Birx: the 2025 federal election result
In the federal election on 23 February 2025, AfD led in Birx with 34.0% of the second votes, CDU took 20.2%.
- Turnout70.4% · Schmalkalden-Meiningen (Wkr. 195) 80.3% · Germany 82.5%
- Voters95 of 135 eligible voters
- Stands out against ThuringiaBSW +7.6 · Linke −6.7 · AfD −4.6
- First votes: leadingAfD candidate
- Constituency195 Suhl – Schmalkalden-Meiningen – Hildburghausen – Sonneberg
Postal votes were counted at collective-municipality level; polling-station votes only shown here.
Second votes in Birx
Shares in percent of valid second votes, deviation from the state result in points. Others: all parties not listed individually.
- AfD34.0%-4.6
- CDU20.2%+1.6
- BSW17.0%+7.6
- SPD10.6%+1.8
- Linke8.5%-6.7
- FDP7.4%+4.6
- Freie Wähler1.1%-0.5
- Others1.1%+0.7
Change compared with the result in Thuringia.
| Party | Votes | Share | District | Thuringia | Germany |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AfD | 32 | 34.0% | 41.6% | 38.6% (-4.6) | 20.8% (+13.2) |
| CDU | 19 | 20.2% | 18.2% | 18.6% (+1.6) | 22.6% (-2.4) |
| BSW | 16 | 17.0% | 10.0% | 9.4% (+7.6) | 5.0% (+12.0) |
| SPD | 10 | 10.6% | 8.9% | 8.8% (+1.8) | 16.4% (-5.8) |
| Linke | 8 | 8.5% | 12.8% | 15.2% (-6.7) | 8.8% (-0.3) |
| FDP | 7 | 7.4% | 2.8% | 2.8% (+4.6) | 4.3% (+3.1) |
| Freie Wähler | 1 | 1.1% | 2.2% | 1.6% (-0.5) | – |
| Others | 1 | 1.1% | 0.4% | 0.4% (+0.7) | 22.2% (-21.1) |
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.
Vereinbarte Verwaltungsgemeinschaft Hohe Rhön: overall result including postal votes
Postal votes in Vereinbarte Verwaltungsgemeinschaft Hohe Rhön are counted jointly for all 5 member municipalities and cannot officially be attributed to Birx. The figures above therefore show polling-station votes in Birx only. Below is the overall result of the association: polling-station votes of all members plus 1,268 postal voters, which is 23.9% of all votes.
- Turnout in the association81.3%
- Voters5,301 of 6,517 eligible voters
- Postal vote share23.9% · 1,268
- Member municipalities5
- AfD41.7%+7.7
- CDU21.2%+1.0
- Linke10.7%+2.2
- BSW9.4%-7.6
- SPD7.8%-2.8
- Freie Wähler2.9%+1.8
- FDP2.7%-4.7
- Grüne2.5%
- Volt0.4%
- Others0.6%-0.5
Change compared with polling-station votes in Birx.
| Party | Polling station Birx | Postal vote, association | Vereinbarte Verwaltungsgemeinschaft Hohe Rhön total | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AfD | 32 (34.0%) | 412 (32.5%) | 2,197 | 41.7% |
| CDU | 19 (20.2%) | 311 (24.6%) | 1,119 | 21.2% |
| Linke | 8 (8.5%) | 166 (13.1%) | 565 | 10.7% |
| BSW | 16 (17.0%) | 127 (10.0%) | 495 | 9.4% |
| SPD | 10 (10.6%) | 116 (9.2%) | 409 | 7.8% |
| Freie Wähler | 1 (1.1%) | 44 (3.5%) | 151 | 2.9% |
| FDP | 7 (7.4%) | 29 (2.3%) | 143 | 2.7% |
| Grüne | 0 (0.0%) | 48 (3.8%) | 131 | 2.5% |
| Others | 1 (1.1%) | 7 (0.6%) | 33 | 0.6% |
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.
Birx: location in the Schmalkalden-Meiningen district
All municipalities of the district, coloured by the strongest party of the second votes. Birx highlighted, the other members of Vereinbarte Verwaltungsgemeinschaft Hohe Rhön shown half-transparent. Tap to open a neighbouring municipality.