The AfD is now positioned to make history, with polls suggesting it could become the country’s second-largest political force—a first for a far-right party since World War II.

The margin of error for individual polls is estimated from the poll’s sample size and the number of eligible German voters reported by the German Federal Statistical Office.

Seven EU member states - Croatia, the Czech Republic, Finland, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands and Slovakia already have governments led by far-right political parties. Outside the EU, from Donald Trump’s United States to Javier Milei’s Argentina and Narendra Modi’s India,

Opinion polls suggest that the incumbent coalition between the social democrats and greens will lose badly. It is also likely that a far-right party will finish in second for the first time since the Nazis seized power.

Germany's mainstream political parties lost support while the far-right AfD gained ground in one of the last polls published before the election on Sunday, pointing to likely tricky coalition building that could drag on for months.

Germany's far-left Die Linke party has enjoyed a late poll surge ahead of Sunday's elections, boosted by a spirited anti-fascist speech by its new rising star that quickly went viral.