Bremen election 2023: According to polls, the SPD with Mayor Andreas Bovenschulte is ahead. © Hauke-Christian Dittrich/Karsten Klama/dpa/Imago (Montage)
In Bremen, the parliament will be elected on 14 May. In advance, an exciting picture emerges from the surveys. The ticker for the Bremen election 2023.
- The live ticker for the 2023 Bremen election will be updated continuously.
Bremen – The elections in Bremen are imminent. On May 14, 2023, it will be decided who will govern the state in the future. A special feature: The AfD will stay away from the Bremen election. In advance, the polls of the Bremen election 2023 speak for the SPD as the leading party. However, nothing is set in stone yet. Will the SPD become the strongest force in the 2023 election in Bremen after its defeat in 2019?
Bremen election 2023: SPD ahead of Frank Imhoff of the CDU according to polls
Ahead of the 2023 Bremen election, the Social Democrats are currently just ahead of the CDU. According to the ZDF political barometer, the SPD would get 29 percent, the CDU 26 percent and the Greens 13 percent. The Left Party would reach eleven percent, the FDP six percent and the BIW ten percent.
The other parties together would be at five percent, including no party that would achieve at least three percent. Thus, in addition to SPD-led three-party coalitions, there would also be a majority for a coalition of SPD and CDU. Bovenschulte at least wants to keep all options open. In the 2019 state election, the people of Bremen voted for the CDU as the strongest party for the first time. The Social Democrats slipped to a historically poor 2019.24 percent in the 9 Bremen election.
AfD excluded from Bremen election – do "citizens in anger" benefit from the dispute?
The AfD is not allowed in the 2023 Bremen election. From the party in the smallest federal state, which has been divided for years, two competing board members had drawn up lists of candidates for the election of the state parliament. As a result, the state electoral committee did not allow any of the lists for the Bremen electoral area and an AfD list for Bremerhaven was also overturned.
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Because the AfD cannot compete in Bremen, the protest party "Citizens in Anger" is facing a record result in the state elections. Since this news became known, the values of the "citizens in anger", which had not even been specifically reported in the polls, rose quickly from six to nine percent. In the constituency of Bremen, they could cross the five percent hurdle for the first time in the state elections on May 14.
Who are the candidates in the state elections in Bremen?
Since the 2019 Bremen state election, there has been a red-green-red state government consisting of the SPD, the Greens and the Left Party. The current mayor and president of the Senate is Andreas Bovenschulte. He is running as the top candidate for the SPD in the 2023 Bremen election.
The Greens are sending the current climate protection senator Maike Schaefer into the election campaign as their top candidate. With 81.3 percent of the vote, Schaefer was elected to first place on the state list at a delegates' meeting in September. Bremen's current Senator for Economic Affairs, Kristina Vogt, is leading the election campaign of the Left Party. Frank Imhoff was unanimously elected as the CDU's top candidate for the 2023 Bremen state election. For the FDP, top candidate Thore Schäck is running, who wants to advocate for more police officers. The lead candidate for the BIW (Citizens in Fury) party is Piet Leidreiter
Election results after the 2023 state election: counting could take time
The election will take place on Sunday (14 May). The polling stations for the Bremen election will be open until 18:00 p.m. After the closing of the polling stations, however, there will be forecasts on the outcome of the Bremen election from 18:00. First of all, these are surveys by opinion research institutes.
An official projection by the returning officer of the parliamentary election is not to be made until around 21.30 p.m. On Monday (15 May), the provisional final result for the 2023 Bremen election is to be announced for the electoral area in Bremerhaven. In Bremen, it could take longer for all ballots to be counted. A preliminary result could perhaps even be announced on Wednesday, it said.
