Overview

• In a secret two‑hour ballot, all three candidates cleared the two‑thirds threshold, with Sigrid Emmenegger at 446 yes votes, Ann‑Katrin Kaufhold at 440 and Günter Spinner at 424 out of 613 cast.
• The vote used a single ballot listing all three names, requiring both two thirds of votes cast and at least a majority of all members’ votes.
• The Greens signaled support for the full slate, the Left backed the two SPD nominees and let members decide freely on the Union’s candidate Spinner.
• The outcome followed July’s aborted vote and the SPD’s replacement of Frauke Brosius‑Gersdorf with Emmenegger after internal Union resistance.
• The three will serve 12‑year terms in Karlsruhe, filling the immediate vacancies in a process that the German Judges Association called a relief after the summer’s turmoil.