Bundestag election 2025: First forecasts and exciting candidates in the race!

Bundestag election 2025: First forecasts and exciting candidates in the race!

On January 7, 2025, the preparations for the upcoming federal election in constituency 168 (Hersfeld-Rotenburg and Werra-Meißner) are in full swing. Despite a close schedule, the organizers are optimistic. The election date was preferred to February 23, 2025. District election manager Dieter Scheer and Tobias Deiseroth report stable conditions for organizing the election.

However, the municipalities are faced with additional personnel burden, especially smaller communities that are limited in personnel. So far, no municipalities have reported that the organization of the election was endangered. The recruitment of volunteers is stable. The possibility of postal voting remains, but the deadlines are shortened and the postal route must be taken into account. On January 24th, a meeting of the district election committee for the admission of parties and candidates will take place.

candidates and surveys

Several direct candidates compete for the upcoming election: Daniel Iliev (SPD), Wilhelm Gebhard (CDU), Awet Tesfaiesus (Greens), Alexander Bartholomäus (FDP), Gerhard Schenk (AfD), Colin Rimbach (Volt), Anja Zilch (Free Voters) and Silvia Hable (Left). In the last federal election in 2021, Michael Roth (SPD) defended his direct mandate with 43.7 %. The second votes from 2021 were distributed to the parties as follows: SPD 37.2 %, CDU 21.5 %, AfD 12.4 %, FDP 10.2 %, green 8.5 %, left 3.5 %and other parties 6.7 %. The number of voters was 176,273 people, with a turnout of 75.87 %.

for the upcoming election will be expected to decrease to around 170,000 people with a decline in voters. Current surveys from Infratest dimap show the CDU/CSU with 33 % of the votes at the top, followed by the AfD with 19 %, the SPD with 14 % and the Greens also with 14 %. The BSW also achieved 5 %, the FDP 3 %, the left 3 %and the other parties 9 %.

The Bundestag election 2021 had clear results in Kassel, according to the Welt . Timon Gremmels (SPD) won the direct mandate in the Kassel constituency with 36.1 % of the first votes. A total of 218,446 voters were registered in the Kassel constituency, with the turnout was 74.5 %. The results of the second votes showed that the SPD also dominated 32.2 %, followed by the Greens with 18.9 % and the CDU with 17.5 %.