2025 Hamburg state election

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2025 Hamburg state election
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  2020 2 March 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 2 March 2025. [1]

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 was represented by a non-attached member of parliament. Another member, Sami Musa, joined in January 2022, bringing the number of FDP seats to two, after leaving the SPD in September 2021. The party was reduced to a single seat when von Treuenfels-Frowein defected to the CDU in 2024.

The Second Tschentscher senate was formed as a red–green coalition. [2]

Opinion polls

Polling firmFieldwork dateSample
size
SPD Grüne CDU Linke AfD FDP Volt BSW OthersLead
Trend Research Hamburg 5–10 Dec 2024886322017710434412
Infratest dimap 20–25 Nov 20241,1773021196933489
Forsa 24–28 Oct 20241,0173021215844711
EP election 9 Jun 202418.721.218.45.18.07.05.94.99.72.5
Wahlkreisprognose 15–25 Apr 20241,3043221.51868.53.528.510.5
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 202129.724.915.46.75.011.40.56.94.8
pmg – policy matters 2–11 Jun 20201,0203723131065414
2020 state election 23 Feb 202039.224.211.29.15.34.91.34.815.0

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