2025 Hamburg state election explained

Election Name:2025 Hamburg state election
Country:Hamburg
Type:parliamentary
Ongoing:no
Previous Election:2020 Hamburg state election
Previous Year:2020
Seats For Election:All 123 seats in the Hamburg Parliament
Majority Seats:62
Election Date:2025
Party1:Social Democratic Party of Germany
Last Election1:54 seats, 39.2%
Party2:Alliance 90/The Greens
Last Election2:33 seats, 24.2%
Party3:Christian Democratic Union of Germany
Last Election3:15 seats, 11.2%
Party4:The Left (Germany)
Last Election4:13 seats, 9.1%
Party5:Alternative for Germany
Last Election5:7 seats, 5.3%
Party6:Free Democratic Party (Germany)
Last Election6:1 seats, 4.9%
Government
Before Election:Second Tschentscher senate
Before Party:SPD–Green
Posttitle:Government after election

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

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
SPDGrüneCDULinkeAfDFDPBSWOthersLead
Wahlkreisprognose15–25 Apr 20241,3043221.51868.53.528.510.5
Infratest dimap1–5 Feb 20241,16430212079589
Trend Research Hamburg17–24 Oct 20231,06831191810144412
Wahlkreisprognose24 Sep–2 Oct 20231,00024.521.5218.51338.53
Wahlkreisprognosedata-sort-value="2022-09-16"9–16 Sep 202295032271587655
Wahlkreisprognosedata-sort-value="2022-01-29"24–29 Jan 20221,0004026.5106575.513.5
2021 federal election26 Sep 202129.724.915.46.75.011.46.94.8
pmg – policy mattersdata-sort-value="2020-06-11"2–11 Jun 20201,0203723131065414
2020 state electiondata-sort-value="2020-02-23" 23 Feb 202039.224.211.29.15.34.96.115.0

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 4 June 2020 . Red-Green agree on coalition agreement . . de.