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In Lower Saxony, 6.1 million people are called to the state elections on Sunday. The polling stations close at 6 p.m. and the first forecasts are available – the first projections are expected around 6.30 p.m.
According to the latest polls from the last two weeks before the election, the ruling SPD will again be the strongest political force, at between 31 and 33 percent. Your coalition partner CDU is between 27 and 30 percent - the gap to the Social Democrats varies between two and five percentage points.
The Greens are between 16 and 19 percent, the AfD between 9 and 11 percent. The FDP is at 5 percent in all four institutes (research group Wahlen, Insa, Infratest dimap and Forsa), so they have to worry about re-entering the state parliament in Hanover. As a result, the left will miss it again – with the last poll values between 3 and 4 percent probably even relatively clear. All other parties together were between 4.5 and 6 percent.
A total of 23 parties are running for election, 14 with a state list. Nine parties therefore only put forward direct candidates for their constituency. The state electoral committee did not approve the state lists from Bündnis C and the Center Party because they could not show the 2,000 signatures of supporters needed for approval.
These parties are up for election on October 9th: SPD, CDU, Greens, FDP, AfD, Linke, Die Basis, Freie Wahler, Die Humanisten, The Party, Party for Health Research, Animal Welfare Party, Pirates, Volt, SGV (Solidarity, Justice, Change), Alliance C, Center Party (each state list not permitted), DiB (democracy on the move), The Frisians, The Sharks - Party with Bite, The Others, ÖDP and Team Todenhöfer - The Justice Party (all without a state list).
A grand coalition of SPD and CDU led by Prime Minister Stephan Weil (SPD) has governed Lower Saxony for five years. She replaced the red-green government of SPD and Greens, also led by Weil, which had lost its one-vote majority after the Green Elke Twesten left the parliamentary group, making new elections necessary.
The CDU is again running with Bernd Athusmann as its lead candidate, who has served as economics minister and deputy prime minister for the past five years. Julia Willie Hamburg and Christian Meyer are the top duo of the Greens, Stefan Birkner is the top candidate of the FDP, Stefan Marzischewski-Drewes of the AfD.
On October 15, 2017, the SPD became the strongest party with 36.9 percent (plus 4.3 percentage points compared to 2013) ahead of the CDU with 33.6 percent (minus 2.4 percentage points). The Greens, the third strongest party, lost 5.0 percentage points to 8.7 percent, the FDP lost 2.4 percentage points and reached 7.5 percent.
The AfD competed for the first time and made it into the state parliament with 6.2 percent, which the left failed to achieve with 4.6 percent despite an increase of 1.5 percentage points. All other parties together came to 2.5 percent (minus 2.2 percentage points compared to 2013). The turnout was 63.1 percent – the third lowest figure in Lower Saxony state elections since 1947.
This resulted in the following distribution of seats: SPD 55, CDU 50, Greens 12, FDP 11, AfD 9. With a total of 137 seats, the SPD and CDU had an extremely comfortable absolute majority of 105 seats. The AfD parliamentary group dissolved in September 2020, and since then only four parliamentary groups have been represented in the state parliament.
