The conservative CDU get together emerged as the largest winner in yesterday’s German election. One other clear winner from Sunday’s vote was the far-right AfD get together, which doubled its vote share to twenty.8%. In the meantime, the center-left SPD (the get together of incumbent Chancellor Olaf Scholz) suffered its worst-ever outcomes, securing simply 16.4% of the nationwide vote.
The Berliner Morgenpost’s Federal Election 2025 Outcomes contains an interactive map visualizing the successful get together in every electoral district. This “winner-takes-all” view highlights a stark distinction between the ends in former East Germany and the remainder of the nation. In practically all West German areas, the CDU emerged as the most well-liked get together. Nonetheless, in virtually all of former East Germany, the intense far-right AfD was the dominant get together.
Zeit’s 2025 Election Outcomes map makes use of the same shaded margin layer as an example the election outcomes. Each maps make use of get together colours to characterize the successful candidates in every electoral district, whereas additionally utilizing various shades to point the power of every get together’s successful margin.
On each maps, customers can click on on particular person electoral districts to view the share of votes received by every political get together in that space. Moreover, the Berliner Morgenpost map permits filtering by particular person get together. For instance, choosing the far-right AfD reveals how nicely they carried out throughout Germany—confirming that the get together fared considerably worse in former West German areas in comparison with areas of former East Germany.
Tagesspiegel’s Federal Election 2025 map additionally contains choices to view each ‘first’ and ‘second’ votes and to view maps of all German elections courting again to 1990. The primary vote is used to find out the candidate who will characterize the constituency. The second vote is used for every get together’s state checklist.
About half of the Bundestag consists of immediately elected candidates (decided by the primary votes). The remainder of the seats within the Bundestag are decided by the proportion of second votes received by every get together. The whole variety of seats a celebration will get is set by the share of the second vote it receives (so long as it surpasses the 5% threshold or wins not less than three direct mandates). Every get together then fills these seats utilizing candidates from its state get together lists.
