolor=#FF820A||Pirate Party|align=right|173,476|align=right|0.37%|align=right|1.82%|align=right|0|align=right|0|align=right|0.0%|
|bgcolor=grey||Others|align=right|684,217|align=right|1.47%|align=right|0.20%|align=right|0|align=right|0|align=right|0.0%|

### Results by state

|State results in %||CDU/CSU||SPD||AfD||FDP||LINKE||GRÜNE||FW||PARTEI||all others|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
||**34.4**|16.4|12.2|12.7|6.4|13.5|0.7|0.7|3.0||||||||||
||**38.8**|15.3|12.4|10.2|6.1|9.8|2.7|0.7|4.0||||||||||
||**22.7**|17.9|12.0|8.9|18.8|12.6|0.3|2.1|4.7||||||||||
||**26.7**|17.6|20.2|7.1|17.2|5.0|1.2|1.3|3.7||||||||||
||25.0|**26.8**|10.0|9.3|13.5|11.0|0.4|1.7|2.3||||||||||
||**27.2**|23.5|7.8|10.8|12.2|13.9|0.4|1.6|2.6||||||||||
||**30.9**|23.5|11.9|11.6|8.1|9.7|0.9|0.9|2.5||||||||||
||**34.9**|27.4|9.1|9.3|6.9|8.7|0.4|0.9|2.4||||||||||
||**33.1**|15.1|18.6|6.2|17.8|4.3|0.8|1.0|3.1||||||||||
||**32.6**|26.0|9.4|13.1|7.5|7.6|0.3|0.8|2.7||||||||||
||**35.9**|24.2|11.2|10.4|6.8|7.6|1.4|1.0|1.5||||||||||
||**32.4**|27.2|10.1|7.6|12.9|6.0|0.8|1.3|1.7||||||||||
||26.9|10.5|**27.0**|8.2|16.1|4.6|1.1|1.3|4.3||||||||||
||**30.3**|15.2|19.6|7.8|17.8|3.7|1.2|1.1|3.3||||||||||
||**34.0**|23.3|8.2|12.6|7.3|12.0|0.6|1.2|0.8||||||||||
||**28.8**|13.2|22.7|7.8|16.9|4.1|1.6|1.5|3.4||||||||||

#### Voter turnout

|States||Voter turnout|
| --- | --- | --- |
||78.3%||
||78.2%||
||75.6%||
||73.7%||
||70.7%||
||75.9%||
||77.0%||
||76.4%||
||70.9%||
||75.4%||
||77.6%||
||76.6%||
||75.4%||
||68.1%||
||76.5%||
||74.3%||