Plothen: the 2025 federal election result
In the federal election on 23 February 2025, AfD led in Plothen with 41.0% of the second votes, CDU took 21.7%.
- Turnout84.5% · Saale-Orla-Kreis (Wkr. 194) 81.7% · Germany 82.5%
- Voters169 of 200 eligible voters
- Stands out against ThuringiaLinke −5.6 · FDP +5.6 · BSW −3.4
- First votes: leadingAfD candidate
- Constituency194 Saalfeld-Rudolstadt – Saale-Holzland-Kreis – Saale-Orla-Kreis
Postal votes were counted at collective-municipality level; polling-station votes only shown here.
Second votes in Plothen
Shares in percent of valid second votes, deviation from the state result in points. Others: all parties not listed individually.
- AfD41.0%+2.4
- CDU21.7%+3.1
- Linke9.6%-5.6
- FDP8.4%+5.6
- SPD6.6%-2.2
- BSW6.0%-3.4
- Grüne3.0%-1.2
- Freie Wähler2.4%+0.8
- Others1.2%+0.8
Change compared with the result in Thuringia.
| Party | Votes | Share | District | Thuringia | Germany |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AfD | 68 | 41.0% | 46.1% | 38.6% (+2.4) | 20.8% (+20.2) |
| CDU | 36 | 21.7% | 17.5% | 18.6% (+3.1) | 22.6% (-0.9) |
| Linke | 16 | 9.6% | 12.7% | 15.2% (-5.6) | 8.8% (+0.8) |
| FDP | 14 | 8.4% | 2.7% | 2.8% (+5.6) | 4.3% (+4.1) |
| SPD | 11 | 6.6% | 6.9% | 8.8% (-2.2) | 16.4% (-9.8) |
| BSW | 10 | 6.0% | 9.6% | 9.4% (-3.4) | 5.0% (+1.0) |
| Grüne | 5 | 3.0% | 2.2% | 4.2% (-1.2) | 11.6% (-8.6) |
| Freie Wähler | 4 | 2.4% | 1.5% | 1.6% (+0.8) | – |
| Others | 2 | 1.2% | 0.4% | 0.4% (+0.8) | 10.6% (-9.4) |
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 Seenplatte: overall result including postal votes
Postal votes in Vereinbarte Verwaltungsgemeinschaft Seenplatte are counted jointly for all 12 member municipalities and cannot officially be attributed to Plothen. The figures above therefore show polling-station votes in Plothen only. Below is the overall result of the association: polling-station votes of all members plus 374 postal voters, which is 13.4% of all votes.
- Turnout in the association87.2%
- Voters2,789 of 3,199 eligible voters
- Postal vote share13.4% · 374
- Member municipalities12
- AfD48.3%+7.3
- CDU18.0%-3.7
- Linke11.1%+1.5
- BSW9.7%+3.7
- SPD5.4%-1.2
- FDP2.9%-5.5
- Freie Wähler2.1%-0.3
- Grüne1.9%-1.1
- Volt0.4%
- Others0.3%-0.9
Change compared with polling-station votes in Plothen.
| Party | Polling station Plothen | Postal vote, association | Vereinbarte Verwaltungsgemeinschaft Seenplatte total | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AfD | 68 (41.0%) | 113 (30.5%) | 1,335 | 48.3% |
| CDU | 36 (21.7%) | 100 (27.0%) | 497 | 18.0% |
| Linke | 16 (9.6%) | 56 (15.1%) | 306 | 11.1% |
| BSW | 10 (6.0%) | 39 (10.5%) | 268 | 9.7% |
| SPD | 11 (6.6%) | 29 (7.8%) | 149 | 5.4% |
| FDP | 14 (8.4%) | 9 (2.4%) | 79 | 2.9% |
| Freie Wähler | 4 (2.4%) | 12 (3.2%) | 59 | 2.1% |
| Grüne | 5 (3.0%) | 11 (3.0%) | 53 | 1.9% |
Member municipalities (polling-station votes only)
- DittersdorfAfD 50.6%
- GörkwitzAfD 52.3%
- GöschitzAfD 71.4%
- KirschkauAfD 52.8%
- LöhmaAfD 41.2%
- MoßbachAfD 57.3%
- Neundorf (bei Schleiz)AfD 49.7%
- OettersdorfAfD 52.6%
- PlothenAfD 41.0%
- PörmitzAfD 39.2%
- TegauAfD 57.3%
- VolkmannsdorfAfD 40.1%
Source: Federal Returning Officer, polling-district statistics; association total is our own calculation from polling-station and postal-vote districts.
Plothen: location in the Saale-Orla-Kreis district
All municipalities of the district, coloured by the strongest party of the second votes. Plothen highlighted, the other members of Vereinbarte Verwaltungsgemeinschaft Seenplatte shown half-transparent. Tap to open a neighbouring municipality.