2025 Hamburg state election

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2025 Hamburg state election
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  2020 2025

All 123 seats in the Hamburg Parliament
62 seats needed for a majority
 First partySecond partyThird party
 
Party SPD Greens CDU
Last election54 seats, 39.2%33 seats, 24.2%15 seats, 11.2%

 Fourth partyFifth partySixth party
 
Party Left AfD FDP
Last election13 seats, 9.1%7 seats, 5.3%1 seats, 4.9%

Government before election

Second Tschentscher senate
SPDGreen

Government after election

TBD

The next election to the Hamburg Parliament is scheduled for 2025.

Contents

Background

In 2020, the SPD came first, losing four seats but coming ahead of the Greens by a large margin. The Greens almost doubled their share of the vote. The CDU achieved its worst ever result in a Hamburg general election, with 11.2 percent, while the left took 9.1 percent, its best. The AfD just managed to get back in with 5.3 percent of the votes.

The FDP, on the other hand, fell just short of the five percent hurdle with 4.96 percent and missed out on entering parliament for the first time since 2008. However, because of a direct mandate from its top candidate, Anna-Elisabeth von Treuenfels-Frowein, in the Blankenese constituency, the FDP is represented by a non-attached member of parliament.

The Second Tschentscher senate was formed as a Red-Green coalition. [1]

Opinion polls

Polling firmFieldwork dateSample
size
SPD Grüne CDU Linke AfD FDP OthersLead
Infratest dimap 1–5 Feb 20241,16430212079589
Trend Research Hamburg 17–24 Oct 20231,06831191810144412
Wahlkreisprognose 24 Sep–2 Oct 20231,00024.521.5218.51338.53
Wahlkreisprognose 9–16 Sep 202295032271587655
Wahlkreisprognose 24–29 Jan 20221,0004026.5106575.513.5
2021 federal election 26 Sep 202129.724.915.46.75.011.46.94.8
pmg – policy matters 2–11 Jun 20201,0203723131065414
2020 state election 23 Feb 202039.224.211.29.15.34.96.115.0

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References

  1. "Red-Green agree on coalition agreement". Radio Hamburg (in German). 4 June 2020.

See also