German results from the 2025 federal elections

Berlin, the Christian Democratic Union and the Union Christian Social Union, provided the largest share of votes in the German Federal elections on Sunday, according to the exit polls of the German television operator ZDF.

This is putting the party’s leading candidate Friedrich Merz in an excellent position to take over from Olaf Scholz as the chancellor of the largest economy in Europe.

The CDU-CSU won 28.5%of the vote, with the far-right AFD in second place by 20%and the Scholz Social Democratic Party ranked third with 16.5%, according to the ZDF output surveys.

During the election, CDU And his regional nursing party, the Christian Social Union led in polls, with the support slightly immersed only before the vote. The very right AFD was interviewed in second place, followed by SPD.

This marks a decline in support for SPD who took first place during 2021 Elections followed by CDU/CSU. AFD was ranked fourth at the time.

The Germans filed two votes on Sunday, one of them directly choosing a member of Parliament to represent their constituency and one for a party list. The second vote defined the proportional staff of the German Parliament, Bundestag, with parties sending their candidates to Berlin to provide representation.

The countries must also meet a 5% threshold so that they can collect places in parliament. Most importantly, groups that tend to provide around this level of votes often become the so-called royal manufacturers of a coalition building after the election.

The main focus of the election is how the smaller parties are coping, which could affect both the construction of a coalition and the ability of the incoming government to reform constitutional rules, such as costs and debt. They will need a two -thirds majority to do so.

Observers have also watched closely implementation From the extreme right AFD against the background of a wider political change to the right in the Western world.

The election is coming to a tumultuous moment for Germany, both politically and economically.

Sunday’s vote is only the fourth early elections in the history of the country and took place after the former ruling coalition composed of the SPD, the Green Party and the Free Democratic Party collapsed at the end of last year, in another rareness for local politics. Deep -rooted long -term disagreements among economic, fiscal and budget policies have led to that of the Union disintegrationS

Such policies will also be headed on the agenda when it comes to the process of building the coalition after the election and then of management, especially because of sulfurwhich became infected as in 2023 and 2024. There are further concerns, including a strong focus on exports, a crisis for building houses and difficulties in the key automotive sector.

The new ruling coalition will also have to fight a fierce internal debate on migration, the growing popularity of the far right and the broader tension between Europe and the United States, as President Donald Trump is progressing in his trade and Ukraine policies in his second term.