German Party Spectrum Quiz · English
Where do you stand in German politics?
Answer the core questions of German elections in about 5 minutes. You get a party spectrum that adds up to 100% and a map of where you sit on the economy and on society.
Based on
- A Nobel Prize–winning choice model
- Election research at LMU Munich
- Scoring rules of Germany’s civic education agency
We cite published research and rules. This site is independent and has no partnership with the institutions above.
Right after you answer
Your German party spectrum
- 137%
- 229%
- 313%
- 49%
- 57%
Which party is this 37%? The full result tells you.
What you get
Right after you answer (free)
- ✓ Your party spectrum: the share of each of the seven parties, adding up to 100%
- ✓ How closely you match the party nearest to you
- ✓ Where you sit on the economic axis and the social axis
Full result
- ✓ Which party each share belongs to, and your match with every party
- ✓ What your spectrum means: who you are close to, why, and who is furthest away
- ✓ Where the seven parties sit on the map, and why they sit there
- ✓ Statement by statement: every party’s position, with the German manifesto text and page number
- ✓ Profiles of your three closest parties, with the latest polls and the 2026 state election results
- ✓ Where each party stands on the issues that matter most to people without a German passport
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What research is this based on?
The way we turn your matches into a spectrum comes from a choice model by a Nobel laureate in economics. Political scientists at LMU Munich use the same kind of model to study German elections. The scoring rules, the outside check and the party data all have public sources too.
To turn your match with each party into shares that add up to 100%, we use the random utility choice model of the economist Daniel McFadden: when people choose between several options, the option that suits them better is more likely to be chosen. Here, that means the better a party matches you, the bigger its share of your spectrum. McFadden received the 2000 Nobel Prize in Economics for this theory and method of analysing choices.
LMU political scientist Paul W. Thurner and colleagues have used this kind of model to analyse German federal elections: how voters choose between several parties, and which issues sway their vote (Thurner 2000; Mauerer et al. 2015). Your spectrum follows the same logic.
The Wahl-O-Mat’s scoring rules
The Wahl-O-Mat is the voting advice tool of Germany’s Federal Agency for Civic Education (bpb), and the one most people in Germany use. We follow its published scoring rules: full points when you agree, part of the points when you are one step apart, none when you are on opposite sides, and priority statements count double.
An outside check
Economic left–right and socially open–conservative are the two axes political scientists often use to compare European parties (Hooghe, Marks and Wilson 2002). We compared the positions our manifesto coding gives the seven parties with CHES 2024, the expert survey widely used in European political science. The correlation is 0.98 on the economic axis and 0.91 on the social axis, where 1 would be a perfect match.
Original text and page numbers
The seven manifestos run to 644 pages. Every party position on every statement comes with the German original and its PDF page, and we checked all 187 quotes against the PDFs word for word. Where a manifesto says nothing on a statement, that statement does not count towards the party’s score.
References and every step of the calculation: Method and sources. None of the researchers or institutions above took part in this quiz or endorse it; this site has no partnership with the bpb, the Wahl-O-Mat, LMU Munich or any party.
What does the spectrum mean?
One spectrum that adds up to 100%
See at a glance how close you are to each of the seven parties. The higher the share, the more your answers line up with that party. It compares relative closeness and does not say whom you will vote for.
Two axes: economy and society
The horizontal axis is the economy: on the left, more state involvement and redistribution; on the right, markets first and lower taxes. The vertical axis covers society, migration and climate: one end values openness and diversity, the other tradition and order.
Spread out is normal
Parties offer a whole package of positions, so few people agree with one party on everything. The spectrum shows which parties you fall between and by how much; the full result explains why, section by section.
Conservative · order
More state support
Society: tradition and order
Markets first
Society: tradition and order
More state support
Society: openness and diversity
Markets first
Society: openness and diversity
Open · diverse
← Left · redistributionRight · markets →
What the statements ask
Topics: Migration & citizenship, Work & welfare, Housing, Tax & budget, Health insurance, Energy & climate, Transport, Foreign policy & defence, Society & rights, China policy, EU. Every statement comes with background and official sources, so you can answer without knowing German politics.
Migration & citizenship
People who become German citizens should be able to keep their previous citizenship (dual citizenship).
Housing
Rents for new tenancies should stay limited by law under the rent brake (Mietpreisbremse).
Work & welfare
The statutory minimum wage should rise to €15 an hour.
Foreign policy & defence
Germany should keep supporting Ukraine with weapons and military equipment.
Example: an international master’s student in Germany
Supports skilled immigration, dual citizenship and rent controls, and opposes stricter naturalisation rules and a return to Russian gas. With the same scoring, the result looks like this:
- SPD37%75% match
- Greens29%73% match
- Die Linke13%65% match
- FDP9%62% match
Everyone answers differently, so every spectrum is different. What will yours look like?
The seven parties compared
The national parties that won more than 4% in the 2025 federal election. BSW and FDP are not in the Bundestag at the moment, but they still count in national polls and state parliaments.
- CDU/CSUChristian Democrats (CDU/CSU)
- AfDAlternative for Germany
- SPDSocial Democratic Party
- GreensAlliance 90/The Greens
- Die LinkeThe Left (Die Linke)
- BSWBSW (Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance)
- FDPFree Democratic Party
Questions and answers
I can’t vote in Germany. Why take this?＋
Non-EU citizens cannot vote in Germany, and EU citizens can only vote in local and European Parliament elections. Yet the rules on migration, naturalisation, rent, the minimum wage and health insurance are all set by the Bundestag. Knowing which parties you are close to helps when you follow German news, talk politics with colleagues or think about naturalising.
Why is the result a set of percentages?＋
Most people don’t agree with any one party on everything. We first work out your match with each party, then turn the matches into a spectrum that adds up to 100%, so you can see which parties you fall between and by how much.
How is this different from Germany’s official Wahl-O-Mat?＋
The Wahl-O-Mat is the official tool of Germany’s Federal Agency for Civic Education. It is in German, and the parties fill in their own positions. Our quiz is in English, includes issues that matter to people without a German passport (such as dual citizenship and skilled immigration), and we code each party’s positions ourselves from its manifesto, with the original text. Scoring follows the Wahl-O-Mat’s published rules, but our statements and data are fully independent; we use no Wahl-O-Mat data.
Why does the full result cost money?＋
Going through seven manifestos and checking every quote took a lot of time, and we keep the data up to date. The site has no ads, and no party, candidate or advertiser pays for it. Readers do, and that keeps us neutral. We only show you your result: we never analyse or sell your answers, and you don’t need an account.
Are my answers stored?＋
The free preview is calculated on our server and never stored. When you buy the full result, your answers are encrypted and kept with your Stripe payment record, used only to open your result page. Email us any time to have them deleted.
Where do I see my result after paying?＋
Once you have paid, you go straight to your private result page. The link never expires and works on any device. Stripe emails you a receipt.
How current is the data?＋
Party positions follow the manifestos for the February 2025 federal election; where a party changed course after the election, the statement says so. State election results, polls and party leaders are current to 27 September 2026.