Press release no. 29/25 of 14. März 2025
2025 Bundestag election: final result
WIESBADEN/BERLIN – At today's meeting, the Federal Electoral Committee established the final result of the election to the 21st German Bundestag. Afterwards, Federal Returning Officer Ruth Brand announced the final election result in the Marie-Elisabeth Lüders Building of the German Bundestag in Berlin.
With voter turnout at 82.5 percent (2021: 76.4 percent), the individual parties’ share of the valid second votes cast was as follows:
| Party | Share of second votes won in the Bundestag election | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2021 | ||
| CDU | Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands | 22.6 % | 19.0 % |
| AfD | Alternative für Deutschland | 20.8 % | 10.4 % |
| SPD | Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands | 16.4 % | 25.7 % |
| GRÜNE | BÜNDNIS 90/DIE GRÜNEN | 11.6 % | 14.7 % |
| Die Linke | Die Linke | 8.8 % | 4.9 % |
| CSU | Christlich-Soziale Union in Bayern e.V. | 6.0 % | 5.2 % |
| SSW | Südschleswigscher Wählerverband | 0.2 % | 0.1 % |
| Others | – | 13.7 % | 8.6 % |
All percentages have been rounded to one decimal place for reasons of clarity. The number of valid second votes in the final result is 7,425 higher than in the provisional result. The share of invalid second votes is 0.6 % (2021: 0.9 %) and the share of invalid first votes is 0.8 % (2021: 1.0 %). The share of the second vote that went to ‘Other’ parties was distributed as follows (ordered by the number of votes received):
| Party | Share of second votes won in the Bundestag election | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2021 | ||
| BSW | Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht - Vernunft und Gerechtigkeit | 4.981 % | Did not participate |
| FDP | Freie Demokratische Partei | 4.3 % | 11.4 % |
| FREIE WÄHLER | FREIE WÄHLER | 1.5 % | 2.4 % |
| Tierschutzpartei | PARTEI MENSCH UMWELT TIERSCHUTZ | 1.0 % | 1.5 % |
| Volt | Volt Deutschland | 0.7 % | 0.4 % |
| Die PARTEI | Partei für Arbeit, Rechtsstaat, Tierschutz, Elitenförderung und basisdemokratische Initiative | 0.5 % | 1.0 % |
| dieBasis | Basisdemokratische Partei Deutschland | 0.2 % | 1.4 % |
| BÜNDNIS DEUTSCHLAND | BÜNDNIS DEUTSCHLAND | 0.2 % | Did not participate |
| ÖDP | Ökologisch-Demokratische Partei - Die Naturschutzpartei | 0.1 % | 0.2 % |
| – | Die Gerechtigkeitspartei – Team Todenhöfer | 0.0 % | 0.5 % |
| Partei des Fortschritts | 0.0 % | 0.0 % | |
| MLPD | Marxistisch-Leninistische Partei Deutschlands | 0.0 % | 0.0 % |
| PdH | Partei der Humanisten - Fakten, Freiheit, Fortschritt | 0.0 % | 0.1 % |
| PIRATEN | Piratenpartei Deutschland | 0.0 % | 0.4 % |
| BP | Bayernpartei | 0.0 % | 0.1 % |
| Bündnis C | Bündnis C - Christen für Deutschland | 0.0 % | 0.1 % |
| MERA25 | MERA25 - Gemeinsam für Europäische Unabhängigkeit | 0.0 % | Did not participate |
| WerteUnion | WerteUnion | 0.0 % | Did not participate |
| MENSCHLICHE WELT | Menschliche Welt - für das Wohl und Glücklichsein aller | 0.0 % | 0.0 % |
| BüSo | Bürgerrechtsbewegung Solidarität | 0.0 % | 0.0 % |
| SGP | Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei, Vierte Internationale | 0.0 % | 0.0 % |
| Verjüngungsforschung | Partei für Verjüngungsforschung | 0.0 % | 0.1 % |
The percentages for these parties are also rounded to one decimal place. An exception applies if a party fell just short of the 5 percent threshold to enter the Bundestag. Then the percentage is rounded to three decimal places. Pursuant to Section 1 (1) of the Federal Elections Act, the newly elected Bundestag will have a total of 630 members (2021: 735). Based on the final election result, the political parties indicated below will have the following number of seats:
| Party | Number of seats after | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 Bundestag election | 2021 Bundestag election | |||
| total | including constituency seats | total | including constituency seats | |
| CDU | 164 | 128 | 152 | 98 |
| AfD | 152 | 42 | 83 | 16 |
| SPD | 120 | 44 | 206 | 121 |
| GRÜNE | 85 | 12 | 118 | 16 |
| DIE LINKE | 64 | 6 | 39 | 3 |
| CSU | 44 | 44 | 45 | 45 |
| SSW | 1 | – | 1 | – |
| For information purposes: FDP | none | – | 91 | – |
Based on the final result, there are no changes in the distribution of seats compared with the provisional result. The Südschleswigscher Wählerverband (SSW) participates in the distribution of the seats in the 21st German Bundestag as a party representing national minorities to which the restrictive clause does not apply.
The share of postal voters dropped to 37.0 %. In the 2021 Bundestag election, which was held under pandemic-related conditions, the share of postal voters stood at 47.3%. The highest percentage of postal voters in 2025 was recorded in Bayern (52.2 %) and the lowest in Thüringen (25.6 %).
The final results and the final distribution of seats in the election to the 21st German Bundestag for Germany as a whole, the Länder and the individual constituencies are available on the website of the Federal Returning Officer (www.bundeswahlleiterin.de). The “Endgültige Ergebnisse nach Wahlkreisen” publication of the Federal Returning Officer, detailing the final results by constituencies, is also available for download from the website (PDF format).
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