Mainstream conservatives led by Friedrich Merz have won Germany's 2025 election. Here's a look in charts at the wins and losses, seats in parliament, possible coalition outcomes and voter demographics.
Note for the Charts: The parties ordered politically left to right in the seat distribution, using grey instead of black for the CDU/CSU.
For the further graphics they are mixed together in a poor way. The Parties from “most left to most right” are in the following order:
Left Party -> The Greens -> SPD -> CDU/CSU -> FDP -> AfD
The FDP can be debated, as they are a bit more socially liberal but also strongly against human rights for refugees, hard neoliberal destruction of the public sector, anti renewable energies… They have been sucking Musk and Milei on Twitter and other media platforms these past months. The CDU/CSU are also mentioned together because the CSU only exists in Bavaria and in exchange the CDU stays out of Bavaria. There are two distinct parties though, with the CSU being even more far right populist than the CDU currently. They are also staunchly against refugees, against renewable energies and more outspoken against womens rights and LGBT rights than the CDU. BSW is a bit of a wild card, because they are for proper social systems and taxation of the rich, but against refugees and pro Putin.
Note for the Charts: The parties ordered politically left to right in the seat distribution, using grey instead of black for the CDU/CSU.
For the further graphics they are mixed together in a poor way. The Parties from “most left to most right” are in the following order:
Left Party -> The Greens -> SPD -> CDU/CSU -> FDP -> AfD
The FDP can be debated, as they are a bit more socially liberal but also strongly against human rights for refugees, hard neoliberal destruction of the public sector, anti renewable energies… They have been sucking Musk and Milei on Twitter and other media platforms these past months. The CDU/CSU are also mentioned together because the CSU only exists in Bavaria and in exchange the CDU stays out of Bavaria. There are two distinct parties though, with the CSU being even more far right populist than the CDU currently. They are also staunchly against refugees, against renewable energies and more outspoken against womens rights and LGBT rights than the CDU. BSW is a bit of a wild card, because they are for proper social systems and taxation of the rich, but against refugees and pro Putin.