Strategic Voting Against AfD in Germany's 2025 Federal Election

Offering replication data for a study analyzing strategic candidate voting to block the radical right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in the 2025 federal election. The data was authored by Sven Hillen and J. Kuhlmann and was last updated in February 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze patterns of strategic candidate voting against the AfD party in the 2025 federal election.
• Replicate statistical models from the associated political science publication.
• Examine electoral behavior and voter coordination in the context of a radical right party.

Strengths

• Data is directly linked to a peer-reviewed publication in Politische Vierteljahresschrift with a DOI.
• Dataset was updated in February 2026, indicating recent maintenance.
• Hosted on the Harvard Dataverse, a recognized academic data repository.

Limitations

• The specific variables, file formats, and data structure are not described in the input.
• The sample size and number of observations are unknown.
• The data's scope is limited to a single election in one country.

Provenance

Source

Harvard Dataverse.

Collection Method

Replication data for an academic study; collection method not specified.

Time Range

Covers Germany's 2025 Federal Election.

Freshness

Last updated on 2026-02-06.

Geography

Germany.