Agency Report –
Germany’s Federal Electoral Commission on Friday confirmed the results of the parliamentary election on February 28 with no changes to the distribution of seats.
According to the final results, the conservative bloc comprised of the Christian Democrats (CDU) and its Bavarian sister party the Christian Social Union (CSU) received 28.5% of the vote.
The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) won 20.8% and the Social Democrats (SPD) of outgoing Chancellor Olaf Scholz took 16.4% of the vote.
The Greens received 11.6% of the vote, while The Left party took 8.8%.
The Free Democrats (FDP), which were part of the current government coalition until November, won 4.3% of the vote, failing to reach the 5% threshold typically needed to enter the Bundestag, the lower house of Germany’s parliament.
The populist Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW) also narrowly missed out on entering the Bundestag, with 4.98% of the vote according to the final figures. The preliminary figures put the BSW at 4.972% of the vote.
This leaves the distribution of seats unchanged from the preliminary figures, with 208 seats for the CDU/CSU, 152 for the AfD, 120 for the SPD, 85 for the Greens, 64 for The Left and one seat for the South Schleswig Voters’ Association (SSW), a party which represents Danish and Frisian minorities and which benefits from a special provision in the electoral law.
