Federal election 2025
Political mood: Who is ahead in the current polls
This is how the parties and the chancellor candidates Olaf Scholz and Friedrich Merz stand in the current surveys. There will be early federal elections next year.
It was already clear that a new Bundestag would be elected in Germany in 2025. The last elections took place on September 26, 2021. Now the new election is coming sooner than expected. On November 6th, Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) fired FDP Finance Minister Christian Lindner, thereby sealing the end of the traffic light coalition. The next steps: The Chancellor asks the Bundestag for a vote of confidence and then asks Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier to dissolve the Bundestag, which clears the way for new elections. Steinmeier has already signaled that he will comply with this so that the early elections can take place on February 23, 2025.
Federal election 2025: surveys and graphics
The graphic below shows how the parties are currently popular with voters and how their values have developed.
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The graphic shows the results of the regular so-called Sunday question (“Which party would you vote for if there were a federal election next Sunday?”) from various opinion research institutes. The most current survey is preselected. You can choose between the institutions in the menu, select the desired period and show or hide individual parties.
Who the Germans would vote for directly
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Olaf Scholz hopes that he can continue as chancellor after the election. His biggest rival, CDU candidate for chancellor Friedrich Merz, also hopes to enter the chancellor’s office. Who has the better chances is regularly asked as part of the political barometer of the elections research group for ZDF.
Source: Stern
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