List of political parties in Germany
This list shows the political parties and electoral associations active in Germany (as of 2019).
The German Political Parties Act defines parties in Section 2 (1) as follows:
"Parties are associations of citizens who permanently or for a longer period of time exert influence on the formation of political will for the federal or state level and want to participate in the representation of the people in the German Bundestag or a state parliament, if they are based on the overall picture of the actual circumstances in particular according to the scope and strength of their organization, according to the number of their members and according to their appearance in public, offer a sufficient guarantee of the seriousness of this objective. Members of a party can only be natural persons. "
For historical parties, see the list of historical political parties in Germany .
Parties and electoral associations in parliaments
The following parties and electoral associations are represented in the German Bundestag , the European Parliament and / or in at least one state parliament (as of March 15, 2020).
| logo | Surname | Short name | Seats in the Bundestag |
Seats state parliaments |
Seats European Parliament |
European party |
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Christian Democratic Union of Germany | CDU | 200 | 494 | 23 | EPP |
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Social Democratic Party of Germany | SPD | 152 | 471 | 16 | SPE |
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Alliance 90 / The Greens | GREEN | 67 | 245 | 21st | EGP |
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Alternative for Germany | AfD | 89 | 243 | 11 | - |
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The left | THE LEFT | 69 | 142 | 5 | Tbsp |
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Free Democratic Party | FDP | 80 | 120 | 5 | ALDE |
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Christian-Social Union in Bavaria | CSU | 46 | 85 | 6th | EPP |
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Free voters | FREE VOTERS | - | 28 | 2 | EDP |
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Brandenburg United Citizens Movements / Free Voters | BVB / FREE VOTERS | - | 5 | - | - |
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South Schleswig Association of Voters | SSW | - | 3 | - | EFA |
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Citizens in anger | BIW | - | 1 | - | - |
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Party for work, the rule of law, animal welfare, elite support and grassroots initiative | The party | - | - | 2 | - |
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Family party of Germany | family | - | - | 1 | ECPM |
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Ecological Democratic Party | ÖDP | - | - | 1 | - |
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Pirate Party Germany | Pirates | - | - | 1 | PPEU |
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Volt Germany | volt | - | - | 1 | volt |
Parties with voter participation
According to the Political Parties Act, a party loses its status as a party if it does not take part in Bundestag or Landtag elections for six years. The following list accordingly lists all parties that have not been dissolved in the meantime that have participated in federal or state elections in the last six years or are younger than six years. As far as data are available, the number of members , the number of regional associations or direct subdivisions of the federal party, the sum of the payments received from state party funding and the date of foundation are given.
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Electoral associations
In some state elections and in the European elections , not only parties, but also groups of voters and other political associations are allowed to submit nominations. The following list contains all electoral associations that stood in the last election of the respective parliament and are currently still active.
| logo | Full name | Short name | Number of members | Last choice |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Citizens in anger | BIW | 100 | Bremen 2019 |
| Welcome to reality | WE | 14th | Bremen 2019 |
Note: na = not specified
See also
- History of the parties in Germany
- List of parties in the German Bundestag
- List of parties in German state parliaments
- Affiliate foundation
- Political parties in Germany
Web links
- bundestag.de: Party funding 2013 at the German Bundestag
- Federal Agency for Civic Education , m.bpb.de: Social composition of party memberships (interactive, for Germany, as of October 7, 2017)
Federal Returning Officer, bundeswahlleiter.de:
- Party documents for download
- Address directory of the parties and political associations that have deposited party documents with the Federal Returning Officer (as of January 30, 2020, PDF file; 168 kB)
- Selected data from political associations (December 31, 2016, PDF file; 2.2 MB)
- The 16 federal election lines
Individual evidence
- ↑ Overview of party financing (PDF; 681 kB)
- ↑ a b c d e f g Membership figures at the end of 2019. July 20, 2020, accessed on July 20, 2020 .
- ↑ Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU): Report of the Federal Office 2019 . Berlin, S. 64 .
- ↑ fixed that for you. July 20, 2020, accessed July 20, 2020 .
- ↑ Membership statistics . In: finanzen.piratenpartei.de. Retrieved July 20, 2020 .
- ↑ ödp.de - "Presented. June 30, 2020, accessed on July 13, 2020 .
- ↑ a b c d e f g BT-Drs. 19/08223 As of March 11, 2019, 284 MB
- ↑ BT-Drs. 18/4301 Status: March 4, 2015 (PDF; 423 kB)
- ↑ Der Tagesspiegel: Number of right-wing extremists rises by a third , published on December 16, 2019
- ↑ a b c d e f Constitutional Protection Report 2018. June 2019, accessed on 23 December 2019 .
- ↑ BT-Drs. 19/15451 as of November 25, 2019, (PDF; 10.1 MB)
- ↑ Party website: DM - a party eligible for election for Muslims? ( Memento from August 31, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), as of July 15, 2017
- ↑ Outlines. In: "DKP archive pages 2015-2019. Retrieved on August 5, 2020 .
- ↑ Almut Zimmer: Who can vote? August 30, 2017. Retrieved December 23, 2019 .
- ↑ https://twitter.com/DieHumanisten/status/1296712990788657152
- ↑ http://www.bpb.de/politik/wahlen/wer-haben-zur-wahl/bundestagswahl-2017/254652/v-partei
- ↑ bpb party profiles , accessed on August 5, 2020
- ↑ https://buendnis-c.de/informieren/#parteiststruktur
- ↑ http://www.eu-info.de/dpa-europaticker/289210.html
- ↑ BT-Drs. 19/03070 as of June 28, 2018, 39.2 MB
- ↑ As of December 31, 2007, according to the annual report
- ^ The Federal Returning Officer : German Social Union (DSU). December 28, 2018, accessed December 23, 2019 .
- ↑ Laura Dinnebier: Who is available for election? May 3, 2019, accessed December 23, 2019 .
- ↑ a b Tagesschau.de: Bundestag election 42 parties are there. August 21, 2017. Retrieved December 23, 2019 .
- ^ Minutes of the 1st meeting of the Federal Electoral Committee for the 2013 Bundestag elections. In: bundeswahlleiter.de. July 5, 2013, accessed December 23, 2019 . (PDF; 413 kB)
- ↑ a b BT-Drs. 18/09485 as of August 26, 2016, (PDF; 58.6 MB)
- ↑ Philipp Thomeczek: Who is available for election? April 24, 2017. Retrieved December 23, 2019 .
- ↑ Der Tagesspiegel: Number of right-wing extremists rises by a third , published on December 16, 2019
- ↑ a b Who we are. Retrieved December 23, 2019 .
- ↑ a b BT-Drs. 19/15450 as of November 25, 2019 (PDF; 20 MB)
- ↑ a b c BT-Drs. 19/10420 as of May 22, 2019 (PDF; 80.8 MB)
- ↑ Founding of the garden party. Retrieved December 23, 2019 .
- ↑ Presseportal.de: Six parties and organizations start nationwide social-liberal offensive , March 21, 2017
- ↑ a b www.die-urbane.de , accessed on February 21, 2018.
- ↑ Why we exist. In: buendnis-grundeinkommen.de. Archived from the original ; accessed on December 23, 2019 : "We have founded 16 regional associations and participated in four elections."
- ↑ https://www.bpb.de/politik/wahlen/wer-haben-zur-wahl/europawahl-2019/289341/volt
- ↑ 0sul: the federal electoral committee approves the mountain party, the superparty , in 2017. July 11, 2017. Retrieved August 26, 2017 .
- ↑ BT-Drs. 18/05460 Status: July 3, 2015 (PDF; 16.9 MB)
- ^ Animal Welfare Alliance: State Associations. Retrieved December 23, 2019 .
- ^ Animal Welfare Alliance: Party. Retrieved December 23, 2019 .
- ^ JED: Statistics. Retrieved December 23, 2019 .
- ↑ Everhard Holtmann, Rebekka Heyme: Who is available for election? February 10, 2016, accessed December 23, 2019 .
- ↑ Prof Dr Uwe Wagschal: ARMINIUS - Bund des Deutschen Volkes (ARMINIUS - Bund) | bpb. Retrieved June 14, 2020 .
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from March 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Opponents of wind power found a party. February 27, 2016, accessed December 23, 2019 .
- ↑ Thilo Adam: Election campaign with multicultural greetings . In: The daily newspaper: taz . February 22, 2020, ISSN 0931-9085 , p. 48 Hamburg 60 ePaper ( taz.de [accessed on May 23, 2020]).
- ↑ a b Lothar Probst: Who is available for election? April 24, 2019, accessed December 23, 2019 .
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