German Exit Polls

The BBC is reporting that the CDU/CSU is polling at 42% and the SPD at 25%.  Long-term observers of German politics will be interested to know that the FDP may not make the 5% threshold needed to remain in parliament.

The election appears to be shaping up as expected.  It would also seem that a a CDU/CSU + SPD coalition is the likely result of the election.

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Steven L. Taylor is a Professor of Political Science and a College of Arts and Sciences Dean. His main areas of expertise include parties, elections, and the institutional design of democracies. His most recent book is the co-authored A Different Democracy: American Government in a 31-Country Perspective. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Texas and his BA from the University of California, Irvine. He has been blogging since 2003 (originally at the now defunct Poliblog). Follow Steven on Twitter

Comments

  1. trumwill says:

    Too bad about the FDP.

  2. Dave Schuler says:

    Interestingly, the AfD has apparently gotten more votes than the FPD.

  3. Ebenezer_Arvigenius says:

    @trumwill: Still puzzled why anyone would miss them. Well apart from Leutheuser-Schnarrenberger and Burkhard Hirsch who have both been basically in the wrong party for decades.