Current election polls and polling data from Forsa

Latest voting intention survey by Forsa for the Bundestag election

In the latest voting intention survey for the election in Germany conducted by Forsa, the parties received the following results: CDU/CSU 25%, AfD 24%, SPD 15%, Grüne 12%, Die Linke 10%, BSW 4% and FDP 3%. The voting intention survey interviewed a total of 2502 people during the period 14.04.2025 - 14.04.2025. The survey was commissioned by RTL / n-tv.
2502 participants
08.04.2025 - 14.04.2025
Forsa
RTL / n-tv
Union
25.0
±0.0
AfD
24.0
±0.0
SPD
15.0
±0.0
Grüne
12.0
±0.0
Linke
10.0
±0.0
BSW
4.0
±0.0
FDP
3.0
±0.0
Others
7.0
±0.0

Seats in parliament

630
Majority requires 316 seats
Linke
73
11.6%
SPD
110
17.5%
Grüne
88
14%
Union
183
29%
AfD
176
27.9%
CDU/CSU + SPD + Grüne
60.5%
CDU/CSU + AfD
57.0%
CDU/CSU + SPD
46.5%

82

PolitPro Score

Forsa achieves a score of 82/100 in the PolitPro Score.

What is the PolitPro Score?

The PolitPro Score evaluates the reliability of polling institutes based on their accuracy in elections and neutrality toward political parties. Significant biases in favor of or against parties compared to election trends result in deductions. The maximum score is 100.

Latest voting intention surveys by Forsa for the federal states

Rating of parties

Comparison of historical poll results with overall election trends across all institutes (in %)

Lower
Similar
Higher
AfD
35
65
0
BSW
45
53
3
CDU/CSU
9
72
19
FDP
6
90
4
Grüne
8
71
20
Linke
5
90
5
SPD
23
71
6

What are significant differences?

The PolitPro election trend, which calculates a time-weighted average value of current election polls, serves as a comparison value. A poll value is considered higher/lower if it is more than one percentage point higher/lower than the election trend. The overview shows all parties for which there is a deviation in a particular direction in at least 30% of the institute's election polls.

Accuracy in elections

1.4

Average deviation

On average, party poll results in Forsa pre-election polls deviate from the actual result by 1.4 percentage points.

Average Deviation of Pre-Election Polls from the Results of Recent Elections

How is an institute’s accuracy calculated?

The accuracy indicates how closely pre-election polls matched the actual election results.

Forsa for RTL & n-tv

The Forsa Institute was founded in 1984 and regularly conducts polls published by RTL and n-tv. Forsa says it uses computer-assisted telephone and personal interviews as well as online panels to gather opinions. In the past, there have been repeated controversies surrounding surveys conducted by Forsa due to inaccurate questions.