German elections 2025 direct results: numbers Election news

About 59 million Germans were eligible to vote in the Snap elections to determine who would rule the largest economy in the eurozone.

Voices are now being calculated in Germany, where about 59 million citizens were qualified to vote in the Snap elections to determine who will rule the largest economy in the eurozone over the next four years.

Opinion polls were opened at 8 am (07:00 GMT) and closed at 6 pm (17:00 GMT).

Below are the latest results from the Federal returning officer, who supervises the elections:

Germany in Germany says 52 percent of qualified voters had made their votes hours before the polling stations were closed.

When will we know the final results?

The first local circles began to report the results at approximately 9:00 pm (20:00 GMT).

The overall result should be quickly clear with the final official results early on Monday.

Who are the candidates and the main parties?

This year, 29 political parties participate in the elections, a decrease from 47 competing in 2021.

The main limbs are:

1. CDU/csu – The Christian Democratic Union is led by Fredchich Mirz, who is also the candidate of the bloc advisor. Marcus Soder is led by the Christian Social Union, the Bavarian CDU party party.
2. AFD -The alternative to Germany is led by Alice Widel and Teno Crobala with Widel as AFD Advisor candidate.
3. SPD The Social Democratic Party leads Saskia Eskin and Lars Klinjibl. Olaf Schools is a candidate for the party’s candidate and is the current advisor.
4. Alliance 90/Greens – that it Participated in the leadership of Franzeska Barnner and Felix Pancrac, and Robert Habik, the candidate of its advisor and the current adviser.
5. left -The party is led by Ins Chounerner and Jean Van Akin with Heidi Reichink and Van Akin as candidates for the advisers.
6. BSW The Sahra Wagenknecht alliance is led by Sahra Wagenknecht, who is also a party advisor candidate.
7. FDP The Free Democratic Party is leading Christian Lindner, who also acts as the party’s leading candidate.

What does the latest opinion polls indicate?

CDU is the conservative polls with 30 percent support. The far -right AFD is expected to win about 20 percent of the votes while the Democratic Democratic Party, which led the former coalition government, is third with 15 percent support.

How does voting work?

German citizens will vote twice: once for a local member in Parliament and the second for a party. The party must get at least 5 percent of the national votes for Bundestag, the elected chamber of the brief parliament.

The second vote is the most important and is widely reported on the election night because it determines the number of seats that a party in general in Bundestag and the party’s strength within a coalition government may be part of it.

Whatever the party that proves most of the seats will be a candidate as a consultant, and the new Bundestag will vote. The candidate must secure an absolute majority to take the constitutional oath as a new leader of the country.

Germany’s current distribution of seats

Bundestag contains a base of 598 seats, but it can expand, reaching 733 seats in 2021, the largest in its history. Fix 2023 now limits 630 seats.

What are the main issues?

The slow economy, immigration and the Ukraine war were the best issues in the campaign.

Investigative studies have suggested that many voters want to pay less than taxes, but doing this will be difficult. Germany has been in stagnation over the past two years, and its main industries have been struggling to maintain competition.

The number of unemployment is more than 6 percent, and the debt brake, which limits government borrowing, also causes problems.

Who could be the next German adviser?

A coalition government is likely to be formed because no one party has won an absolute majority. The only time that one parliamentary group got the majority, the parliamentary period was from 1957 to 1961 when CDU/CSU won the elections in West Germany.

Whatever the party that inhibits the largest number of votes, it will nominate a candidate as a consultant, and the new Bundestag will vote on the person. The candidate must secure the absolute majority to achieve the constitutional oath.

Below are the candidates advisers on the first four parties:

• Mirz, 69, is the candidate, according to opinion polls. The leader of CDU became after the former Chancellor Angela Merkel stepped in 2021.
• And it indicates46, has participated in the AFD anti -migration leadership since 2017.
• Schuls66, from SPD has been a consultant since December 2021.
• Hapik55, is the candidate that represents the vegetables. He is the current deputy advisor and Minister of Economy and climate.