2025 German federal election

Federal elections in Germany were held on 23 February 2025 to elect the 630 members of the 21st Bundestag. Originally scheduled for 28 September 2025, the elections were brought forward because of the collapse of the governing coalition during the 2024 German government crisis.

It is the fourth snap election in the history of post-war Germany after those in 1972, 1983 and 2005.

## References

https://www.wahlen-ergebnisse.de/2025-bundestagswahl.shtml

## Infobox (election)

- **election name**: 2025 German federal election
- **country**: Germany
- **type**: parliamentary
- **ongoing**: no
- **time zone**: Central European Time, CET, 24 February 2025
- **previous election**: 2021 German federal election
- **previous year**: 2021
- **election date**: 23 February 2025
- **next election**: Next German federal election
- **next year**: _Next_
- **outgoing members**: List of members of the 20th Bundestag
- **elected members**: List of members of the 21st Bundestag
- **seats for election**: All 630 seats in the Bundestag
- **majority seats**: 316
- **opinion polls**: Opinion polling for the 2025 German federal election
- **registered**: 60,490,603
- **turnout**: 82.5% ( 6.2 percentage point, pp)
- **candidate1**: Friedrich Merz
- **party1**: CDU/CSU
- **last election1**: 24.1%, 197 seats
- **seats1**: **208**
- **seat change1**: 11
- **popular vote1**: **14,158,432**
- **percentage1**: **28.5%**
- **swing1**: 4.4 Percentage point, pp
- **candidate2**: Alice Weidel
- **party2**: Alternative for Germany
- **last election2**: 10.4%, 83 seats
- **seats2**: 152
- **seat change2**: 69
- **popular vote2**: 10,327,148
- **percentage2**: 20.8%
- **swing2**: 10.4 Percentage point, pp
- **candidate3**: Olaf Scholz
- **party3**: Social Democratic Party of Germany
- **last election3**: 25.7%, 206 seats
- **seats3**: 120
- **seat change3**: 86
- **popular vote3**: 8,148,284
- **percentage3**: 16.4%
- **swing3**: 9.3 Percentage point, pp
- **candidate4**: Robert Habeck
- **party4**: Alliance 90/The Greens
- **last election4**: 14.7%, 118 seats
- **seats4**: 85
- **seat change4**: 33
- **popular vote4**: 5,761,476
- **percentage4**: 11.6%
- **swing4**: 3.1 Percentage point, pp
- **candidate5**: Jan van Aken (politician), Jan van Aken &
Heidi Reichinnek
- **party5**: The Left (Germany)
- **last election5**: 4.9%, 39 seats
- **seats5**: 64
- **seat change5**: 25
- **popular vote5**: 4,355,382
- **percentage5**: 8.8%
- **swing5**: 3.9 Percentage point, pp
- **candidate6**: Christian Lindner
- **party6**: Free Democratic Party (Germany)
- **last election6**: 11.4%, 91 seats
- **seats6**: 0
- **seat change6**: 91
- **popular vote6**: 2,148,878
- **percentage6**: 4.3%
- **swing6**: 7.1 Percentage point, pp
- **map image**: 2025 German federal election.svg
- **map size**: 400px
- **map caption**: Results of the election. The main map shows constituency winners, and results for the proportional list seats are shown in the bottom left.
- **title**: Cabinet of Germany, Government
- **before election**: Scholz cabinet
- **before party**: Social Democratic Party of Germany, SPD–Alliance 90/The Greens, Green
- **posttitle**: Government after election
- **after election**: TBD
- **after party**: TBD