Election to the 19th state parliament of Lower Saxony
The election to the 19th state parliament of Lower Saxony is expected to take place in 2022.
Suffrage
The seats in the state parliament are assigned according to the D'Hondt procedure . There is a five percent hurdle .
If a party receives more seats through the first votes in the constituencies than it is entitled to through the second share of votes, these mandates remain as overhang mandates . The number of seats is increased by these overhang seats and an equal number of compensation seats and the distribution of seats is recalculated using the D'Hondt method. If there are also overhang mandates after this, they remain in place without compensation.
Starting position
Previous election 2017
The SPD gained more votes and became the strongest party with 36.9 percent, followed by the CDU with 33.5 percent. The Greens and FDP lost their approval, but were again the third and fourth strongest force in the state parliament. The AfD reached 6.1 percent when it first appeared and thus reached the state parliament, which the left narrowly missed with 4.6 percent.
Due to the losses of the Greens, the red-green state government lost its majority and was replaced by a red-black coalition made up of the SPD and CDU. Stephan Weil remained Prime Minister. With 105 out of 137 seats, this government coalition has the second largest parliamentary majority of all 16 German state governments, only in Saarland this is even more pronounced.
Parties previously represented in the state parliament
| Parliamentary group / national association | Order code drawing |
Seats | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Social Democratic Party of Germany | SPD | 54 | |
| Christian Democratic Union of Germany | CDU | 50 | |
| Alliance 90 / The Greens | GREEN | 12 | |
| Free Democratic Party | FDP | 11 | |
| Alternative for Germany | AfD | 9 | |
| Non-attached | 1 | ||
Other parties and candidates
Parties that are not represented in the federal or state parliament or that obtained at least 5 percent of the valid votes in Lower Saxony in the last federal election must submit at least 2,000 supporters 'signatures for a state list and 100 supporters' signatures for each district election proposal. Individual applicants also need 100 support signatures each.
Survey
Current polls
| Institute | date | SPD | CDU | Green | FDP | AfD | left | Otherwise. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Forsa | 04.06.2020 | 30% | 32% | 16% | 5% | 5% | 6% | 6% |
| Forsa | 02/11/2019 | 28% | 30% | 17% | 7% | 8th % | 5% | 5% |
| Infratest dimap | 11/22/2018 | 26% | 28% | 24% | 6% | 9% | 4% | 3% |
| INSA | 11/21/2018 | 26% | 27% | 17% | 10% | 12% | 5% | 3% |
| Forsa | 02/25/2018 | 33% | 33% | 10% | 8th % | 6% | 6% | 4% |
| State election 2017 | October 15, 2017 | 36.9% | 33.6% | 8.7% | 7.5% | 6.2% | 4.6% | 2.5% |
course
Direct election of Prime Minister
| Institute | date |
 Stephan Weil ( SPD )
|
 Bernd Althusmann ( CDU )
|
none of the questions asked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Forsa | 04.06.2020 | 55% | 14% | - |
| Infratest dimap | 11/22/2018 | 53% | 26% | 9% |
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Explanations on Lower Saxony suffrage , on wahlracht.de
- ↑ a b c d e surveys on LTW in Lower Saxony , on wahlrecht.de
- ↑ Survey: 76 percent satisfied with Corona policy in the country , on sueddeutsche.de, accessed on June 4, 2020.
- ↑ Direct election of Prime Minister , on infratest-dimap.de, accessed on November 22, 2018.
