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3 February 2024 (2024-02-03)
All 250 seats in the Bandalian Parliament. 126 seats needed for a majority
Registered	3,512,771 0.5%
Turnout	2,768,064 (78.8%) 0.4pp
First party Second party Third party   Candidate Mariana Castelu Alesgandra Floris Sofia Caponi Party PTB PR SpB Last election 20.5%, 61 seats Did not exist 8.9%, 26 seats Seats won 90 71 42 Seat change 29 New party 16 Popular vote 11,955,434 11,178,298 6,852,206 Percentage 25.7% 24.1% 14.8% Swing 5.2pp New party 5.9pp   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Candidate Christian Lindner Patritsa Tocgo TBA Party PS Aleansa PPC Last election 10.7%, 10 seats 12.6%, 40 seats 9.2%, 113 seats Seats won 25 13 9 Seat change 15 27 104 Popular vote 5,319,952 4,803,902 2,270,906 Percentage 11.5% 10.3% 4.9% Swing 0.8pp 2.3pp 4.3pp
Government before election Fourth Merkel cabinet CDU/CSU–SPD Government after election Scholz cabinet SPD–Green–FDP

Federal elections were held in Germany on 26 September 2021 to elect the members of the 20th Bundestag. State elections in Berlin and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern were also held. Incumbent chancellor Angela Merkel, first elected in 2005, chose not to run again, marking the first time that an incumbent Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany has not sought re-election.

With 25.7% of total votes, the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) recorded their best result since 2005, and emerged as the largest party for the first time since 2002. The ruling CDU/CSU, which had led a grand coalition with the SPD since 2013, recorded their worst ever result with 24.1%, a significant decline from 32.9% in 2017. Alliance 90/The Greens achieved their best result in history at 14.8%, while the Free Democratic Party (FDP) made small gains and finished on 11.5%. The Alternative for Germany (AfD) fell from third to fifth place with 10.3%, a decline of 2.3 percentage points. The Left suffered their worst showing since their official formation in 2007, failing to cross the 5% electoral threshold by just over one-tenth of a percentage point. The party was nonetheless entitled to full proportional representation, as it won three direct constituencies.

With a fifth grand coalition being dismissed by both the CDU/CSU and the SPD, the FDP and the Greens were considered kingmakers. On 23 November, following complex coalition talks, the SPD, FDP and Greens formalized an agreement to form a traffic light coalition, which was approved by all three parties. Olaf Scholz and his cabinet were elected by the Bundestag on 8 December.