Chancellor Friedrich Merz's Christian Democratic Union won 17.2% of the vote. Behind them, the Social Democrats garnered 9.3%, the Greens took 8.9%, and the Left Party received 8.6%. Nationally, surveys indicate the party holds 28% support in Germany.

Despite the election outcome, the party remains barred from governing through a combination of a mainstream party firewall and a classification by Germany's domestic intelligence agency, which categorizes the Saxony-Anhalt branch as right-wing extremist. The party rejects this classification as politically motivated.

The party's platform includes strict immigration restrictions, deportations under the term remigration, removing the euro, and reducing Holocaust education. Professor Lars Rensmann stated that the party has embedded antisemitism into its core ideology. Josef Schuster, president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, described the group as a declared enemy of our open society.

In the Bundestag, Merz accused the party of advocating ethnic cleansing based on origin and skin color through its remigration policy. Merz warned that this policy would negatively impact skilled trades, nursing homes, hospitals, and restaurants. International reaction included Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk stating that only idiots and traitors can rejoice at the triumph of the AfD.