Witzleben: the 2025 federal election result
In the federal election on 23 February 2025, AfD led in Witzleben with 46.9% of the second votes, CDU took 16.7%.
- Turnout79.8% · Ilm-Kreis (Wkr. 191) 81.2% · Germany 82.5%
- Voters398 of 499 eligible voters
- Stands out against ThuringiaAfD +8.3 · Grüne −2.7 · Linke −2.1
- First votes: leadingAfD candidate
- Constituency191 Gotha – Ilm-Kreis
Postal votes were counted at collective-municipality level; polling-station votes only shown here.
Second votes in Witzleben
Shares in percent of valid second votes, deviation from the state result in points. Others: all parties not listed individually.
- AfD46.9%+8.3
- CDU16.7%-1.9
- Linke13.1%-2.1
- BSW9.2%-0.2
- SPD7.2%-1.6
- FDP2.1%-0.7
- Freie Wähler2.1%+0.5
- Grüne1.5%-2.7
- Others1.3%+0.9
Change compared with the result in Thuringia.
| Party | Votes | Share | District | Thuringia | Germany |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AfD | 183 | 46.9% | 40.6% | 38.6% (+8.3) | 20.8% (+26.1) |
| CDU | 65 | 16.7% | 17.0% | 18.6% (-1.9) | 22.6% (-5.9) |
| Linke | 51 | 13.1% | 15.0% | 15.2% (-2.1) | 8.8% (+4.3) |
| BSW | 36 | 9.2% | 9.5% | 9.4% (-0.2) | 5.0% (+4.2) |
| SPD | 28 | 7.2% | 8.2% | 8.8% (-1.6) | 16.4% (-9.2) |
| FDP | 8 | 2.1% | 2.7% | 2.8% (-0.7) | 4.3% (-2.2) |
| Freie Wähler | 8 | 2.1% | 1.7% | 1.6% (+0.5) | – |
| Grüne | 6 | 1.5% | 4.2% | 4.2% (-2.7) | 11.6% (-10.1) |
| Others | 5 | 1.3% | 0.4% | 0.4% (+0.9) | 10.6% (-9.3) |
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 Riechheimer Berg: overall result including postal votes
Postal votes in Vereinbarte Verwaltungsgemeinschaft Riechheimer Berg are counted jointly for all 7 member municipalities and cannot officially be attributed to Witzleben. The figures above therefore show polling-station votes in Witzleben only. Below is the overall result of the association: polling-station votes of all members plus 482 postal voters, which is 15.9% of all votes.
- Turnout in the association89.7%
- Voters3,039 of 3,387 eligible voters
- Postal vote share15.9% · 482
- Member municipalities7
- AfD40.1%-6.8
- CDU16.6%-0.1
- Linke15.6%+2.5
- BSW9.8%+0.6
- SPD7.9%+0.7
- Grüne4.1%+2.6
- FDP3.4%+1.3
- Freie Wähler1.6%-0.5
- Volt0.4%
- Others0.5%-0.8
Change compared with polling-station votes in Witzleben.
| Party | Polling station Witzleben | Postal vote, association | Vereinbarte Verwaltungsgemeinschaft Riechheimer Berg total | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AfD | 183 (46.9%) | 118 (24.6%) | 1,205 | 40.1% |
| CDU | 65 (16.7%) | 97 (20.3%) | 499 | 16.6% |
| Linke | 51 (13.1%) | 95 (19.8%) | 470 | 15.6% |
| BSW | 36 (9.2%) | 69 (14.4%) | 294 | 9.8% |
| SPD | 28 (7.2%) | 49 (10.2%) | 238 | 7.9% |
| Grüne | 6 (1.5%) | 20 (4.2%) | 123 | 4.1% |
| FDP | 8 (2.1%) | 17 (3.5%) | 101 | 3.4% |
| Freie Wähler | 8 (2.1%) | 8 (1.7%) | 47 | 1.6% |
| Others | 5 (1.3%) | 2 (0.4%) | 15 | 0.5% |
Member municipalities (polling-station votes only)
- AlkerslebenAfD 49.8%
- Bösleben-WüllerslebenAfD 35.9%
- DornheimAfD 57.7%
- EllebenAfD 33.7%
- ElxlebenAfD 42.9%
- Osthausen-WülfershausenAfD 43.3%
- WitzlebenAfD 46.9%
Source: Federal Returning Officer, polling-district statistics; association total is our own calculation from polling-station and postal-vote districts.
Witzleben: location in the Ilm-Kreis district
All municipalities of the district, coloured by the strongest party of the second votes. Witzleben highlighted, the other members of Vereinbarte Verwaltungsgemeinschaft Riechheimer Berg shown half-transparent. Tap to open a neighbouring municipality.