Briefwahl VG Bernkastel-Kues: the 2025 federal election result
In the federal election on 23 February 2025, CDU led in Briefwahl VG Bernkastel-Kues with 40.7% of the second votes, SPD took 18.8%.
- Stands out against Rhineland-Palatinate
- CDU +10.1 · AfD −9.7 · FDP +2.1
- First votes: leading
- CDU candidate
Postal-vote districts belong to the Amt or joint municipality (Samtgemeinde) and cannot be assigned to individual municipalities.
Second votes in Briefwahl VG Bernkastel-Kues
Shares in percent of valid second votes, deviation from the state result in points. Others: all parties not listed individually.
Where do these figures come from?
Official results of the 2025 federal election from the Federal Returning Officer's polling-district statistics, aggregated to the municipality. Postal votes counted by a joint administration are shown on that administration's page.
What does the comparison show?
The lighter bar is the state result of the same election, so you can see where the area differs from its state. Differences are in percentage points.
| Party | Votes | Share | District | Rhineland-Palatinate | Germany |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CDU | 3,799 | 40.7% | 35.5% | 30.6% (+10.1) | 22.6% (+18.1) |
| SPD | 1,757 | 18.8% | 18.0% | 18.6% (+0.2) | 16.4% (+2.4) |
| AfD | 973 | 10.4% | 18.0% | 20.1% (-9.7) | 20.8% (-10.4) |
| Grüne | 830 | 8.9% | 8.1% | 10.3% (-1.4) | 11.6% (-2.7) |
| FDP | 624 | 6.7% | 5.2% | 4.6% (+2.1) | 4.3% (+2.4) |
| Linke | 428 | 4.6% | 5.3% | 6.5% (-1.9) | 8.8% (-4.2) |
| BSW | 335 | 3.6% | 4.0% | 4.2% (-0.6) | 5.0% (-1.4) |
| Freie Wähler | 316 | 3.4% | 3.2% | 2.1% (+1.3) | – |
| Volt | 43 | 0.5% | 0.5% | 0.8% (-0.3) | – |
| Others | 224 | 2.4% | 2.2% | 2.1% (+0.3) | 10.6% (-8.2) |
Source: Federal Returning Officer, 2025 federal election, results by polling district (file), final result, retrieved 7 Sep 2026, Data licence Germany, attribution 2.0. Municipal results are the sum of a municipality's polling districts including the postal-vote districts assigned to it. State and federal results: Federal Returning Officer, kerg2.csv, official final result. Compiled by wahlergebnisse.io.
Verbandsgemeinde Bernkastel-Kues: overall result including postal votes
Postal votes in Verbandsgemeinde Bernkastel-Kues are counted jointly for all 23 member municipalities and cannot officially be attributed to Briefwahl VG Bernkastel-Kues. The figures above therefore show polling-station votes in Briefwahl VG Bernkastel-Kues only. Below is the overall result of the association: polling-station votes of all members plus 9,353 postal voters, which is 53.2% of all votes.
- Turnout in the association
- 84.0%
- Voters
- 17,597 of 20,939 eligible voters
- Postal vote share
- 53.2% · 9,353
- Member municipalities
- 23
| Party | Polling station Briefwahl VG Bernkastel-Kues | Postal vote, association | Verbandsgemeinde Bernkastel-Kues total | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CDU | 3,799 (40.7%) | 3,799 (40.7%) | 6,525 | 37.3% |
| SPD | 1,757 (18.8%) | 1,757 (18.8%) | 3,186 | 18.2% |
| AfD | 973 (10.4%) | 973 (10.4%) | 2,716 | 15.5% |
| Grüne | 830 (8.9%) | 830 (8.9%) | 1,435 | 8.2% |
| FDP | 624 (6.7%) | 624 (6.7%) | 1,106 | 6.3% |
| Linke | 428 (4.6%) | 428 (4.6%) | 905 | 5.2% |
| BSW | 335 (3.6%) | 335 (3.6%) | 632 | 3.6% |
| Freie Wähler | 316 (3.4%) | 316 (3.4%) | 525 | 3.0% |
| Others | 224 (2.4%) | 224 (2.4%) | 407 | 2.3% |
Member municipalities (polling-station votes only)
- Bernkastel-KuesCDU 31.5%
- BraunebergCDU 31.3%
- BurgenSPD 23.6%
- ErdenCDU 47.4%
- GornhausenSPD 29.0%
- Graach an der MoselCDU 37.6%
- HochscheidSPD 26.3%
- KestenCDU 38.6%
- KleinichCDU 25.3%
- KommenCDU 34.4%
- LieserCDU 35.8%
- LösnichCDU 35.2%
- LongkampCDU 33.7%
- Maring-NoviandCDU 36.4%
- MinheimCDU 47.0%
- MonzelfeldCDU 28.1%
- Mülheim an der MoselCDU 32.4%
- Neumagen-DhronCDU 31.8%
- PiesportCDU 37.7%
- ÜrzigCDU 38.8%
- VeldenzAfD 25.5%
- WintrichCDU 35.4%
- Zeltingen-RachtigCDU 38.4%
Source: Federal Returning Officer, polling-district statistics; association total is our own calculation from polling-station and postal-vote districts.
2024 European election in Briefwahl VG Bernkastel-Kues
In the European election on 9 June 2024, CDU came first in Briefwahl VG Bernkastel-Kues with 39.0% of the vote; in Rhineland-Palatinate CDU got 30.7%. The bars show the European election shares, the small figures the gap to the 2025 federal election in the same area.
In the 2024 European election, CDU was the strongest party in Briefwahl VG Bernkastel-Kues with 39.0%, −1.7 points compared with the 2025 federal election.
Why do the European and federal elections differ?
The European election has no electoral threshold, so small parties such as Volt, Die PARTEI or the animal-welfare party win more votes. Turnout is much lower, and the political mood shifted between June 2024 and February 2025. The single European-election vote is compared with the second vote of the federal election in the same area; parties that count as Others in 2025 get no difference.
Where do these figures come from?
Official final result of the 2024 European election from the Federal Returning Officer's polling-district statistics, aggregated to the municipality. Postal votes counted by a joint administration are not included here.
| Party | Votes 2024 | European election 2024 | Federal election 2025 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CDU | 3,502 | 39.0% | 40.7% | -1.7 |
| SPD | 1,549 | 17.3% | 18.8% | -1.5 |
| FDP | 825 | 9.2% | 6.7% | +2.5 |
| Freie Wähler | 738 | 8.2% | 3.4% | +4.8 |
| Grüne | 610 | 6.8% | 8.9% | -2.1 |
| AfD | 604 | 6.7% | 10.4% | -3.7 |
| BSW | 371 | 4.1% | 3.6% | +0.5 |
| Die PARTEI | 131 | 1.5% | – | – |
| Tierschutzpartei | 122 | 1.4% | – | – |
| Volt | 90 | 1.0% | 0.5% | +0.5 |
| ÖDP | 73 | 0.8% | – | – |
| Linke | 60 | 0.7% | 4.6% | -3.9 |
| Others | 304 | 3.4% | – | – |
Die PARTEI, Tierschutzpartei, ÖDP: counted as Others in the 2025 federal election, so no difference is shown.
Source: Federal Returning Officer, 2024 European election, results by polling district (file), final result, retrieved 28 Sep 2026, Data licence Germany, attribution 2.0. Municipal results are the sum of a municipality's polling districts including assigned postal-vote districts; Hamburg's boroughs are derived from the polling-district number. Postal-vote districts belong to the Amt or joint municipality (Samtgemeinde) and cannot be assigned to individual municipalities. Comparison values: second votes of the 2025 federal election in the same area. Compiled by wahlergebnisse.io.
Briefwahl VG Bernkastel-Kues: if the election were held today
The current national polling average (as of 7 Nov 2026) applied to the municipality's 2025 second-vote result. A rough estimate without local factors.
CDU would remain the strongest party with 31.8% (2025: 40.7%).
Method: proportional swing of the national polling average, see constituency nowcast.
In context
More municipalities in Bernkastel-Wittlich (Wkr. 199, 201)
- WittlichCDU 31.2%
- Briefwahl VG Wittlich-LandCDU 40.6%
- MorbachCDU 34.7%
- Briefwahl VG Traben-Trarbach, Wkr 199CDU 36.4%
- Briefwahl VG Traben-Trarbach, Wkr 201CDU 39.6%
- Briefwahl VG Thalfang am ErbeskopfCDU 32.7%
- Bernkastel-KuesCDU 31.5%
- Traben-TrarbachCDU 28.7%
- HetzerathCDU 35.7%
- SalmtalCDU 37.8%
- KrövCDU 36.4%
- Neumagen-DhronCDU 31.8%