AfD Mobilizes non-voters, who has LINKE largest among young voters, highest turnout since German reunification

The Radical-Right Alternative Für Deutschland (AFD) was able to mobilize the most voters who have not voted in the previous elections in 2021 in the German Bundestag elections of all parties. This is according to figures from the German research agency Infration test Dimap. Of the 3.7 million Germans entitled to vote who did not vote in 2021, 1.8 million opted for the AfD on Sunday. The profit among former non-voters accounts for 18 percent of the more than 10 million votes that have been issued to the party of AFD leader Alice Weidel. The AfD is the largest in all federal states located in the former GDR, except for Berlin.

In Berlin, that Linke, another winner of the elections, became the largest. The party received almost twice as many votes as in the previous Bundestag elections. That Linke scores mainly among young voters, in the 18-24 age group the party is the largest with 25 percent of the votes. That Linke in particular has taken over voters from the left -wing government parties SPD and the Greens.

According to Infratest Dimap DIMAP, election winner CDU/CSU managed to attract 900,000 former non-voters, in total about 14 million Germans voted for the Christian Democrats. The growth of the party of Friedrich Merz is mainly due to the 3.5 million voters that have switched from the coalition parties SPD, FDP and De Groenen.

In the Bundestag elections, 82.5 percent of the voters went to the polls. That is the highest turnout since the reunification of West and East Germany in 1990. In the former GDR, the turnout is usually lower than in former West Germany. That was also the case on Sunday, although the turnout in the east of the country also rose.

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