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German election: Exit polls say CDU/CSU leads with 29%

2025-02-23

[DW] Early projections say Germany's conservative bloc has secured some 29% of the votes, emerging as the largest party ahead of the far-right AfD with around 19.5%. Follow DW for live updates.

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

Polls opened at 8 a.m. (0700 UTC) and closed at 6 p.m.

Exit polls put CDU/CSU at 29%, the right-wing populist AfD at around 19.5%, and Chancellor Scholz's SPD at 16%

The AfD is shunned by other parties and expected to be left out of government

The snap election was triggered by the collapse of a three-way coalition led by Chancellor Olaf Scholz' center-left SPD

CDU candidate Friedrich Merz could become the next chancellor and choose to form a coalition with the SPD and/or the environmentalist Greens

Here are the latest developments on Germany's parliamentary election on Sunday, February 23, 2025, along with the essential background and explainers.

Update courtesy of Fred at 2:30 p.m. ET

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🇩🇪 Germany exit polls:

- Incumbent chancellor Olaf Scholz’s SPD had its worst-ever result and received approx 16.5% of the vote

- Friedrich Merz’s CDU party are projected to win with approx 30% of the vote

- AfD received a historic number of votes and are projected to come in… pic.twitter.com/saffZzrTVb
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) February 23, 2025

#BREAKING German election winner Friedrich Merz rules out coalition with far-right AfD party pic.twitter.com/RIt7GDPYWl
— Anadolu English (@anadoluagency) February 23, 2025

Posted by:trailing wife

#4 ^^^^

They don't care. They are practicing the definition of insanity.

Posted by: Crusader 2025-02-23 22:45

#3 They can leave out the AFD this time if they want, but if they don’t change policy to what the people want, they are renting their leadership position.

Posted by: Super Hose 2025-02-23 15:27

#2 The 16.5% for the SPD is the worst they've done post WWII, i.e., in the Bundestag era where they were over 40% in 1998.

It is also worse than they ever did in the pre WWII Reichstag era.

However, in the pre WWI era they were below 16.5% in 1887 and prior years.

Posted by: Lord Garth 2025-02-23 14:50

#1 It's CDU/CSU + SPD + Greens

Posted by: Grom the Affective 2025-02-23 14:45

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