Germany 2017 federal election

Final results from ParlGov, read 5 October 2026: CDU/CSU won 246 of 709 seats with 33.0% of the vote; 76.2% of registered voters cast a ballot, up 4.6 points on 2013.

Germany
Held Sunday 24 September 2017

Result

355 for a majority

Seats and votes by party

Party	Seats	± seats	%	± points	Votes
Christian Democratic Union of Germany	200	−55	26.8	−7.3	12,447,656
Social Democratic Party of Germany	153	−40	20.5	−5.2	9,539,381
Alternative for Germany	94	+94	12.6	+7.9	5,878,115
Free Democratic Party	80	+80	10.7	+5.9	4,999,449
PDS / The Left	69	+5	9.2	+0.6	4,297,270
Alliance 90/The Greens	67	+4	8.9	+0.5	4,158,400
Christian Social Union in Bavaria	46	−10	6.2	−1.2	2,869,688
Free Voters	0		1.0		463,292
Die PARTEI	0		1.0		454,349

± is the change against the Germany 2013 federal election, party by party.

Votes by party

Christian Democratic Union of Germany 12,447,656
Social Democratic Party of Germany 9,539,381
Alternative for Germany 5,878,115
Free Democratic Party 4,999,449
PDS / The Left 4,297,270
Alliance 90/The Greens 4,158,400
Christian Social Union in Bavaria 2,869,688
Free Voters 463,292
Die PARTEI 454,349

ParlGov lists parties with at least 1 percent of the vote or 2 seats, so the rows do not add up to the valid votes. How we read it.

Share of the vote

Christian Democratic Union of Germany26.8%
Social Democratic Party of Germany20.5%
Alternative for Germany12.6%
Free Democratic Party10.7%
PDS / The Left9.2%
Alliance 90/The Greens8.9%
Christian Social Union in Bavaria6.2%
Free Voters1.0%

Turnout

76.2% of the 61,688,485 registered voters cast a ballot (46,976,341 ballots), up 4.6 points on 2013. 46,515,492 of them were valid votes. The highest turnout since 2005 in our data. How turnout is counted.

Votes and seats

CDU/CSU33.0% of votes34.7% of seats
Social Democratic Party of Germany20.5% of votes21.6% of seats
Alternative for Germany12.6% of votes13.3% of seats
Free Democratic Party10.7% of votes11.3% of seats
PDS / The Left9.2% of votes9.7% of seats
Alliance 90/The Greens8.9% of votes9.4% of seats

Each party's share of the vote (outlined) and of the seats (filled)

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 1.9 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 5.1 by votes and 4.6 by seats; CDU/CSU led Social Democratic Party of Germany by 12.5 points of the vote. How these are computed.

Sources and licence

ParlGov 2024 Release (Döring and Manow), Harvard Dataverse (source). Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal
Wikidata, party colours (P465) (source). Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal

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