Bundestag election 2021

The Bundestag election on September 26, 2021 was the election for the 20th German Bundestag . The turnout was 76.6% ( 2017 : 76.2%).
First advance was the task of the Office of the former prime minister firmly. Thus, without Angela Merkel as an informal candidate for Chancellor , the election ended with the lowest result for the Union in its history and the historically highest result for Alliance 90 / The Greens . The SPD became the strongest force with an increase in votes. The FDP was also able to gain slightly , with losses recorded in addition to the CDU / CSU , AfD and Die Linke , with the latter being below the five percent threshold and only being able to move into parliament via the basic mandate clause after the second share of the vote . For the first time since 1949, the Südschleswigsche Voters' Association , which is exempt from the 5% hurdle , won a seat.
The election result is currently being used as the basis for exploratory talks to form a government coalition of the Greens and FDP with the SPD or the Union.
Suffrage and organization
meeting
In accordance with Article 39 of the Basic Law, the election had to take place at the earliest 46 and no later than 48 months after the meeting of the 19th German Bundestag, which took place on October 24, 2017. Since the election day has to be a Sunday or a national public holiday ( Section 16 of the Federal Election Act ), the Sundays August 29th, 5th, 12th, 19th, 26th, September 3rd, 10th, 17th or 24th were used for this. October 2021 into consideration.
In December 2020, Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier decided that September 26, 2021 would be election day. Federal Interior Minister Horst Seehofer had proposed this date after the majority of the federal states and the parties represented in the Bundestag had voted in favor of this day and the Federal Returning Officer had not raised any objections.
The election to the House of Representatives and the District Assembly in Berlin and the state election in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania were held on the same day. The local elections in Lower Saxony were scheduled two weeks beforehand, so that runoff elections took place in parallel to the general election.
An early state election in Thuringia was also temporarily scheduled for September 26, 2021, but this date was canceled on July 16, 2021.
Electoral reform
Due to the electoral system and a more even distribution of votes than in all previous elections, which can be expected from opinion polls, it became apparent in advance that the election to the 20th German Bundestag could mean the entry of more members into parliament than ever before. That is why all parties represented in the Bundestag called for a fundamental change in the electoral law . However, there was no fundamental agreement in the current 19th legislative period . It was decided to reduce the number of balanced overhang mandates by disregarding up to three overhang mandates. The number of constituencies is not expected to drop from 299 to 280 until 2024. At the beginning of February 2021 , the parliamentary groups of FDP , Die Linke and Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen filed a judicial review complaint with the Federal Constitutional Court against this electoral reform, forced by the grand coalition in October 2020 , because they considered the amendment to be a violation of equal opportunities for the parties and the principle of equality Saw choice.
While an urgent application was rejected in August 2021, the norm review action will only be examined by the Federal Constitutional Court in the later main proceedings to determine whether the new electoral law is compatible with the Basic Law .
Even with the reform, an increase in the parliament to 1,000 members was within the realm of the possible.
Constituency division
The federal territory was divided into 299 constituencies in 2021, as has been customary since the 2002 Bundestag election ( Federal Election Act (BWG) of June 25, 2020). Compared to the 2017 federal election, 17 constituencies have been redefined.
Eligible voters
German citizens who were at least 18 years old on the day of the election, had had an apartment in Germany for at least three months or were otherwise habitual and were not excluded from the right to vote were eligible to vote . Since a decision by the Federal Constitutional Court in 2019, people with disabilities who are at the same time under legal supervision , those who are culpable and mentally ill have been allowed to participate in the Bundestag election . The reason for this is that no citizen may be excluded from the right to vote. The reform of the electoral law passed by the Bundestag shortly afterwards affected around 85,000 Germans, who were allowed to cast their votes for the first time in the 2021 Bundestag election.
If the other requirements were met, Germans living abroad were also eligible to vote who, after reaching the age of 14, had lived in an apartment for at least three consecutive months in Germany or otherwise resided and this stay was no longer than 25 years ago or who “for other reasons personally and directly familiarity with the political situation in the Federal Republic of Germany have purchased and are affected by them. "voters without home in Germany were only at the request of the electoral roll included.
Postal vote
As has been customary since the Bundestag elections in 1957 , German citizens have the option of voting by postal vote before the actual election date . According to the Federal Returning Officer Georg Thiel , the ultimate goal is "to achieve a high voter turnout", for which the postal vote is an important pillar. Nevertheless , according to Thiel, voting in the voting booth should be the norm.
Germans living abroad who do not have a place of residence in Germany ( Germans abroad ) also had the option, as always, of voting by letter. They had to be entitled to do this (previously residing in Germany for a long time or having a well-founded interest in the election results) and submit an original application for entry in the electoral roll for each election. As before, only a few German missions abroad provide support; there is no provision for putting up ballot boxes in the representations. Of the 3 to 4 million Germans who live abroad and are entitled to vote, only a few exercise the right to vote due to these bureaucratic hurdles. In 2017, around 113,000 Germans abroad were entered in the electoral register.
Starting position
Previous federal election
76.2% of Germans eligible to vote took part in the 2017 Bundestag election.
The Union parties became the strongest force with 32.9% of the second votes. The Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) accounted for 26.8% and the Christian-Social Union in Bavaria (CSU) 6.1%. For the Union it was the second worst result in a federal election; it had the worst election result in 1949 with 31.0%.
The Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) was the second strongest force, but suffered its historically worst result with 20.5%. The governing parties of the 18th legislative period (CDU / CSU and SPD) together recorded a loss of 13.8 percentage points in their second votes.
For the first time, the Alternative for Germany (AfD) moved into the Bundestag. The party achieved 12.6%, more than doubling its previous election result. The Free Democratic Party (FDP) succeeded in doing a similar thing, returning to the Bundestag with 10.7% after four years of absence.
Die Linke and Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen were able to record an increase in voters of around half a percentage point and achieved 9.2% and 8.9% of the second vote, respectively.
All other participating parties clearly failed because of the five percent hurdle .
Distribution of seats in the 19th Bundestag
With 709 seats, the 19th German Bundestag became the Bundestag with the largest number of members to date. With six parliamentary groups and eight parties, it was also the most diverse Bundestag in this regard since the second legislative period from 1953 to 1957.
The strongest parliamentary group with 245 seats was the CDU / CSU parliamentary group, to which 200 CDU and 45 CSU members belonged. The second strongest force was the SPD with 152 seats, followed by the AfD with 86 seats. The FDP occupied 80, Die Linke 69 and B90 / Greens 67 seats.
There were also ten non-attached MPs who left their party and parliamentary group or were expelled during the legislature. Eight of them came from the AfD and one each from the CDU / CSU and the SPD.
Government formation 2017/18
Immediately after the election results became known, the SPD ruled out a new grand coalition . After four-week explorations between the CDU, CSU, FDP and the Greens on the formation of a Jamaica coalition failed in November 2017, negotiations between the CDU, CSU and SPD took place. As a result, they agreed on a coalition agreement for a new grand coalition. This was confirmed by the CDU and the CSU through resolutions of party committees, and by the SPD through a membership vote .
The Merkel IV cabinet was sworn in on March 14, 2018.
Parties and candidates
Parties with state lists and direct candidates as well as individual persons as direct candidates could participate in the federal election . Parties that had not been represented in the Bundestag (CDU, SPD, AfD, FDP, Left, Greens and CSU) or in a state parliament since their last election with at least five members ( Free Voters and BVB / Free Voters ) based on their own election proposals notify the Federal Returning Officer of your participation by the 97th day before the election, i.e. June 21, 2021. A total of 6,211 candidates ran for the 2021 federal election.
State lists and direct candidates had to be submitted by the 69th day before the election, i.e. 19 July 2021. Parties that were not represented in the Bundestag or in a state parliament with at least five members or represented national minorities had to submit their state lists and direct candidates Provide support signatures.
Accompanying parties
Parties with parliamentary groups
Political party | Short name | Party leader | Political orientation | European party | Specialty | |
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Christian Democratic Union of Germany | CDU | Armin Laschet |
Christian democracy , conservatism |
EPP | not in Bavaria | |
Social Democratic Party of Germany | SPD |
Saskia Esken Norbert Walter-Borjans |
Social democracy | SPE | ||
Alternative for Germany | AfD |
Tino Chrupalla Jörg Meuthen |
Right-wing populism , national conservatism |
- | ||
Free Democratic Party | FDP | Christian Lindner |
Liberalism , economic liberalism |
ALDE | ||
The left | LEFT |
Susanne Hennig-Wellsow Janine Wissler |
Democratic socialism | Tbsp | ||
Alliance 90 / The Greens | GREEN |
Annalena Baerbock Robert Habeck |
Green politics , left-wing liberalism |
EGP | in Saarland only with direct candidates | |
Christian Social Union in Bavaria | CSU | Markus Söder | Christian democracy, conservatism |
EPP | only in Bavaria |
Other parties
In addition to the parties represented in the Bundestag since the last election, parties that are represented in state parliaments by at least five MPs on the basis of their own election proposals can participate in the election without notification of participation or signatures of support . These are the Free Voters and the BVB / Free Voters . BVB / Free Voters does not run, but supports the candidacy of Free Voters.
Political party | Short name | Party leader | Political orientation | European party | |
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Free voters | FREE VOTERS | Hubert Aiwanger | Value conservatism | EDP |
All other groups had to report their participation to the Federal Returning Officer by June 21, 2021, which 87 associations did on time. At its meeting on July 8 and 9, 2021, the Federal Electoral Committee recognized 44 of the 88 applying associations as parties, and one withdrew. The Federal Constitutional Court recognized the German Communist Party (DKP) as a party on July 22, 2021, after the DKP had lodged a complaint against its rejection by the Federal Electoral Committee.
The South Schleswig Voters' Association (SSW) was also recognized by the federal electoral committee as a party of a national minority and is thus exempt from the obligation to submit supporting signatures.
Political party | Short name | Party leader | Political orientation | European party | Specialty | |
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South Schleswig Association of Voters | SSW | Flemming Meyer |
Interests of the Danish minority , interests of the national Frisians in North Frisia |
EFA | no threshold clause , only in Schleswig-Holstein |
All other associations had to show sufficient support signatures when submitting state lists by July 19, 2021. Due to the restrictions due to the Covid-19 pandemic , the number of necessary support signatures has been reduced to a quarter of the otherwise applicable number (i.e. a four-thousandth of the eligible voters in a federal state, maximum 500, for district nominations 50 signatures).
Two of these parties are currently represented by non-attached MPs in the Bundestag:
Political party | Short name | Party leader | Political orientation | European party | Specialty | |
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The party | POLITICAL PARTY | Martin Sonneborn | satire | - | a member of parliament by joining (formerly SPD) | |
Liberal Conservative Reformers | LKR | Jürgen Joost | Liberal conservatism | EKR | a member of parliament by joining (formerly AfD) |
Five more of these parties were able to collect the necessary support signatures in all federal states and are running for elections across the board:
Political party | Short name | Party leader | Political orientation | European party | |
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Volt Germany | volt | Paul Loeper , Friederike Schier | European federalism | Volt Europe | |
Ecological Democratic Party | ÖDP | Christian Rechholz | Green politics | - | |
Human Environment Animal Welfare Party | Animal welfare party | Aida Spiegeler Castañeda , Matthias Ebner , Robert Gabel | Animal welfare policy , Green politics , left liberalism | APEU | |
Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany | MLPD | Gabi Fechtner |
Marxism-Leninism Stalinism Maoism |
- | |
National Democratic Party of Germany | NPD | Frank Franz | Right-wing extremism | APF |
Candidacies
A total of 47 parties take part in the federal election, 40 of them with state lists. Eleven parties compete nationwide with state lists (SPD, AfD, FDP, Left, Free Voters, Die Party, Tierschutzpartei, NPD, ÖDP, MLPD and Volt), five more in 15 of the 16 federal states (including the CDU - not in Bavaria - and the Greens - not in Saarland). Eleven parties only compete in one federal state with a state list (including the CSU only in Bavaria). Depending on the federal state, you can choose between 15 (in Saarland) and 27 (in North Rhine-Westphalia) state lists. Three parties have a direct candidate in each of the 299 federal German constituencies (SPD, FDP, GRÜNE).
Seven parties actually admitted to the federal election are not running either with state lists or with direct candidates ( Brandenburg United Citizens Movements / Free Voters , German Conservatives , German Central , Liberal Democrats - The Social Liberals , SGV - Solidarity, Justice, Change, WiR2020 and Wir2020 ).
- overview
In the following table, the country lists of a party (abbreviation in brackets) are marked with green, direct candidates are shown as a number. This number is highlighted in bold if there is a direct candidate for all constituencies of a federal state. The maximum possible direct candidacy (= number of constituencies) is noted in brackets under the federal state abbreviations in the table header. In the Num. shows how many country lists a party has.
(38) | (46) | (12) | (10) | (2) | (6) | (22) | (6) | (30) | (64) | (15) | (4) | (16) | (9) | (11) | (8th) | (299) | (16) | |
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Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) | 38 | - | 12th | 10 | 2 | 6th | 22nd | 6th | 30th | 64 | 15th | 4th | 16 | 9 | 11 | 8th | 253 | 15th |
Christian Social Union in Bavaria eV (CSU) | - | 46 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 46 | 1 |
Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) | 38 | 46 | 12th | 10 | 2 | 6th | 22nd | 6th | 30th | 64 | 15th | 4th | 16 | 9 | 11 | 8th | 299 | 16 |
Alternative for Germany (AfD) | 38 | 44 | 12th | 10 | 2 | 6th | 22nd | 6th | 27 | 63 | 15th | 4th | 16 | 9 | 11 | 8th | 293 | 16 |
Free Democratic Party (FDP) | 38 | 46 | 12th | 10 | 2 | 6th | 22nd | 6th | 30th | 64 | 15th | 4th | 16 | 9 | 11 | 8th | 299 | 16 |
The Left (DIE LINKE) | 38 | 45 | 12th | 10 | 2 | 6th | 22nd | 6th | 30th | 63 | 14th | 4th | 16 | 9 | 11 | 8th | 296 | 16 |
Alliance 90 / The Greens (GREEN) | 38 | 46 | 12th | 10 | 2 | 6th | 22nd | 6th | 30th | 64 | 15th | 4th | 16 | 9 | 11 | 8th | 299 | 15th |
Free Voters (FREE VOTERS) | 38 | 46 | 7th | 9 | 2 | 5 | 22nd | 6th | 22nd | 57 | 15th | 4th | 12th | 8th | 11 | 6th | 270 | 16 |
The PARTY (PARTY) | 33 | 30th | 12th | 9 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 2 | 8th | 52 | 10 | 4th | 11 | 2 | 7th | 7th | 200 | 16 |
Human Environment Animal Welfare Party (Animal Welfare Party ) | 8th | 7th | 12th | 1 | 1 | - | - | 3 | 9 | 3 | 3 | - | - | 1 | - | - | 48 | 16 |
National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD) | - | 1 | - | - | - | 4th | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | 16 |
Pirate Party Germany (PIRATES) | 3 | 6th | 6th | 5 | 1 | 2 | 4th | 3 | 8th | 4th | 1 | - | 3 | - | - | 1 | 47 | 14th |
Ecological Democratic Party (ÖDP) | 16 | 46 | 10 | 7th | 2 | 5 | - | - | 5 | 2 | 9 | 4th | 13 | 1 | - | 4th | 124 | 16 |
V-Party³ (V-Party³) | 1 | 10 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | 2 | - | 1 | - | 17th | 11 |
Democracy on the move (DiB) | 6th | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6th | 2 |
Bavaria Party (BP) | - | 24 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 24 | 1 |
Alliance for Human Rights, Animal Conservation and Nature Conservation (Animal Welfare Alliance ) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | 2 | 1 |
Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany (MLPD) | 22nd | 9 | 7th | 1 | 2 | 6th | 5 | 4th | 6th | 31 | 1 | 1 | 4th | 2 | 2 | 8th | 111 | 16 |
Health Research Party (Health Research) | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 3 | 6th |
German Communist Party (DKP) | - | - | - | 4th | - | - | 1 | - | 2 | 12th | 1 | - | - | - | 3 | - | 23 | 11 |
Human World (HUMAN WORLD) | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 2 |
The Grays - For All Generations (The Grays) | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 |
Civil rights movement Solidarity (BüSo) | 2 | 5 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 8th | 1 |
Party of Humanists (Die Humanisten) | 10 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | - | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | 3 | - | - | - | 26th | 15th |
Garden party (garden party) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 |
The urban. A hip hop party (you.) | - | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | - | 6th | 7th |
Socialist Equality Party (SGP) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 |
Basic Democratic Party of Germany (the base) | 36 | 46 | 11 | 10 | 2 | 6th | 21 | 5 | 27 | 60 | 15th | 4th | 16 | 9 | 11 | 7th | 286 | 15th |
Alliance C - Christians for Germany (Alliance C) | 1 | 2 | - | - | - | - | 4th | - | - | 2 | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | 11 | 5 |
The III. Way (III. Way) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | 2 |
Citizens Movement for Progress and Change (CIVIL MOVEMENT) | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | 1 |
The Pink / Bündnis21 (BÜNDNIS21) | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 3 |
European party love (LOVE) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 |
Liberal Conservative Reformers (LKR) | 3 | 7th | 10 | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 8th | 7th | 3 | - | 4th | - | 6th | 2 | 52 | 9 |
Party of Progress (PdF) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
South Schleswig Association of Voters (SSW) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | - | 5 | 1 |
Team Todenhöfer - The Justice Party (Team Todenhöfer) | - | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | 15th |
Independent for citizen-friendly democracy (INDEPENDENTS) | - | 2 | - | 3 | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 2 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | 11 | 2 |
Volt Germany (Volt) | 13 | 13 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4th | - | - | 15th | 10 | - | - | - | 2 | - | 64 | 16 |
Lobbyists for Children (LfK) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
Gray panther (gray) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Climate list Baden-Württemberg (climate list) | 7th | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 7th | 0 |
From now on ... democracy through referendum (referendum) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 0 |
Family Party of Germany (Family) | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 0 |
Thuringian Home Party | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Mountain party, the over-party | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 0 |
The others | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 0 |
Individual applicants | 15th | 28 | 9 | 18th | - | 2 | 15th | 2 | 21 | 31 | 22nd | 1 | 21 | 7th | 2 | 3 | 197 | - |
Political party | BW | BY | BE | BB | HB | HH | HE | MV | NI | NW | RP | SL | SN | ST | SH | TH | Σ | Number |
Country lists
The following parties compete in the individual countries with a country list (in the order on the ballot papers):
Baden-Wuerttemberg |
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The also submitted state lists of the parties V-Party³ - Party for Change, Vegetarians and Vegans (V-Party³) and WiR2020 were rejected by the state election committee. |
Bavaria |
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The also submitted country lists of the parties Anarchist Pogo Party of Germany , Party for Children, Young People and Families - lobbyists for children - and Socialist Equality Party, Fourth International were rejected by the state election committee. |
Berlin |
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The also submitted state lists of the parties Basic Democratic Party of Germany (DieBasis) and Die Pinken / Bündnis21 (BÜNDNIS21) were rejected by the state election committee. |
Brandenburg |
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Bremen |
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The country lists submitted by the parties Alternative for Germany (AfD) , Pirate Party Germany (PIRATE) and Free Voters (FREIE WÄHLER) were rejected by the state election committee. Before the federal electoral committee on August 5, 2021, the complaint of the AfD and the Free Voters against the non-admission of their state lists was granted. |
Hamburg |
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The also submitted state lists of the association Die Los Fraktion (LOS) were rejected by the state electoral committee. |
Hesse |
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The also submitted country lists of the parties Anarchist Pogo Party (APPD) and Socialist Equality Party , Fourth International (SGP) were rejected by the national election committee. |
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania |
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The country list of the INDEPENDENT party for community-based democracy , which was also submitted , was not approved because only 123 of the required 331 valid support signatures were available. Also rejected were the nominations of the lottery faction , which had not been recognized as a party by the federal election committee for the federal election, and by Humanitäre Demostie Kommunal, which had not submitted a notice of participation to the federal returning officer . |
Lower Saxony |
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The also submitted state lists of the parties diePinken / BÜNDNIS21 (BÜNDNIS21) and DEMOKRATIE IN BEWEGUNG (DiB) were not approved by the state election committee because they had not submitted the required number of support signatures . |
North Rhine-Westphalia |
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The also submitted state lists of the parties Deutsche Mitte (DM) , From now ... Democracy through referendum , Alliance for Diversity & Codetermination , Anarchist Pogo Party of Germany and INDEPENDENT for citizen-friendly democracy (INDEPENDENT) were rejected by the state election committee. |
Rhineland-Palatinate |
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Saarland |
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The state list that was also submitted by BÜNDNIS 90 / DIE GRÜNEN was not approved because, according to the state election committee, the party had violated the principle of democracy when drawing up the list. |
Saxony |
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The also submitted country lists of the Socialist Equality Party, Fourth International (SGP) , German Peace Union (DFU) , Liberal-Conservative Reformers (LKR) and Los Group (LOS) were rejected by the state election committee. |
Saxony-Anhalt |
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The also submitted state lists of the parties diePinken / BÜNDNIS21 (BÜNDNIS21) and Team Todenhöfer - Die Gerechtigkeitspartei (Team Todenhöfer) were rejected by the state election committee. |
Schleswig-Holstein |
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Thuringia |
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The Family Party of Germany (FAMILY) had withdrawn the state list. |
Chancellor or leading candidate and list leader
Chancellor candidate or nationwide Spitzenkandidat are terms that are not anchored in electoral law, since the Federal Chancellor is not elected directly but by the members of the German Bundestag. At the federal level, however, the nomination of top or chancellor candidates is of great political importance. In the individual federal states, the list leaders of the state list of a party are also often referred to as the top candidates.
Parties with parliamentary groups
CDU / CSU
Chancellor Angela Merkel , who has been in office since 2005, announced on October 29, 2018 that she would not run again after her fourth term of office had expired. On February 10, 2020, the then CDU federal chairman Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer also renounced the candidacy for chancellor during the government crisis in Thuringia 2020 and announced her resignation. In January 2021, the North Rhine-Westphalian Prime Minister Armin Laschet was elected as the new party chairman (see party conference of the CDU in Germany 2021 ).
On April 11, 2021, both Armin Laschet and the Bavarian Prime Minister and CSU leader Markus Söder announced that they are both available for candidacy for chancellor. The next day, the CDU Presidium spoke in favor of Laschet and the CSU Presidium in favor of Söder. The latter had previously announced that he would accept a vote by the CDU, but insisted on “listening to the broad spectrum of the parties” instead of making decisions in the governing bodies alone. According to surveys, a clear majority in favor of Söder was among the population and also among CDU / CSU party members. The reason given for this is, in particular, its corona policy , which is perceived as stricter .
On April 13, both candidates spontaneously took part in a meeting of the Bundestag faction to answer questions from the Union MPs. Previously, the CSU regional group in particular had spoken out in favor of greater participation by the parliamentary group, which probably also had a majority behind Söder. If Laschet and Söder could not reach an amicable agreement within a week, a formal vote in the parliamentary group was also brought up for discussion. In the days that followed, several top politicians and associations from the two parties voted in favor of a particular candidate. Armin Laschet was supported by Wolfgang Schäuble , Friedrich Merz , Jens Spahn , Volker Bouffier , Daniel Günther and the Frauen-Union , Markus Söder by Alexander Dobrindt , Christian Hirte and the Junge Union and indirectly by Michael Kretschmer , Reiner Haseloff and Tobias Hans .
On April 19, 2021, the federal executive committee of the CDU voted in a special digital meeting in a secret ballot with 31 out of 46 votes in favor of Armin Laschet as candidate for chancellor. Nine board members voted for Markus Söder and six abstained. In a press conference held the next day, Markus Söder accepted the result of the CDU federal executive committee, making Armin Laschet the Union's candidate for chancellor .
SPD
On August 10, 2020, Vice Chancellor and Finance Minister Olaf Scholz was declared a candidate for Chancellor at the suggestion of the party leadership. The decision was made over a year before the general election, making the SPD the first party in the Bundestag to choose the candidate for chancellor / top candidate.
At the time, Scholz was and is currently by far the most popular SPD politician in surveys, but controversial among the left wing of the party; It was not until the end of 2019 that he and Klara Geywitz lost the election for the SPD chairmanship against the duo from the left wing of the party, Saskia Esken and Norbert Walter-Borjans . However, the same duo later proposed Scholz as candidate for chancellor.
country | List leader | country | List leader | |
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Baden-Wuerttemberg | Saskia Esken | Bavaria | Uli Grötsch | |
Berlin | Michael Müller | Brandenburg | Olaf Scholz | |
Bremen | Sarah Ryglewski | Hamburg | Aydan Özoğuz | |
Hesse | Michael Roth | Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania | Frank Young | |
Lower Saxony | Hubertus Heil | North Rhine-Westphalia | Rolf Mützenich | |
Rhineland-Palatinate | Thomas Hitschler | Saarland | Heiko Maas | |
Saxony | Holger Mann | Saxony-Anhalt | Karamba Diaby | |
Schleswig-Holstein | Sönke Rix | Thuringia | Carsten Schneider |
AfD
The top duo was decided by members of the party members between May 17 and 24, 2021. Co-party leader Tino Chrupalla competed together with co-party leader Alice Weidel against Joachim Wundrak and member of the Bundestag Joana Cotar . Chrupalla and Weidel prevailed with around 71 percent of the vote and are thus the top duo of the AfD for the federal election.
On July 30, 2021, the state list of the AfD state association in the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen was not approved. After a complaint to the federal electoral committee, the state list was approved.
country | List leader | country | List leader | |
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Baden-Wuerttemberg | Alice Weidel | Bavaria | Peter Boehringer | |
Berlin | Beatrix von Storch | Brandenburg | Alexander Gauland | |
Bremen | Olaf Kappelt | Hamburg | Bernd Baumann | |
Hesse | Mariana Harder-Kühnel | Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania | Leif-Erik Holm | |
Lower Saxony | Joachim Wundrak | North Rhine-Westphalia | Rudiger Lucassen | |
Rhineland-Palatinate | Sebastian Munzenmaier | Saarland | Christian Wirth | |
Saxony | Tino Chrupalla | Saxony-Anhalt | Martin Reichardt | |
Schleswig-Holstein | Uwe Witt | Thuringia | Stephan Brandner |
FDP
On May 14, 2021 Christian Lindner was re-elected party chairman with 93% at the FDP party congress and at the same time the top candidate of his party for the federal election. The choice had to be formally confirmed by postal vote.
country | List leader | country | List leader | |
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Baden-Wuerttemberg | Michael Theurer | Bavaria | Daniel Foest | |
Berlin | Christoph Meyer | Brandenburg | Linda Teuteberg | |
Bremen | Volker Redder | Hamburg | Michael Kruse | |
Hesse | Bettina Stark-Watzinger | Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania | Hagen Reinhold | |
Lower Saxony | Christian Dürr | North Rhine-Westphalia | Christian Lindner | |
Rhineland-Palatinate | Volker Wissing | Saarland | Oliver Luksic | |
Saxony | Torsten Herbst | Saxony-Anhalt | Marcus Faber | |
Schleswig-Holstein | Wolfgang Kubicki | Thuringia | Gerald Ullrich |
The left
On May 2, 2021, it became known that the newly elected party chairman Janine Wissler and the co-chairman of the parliamentary group Dietmar Bartsch were running as a top duo. On May 10, 2021, this was confirmed by the party executive of the Left .
country | List leader | country | List leader | |
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Baden-Wuerttemberg | Bernd Riexinger | Bavaria | Nicole Gohlke | |
Berlin | Petra Pau | Brandenburg | Christian Goerke | |
Bremen | Doris Achelwilm | Hamburg | Żaklin Nastić | |
Hesse | Janine Wissler | Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania | Dietmar Bartsch | |
Lower Saxony | Amira Mohamed Ali | North Rhine-Westphalia | Sahra Wagenknecht | |
Rhineland-Palatinate | Alexander Ulrich | Saarland | Thomas Lutze | |
Saxony | Katja Kipping | Saxony-Anhalt | Jan Korte | |
Schleswig-Holstein | Cornelia Möhring | Thuringia | Susanne Hennig-Wellsow |
Green
After some electoral successes, such as the European elections in May 2019 , in which the Greens became the second-strongest party as well as in the state elections in Bavaria and Hesse in 2018, as well as consistently high poll numbers at the federal level, the party decided to run a candidate for chancellor for the first time. The party chairmen Annalena Baerbock and Robert Habeck announced at the beginning of 2021 that they would agree between Easter and Pentecost as to which of the two would be candidate for chancellor.
On April 19, 2021 it was announced that Baerbock was running as candidate for chancellor. Baerbock and Habeck will appear as a top duo in the election campaign .
For the first time in their history, the Greens are running a candidate for Chancellor; so far the party has only presented top candidates. After the Union parties and the SPD, which have always nominated a candidate for Chancellor since 1949, and the FDP, which did this once in 2002 with Guido Westerwelle , the Greens are the fourth party in Germany to nominate a candidate for Chancellor. In addition, after Angela Merkel, Baerbock is the second woman in the history of the Federal Republic to apply for chancellorship.
On July 30, 2021, the state list of the Saarland state association was not approved by the state election committee due to irregularities in the list, so that the party in Saarland cannot be elected with the second vote. This decision was finally confirmed by the federal electoral committee on August 5, 2021.
country | List leader | country | List leader | |
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Baden-Wuerttemberg | Franziska Brantner | Bavaria | Claudia Roth | |
Berlin | Lisa Paus | Brandenburg | Annalena Baerbock | |
Bremen | Kirsten Kappert-Gonther | Hamburg | Katharina Beck | |
Hesse | Bettina Hoffmann | Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania | Claudia Müller | |
Lower Saxony | Filiz Polat | North Rhine-Westphalia | Britta Haßelmann | |
Rhineland-Palatinate | Tabea Roessner | Saarland | no country list | |
Saxony | Paula Piechotta | Saxony-Anhalt | Steffi Lemke | |
Schleswig-Holstein | Luise Amtsberg | Thuringia | Katrin Göring-Eckardt |
Other parties
- Free voters
The free voters competed with state lists in all 16 federal states. The party's top candidate is the Deputy Prime Minister of Bavaria and Minister of Economics, Hubert Aiwanger .
List leader in the individual federal states | ||||
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country | List leader | country | List leader | |
Baden-Wuerttemberg | Klaus Wirthwein | Bavaria | Hubert Aiwanger | |
Berlin | Tobias Bauer | Brandenburg | Jörg Arnold | |
Bremen | Werner-Detlef Galka | Hamburg | Christian Walbe | |
Hesse | Laura Schulz | Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania | Klaus-Dieter Gabbert | |
Lower Saxony | Claudia Theis | North Rhine-Westphalia | Markus Krafczyk | |
Rhineland-Palatinate | Marianne Altgeld | Saarland | Uwe Andreas Kammer | |
Saxony | Thomas Weidinger | Saxony-Anhalt | Andrea Menke | |
Schleswig-Holstein | Gregor Voht | Thuringia | Andreas Böhme |
- The party
The party for work, the rule of law, animal welfare, elite support and grassroots initiative entered with state lists in all 16 federal states.
List leader in the individual federal states | ||||
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country | List leader | country | List leader | |
Baden-Wuerttemberg | Antje Waibel | Bavaria | Cornelia Thielmann | |
Berlin | Nora Röhner | Brandenburg | Bettina Franke | |
Bremen | Alexander Lerchl | Hamburg | Arne Ihlenfeld | |
Hesse | Julia Krohmer | Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania | Alrik Stoffers | |
Lower Saxony | Kathrin Wagner | North Rhine-Westphalia | Mark Benecke | |
Rhineland-Palatinate | Kai Riess | Saarland | Michael Kiefer | |
Saxony | Anke Woschech | Saxony-Anhalt | Sebastian Lovens-Cronemeyer | |
Schleswig-Holstein | Karolin Wunderlich | Thuringia | Jan Stein |
- Animal welfare party
The Human Environment Animal Welfare party entered with state lists in all 16 federal states.
List leader in the individual federal states | ||||
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country | List leader | country | List leader | |
Baden-Wuerttemberg | Matthias Ebner | Bavaria | Susanne Wittmann | |
Berlin | Dietrich Rink | Brandenburg | Kerstin Hamann | |
Bremen | Cornelia Balog-Broschinski | Hamburg | Franzisca Heiss | |
Hesse | Fabian Schelsky | Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania | Robert Gabel | |
Lower Saxony | Susanne Berghoff | North Rhine-Westphalia | Michael Siethoff | |
Rhineland-Palatinate | Bernd Kriebel | Saarland | Thomas Weber | |
Saxony | Peter's room | Saxony-Anhalt | Burkhard Moll | |
Schleswig-Holstein | Olaf Zeuch | Thuringia | Ines Mittelbach |
- NPD
The National Democratic Party of Germany competed with state lists in all 16 federal states.
List leader in the individual federal states | ||||
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country | List leader | country | List leader | |
Baden-Wuerttemberg | Edda Schmidt | Bavaria | Sascha Rossmüller | |
Berlin | Andreas Beetle | Brandenburg | Klaus Beier | |
Bremen | Heinz Seeger | Hamburg | Lennart Schwarzbach | |
Hesse | Stefan Jagsch | Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania | Michael Andrejewski | |
Lower Saxony | Manfred Dammann | North Rhine-Westphalia | Ariane Meise | |
Rhineland-Palatinate | Udo Voigt | Saarland | Otfried Best | |
Saxony | Maik Müller | Saxony-Anhalt | Henry Lippold | |
Schleswig-Holstein | Mark Proch | Thuringia | Thorsten Heise |
- PIRATES
The Pirate Party Germany entered 14 federal states with state lists.
List leader in the individual federal states | ||||
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country | List leader | country | List leader | |
Baden-Wuerttemberg | Anja Hirschel | Bavaria | Martin Kollien-Glaser | |
Berlin | Franz Josef Schmitt | Brandenburg | Stefan Günther | |
Bremen | no country list | Hamburg | Christoph Mewes | |
Hesse | Sebastian Alscher | Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania | Dennis Klüver | |
Lower Saxony | Thomas Ganskow | North Rhine-Westphalia | Sandra Leurs | |
Rhineland-Palatinate | Bodo Noeske | Saarland | Klaus Schummer | |
Saxony | Anne Herpertz | Saxony-Anhalt | Ernst Romoser | |
Schleswig-Holstein | no country list | Thuringia | Peter Städter |
- ÖDP
The Ecological Democratic Party competed with state lists in all 16 federal states.
List leader in the individual federal states | ||||
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country | List leader | country | List leader | |
Baden-Wuerttemberg | Guido Klamt | Bavaria | Christian Rechholz | |
Berlin | Lars C. Arnold | Brandenburg | Thomas Loeb | |
Bremen | Kara Tober | Hamburg | Hannes Lincke | |
Hesse | Merve Hamel | Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania | Eric Klausch | |
Lower Saxony | Carsten Krehl | North Rhine-Westphalia | Jens Geibel | |
Rhineland-Palatinate | Erik Hofmann | Saarland | Claus Jacob | |
Saxony | Sebastian Högen | Saxony-Anhalt | Michael Freisleben | |
Schleswig-Holstein | Thomas Weber | Thuringia | Peter Schneider |
- MLPD
The Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany entered with state lists in all 16 federal states. The nationwide top candidate is Gabi Fechtner .
List leader in the individual federal states | ||||
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country | List leader | country | List leader | |
Baden-Wuerttemberg | Monika Gärtner-Engel | Bavaria | Patrick Ziegler | |
Berlin | Claudius Empire | Brandenburg | Antje Grütte | |
Bremen | Lena Barbara Salomon | Hamburg | Uwe Wagner | |
Hesse | Peter Weispfennig | Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania | Barbara Schilke | |
Lower Saxony | Lisa Gardener | North Rhine-Westphalia | Gabi Fechtner | |
Rhineland-Palatinate | Lieselotte Seiberth | Saarland | Rolf Tickert | |
Saxony | Günter slave | Saxony-Anhalt | Adrian Manuel Mauson | |
Schleswig-Holstein | Maria Meyer | Thuringia | Tassilo Timm |
- The humanists
The party of humanists entered with state lists in all federal states except the Saarland.
List leader in the individual federal states | ||||
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country | List leader | country | List leader | |
Baden-Wuerttemberg | Andreas Schäfer | Bavaria | Michael Ziegelmeir | |
Berlin | Maria Krause | Brandenburg | Tim Ewert | |
Bremen | Julia Kreitz | Hamburg | Michael Brandt | |
Hesse | Felix Möller | Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania | Tom Kühnel | |
Lower Saxony | Leonard Frank | North Rhine-Westphalia | Leonard Niesik | |
Rhineland-Palatinate | Holger Schlenger | Saarland | no country list | |
Saxony | Dominic Eberle | Saxony-Anhalt | Martin Wilhelm | |
Schleswig-Holstein | Marvin Weidemeier | Thuringia | Narek Avetisyan |
- the base
The grassroots democratic party of Germany competed with state lists in 15 federal states.
List leader in the individual federal states | ||||
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country | List leader | country | List leader | |
Baden-Wuerttemberg | Marianne Müller | Bavaria | Andreas Sönnichsen | |
Berlin | no country list | Brandenburg | Wilfried von Aswegen | |
Bremen | Ronald-Oliver Marahrens | Hamburg | Kai Lüdders | |
Hesse | Rudiger Schapner | Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania | Wolfgang Wodarg | |
Lower Saxony | Michael Fritsch | North Rhine-Westphalia | Dirk Sattelmaier | |
Rhineland-Palatinate | Jens Steuler | Saarland | Steffi Richter | |
Saxony | Christoph Heinritz-Bechtel | Saxony-Anhalt | Pure fill me | |
Schleswig-Holstein | David Claudio Siber | Thuringia | Ulrich Josef Masuth |
- Team Todenhöfer
The Todenhöfer team competed with state lists in 15 federal states.
List leader in the individual federal states | ||||
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country | List leader | country | List leader | |
Baden-Wuerttemberg | Philipp Ruckaberle | Bavaria | Jürgen Todenhöfer | |
Berlin | Havva Öruc | Brandenburg | Dilara Ejder | |
Bremen | Çiğdem Ekiz | Hamburg | Sarah El Jobeili | |
Hesse | Khurrem Akhtar | Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania | Concerns Biteke | |
Lower Saxony | Bedia Kurt | North Rhine-Westphalia | Sophia hunter | |
Rhineland-Palatinate | Özenç Aslan | Saarland | Tobias Metz | |
Saxony | Fanny Francke | Saxony-Anhalt | no country list | |
Schleswig-Holstein | Amina zinc | Thuringia | Nadine Elsharkawi |
- volt
Volt Germany , a section of Volt Europe , competed with state lists in all 16 federal states. At the federal party conference on May 30, 2021, Rebekka Müller (from North Rhine-Westphalia) and Hans-Günter Brünker (from Bavaria) were elected as the top federal candidates.
List leader in the individual federal states | ||||
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country | List leader | country | List leader | |
Baden-Wuerttemberg | Jördis Hollnagel | Bavaria | Sophie Griesbacher | |
Berlin | Valerie Sternberg-Irvani | Brandenburg | Evelyn Steffens | |
Bremen | Anna Laura Tiessen | Hamburg | Luca Alexandra Beitz | |
Hesse | Dagmar Maria Heil | Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania | Steve Hildebrandt | |
Lower Saxony | Caroline Flohr | North Rhine-Westphalia | Rebekka Müller | |
Rhineland-Palatinate | Alexandra Barsuhn | Saarland | Nicolas Künzel | |
Saxony | Jessica Roitzsch | Saxony-Anhalt | Dirk Schermer | |
Schleswig-Holstein | Katharina Wäger | Thuringia | Leonard Sophie Trautmann |
Coalition statements before the election
In a poll of politicians by the WDR, the SPD chancellor candidate Olaf Scholz preferred a new edition of the grand coalition with the CDU / CSU over a red-red-green coalition , because the left is opposed to him on some points, such as a "clear [n] Commitment to NATO, solid budgets and the transatlantic partnership . ”“ These requirements are non-negotiable, ”said Scholz. But he did not categorically rule out such a coalition. He hopes for a majority for a coalition SPD / Greens ( red-green coalition ): "I would like to govern with the Greens". Scholz also considered being elected to the Chancellery with the FDP and the Greens ( traffic light coalition ).
The Chancellor candidate Annalena Baerbock said that she and the Greens are striving for a coalition with the SPD. Regarding a coalition with the SPD and the Left, she sees insurmountable discrepancies in foreign policy, but does not rule them out.
The FDP chairman Christian Lindner was open to the formation of a black-red-yellow coalition or a Jamaica coalition and described these two coalition variants as "equivalent options", he considered a coalition of the SPD, the Greens and the FDP ( traffic light coalition ) for "content and arithmetic" absurd. He made it clear with whom he would most like to govern: "The Union has nominated Armin Laschet, whom we know and appreciate from the successful government cooperation in North Rhine-Westphalia."
The chairwoman of the Left, Susanne Hennig-Wellsow , saw good opportunities for an alliance with the SPD and the Greens after the general election. It is the first time in the history of the party that one is preparing so seriously for explorations: “The window is open as wide as never before. When, if not now?"
Cooperation with the AfD was ruled out by all other parties; The CDU and FDP also ruled out a coalition with the left.
Television formats
Triels and debates
For the first time in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany, the traditional television duels were no longer held as a duel, but as a three-way battle. They were therefore called triels. The reason for this was the strength of the Greens in a number of recent state elections and in opinion polls at the federal level. In addition, discussion rounds were held with other top candidates.
date | format | Channel | Moderation | Lash | Scholz | Baerbock | Willow | Lindner | Wissler | Dobrindt / Söder |
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17th of May | "Who will make it to the Chancellery?" | rbb | Angela Ulrich Stefan Braun |
NE | T | NE | ||||
May 20th | "WDR Europaforum 2021" |
WDR tagesschau24 |
Ellen Ehni | T | NE | |||||
June 26th | Germany's Role in the World: MSC Conversation with Annalena Baerbock, Armin Laschet, and Olaf Scholz | tagesschau24 | Tina Hassel Wolfgang Ischinger |
T | NE | |||||
29th August | "The triumph: Baerbock, Laschet, Scholz - new start for Germany" |
RTL n-tv |
Pinar Atalay Peter Kloeppel |
T | NE | |||||
12th September | "The Triell - a three-way battle for the Chancellery" |
The first ZDF |
Maybrit Illner Oliver Koehr |
T | NE | |||||
13.september | "The four-way battle after the Triell" | The first | Ellen Ehni Christian Nitsche |
NE | T | |||||
September 19th | "The TV Triell" |
ProSieben Sat.1 cable one |
Linda Zervakis Claudia von Brauchitsch |
T | NE | |||||
September 23rd | "Final round of the top candidates" | The first ZDF |
Tina Hassel Theo Koll |
T |
Legend: T: participated, NE: not invited
date | format | Channel |
14 to 49 years |
14 to 49 years |
||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
August 29, 2021 | "The triumph: Baerbock, Laschet, Scholz - new start for Germany" | RTL | 5.05 million | 2.18 million | 16.4% | 25.9% |
September 12, 2021 | "The Triell - a three-way battle for the Chancellery" | The first | 7.36 million | 2.64 million | 24.2% | 29.3% |
ZDF | 3.51 million | 0.95 million | 11.5% | 10.5% | ||
September 13, 2021 | "The four-way battle after the Triell" | The first | 3.66 million | 1.13 million | 13.1% | 15.6% |
September 19, 2021 | "The TV Triell" | ProSieben | 1.20 million | 0.77 million | 3.8% | 8.6% |
Sat 1 | 2.22 million | 1.15 million | 7.0% | 12.9% | ||
Cable one | 0.65 million | 0.32 million | 2.1% | 3.6% | ||
September 23, 2021 | "Final round of the top candidates" | The first | 3.92 million | 1.15 million | 15.1% | 17.2% |
ZDF | 2.78 million | 0.51 million | 10.7% | 7.6% |
One-on-one interviews
Furthermore, Das Erste, ZDF, RTL and ProSieben broadcast programs with detailed one-on-one discussions with the candidates for chancellor.
date | format | Channel | output | To guest | Moderation | Odds | |||
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viewers | Market share | ||||||||
total | 14 to 49 years | total | 14 to 49 years | ||||||
April 19th | "ProSieben Spezial Live: The Chancellor Candidate Interview" | ProSieben | 1 | Annalena Baerbock (Greens) |
Katrin Bauerfeind Thilo Mischke |
1.07 million | 0.72 million | 3.3% | 8.5% |
12th of May | 2 | Olaf Scholz (SPD) |
Linda Zervakis Louis Klamroth |
0.74 million | 0.45 million | 2.5% | 6.4% | ||
17th of May | 3 | Armin Laschet (CDU / CSU) | 0.94 million | 0.63 million | 3.0% | 7.7% | |||
20th of April | " What now ...? " | ZDF | 1 | Armin Laschet (CDU / CSU) |
Bettina Schausten Peter Frey |
3.48 million | 0.38 million | 14.0% | 6.1% |
May 3 | 2 | Olaf Scholz (SPD) | 2.62 million | 0.27 million | 10.1% | 4.7% | |||
10th of May | 3 | Annalena Baerbock (Greens) | 3.26 million | 0.31 million | 13.5% | 6.0% | |||
20th of April | " Show your colors " | The first | 1 | Armin Laschet (CDU / CSU) | Oliver Köhr Tina Hassel |
4.00 million | 0.76 million | 12.9% | 9.3% |
the 10th of June | 2 | Annalena Baerbock (Greens) | 3.67 million | 0.61 million | 14.9% | 10.6% | |||
14th June | 3 | Olaf Scholz (SPD) |
Ellen Ehni Oliver Koehr |
4.22 million | 1.02 million | 18.1% | 17.4% | ||
August 24th | "At the table with ..." | RTL | 1 | Annalena Baerbock (Greens) | Peter Kloeppel | 0.55 million | 0.19 million | 3.9% | 5.3% |
September 19th | 2 | Armin Laschet (CDU / CSU) | 1.22 million | 0.41 million | 4.8% | 6.7% | |||
September 20th | 3 | Olaf Scholz (SPD) | 1.00 million | 0.32 million | 7.0% | 8.6% | |||
September 1
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"The ProSieben Bundestag Election Show" | ProSieben | 1 | Annalena Baerbock (Greens) | Louis Klamroth | 0.95 million | 0.56 million | 3.7% | 9.3% |
September 15th | 2 | Olaf Scholz (SPD) | 0.71 million | 0.39 million | 2.7% | 5.8% | |||
a | -- | Armin Laschet (CDU / CSU) | 0.00 million | 0.00 million | 0.0% | 0.0% | |||
September 6th | "ARD election arena" | The first | 1 | Annalena Baerbock (Greens) |
Andreas Cichowicz Ellen Ehni |
2.99 million | 0.81 million | 11.0% | 11.7% |
7th of September | 2 | Olaf Scholz (SPD) | 3.86 million | 0.91 million | 14.7% | 14.4% | |||
September 15th | 3 | Armin Laschet (CDU / CSU) | 2.72 million | 0.75 million | 10.2% | 11.1% | |||
the 9th of September | "Plain text" | ZDF | 1 | Armin Laschet (CDU / CSU) | Bettina Schausten Peter Frey |
3.44 million | 0.67 million | 13.5% | 10.3% |
September 14th | 2 | Olaf Scholz (SPD) | 3.02 million | 0.56 million | 11.3% | 8.0% | |||
16th September | 3 | Annalena Baerbock (Greens) | 2.78 million | 0.72 million | 10.7% | 11.2% | |||
Chancellor candidate | Average quotas for individual mailings by the candidates for chancellor | ||||||||
viewers | Market share | ||||||||
total | 14 to 49 years | total | 14 to 49 years | ||||||
1 | Olaf Scholz (SPD) | 2.31 million | 0.56 million | 9.5% | 9.3% | ||||
a | 2Armin Laschet (CDU / CSU) | 2.26 million | 0.51 million | 8.3% | 7.3% | ||||
3 | Annalena Baerbock (Greens) | 2.18 million | 0.56 million | 8.7% | 8.9% |
Documentaries
date | format | Channel |
14 to 49 years |
14 to 49 years |
||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
August 28, 2021 | "They want in there - the fight for the Chancellery" | The first | 2.11 million | 0.72 million | 12.0% | 11.5% |
September 9, 2021 | "Can you chancellery? - Baerbock, Laschet and Scholz back to school " | Sat 1 | 1.08 million | 0.56 million | 4.4% | 9.0% |
September 20, 2021 | Ways to power. Germany's decision year. Long-term observation of the Chancellor candidates in the election campaign. | The first | 2.25 million | 0.64 million | 8.1% | 9.1% |
September 21, 2021 | ZDFzeit power. Change. The fight for the chancellery | ZDF | 2.38 million | n / A | 8.7% | 8.6% |
Surveys and Forecasts
Last polls before the election
The following table shows the polls from the week before the election. The poll value of the leading party in the polls is highlighted in color.
Institute | date | union | SPD | AfD | FDP | left | Green | Others |
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Bundestag election 2021 | 09/26/2021 | 24.1% | 25.7% | 10.3% | 11.5% | 4.9% | 14.8% | 8.7% (including FW 2.4%) |
Ipsos | 09/24/2021 | 22% | 26% | 11% | 12% | 7% | 16% | 6% |
Forsa | 09/24/2021 | 22% | 25% | 10% | 12% | 6% | 17% | 8% (incl.FW 3%) |
Allensbach | 09/24/2021 | 25% | 26% | 10% | 10.5% | 5% | 16% | 7.5% |
Research group elections | 23.09.2021 | 23% | 25% | 10% | 11% | 6% | 16.5% | 8.5% (incl.FW 3%) |
YouGov | 23.09.2021 | 21% | 25% | 12% | 11% | 7% | 14% | 9% (incl.FW 2%) |
Cantar | 23.09.2021 | 21% | 25% | 11% | 11% | 7% | 16% | 9% |
Forsa | 09/21/2021 | 22% | 25% | 11% | 11% | 6% | 17% | 8% (incl.FW 3%) |
Trend Research | 09/21/2021 | 22% | 27% | 11% | 11% | 7% | 15% | 8th % |
INSA | 09/20/2021 | 22% | 25% | 11% | 12% | 6.5% | 15% | 8.5% |
Bundestag election 2017 | 09/24/2017 | 32.9% | 20.5% | 12.6% | 10.7% | 9.2% | 8.9% | 5.0% (including FW 1.0%) |
Older polls
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The graphic shows the course of the surveys averaged over monthly values .
Results
Preliminary overall result
The turnout was 76.6%. 0.9% of the second votes cast were invalid.
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number | % | +/- | total | +/- | % | ||
SPD | 12,228,363 | 26.4 | +1.8 | 121 | 11,949,756 | 25.7 | +5.2 | 206 | +53 | ||
CDU | 10,445,571 | 22.5 | -7.7 | 98 | 8,770,980 | 18.9 | -7.9 | 151 | -49 | ||
Green | 6,465,502 | 14.0 | +5.9 | 16 | 6,848,215 | 14.8 | +5.8 | 118 | +51 | ||
FDP | 4,040,783 | 8.7 | +1.7 | - | 5,316,698 | 11.5 | +0.7 | 92 | +12 | ||
AfD | 4,694,017 | 10.1 | -1.3 | 16 | 4,802,097 | 10.3 | -2.3 | 83 | –11 | ||
CSU | 2,787,904 | 6.0 | -1.0 | 45 | 2,402,826 | 5.2 | -1.0 | 45 | -1 | ||
The left | 2,306,755 | 5.0 | -3.6 | 3 | 2,269,993 | 4.9 | -4.3 | 39 | -30 | ||
Free voters | 1,334,093 | 2.9 | +1.6 | - | 1,127,171 | 2.4 | +1.4 | - | - | - | |
Animal welfare party | 163,047 | 0.4 | +0.3 | - | 674.789 | 1.5 | +0.6 | - | - | - | |
the base | 734.621 | 1.6 | 1.6 | - | 628.432 | 1.4 | 1.4 | - | - | - | |
The party | 542,804 | 1.2 | +0.6 | - | 461.487 | 1.0 | 0.0 | - | - | - | |
Team Todenhöfer | 5,699 | 0.0 | 0.0 | - | 214.281 | 0.5 | 0.5 | - | - | - | |
Pirates | 60,843 | 0.1 | -0.1 | - | 169,889 | 0.4 | 0.0 | - | - | - | |
volt | 78.211 | 0.2 | 0.2 | - | 165.153 | 0.4 | 0.4 | - | - | - | |
ÖDP | 152.886 | 0.3 | 0.0 | - | 112,351 | 0.2 | -0.1 | - | - | - | |
NPD | 1,089 | 0.0 | -0.1 | - | 64,608 | 0.1 | -0.2 | - | - | - | |
SSW | 34,979 | 0.1 | 0.1 | - | 55,330 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 1 | +1 | - | |
Health research | 2,845 | 0.0 | 0.0 | - | 49,331 | 0.1 | +0.1 | - | - | - | |
The humanists | 12,727 | 0.0 | 0.0 | - | 47,838 | 0.1 | +0.1 | - | - | - | |
Alliance C | 6.218 | 0.0 | 0.0 | - | 40.126 | 0.1 | 0.1 | - | - | - | |
BP | 36,798 | 0.1 | -0.1 | - | 32.901 | 0.1 | -0.1 | - | - | - | |
V party³ | 10,679 | 0.0 | 0.0 | - | 31,966 | 0.1 | -0.1 | - | - | - | |
Independent | 13,415 | 0.0 | 0.0 | - | 22,770 | 0.0 | 0.0 | - | - | - | |
The grays | 2,354 | 0.0 | 0.0 | - | 19,382 | 0.0 | 0.0 | - | - | - | |
MLPD | 22,745 | 0.0 | 0.0 | - | 17,994 | 0.0 | 0.0 | - | - | - | |
you. | 1,887 | 0.0 | 0.0 | - | 17,861 | 0.0 | 0.0 | - | - | - | |
DKP | 5,439 | 0.0 | 0.0 | - | 15,158 | 0.0 | 0.0 | - | - | - | |
Animal Welfare Alliance | 7,369 | 0.0 | 0.0 | - | 13,686 | 0.0 | 0.0 | - | - | - | |
LOVE | 874 | 0.0 | 0.0 | - | 12,946 | 0.0 | 0.0 | - | - | - | |
LKR | 10,826 | 0.0 | 0.0 | - | 11,184 | 0.0 | 0.0 | - | - | - | |
LfK | - | - | - | - | 9,195 | 0.0 | 0.0 | - | - | - | |
DiB | 2,618 | 0.0 | 0.0 | - | 7,291 | 0.0 | -0.1 | - | - | - | |
III. path | 513 | 0.0 | 0.0 | - | 7,830 | 0.0 | 0.0 | - | - | - | |
Garden party | 2,095 | 0.0 | 0.0 | - | 7,611 | 0.0 | 0.0 | - | - | - | |
CIVIL MOVEMENT | 1,556 | 0.0 | 0.0 | - | 7,485 | 0.0 | 0.0 | - | - | - | |
Human world | 657 | 0.0 | 0.0 | - | 3,794 | 0.0 | 0.0 | - | - | - | |
ALLIANCE21 | 351 | 0.0 | 0.0 | - | 3,537 | 0.0 | 0.0 | - | - | - | |
- | - | - | - | 3.234 | 0.0 | 0.0 | - | - | - | ||
SGP | - | - | - | - | 1,535 | 0.0 | 0.0 | - | - | - | |
BüSo | 824 | 0.0 | 0.0 | - | 737 | 0.0 | 0.0 | - | - | - | |
Climate listBW | 3,957 | 0.0 | 0.0 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
family | 1,815 | 0.0 | 0.0 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
Referendum | 1,085 | 0.0 | 0.0 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
Gray panthers | 960 | 0.0 | 0.0 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
THP | 549 | 0.0 | 0.0 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
other | 258 | 0.0 | 0.0 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
B * | 222 | 0.0 | 0.0 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
Rest | 110,799 | 0.2 | 0.0 | - | - | - | -0.4 | - | - | - | |
total | |||||||||||
Eligible voters | 61.168.234 | - | - | 61.168.234 | - | - |
Note Order according to the
result of second votes and, if applicable, first votes (different from the original) |
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Voters | 46,838,765 | 76.6 | +0.4 | 46,838,765 | 76.6 | +0.4 | |||||
Invalid votes | 499.163 | 1.1 | -0.2 | 419.317 | 0.9 | -0.1 | |||||
Valid votes | 46.339.602 | 98.9 | +0.2 | 46,419,448 | 99.1 | +0.1 |
First vote result according to constituencies
The map shows the party affiliation of the candidates directly elected in the constituencies.
Second vote results in the individual federal states
Federal election 2021 - Lower Saxony
% 40 30th 20th 10
0
33.1
(+5.7) 24.2
(−10.8) 16.1
(+7.4) 10.5
(+1.2) 7.4
(−1.7) 3.3
(−3.7) 1.3
(+0.4) 1.0
( n.k. ) 0.9
(± 0.0) 2.2
(+0.5)
|
Federal Parliament election 2021 - North Rhine-Westphalia
% 40 30th 20th 10
0
29.1
(+3.2) 26.0
(−6.7) 16.1
(+8.5) 11.4
(−1.7) 7.3
(−2.2) 3.7
(−3.8) 1.4
(+0.6) 1.1
(+0.3) 1.0
( n.k. ) 2.9
(+0.8)
|
Second vote result in the new and old federal states
Federal Parliament election 2021 - old states and West Berlin
77.2% voter turnout % 30th 20th 10
0
26.1
25.6
15.9
11.9
8.2
3.7
8.6
Gains and losses
|
Federal Parliament election 2021 - new states and East Berlin
74.0% voter turnout % 30th 20th 10
0
24.1
20.5
16.8
10.4
9.5
9.2
9.5
Gains and losses
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Tabular overview of the federal states and elected representatives by federal state
Share of votes of the parties by federal state | |||||||
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Federal states | SPD | union | Green | FDP | AfD | left | Other |
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28.0 | 22.0 | 18.3 | 12.5 | 6.8 | 3.6 | 8.7 |
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29.1 | 17.4 | 7.8 | 8.2 | 18.0 | 11.1 | 8.4 |
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29.7 | 15.5 | 24.9 | 11.4 | 5.0 | 6.7 | 6.8 |
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33.1 | 24.2 | 16.1 | 10.5 | 7.4 | 3.3 | 5.4 |
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31.5 | 17.2 | 20.8 | 9.3 | 6.9 | 7.7 | 6.5 |
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29.5 | 15.3 | 9.0 | 9.3 | 18.1 | 8.5 | 10.3 |
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25.4 | 21.0 | 6.5 | 9.5 | 19.6 | 9.6 | 8.4 |
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23.5 | 15.9 | 22.4 | 8.1 | 8.4 | 11.4 | 9.4 |
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29.1 | 26.0 | 16.1 | 11.4 | 7.3 | 3.7 | 6.5 |
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19.3 | 17.2 | 8.6 | 11.0 | 24.6 | 9.3 | 9.9 |
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27.6 | 22.8 | 15.8 | 12.8 | 8.8 | 4.3 | 7.9 |
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23.4 | 16.9 | 6.6 | 9.0 | 24.0 | 11.4 | 8.7 |
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29.4 | 24.7 | 12.6 | 11.7 | 9.2 | 3.3 | 9.2 |
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18.0 | 31.7 | 14.1 | 10.5 | 9.0 | 2.8 | 13.9 |
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21.6 | 24.8 | 17.2 | 15.3 | 9.6 | 3.3 | 8.2 |
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37.3 | 23.6 | - | 11.5 | 10.0 | 7.2 | 10.5 |
Seats by state | |||||||||
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16 | |||||||
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73 | |||||||
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5 | |||||||
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25th | |||||||
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18th | |||||||
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29 | |||||||
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155 | |||||||
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38 | |||||||
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50 | |||||||
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19th | |||||||
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36 | |||||||
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116 | |||||||
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102 | |||||||
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9 | |||||||
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735 |
Irregularities in Berlin
In Berlin there were numerous irregularities in the voting, which led the Federal Returning Officer to request a report from the Berlin State Returning Officer Petra Michaelis. The latter agreed to accept the possible consequences. In some polling stations ballot papers were missing and could not be delivered in time due to the Berlin Marathon, which was taking place at the same time, ballot papers and postal voting documents were exchanged or did not arrive, and some ballot papers were only cast long after the official end of voting at 6 p.m. The last votes were cast after 8 p.m., when the result was already known through forecasts.
See also
documentary
- Stephan Lamby : Paths to Power. Germany's decision year. Long-term observation of the Chancellor candidates in the election campaign. In the ARD media library since September 19, 2021, in Das Erste on September 20, 2021.
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- Elective program BüSo: Short program - This is what the BüSo stands for
- Election program DiB: Politics. Different. Make (PDF)
- European LOVE Party manifesto: Program of the European LOVE Party
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- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw ax ay az ba bb bc bd be bf bg bh bi bj bk bl bm bn bo bp bq br bs bt bu bv bw bx by bz ca cb cc cd ce cf cg ch ci cj ck cl cm cn co cp cq cr cs ct cu cv cw cx cy cz da db dc dd de df dg dh di dj dk dl dm dn do dp dq dr ds dt du dv dw dx dy dz ea eb ec ed ee ef eg eh ei ej ek el em en eo ep eq er es et eu ev ew ex ey ez fa fb fc fd fe ff fg fh fi fj fk fl fm fn fo fp fq fr fs ft fu fv fw fx fy fz ga gb gc gd ge gf gg gh gi gj gk gl gm gn go gp gq gr gs gt gu gv gw gx gy gz ha hb hc hd he hf Overview of Forsa surveys , on wahlrecht.de
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw ax ay overview of the Allensbach surveys , on wahlrecht.de
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw ax ay az ba bb bc bd be bf bg bh bi bj bk bl bm bn bo bp bq br bs bt bu bv bw bx by Overview of the polls of the research group Wahlen , on wahlrecht.de
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw Overview of the YouGov surveys , on wahlrecht.de
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw ax ay az ba bb bc bd be bf bg bh bi bj bk bl bm bn bo bp bq br bs bt bu bv bw bx by bz ca cb cc cd ce cf cg ch ci Overview of the Kantar surveys , on Wahlrecht.de
- ↑ a b c Overview of the surveys of other institutes , on wahlrecht.de
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw ax ay az ba bb bc bd be bf bg bh bi bj bk bl bm bn bo bp bq br bs bt bu bv bw bx by bz ca cb cc cd ce cf cg ch ci cj ck cl cm cn co cp cq cr cs ct cu cv cw cx cy cz da db dc dd de df dg dh di dj dk dl dm dn do dp dq dr ds dt du dv dw dx dy dz ea eb ec ed ee ef eg eh ei ej ek el em en eo ep eq er es et eu ev ew ex ey ez fa fb fc fd fe ff fg fh fi fj fk fl fm fn fo fp fq fr fs ft fu fv fw fx fy fz ga gb gc gd ge gf gg gh gi gj gk gl gm gn go gp gq gr gs gt gu gv gw gx gy gz ha hb hc hd he hf hg hh hi hj hk hl hm hn ho hp hq hr hs ht hu hv hw hx hy Overview of the INSA surveys , on Wahlrecht.de
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw ax ay az ba bb bc bd be bf bg bh bi bj bk bl bm bn bo bp bq br bs bt bu bv bw bx by bz ca cb cc cd ce cf cg ch ci cj ck cl cm cn co cp cq cr cs Overview of the Infratest dimap surveys , on wahlrecht.de
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj Overview of the GMS surveys , on wahlrecht.de
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw ax ay az ba bb bc bd be bf bg bh bi bj bk bl bm bn bo bp bq br bs bt bu bv bw bx by bz ca cb cc cd ce cf cg ch ci cj ck cl cm cn co cp cq cr cs ct cu cv cw cx cy cz da db dc dd de df dg dh di dj Overview of the Emnid surveys , on Wahlrecht.de
- ↑ New elections would not be a solution either , on n-tv.de.
- ↑ Federal Returning Officer requests report on Berlin election breakdowns , stern.de, September 26, 2021
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- ↑ Berlin election supervisor on breakdowns: "Then I will also face the consequences" , rnd.de, September 27, 2021