German Election Update: As Expected CDU Pulls Out Win, AfD Strong Second

Clash Report 7:40 PM | February 23, 2025

Beege Update: The Clash Report map was getting Community Noted even though it closely resembles what happened with the voting, so I thought I'd go with updated sources. The latest Reuters map is almost an exact copy of the earlier Clash map:

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And now by party affiliation shows the clear east-west divide.

AfD has managed to pull 21.8% of the vote, while the CDU slumped to 28%. They will still do everything they can to ice the AfD out of government completely by forming a coalition with whatever party will sleep with them to do so.






Beege Welborn

So it looks as though, unless a major breakthrough happens, with the wonders of the parliamentary system, AfD will be frozen out again if Merz can swing a coalition with one of the other parties.

...The CDU/CSU makes marginal gains to become the largest party thanks to the demise of the governing SPD and Greens. Their previous coalition partner FDP at 4.9% and the left nationalist BSW at 4.7% could fall short of the 5% threshold for representation and end up with zero seats. 

The Alternative for Germany (AfD) with a huge increase in seats after securing its best-ever result in a national election.

 The Left also sees its representation increase substantially. 

It could mean that a CDU/SPD "grand coalition" could be formed to exclude the AfD.

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