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LIVE German 2025 Election Results as they come in and analysi on who will be the next German Chancellor.
Based on projections for the German 2025 election, the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) led by chancellor candidate Friedrich Merz and its sister Christian Social Union (CSU) won the most votes, followed by the right-wing populist Alternative for Germany (AfD).
The CDU candidate Friedrich Merz has declared victory in the 2025 German elections. After the first exit polls, he is now likely set to become chancellor, replacing Olaf Scholz from the centre-left SPD, who admitted defeat on Sunday evening.
Here is a breakdown of Vote share in the German Bundestag elections of 2025, with big gains for Far-right Nazi party AfD.
The big winner of the election in terms of vote shares was the far-right AfD, As we predicted they are on course to get 20% of the vote. Artificially boosted by Elon Musk’s promotion on X, while SPD, led by Chancellor Olaf Scholz recorded the largest loss of votes compared to previous elections.
The CDU candidate Friedrich Merz declares victory in the 2025 German elections. After the first exit polls, the centre-right CDU’s Friedrich Merz has come out of the election as its main winner and is now likely set to become chancellor, replacing Olaf Scholz from the centre-left SPD, who admitted defeat on Sunday evening.
The incoming government will inherit an economy that has shrunk for two years in a row for the first time in decades, rising living costs, and calls for a radical overhaul of its immigration and asylum rules.
Joachim-Friedrich Martin Josef Merz is a German politician who has served as Leader of the Christian Democratic Union since January 2022 and led the CDU/CSU parliamentary group as well as being Leader of the Opposition in the Bundestag since February 2022.
Tens of millions of Germans headed to the polls this Sunday for snap federal elections in a vote that will shape the course of the EU’s largest member state and its biggest economy for the next four years, the former Chancellor Olaf Scholz admits defeat, leaving Merz as the frontrunner for the vacant Chancellor position.
But the election drama is not over yet, the parties need form a government and get a coalition pact that will be strong enough to form government.
The Greens have been shaken by several significant setbacks tonight. On the one hand, they have not outperform polls that saw them losing ground — instead, they will have to settle for a result of under 13%, according to EU News.
The Greens’ chancellor candidate, Robert Habeck, said on Sunday evening his party was ready for a “Kenya coalition” with the CDU and SPD. However, he noted that the decision to involve the Greens in the coalition rests with CDU leader Friedrich Merz.
CDU/CSU victory appears to be confirmed, take a look at how the exit polls from the 2025 German Federal Election differ from the last German election – held back in 2021.
Exit polls reported by Deutcshe Welle suggests the final result could be:
Here is how that would compare with the results from the 2021 election:
First exit poll of the #Germany election.
— Rahul Pandey (@R_Pandey95) February 23, 2025
1. Massive gain for AfD- 9.1% increase
2. CDU/CSU also gained around 4%
3. GOP-Social democrats (SPD) have lost the mandate (massive loss since the post war SPD in history).
4. Possible coalition- CDU/CSU+SPD pic.twitter.com/4NTydaI8dV
Germany’s exit poll results for the 2025 German Federal Election are indicating the far-right party the AfD has doubled its vote share to around 20 per cent and that is in line with a “broader trend throughout Europe”, according to one expert.
Dr Jana Puglierin, of the European Council on Foreign Relations, told the BBC: “I think Germany has become a bit more normal, we have been an outlier in Europe with relatively small numbers of the far-right.”
Warning that this is “worrying me greatly”, Dr Puglierin warned that a new coalition government will have to deliver and warned that it is “crucial” for CDU leader Friedrich Merz’s bloc to secure at least 30 per cent of the vote or risk opening “the field for possible competitors”.
Exit polls have now been published for the German Federal election 2025, suggesting frontrunner Friedrich Merz’s conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party have come out well in front, as the far-right AfD make large gains.
The CDU/CSU bloc was on course to win first place with 28.5 per cent of the vote, followed by AfD with 20 per cent, marking a record result for the far-right party, public broadcaster ZDF reported.
Olaf Scholz’s centre-left Social Democratic Party (SPD) garnered just 16.5 per cent of the vote, its worst-ever result, the projection showed.
The outcome, which will determine how the country is run for the next four years, is expected to be clear fairly soon after polls closed at 6pm local time on Sunday, but the final official result is expected early on Monday.
German voters are choosing their new government in an election dominated by worries about US interference that will force the far-right in the Bundestag. As well as fears that, years-long stagnation of Europe’s biggest economy, pressure to curb migration and growing uncertainty over the future of Ukraine and Europe’s alliance with the United States.
Polls from the far right media show that discontented Germany votes in an election with economy, migration and far-right strength in focus, but they are missing the biggest underscoring concern for Germans which is the US interference in the elections.
More than 59 million people in the nation of 84 million are eligible to elect the 630 members of the lower house of parliament, the Bundestag, who will take their seats under the glass dome of Berlin’s landmark Reichstag building.
Mainstream parties have vowed to keep up support for Ukraine in its war against Russia. And after the Scholz government reached a NATO target of spending 2% of gross domestic product on defense, the next administration will have to find a way to keep that going — and likely expand it, in the face of U.S. demands — once a special 100 billion-euro ($105 billion) fund to modernise the military is used up in 2027. Which was kind of a payoff to Americans to delay NATO spending increase.
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