BSW vote
Second-vote share of the Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW) at the Bundestag election, 2025
The Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht won 10.0% in the former East in 2025, 2.6 times its 3.9% in the former West, and missed the 5% threshold for the Bundestag nationally with 4.98%. Its best district was Frankfurt (Oder) (13.3%), its weakest Starnberg (2.3%).
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Inner-German border 1949–1990 ·401 districts · 2025
Former West
3.9%
excl. Berlin
Former East
10.0%
excl. Berlin
East Berlin
8.7%
West Berlin
5.1%
Germany
5.0%
The East's figure is 2.6× the West's (2025).
By state
- Sachsen-Anhalt11.2%
- Brandenburg10.7%
- Mecklenburg-Vorpommern10.6%
- Thüringen9.4%
- Sachsen9.0%
- Berlin6.7%
- Saarland6.2%
- Hessen4.4%
- Bremen4.3%
- Rheinland-Pfalz4.2%
- Nordrhein-Westfalen4.1%
- Baden-Württemberg4.1%
- Hamburg4.0%
- Niedersachsen3.8%
- Schleswig-Holstein3.4%
- Bayern3.1%
2025
Notes & caveats
- Berlin is shown as one unit on the map; the Federal Returning Officer publishes East and West Berlin separately, shown in the figures.
- The BSW was founded in January 2024 and first stood in a Bundestag election in 2025, so there is no earlier comparison.
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| State | Side | 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Saarland | west | 6.2% |
| Berlin | berlin | 6.7% |
| Brandenburg | east | 10.7% |
| Mecklenburg-Vorpommern | east | 10.6% |
| Sachsen | east | 9.0% |
| Sachsen-Anhalt | east | 11.2% |
| Thüringen | east | 9.4% |
| Schleswig-Holstein | west | 3.4% |
| Hamburg | west | 4.0% |
| Niedersachsen | west | 3.8% |
| Bremen | west | 4.3% |
| Nordrhein-Westfalen | west | 4.1% |
| Hessen | west | 4.4% |
| Rheinland-Pfalz | west | 4.2% |
| Baden-Württemberg | west | 4.1% |
| Bayern | west | 3.1% |