LIVE German 2025 Election Results as they come in and analysi on who will be the next German Chancellor.
The Conservative CDU won the 2025 German Federal Election on Sunday with the outgoing Chancellor’s party suffering its worst loss and the far-right party AfD making huge gains. The German election 2025 online reaction is wild with billionaire Elon Musk – who’s faced widespread criticism over his meddling in foreign politics – being both mocked and praised.
Despite the gains, the AfD underperformed despite backing from the US and Elon Musk.
Elon Musk LOSES BIG IN GERMANY
— Jesus is King (@ProseccoLiquido) February 23, 2025
The AfD 19,5% pic.twitter.com/w6bx4eUDUX
One user picks up on Musk’s Dodge failure last week.
This has been an absolutely disastrous week for Elon Musk—DOGE has completely failed in its mission so far, the AfD lost in Germany despite his full backing, and he keeps facing humiliation due to his own awful behavior. His private life is also a mess pic.twitter.com/BsdSFsbNLY
— Joni Askola (@joni_askola) February 23, 2025
Germany had the highest voter turnout in 30 years.
Dear World 🌎🌍🌏
— East Clintwood 🇩🇪 (@real_clintwood) February 23, 2025
We kept the votes for the fascists of the AfD at 20%, with the highest voter turnout Germany had for 30 years.
We kept them there though the strong interference by fascists from everywhere.
Fuck you @elonmusk
Fuck you @JDVance
Fuck you Putin
Fuck you @AfD pic.twitter.com/Xnl0qeJVOk
Musk isn’t as popular as he thinks he is around the world.
Alice Weidel and the AfD Party didn't win Germany's election.
— Art Candee 🍿🥤 (@ArtCandee) February 23, 2025
Elon Musk isn't as popular is he thinks he is around the world.
🍿 pic.twitter.com/I8wog4zCme
One user suggests to ignore the rhetoric about an AfD victory noting they underperformed despite backing from Musk and Twitter.
Don't listen to those bleating that the Afd has won a 'Victory' by getting nearly 20% of the vote in Germany! – they had MASSIVE publicity from Musk and Twitler and STILL OVER 80% of Germans voted AGAINST THE FASCIST SCUM!!! 👍 FUCK MUSK! FUCK FASCISM! pic.twitter.com/Nhlns7xMbj
— ClemFella! DumpTheTrump! (@PeterGrayArts) February 23, 2025
CDU and Trump’s Republicans not ‘in any way similar.’
Wrong fuckface.
— Marlene Robertson (@marlene4719) February 23, 2025
Germany’s Conservative Party, or Christian Democratic Union (CDU) is not in any way similar to your conservative Nazi movement.
They are literally moderate Democrats who are, by the way, appalled at what’s happening in the United States. pic.twitter.com/faTru4x9v9
Trump not sure which party is which.
Donald doesn't even know the difference between AfD and CDU.
— Just Dave Now (@justdave89now) February 24, 2025
He thinks the party Elon was backing won 🤣🤣😩
The party that won thinks Donald is a twat pic.twitter.com/HZjImrTXot
Was it a CDU win or a SPD collapse.
The election was not the CDU winning it was the SPD collapsing pic.twitter.com/ZWRUjjAnev
— Kaden (@kaden53535) February 24, 2025
The Conservative CDU won the 2025 German Federal Election and now talks are underway over who will be working with the CDU.
Coalition governments are common in Germany.
Friedrick Merz’s CDU will be preparing to form a coalition government after the party won 28.6% of the vote. He has already ruled out working with the far-right party AfD – despite them coming in second place with 20.8% of the vote.
He is likely to form a coalition with the outgoing Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s SPD.
The Germany 2025 political race has been won. Conservative CDU party won the highly contested race and the party’s leader, Friedrich Merz is on course to become Germany’s next chancellor.
The CDU won comfortably, with 28.6% of the vote, while far-right party AfD came in second with a massive 20.8% and outgoing chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats got their worst-ever result, with 16%.
Merz has ruled out working with the AfD, but the huge gains will be a warning sign of what’s to come.
Germany’s new leader, Friedrich Merz, has called on Europe to strengthen as the US has become “largely indifferent” to the continent’s fate and it must work to become independent of the United States.
Merz criticised US interference in the 2025 German Federal Election, after Donald Trump and his side-kick Elon Musk threw their support behind the far-right party AfD.
Merz told a roundtable TV discussion on Sunday night that his “absolute priority” would be to “strengthen Europe as quickly as possible so that we can achieve real independence from the US step by step”.
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
