This is a list of candidates for the 2021 German federal election.
There were 6,211 candidates in total. Of these, 1,284 ran only in the 299 single-member constituencies while 2,851 ran only on party lists. 2,076 candidates ran in both a constituency and on a party list.
Competing parties A total of 47 parties and lists were approved to run in the 2021 federal election, including the seven which won seats in the 19th Bundestag. Of these, 40 ran party lists in at least one state, while 7 ran only direct candidates. Further, 196 independent candidates ran in the various direct constituencies.
In the table below, green shading indicates that the party ran a list in the indicated state. The number in each box indicates how many direct candidates the party ran in the indicated state.
Party State BW BY BE BB HB HH HE MV NI NW RP SL SN ST SH TH Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) – Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) Alternative for Germany (AfD) Free Democratic Party (FDP) The Left (DIE LINKE) Alliance 90/The Greens (GRÜNE) 4 Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU) – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Free Voters (FREIE WÄHLER) Die PARTEI Human Environment Animal Protection Party (Tierschutzpartei) National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD) Pirate Party Germany (PIRATEN) 1 – Ecological Democratic Party (ÖDP) V-Partei3 – Party for Change, Vegetarians and Vegans (V-Partei3) 1 – – – – Democracy in Motion (DiB) – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Bavaria Party (BP) – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Animal Protection Alliance (Tierschutzallianz) – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Marxist–Leninist Party of Germany (MLPD) Party for Health Research (Gesundheitsforschung) – – – – – – – – – – German Communist Party (DKP) – 1 – – – Human World (MENSCHLICHE WELT) 1 – 1 – – – – – – – – – – – The Greys – For all Generations (Die Grauen) – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Civil Rights Movement Solidarity (BüSo) 2 5 – – – 1 – – – – – 1 – – – Party of Humanists (Die Humanisten) – Garden Party (Gartenpartei) – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – The Urbans. A HipHop Party (du.) – – – – – – – – – Socialist Equality Party, Fourth International (SGP) – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Grassroots Democratic Party of Germany (dieBasis) 11 Alliance C – Christians for Germany (Bündnis C) – – – – – – – – – – – The III. Path (III. Weg) – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Citizens' Movement for Progress and Change (BÜRGERBEWEGUNG) – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – The Pinks/Alliance 21 (BÜNDNIS21) – 1 – – – – – – – – – – – European Party LOVE (LIEBE) – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Liberal Conservative Reformers (LKR) – – – – 4 – 2 Party for Progress (PdF) – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Lobbyists for Children (LfK) – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – South Schleswig Voters' Association (SSW) – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Team Todenhöfer – The Justice Party (Team Todenhöfer) – Independents for Citizen-oriented Democracy (UNABHÄNGIGE) – – – – 1 1 – 2 2 – – – – – Volt Germany (Volt) From now... Democracy by Referendum (Volksabstimmung) – – – – – – – – – – 2 – – – – – Bergpartei, die "ÜberPartei" (B*) – – 1 – – – – – – – – – – – – – The Others (sonstige) – – 1 – – – – – – – – – – – – – Family Party of Germany (FAMILIE) – – – 1 – – – – – – – – – – – – Grey Panthers (Graue Panther) – – – – – – 1 1 – 2 2 – – – – 1 Climate List Baden-Württemberg (KlimalisteBW) 7 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Thuringian Homeland Party (THP) – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 1 Independents and voter groups 15 26 9 18 – 2 15 2 21 31 22 1 22 7 2 3 Party BW BY BE BB HB HH HE MV NI NW RP SL SN ST SH TH Total constituencies 38 46 12 10 2 6 22 6 30 64 15 4 16 9 11 8
By state In the tables below, green shading indicates that the candidate was an incumbent.
Schleswig-Holstein # Constituency CDU/CSU SPD GRÜNE AfD FDP LINKE Other 1 Flensburg – Schleswig Franziska Brzezicha Robert Habeck Jan Petersen-Brendel Christoph Anastasiadis Katrine Hoop Arne Olaf Jöhnk (FW)Marko Wölbing (dieBasis)Dariush Khorasgani (du.)Uwe Christiansen (LKR)Stefan Seidler (SSW) 2 Nordfriesland – Dithmarschen Nord Jens Peter Jensen Denise Loop Andrej Clasen Gyde Jensen Hartmut Jensen Traymont Wilhelmi (FW)Sandor Stolz (dieBasis)Axel Frey (LKR)Sybilla Nitsch (SSW) 3 Steinburg – Dithmarschen Süd Karin Thissen Ingrid Nestle Jan Voigt Wolfgang Kubicki Michael Schilke Jens Köster (FW)Stefan Habermann (dieBasis)Mark Riemann (LKR)Robert Pilgrim (V-Partei3) 4 Rendsburg-Eckernförde Sönke Rix Jakob Blasel Gereon Bollmann Christine Aschenberg-Dugnus Hauke Schultze Nils-H. Saul (PARTEI)Bärbel Kahlund (FW)Holger Thiesen (dieBasis)Maylis Roßberg (SSW) 5 Kiel Thomas Stritzl Luise Amtsberg Eike Reimers Maximilian Mordhorst Lorenz Gösta Beutin Florian Wrobel (PARTEI)Christian Görtz (FW)Karin Zan Bi (MLPD)Björn Michel (dieBasis)Barbara Müller (DKP)Paula Abramik (du.)Marcel Schmidt (SSW)Simon Wadehn (Volt) 6 Plön – Neumünster Kristian Klinck Martin Drees Alexis Giersch Gunnar Schulz Gabi Gschwind-Wiese Jana Käding (PARTEI)Manfred Koch (FW)Karina Reiß (dieBasis)Jürgen Joost (LKR) 7 Pinneberg Ralf Stegner Jens Herrndorff Joachim Schneider Philipp Rösch Cornelia Möhring Erkan Inak (PARTEI)Kathrin Arbeck (FW)Sabine Lehmann (dieBasis)Rainer Urban (LKR)Claudia Edmund (SSW) 8 Segeberg – Stormarn-Mitte Bengt Bergt Nils Bollenbach Sven Wendorf Jan Schupp Malin Schultz Beate Schreiber (PARTEI)Julia Glagau (FW)Claudia Westphal (dieBasis) 9 Ostholstein – Stormarn-Nord Bettina Hagedorn Jakob Brunken Uwe Witt Jörg Hansen Susanne Spethmann David Gutzeit (FW)Michael Metzig (dieBasis)Mergim Schlüter (Ind.) 10 Herzogtum Lauenburg – Stormarn-Süd Thomas Peters Nina Scheer Konstantin von Notz Wiebke Neumann Martin Turowski Christoph Hinrichs Arne Schönfelder (PARTEI)Christian Runge (FW)Matthias Micklich (dieBasis)Peter Schlüter (DKP) 11 Lübeck Tim Klüssendorf Bruno Hönel David Jenniches Heike Stegemann Emil Tankacheyev Alexander Schacht (PARTEI)Gregor Voht (FW)Lüder Möller (MLPD)Uta Kemper (dieBasis)Wilfried Link (DKP)Jennifer Wobusa (du.)Lutz Nielsen (LKR)Fabio Sánchez Copano (Volt)Thorsten Kerkhoff (Ind.)
CDU list # Candidate Constituency 1 Rendsburg-Eckernförde 2 Nordfriesland – Dithmarschen Nord 3 Ostholstein – Stormarn-Nord 4 Flensburg – Schleswig 5 Segeberg – Stormarn-Mitte 6 Plön – Neumünster 7 Steinburg – Dithmarschen Süd 8 Lübeck 9 Pinneberg 10 Juliane Müller-Weigel 11 Thomas Peters Herzogtum Lauenburg – Stormarn-Süd 12 Bettina Spechtmeyer-Högel 13 Thomas Stritzl Kiel 14 Dagmar Steiner 15 Timo Gaarz 16 Ulrike Stentzler 17 Leif Erik Bodin 18 Sabine Mues 19 Lars Kuhlmann 20 Britta Röpke-Modenbach 21 Henri Schmidt 22 Stefanie Rönnau 23 Nicolas Sölter 24 Lena Grützmacher 25 Tom Matzen 26 Kerstin Seyfurt 27 Jens Junkersdorf 28 Vivien Claussen 29 Marten Waller 30 Christiane Ostermeyer 31 Niklas Schwab 32 Bärbel Feddersen 33 Kole Gjoka 34 Jasmin Anneliese Krause 35 Anna Ruth Weidler 36 Sven Voß 37 Annette Glage 38 Daniel Herzberger
SPD list # Candidate Constituency 1 Rendsburg-Eckernförde 2 Herzogtum Lauenburg – Stormarn-Süd 3 Ralf Stegner Pinneberg 4 Ostholstein – Stormarn-Nord 5 Tim Klüssendorf Lübeck 6 Franziska Brzezicha Flensburg – Schleswig 7 Kiel 8 Karin Thissen Steinburg – Dithmarschen Süd 9 Bengt Bergt Segeberg – Stormarn-Mitte 10 Dorothea Siemers 11 Jens Peter Jensen Nordfriesland – Dithmarschen Nord 12 Christiane Buhl 13 Kristian Klinck Plön – Neumünster 14 Aylin Cerrah 15 Felix Ferber 16 Katrin Fedrowitz 17 Mats Marti Hansen 18 Martina Claussen 19 Tobias Schloo 20 Miriam Huppermann
Green list # Candidate Constituency 1 Kiel 2 Robert Habeck Flensburg – Schleswig 3 Steinburg – Dithmarschen Süd 4 Herzogtum Lauenburg – Stormarn-Süd 5 Denise Loop Nordfriesland – Dithmarschen Nord 6 Bruno Hönel Lübeck 7 Kerstin Mock-Hofeditz 8 Jakob Blasel Rendsburg-Eckernförde 9 Marlene Langholz-Kaiser 10 Jens Herrndorff Pinneberg 11 Jessica Kordouni 12 Jakob Brunken Ostholstein – Stormarn-Nord 13 Ulrike Täck 14 Nils Bollenbach Segeberg – Stormarn-Mitte 15 Nadine Mai 16 Martin Drees Plön – Neumünster 17 Uta Röpcke 18 Dirk Kock-Rohwer 19 Nelly Waldeck 20 Luca Jan Köpping 21 Hannah Wolf 22 Lydia Johanna Rudow 23 Hildegard Bedarff 24 Jonathan Morsch 25 Dorothee Schnitzler
AfD list # Candidate Constituency 1 Uwe Witt Ostholstein – Stormarn-Nord 2 Gereon Bollmann Rendsburg-Eckernförde 3 Kerstin Przygodda 4 Wiebke Neumann Herzogtum Lauenburg – Stormarn-Süd 5 Eike Julius Reimers Kiel 6 Joachim Rudi Schneider Pinneberg 7 Martina Dibbern 8 Sven Wendorf Segeberg – Stormarn-Mitte
FDP list # Candidate Constituency 1 Steinburg – Dithmarschen Süd 2 Nordfriesland – Dithmarschen Nord 3 Rendsburg-Eckernförde 4 Maximilian Mordhorst Kiel 5 Philpp Rösch Pinneberg 6 Christoph Anastasiadis Flensburg – Schleswig 7 Heike Stegemann Lübeck 8 Martin Turowski Herzogtum Lauenburg – Stormarn-Süd 9 Gunnar Schulz Plön – Neumünster 10 Jan Schupp Segeberg – Stormarn-Mitte 11 Tobias Heisig
Left list # Candidate Constituency 1 Pinneberg 2 Kiel 3 Katrine Hoop Flensburg – Schleswig 4 Susanne Spethmann Ostholstein – Stormarn-Nord 5 Sophie Bachmann 6 Maximilian Reimers
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern # Constituency CDU/CSU SPD GRÜNE AfD FDP LINKE Other 12 Schwerin – Ludwigslust-Parchim I – Nordwestmecklenburg I Reem Alaball-Radovan Claudia Tamm Steffen Beckmann Yannik Meffert Ina Latendorf Alrik Stoffers (PARTEI)Anja Klähn (FW)Bert Beckmann (MLPD)Eberhard Gericke (dieBasis)Karsten Jagau (Piraten) 13 Ludwigslust-Parchim II – Nordwestmecklenburg II – Landkreis Rostock I Simone Borchardt Frank Junge Martin Mölau Andreas-Michael Mrachacz Daniel Bohl Judith Keller Torsten Neitzel (FW)Stephanie Zajonc (dieBasis)Rainer Löwe (Ind.) 14 Rostock – Landkreis Rostock II Katrin Zschau Andreas Tesche Tobias Pontow Hagen Reinhold Dietmar Bartsch Seraphine Jörn (Tierschutz)Christine Dubberke (FW)Eric Dunst (MLPD)Susanne Kreft (dieBasis)Jan-Peter Rühmann (Piraten) 15 Vorpommern-Rügen – Vorpommern-Greifswald I Georg Günther Anna Kassautzki Claudia Müller Leif-Erik Holm Sebastian Adler Kerstin Kassner Robert Gabel (Tierschutz)Mark Pistor (PARTEI)Heidelind Holthusen (FW)Karl-Heinz Schulze (MLPD)Sylvio Schmeller (dieBasis)Friedrich Smyra (Piraten) 16 Mecklenburgische Seenplatte I – Vorpommern-Greifswald II Erik von Malottki Katharina Horn Enrico Komning Christian Bartelt Toni Jaschinski Anja Hübner (Tierschutz)Matthias Andiel (FW)Wolfgang Wodarg (dieBasis)Sören Krüger (Ind.)Sophie Maus (Ind.) 17 Mecklenburgische Seenplatte II – Landkreis Rostock III Stephan Bunge Johannes Arlt Falk Jagszent Ulrike Schielke-Ziesing Tobias Schubert Amina Kanew Klaus-Dieter Gabbert (FW)Lena Goltz (MLPD)
CDU list # Candidate Constituency 1 Mecklenburgische Seenplatte I – Vorpommern-Greifswald II 2 Schwerin – Ludwigslust-Parchim I – Nordwestmecklenburg I 3 Simone Borchardt Ludwigslust-Parchim II – Nordwestmecklenburg II – Landkreis Rostock I 4 Georg Günther Vorpommern-Rügen – Vorpommern-Greifswald I 5 Stephan Bunge Mecklenburgische Seenplatte II – Landkreis Rostock III 6 Rostock – Landkreis Rostock II 7 Theresa Schöler 8 Hannelore Glagla
SPD list # Candidate Constituency 1 Ludwigslust-Parchim II – Nordwestmecklenburg II – Landkreis Rostock I 2 Anna Kassautzki Vorpommern-Rügen – Vorpommern-Greifswald I 3 Erik von Malottki Mecklenburgische Seenplatte I – Vorpommern-Greifswald II 4 Katrin Zschau Rostock – Landkreis Rostock II 5 Johannes Arlt Mecklenburgische Seenplatte II – Landkreis Rostock III 6 Reem Alabali-Radovan Schwerin – Ludwigslust-Parchim I – Nordwestmecklenburg I 7 Christian Reinke 8 Lena Gerber 9 Johannes Barsch 10 Peggy Lehm 11 Janna Schulz
Green list # Candidate Constituency 1 Vorpommern-Rügen – Vorpommern-Greifswald I 2 Katharina Horn Mecklenburgische Seenplatte I – Vorpommern-Greifswald II 3 Regina Dorfmann 4 Andreas Tesche Rostock – Landkreis Rostock II