2025 German federal election

2025 German federal election

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All 630 seats in the Bundestag 316 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Candidate Olaf Scholz[b] Friedrich Merz Robert Habeck[c] Party SPD CDU/CSU Greens Last election 25.7%, 206 seats 24.1%, 197 seats 14.8%, 118 seats   Candidate Christian Lindner Alice Weidel Jan van Aken & Ines Schwerdtner Party FDP AfD Left Last election 11.4%, 91 seats 10.4%, 83 seats 4.9%, 39 seats
A map of Bundestag constituencies to be used at the next election.
Incumbent Government Scholz cabinet SPD–Green–FDP[d]

Federal elections in Germany will be held to elect the members of the 21st Bundestag. They are expected to be held on 23 February 2025.^[1]

They are currently scheduled to be held on 28 September 2025. However, in November 2024, Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced that he would submit a motion of confidence to the Bundestag on 11 December 2024, which is expected to be voted on on 16 December 2024. If the Bundestag does not give him a majority vote of confidence, he can propose a snap election to the President of Germany; the governing parties and the opposition CDU/CSU have agreed to recommend 23 February 2025 as the election date to the President in the event of the dissolution of the Bundestag.^[2] The 2025-election would be the fourth snap election in the history of post-war Germany after 1972, 1983 and 2005.

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