1998–2025 · 8 elections · DEU
SAGE has legislative election results for Germany from 8 elections between 1998 and 2025: 1998, 2002, 2005, 2009, 2013, 2017, 2021 and 2025. The smallest unit is the polling station. The 2025 election has 93,948 polling stations, and 98% of them have a location. Unit boundaries are available for every election.
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Units are the smallest units in the data, and located units are those with coordinates. A year with several rows has several contests or votes; filter on them before you add up votes.
| Year | Election type | Vote type | Round | Units | % located | Votes | Polygons | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | Legislative (lower house) | Proportional | 89,038 | 99% | 49,308,512 | yes | [map] | |
| 2002 | Legislative (lower house) | Constituency | 89,437 | 99% | 47,841,724 | yes | [map] | |
| 2005 | Legislative (lower house) | Constituency | 88,456 | 99% | 47,194,062 | yes | [map] | |
| 2009 | Legislative (lower house) | Proportional | 88,390 | 99% | 43,371,190 | yes | [map] | |
| 2013 | Legislative (lower house) | Constituency | 87,607 | 99% | 43,625,042 | yes | [map] | |
| 2017 | Legislative (lower house) | Constituency | 88,072 | 99% | 46,389,615 | yes | [map] | |
| 2021 | Legislative (lower house) | Constituency | 93,864 | 99% | 46,362,013 | yes | [map] | |
| Legislative (lower house) | Proportional | 93,864 | 99% | 46,442,023 | yes | |||
| 2025 | Legislative (lower house) | Constituency | 93,948 | 98% | 49,505,389 | yes | [map] | |
| Legislative (lower house) | Proportional | 93,948 | 98% | 49,649,512 | yes |
csv opens in Excel, Stata, R, or Python. gpkg has the unit boundaries
for QGIS, ArcGIS, R, or Python. parquet has the vote rows as Parquet.
rds is the native R sf object. Each ZIP has a README with the columns.
All years: [csv 252 MB] [gpkg 164 MB] [parquet 219 MB] [rds 68 MB] [codebook 850 KB]
In R or Python:
R: install.packages("sage")
sage::sage_load("Germany", years = 2025)
Python: import sage
sage.sage_load("Germany", years=[2025])
Dasanaike, Noah. “The Small-Area Global Elections (SAGE) Dataset.” Scientific Data (2026). Paper · Harvard Dataverse
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