Bad Salzungen: the 2025 federal election result
In the federal election on 23 February 2025, AfD led in Bad Salzungen with 49.3% of the second votes, CDU took 15.7%.
- MayorKlaus Bohl · Wikidata
- Turnout55.2% · Wartburgkreis (Wkr. 189) 80.0% · Germany 82.5%
- Voters9,767 of 17,703 eligible voters
- Stands out against ThuringiaAfD +10.7 · Linke −3.5 · CDU −2.9
- First votes: leadingAfD candidate
- Constituency189 Eisenach – Wartburgkreis – Unstrut-Hainich-Kreis
Postal votes were counted at collective-municipality level; polling-station votes only shown here.
Second votes in Bad Salzungen
Shares in percent of valid second votes, deviation from the state result in points. Others: all parties not listed individually.
- AfD49.3%+10.7
- CDU15.7%-2.9
- Linke11.7%-3.5
- BSW9.3%-0.1
- SPD7.4%-1.4
- FDP2.4%-0.4
- Freie Wähler1.9%+0.3
- Grüne1.7%-2.5
- Volt0.2%-0.3
- Others0.4%±0
Change compared with the result in Thuringia.
| Party | Votes | Share | District | Thuringia | Germany |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AfD | 4,777 | 49.3% | 40.6% | 38.6% (+10.7) | 20.8% (+28.5) |
| CDU | 1,522 | 15.7% | 19.8% | 18.6% (-2.9) | 22.6% (-6.9) |
| Linke | 1,135 | 11.7% | 12.7% | 15.2% (-3.5) | 8.8% (+2.9) |
| BSW | 899 | 9.3% | 9.3% | 9.4% (-0.1) | 5.0% (+4.3) |
| SPD | 721 | 7.4% | 9.3% | 8.8% (-1.4) | 16.4% (-9.0) |
| FDP | 231 | 2.4% | 2.5% | 2.8% (-0.4) | 4.3% (-1.9) |
| Freie Wähler | 186 | 1.9% | 1.8% | 1.6% (+0.3) | – |
| Grüne | 160 | 1.7% | 3.0% | 4.2% (-2.5) | 11.6% (-9.9) |
| Volt | 23 | 0.2% | 0.5% | 0.5% (-0.3) | – |
| Others | 34 | 0.4% | 0.4% | 0.4% (±0) | 10.6% (-10.2) |
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.
EG Bad Salzungen, Stadt: overall result including postal votes
Postal votes in EG Bad Salzungen, Stadt are counted jointly for all 2 member municipalities and cannot officially be attributed to Bad Salzungen. The figures above therefore show polling-station votes in Bad Salzungen only. Below is the overall result of the association: polling-station votes of all members plus 4,280 postal voters, which is 28.7% of all votes.
- Turnout in the association78.2%
- Voters14,924 of 19,084 eligible voters
- Postal vote share28.7% · 4,280
- Member municipalities2
- AfD42.7%-6.6
- CDU17.5%+1.8
- Linke13.4%+1.7
- BSW10.2%+0.9
- SPD8.5%+1.1
- FDP2.4%±0
- Freie Wähler2.3%+0.4
- Grüne2.2%+0.5
- Volt0.3%+0.1
- Others0.4%±0
Change compared with polling-station votes in Bad Salzungen.
| Party | Polling station Bad Salzungen | Postal vote, association | EG Bad Salzungen, Stadt total | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AfD | 4,777 (49.3%) | 1,080 (25.4%) | 6,319 | 42.7% |
| CDU | 1,522 (15.7%) | 941 (22.1%) | 2,587 | 17.5% |
| Linke | 1,135 (11.7%) | 756 (17.8%) | 1,991 | 13.4% |
| BSW | 899 (9.3%) | 536 (12.6%) | 1,517 | 10.2% |
| SPD | 721 (7.4%) | 507 (11.9%) | 1,264 | 8.5% |
| FDP | 231 (2.4%) | 105 (2.5%) | 361 | 2.4% |
| Freie Wähler | 186 (1.9%) | 129 (3.0%) | 336 | 2.3% |
| Grüne | 160 (1.7%) | 153 (3.6%) | 324 | 2.2% |
Member municipalities (polling-station votes only)
Source: Federal Returning Officer, polling-district statistics; association total is our own calculation from polling-station and postal-vote districts.
Bad Salzungen: location in the Wartburgkreis district
All municipalities of the district, coloured by the strongest party of the second votes. Bad Salzungen highlighted, the other members of EG Bad Salzungen, Stadt shown half-transparent. Tap to open a neighbouring municipality.