Friedrich Merz's conservatives (CDU/CSU) won Sunday’s national election in Germany, but in second place, the far-right ...

Germany’s center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) declared victory Sunday as exit polls and early results suggest the party garnered the biggest vote share in the country’s elections ...

BERLIN — The opposition conservatives led by Friedrich Merz won a lackluster victory in Germany’s election Sunday and Alternative for Germany doubled its support in the strongest showing for a ...

More than 59 million people were eligible to vote in this year's federal election. With vote counting finished, preliminary results show the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU ...

The conservative CDU led by Friedrich Merz won Germany's 2025 election. With vote counting finished, preliminary results show ...

Incumbent Chancellor Scholz of the governing SPD has acknowledged a “bitter” defeat, congratulating Merz on the results ... and is most widely reported on election night because it determines ...

Friedrich Merz is likely to become the next German chancellor after his conservative CDU party topped the vote in elections ... came when other party’s results were read out for the Left ...

Thanks for following our live coverage of the German elections. According to exit polls ... where they gave their reaction to the projected results, which put the centre-right CDU/CSU bloc ...

Voting opened Sunday in a German general election that opinion polls suggest will bring a new chancellor and a new governing coalition. The country’s elections are often a little dry and ...

The center-right Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU) are on course to return to power in Germany, with the latest projections showing Friedrich Merz’s party leading the national election ... have seen mixed ...

This marked a far-right victory in a state parliament election in Germany since World War 2. No matter the results of today's federal election, the AfD is not expected to be able to enter ...