Rippershausen: the 2025 federal election result
In the federal election on 23 February 2025, AfD led in Rippershausen with 47.7% of the second votes, CDU took 19.5%.
- Turnout69.3% · Schmalkalden-Meiningen (Wkr. 195) 80.3% · Germany 82.5%
- Voters455 of 657 eligible voters
- Stands out against ThuringiaAfD +9.1 · Linke −5.4 · Grüne −3.3
- 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 Rippershausen
Shares in percent of valid second votes, deviation from the state result in points. Others: all parties not listed individually.
- AfD47.7%+9.1
- CDU19.5%+0.9
- BSW10.4%+1.0
- Linke9.8%-5.4
- SPD7.1%-1.7
- Freie Wähler2.9%+1.3
- FDP1.8%-1.0
- Grüne0.9%-3.3
- Others0.0%-0.4
Change compared with the result in Thuringia.
| Party | Votes | Share | District | Thuringia | Germany |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AfD | 215 | 47.7% | 41.6% | 38.6% (+9.1) | 20.8% (+26.9) |
| CDU | 88 | 19.5% | 18.2% | 18.6% (+0.9) | 22.6% (-3.1) |
| BSW | 47 | 10.4% | 10.0% | 9.4% (+1.0) | 5.0% (+5.4) |
| Linke | 44 | 9.8% | 12.8% | 15.2% (-5.4) | 8.8% (+1.0) |
| SPD | 32 | 7.1% | 8.9% | 8.8% (-1.7) | 16.4% (-9.3) |
| Freie Wähler | 13 | 2.9% | 2.2% | 1.6% (+1.3) | – |
| FDP | 8 | 1.8% | 2.8% | 2.8% (-1.0) | 4.3% (-2.5) |
| Grüne | 4 | 0.9% | 2.7% | 4.2% (-3.3) | 11.6% (-10.7) |
| Others | 0 | 0.0% | 0.4% | 0.4% (-0.4) | 10.6% (-10.6) |
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 Meiningen, Stadt: overall result including postal votes
Postal votes in EG Meiningen, Stadt are counted jointly for all 3 member municipalities and cannot officially be attributed to Rippershausen. The figures above therefore show polling-station votes in Rippershausen only. Below is the overall result of the association: polling-station votes of all members plus 4,845 postal voters, which is 28.8% of all votes.
- Turnout in the association78.6%
- Voters16,849 of 21,439 eligible voters
- Postal vote share28.8% · 4,845
- Member municipalities3
- AfD38.7%-9.0
- CDU16.9%-2.6
- Linke14.4%+4.6
- SPD10.3%+3.2
- BSW9.8%-0.6
- Grüne4.0%+3.1
- FDP2.9%+1.1
- Freie Wähler2.2%-0.7
- Volt0.5%
- Others0.4%+0.4
Change compared with polling-station votes in Rippershausen.
| Party | Polling station Rippershausen | Postal vote, association | EG Meiningen, Stadt total | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AfD | 215 (47.7%) | 1,255 (26.0%) | 6,461 | 38.7% |
| CDU | 88 (19.5%) | 975 (20.2%) | 2,822 | 16.9% |
| Linke | 44 (9.8%) | 817 (17.0%) | 2,415 | 14.4% |
| SPD | 32 (7.1%) | 630 (13.1%) | 1,727 | 10.3% |
| BSW | 47 (10.4%) | 547 (11.4%) | 1,638 | 9.8% |
| Grüne | 4 (0.9%) | 283 (5.9%) | 664 | 4.0% |
| FDP | 8 (1.8%) | 136 (2.8%) | 488 | 2.9% |
| Freie Wähler | 13 (2.9%) | 134 (2.8%) | 364 | 2.2% |
| Volt | 0 (0.0%) | 24 (0.5%) | 76 | 0.5% |
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.
Rippershausen: location in the Schmalkalden-Meiningen district
All municipalities of the district, coloured by the strongest party of the second votes. Rippershausen highlighted, the other members of EG Meiningen, Stadt shown half-transparent. Tap to open a neighbouring municipality.