A total of 44 parties were admitted to the 2021 federal election.
Most of them did not make it into the Bundestag.
But who was the most successful?
Berlin - The federal election in 2021 is over. According to the preliminary result, the SPD with Chancellor candidate Olaf Scholz emerges as the winner, while the Union (CDU / CSU) has to cope with a historically poor result. The Greens became the third strongest party. FDP, AfD and the left follow. The left only barely makes it into the Bundestag thanks to three direct mandates it has won. All other second votes given in the Bundestag election were given to numerous small parties, which are listed under “Other” in most of the projections.
A total of 44 political associations were admitted to the 2021 federal election.
43 others were banned from admission because legal requirements were not met.
In addition to the established sizes, there were also many small parties.
But which of these small parties did the best?
Bundestag election: Free voters are the most successful small parties despite the scandal surrounding Chairman Aiwanger
Among the smaller parties, the Free Voters, the Animal Welfare Party, the Base, The Party and Team Todenhöfer did the best - in that order. According to the preliminary final result, a total of 8.6 percent of the second votes cast are distributed among “other” parties. Apart from the Südschleswigschen Voters' Association (SSW), which is exempt from the five percent hurdle and is therefore moving to the Bundestag with a member for the first time in around 70 years, none of the small parties made it into parliament. The SSW is considered a party of a national minority and is therefore not subject to the five percent hurdle.
Most successful among those who failed were the Free Voters with 2.4 percent.
Chairman of the Free Voters and Vice-Prime Minister of Bavaria Hubert Aiwanger does not see the result as a defeat.
On election Sunday, Aiwanger emphasized that his party was now betting on moving into even more state parliaments.
The scandal that occurred around Aiwanger on election Sunday could become problematic.
Shortly after 4 p.m. he published follow-up survey results on his Twitter account, which should not be made public before the end of the election at 6 p.m.
It says so in the federal electoral law.
For influencing the election, he may now face a fine of up to 50,000 euros.
Bundestag election: Animal protection party particularly popular with under 18s
The second strongest of the small parties was the Animal Welfare Party with 1.5 percent. This was founded in 1993 out of the animal rights movement. Since then, however, the Animal Welfare Party has evolved from a one-topic party to a multi-topic party. The Animal Welfare Party did particularly well in the polls for the U-18 election - an educational policy initiative for children and adolescents in which under 18-year-olds can symbolically cast their votes. 5.7 percent of the participants voted for the animal welfare party.
The DieBasis party, founded in July 2020, is primarily campaigning against the corona measures applicable in Germany and therefore received hundreds of thousands of votes (1.4 percent) - but not enough for entry into the Bundestag.
It cannot be clearly classified in the party spectrum, but it is conspicuous with populist statements.
Bundestag election: The party did not make it into the Bundestag with satire
The satire party The party received 1 percent of the second vote.
It was founded in 2004 at the federal level and has regional associations in all federal states.
She is closely associated with the satirist Martin Sonneborn and the satirical magazine "Titanic".
In 2014, the party moved into the European Parliament for the first time with chairman Martin Sonneborn.
Finally, Team Todenhöfer received 0.5 percent of the second vote.
The former CDU politician and colorful personality from Munich, Jürgen Todenhöfer, founded this party in November 2020. At the end of 2020, Todenhöfer left the CDU after decades of membership and founded his own party.
As the main reasons for this, he cited dissatisfaction with the CDU's economic policy and the categorical rejection of the Bundeswehr's missions abroad.
The bottom line: 737 votes for “Politsekte” BüSo
By far the worst came off the civil rights movement Solidarity (BüSo).
In all of Germany only 737 people voted for this party with their second vote.
For comparison: the right-wing radical party NPD elected 64,608 and the left-wing radical MLPD 17,994 people.
The BüSo describes itself as a LaRouche movement that refers to the American political activist Lyndon LaRouche, who died in 2019.
The party is described as a political sect and is said to be characterized by strong control over its members and a personality cult around the LaRouche couple.
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