Germany’s election result 2021

Germany’s federal election on September 26th was a cliffhanger. Preliminary results indicate that the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) will be the largest party in the new Bundestag, just ahead of the conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) and their Bavarian ally, the Christian Social Union (CSU). For the SPD, that is a marked improvement on their showing last time, in 2017. For the CDU/CSU, it is a marked deterioration. The Bundestag will have seven parties (counting the CDU and CSU as one)—including a single representative of the South Schleswig Voters’ Association.