Polls for Lower Saxony elections: Sobering for Althusmann - Weil can be happy

Created: 08/31/2022, 17:22

By: Victoria Krumbeck

Economics Minister Bernd Althusmann (CDU) and Prime Minister Stephan Weil (SPD).

© Mohssen Assanimoghaddam/picture alliance/dpa

A few weeks before the state elections in Lower Saxony, surveys show the mood of the voters.

Two surveys put the same party ahead.

Munich - On October 9th, a new state parliament will be elected in Lower Saxony.

Two survey institutes see the SPD with its candidate and incumbent Prime Minister Stephan Weil in front.

The CDU with challenger and Economics Minister Bernd Althusmann is a few percentage points behind the SPD.

The Greens are in the double digits.

A continuation of the grand coalition would be possible.

However, the SPD and CDU could also enter into a coalition with the Greens.

State elections in Lower Saxony: According to polls, the SPD is ahead

In the survey by Infratest dimap, the SPD is four percentage points ahead of the CDU with 31 percent - and has gained one percentage point compared to July.

The CDU remains in second place with 27 percent.

The Greens follow at a distance, losing three percentage points and only reaching 19 percent.

The Greens are only represented in the current state parliament with 8.7 percent.

The AfD gained one percentage point and ended up at 7 percent.

Closely followed by the FDP, which lost a point and is enacted at 6 percent.

It could be tight for Die Linke.

Because Infratest dimap does not see the party in the state parliament with four percent.

Other parties come to 6 percent.

Lower Saxony survey: Left probably not in the state parliament again

In the Forsa survey results, the SPD lost one percentage point.

At 29 percent, it is also ahead of the CDU, but the two parties are only separated by three percent.

The Greens land at 22 percent in the Forsa survey.

Far behind is the AfD, which has gained one point and is at 8 percent.

The result of the FDP is the same in both surveys, it comes to 6 percent here too.

It hits the left even harder - they land at 3 percent and are still far from the five percent hurdle.

Other parties receive a full 6 percent.

Infratest dimap surveyed 1,169 eligible voters in Lower Saxony for the Norddeutscher Rundfunk.

The Forsa Institute collected data from 2,000 eligible voters for daily newspapers in Lower Saxony.