Bavaria chooses: Shorter deadline for postal voting causes excitement!

Bavaria chooses: Shorter deadline for postal voting causes excitement!

voters in Bavaria must expect shorter deadlines for postal voting in the upcoming early Bundestag election. According to a report by 2025-01/07/bayerns-wahlsiter-auf-kuerzere-fuer-brief-achten">, the voters only have about two weeks to fill out and return their postal voting documents. This period is significantly shorter than the previous four to five weeks.

The postal voting documents are expected to be sent from February 10, 2025, and voters should receive them by mid -February. The final candidate approval for the election is expected on January 30, 2025. At the same time, the possibility of postal voting is offered directly in the municipality, where voters can pick up, fill out and submit the documents. Around 30% of the letter voters in Bavaria are currently using this method.

postal voting and turnout

Postal voting represents an important alternative to the urn election and is considered a constitutional model. The proportion of letter voters in Bavaria will not increase further, as the previous figures show: The proportion was over 60% in 2021 and fell to around 55% in 2023. The age structure of the eligible voters also changes. In 1990 19.7% of the eligible voters were 65 years and older, while this share increased to an estimated 28.7% by 2025.

In total, there are around 9.2 million people entitled to vote in Bavaria, including 362,000 first voters. In addition, a decline in the young voters between the ages of 18 and 25 can be determined, from 13% in 1990 to only 8.5% in 2025.

In a general consideration of the turnout, it can be seen that 76.4% of the election eligible in 2021 will make their vote in the Bundestag election, which represents increasing turnout for the third time in a row. As the Federal Center for Political Education reported, the lowest turnout was 70.8% in 2009, while the highest election sharing with 90.8% in 1972 was.

-transmitted by West-Ost-Medien