Status: 09.10.2022 18:09
The polling stations are closed and the forecast is available: According to this, the SPD has become the strongest force in the state elections in Lower Saxony. The FDP can hope to remain in the state parliament.
According to the forecast by infratest dimap, the SPD won 33.5 percent of the votes. That is a decrease of 3.3 percentage points compared to 2017. The CDU, previously government partner in the grand coalition, is in second place with 27.5 percent (minus 6.1 percentage points). The Greens come to 14 percent (plus 5.3), the AfD to 11.5 (plus 5.3). As expected, the FDP has to tremble, but in this first forecast it comes to 5 percent and can hope to defend its place in the state parliament. The left missed out on entering the state parliament: According to the forecast, they could only claim 2.5 percent of the votes (minus 2.1). 6 percent unite other parties.
Allocation of seats in Parliament
According to the figures from 6 p.m., which are only based on surveys of voters, the SPD would have 50 seats in the Lower Saxony state parliament, the CDU 41, the Greens 20. The AfD would have only slightly fewer seats with 17. The FDP would have 7 seats. This distribution applies in the event that the FDP makes it into the state parliament.
Voter turnout has fallen
Almost 6.1 million Lower Saxony were called to vote – that is almost 76 percent of all residents of the state. Among those entitled to vote were around 215,000 young voters who were allowed to vote in a state election for the first time. The turnout is according to preliminary information at 60 percent. That is around three percent less than in the 2017 state election. The proportion of postal voters, on the other hand, has risen sharply: from 19.9 percent in 2017 to 28.5 percent now.
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