German election poll tracker: who will be the next chancellor?

Find out who is leading the polling to succeed Angela Merkel as chancellor of Germany

Germans will vote on Sunday 26 September to elect a new Bundestag, or federal parliament. The result - after coalition negotiations likely to involve two or three parties - will decide who will succeed Angela Merkel, who is standing down after 16 years as chancellor.

Some recent polls put Germany's Green party in the lead, as Merkel's successor at the conservative CDU, Armin Laschet, struggles to inherit her appeal, but the governing party has since recovered a little ground.