Overview
- The party says it now counts roughly 120,000 members, up from about 50,800 at the end of 2023 after the Wagenknecht split and loss of Bundestag group status.
- According to its membership administration, about 64,000 people joined in 2025, including 26,000 since the federal election, with roughly 70 new sign-ups per day.
- The new cohort skews young with an average age of 38.62 years, and the rolls include about 53,000 women, 61,000 men and roughly 5,400 people listed as diverse or without a stated gender.
- Membership is concentrated in North Rhine-Westphalia (22,315), followed by Berlin (around 16,500), Saxony (about 11,000) and Saxony-Anhalt (about 4,000).
- Co-chair Ines Schwerdtner links the surge to the party’s outreach as it prepares for regional contests, and the party is running a broad member survey while other parties also report growth, with the Greens near 170,000, the AfD around 70,000 and BSW about 4,500.