Bundestag election 2025: Everything runs according to plan in constituency 168!

The preparations for the federal election in constituency 168, which includes the districts of Hersfeld-Rotenburg and Werra-Meißner, are fine despite a close schedule. The election date was preferred to February 23, 2025, report district election manager Dieter Scheer and Tobias Deiseroth. The organization of the choice is on stable feet, and so far no municipality has signaled that the election organization could be at risk.

The recruitment of volunteers is also stable. Despite a high personnel requirement, especially in smaller municipalities, the support is guaranteed. The postal voting remains possible, but the deadlines are shortened, which reminds the voters to take the mail into account in good time. On January 24, the district election committee will meet parties and candidates.

candidates and election statistics

The following direct candidates have applied for the upcoming election: Daniel Iliev from the SPD (Mayor of Heringen), Wilhelm Gebhard from the CDU (Mayor of Wanfried), as well as other candidates such as 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) was able to defend his direct mandate with 43.7% of the vote. The second votes showed the following distribution: SPD 37.2%, CDU 21.5%, AfD 12.4%, FDP 10.2%, green 8.5%, left 3.5%and other parties 6.7%. A total of 176,273 people were entitled to vote, the turnout was 75.87%. For the upcoming election, around 170,000 voters are expected.

Current surveys from Infratest Dimap show the CDU/CSU with 33%of the votes, followed by the AfD with 19%, the SPD with 14%, the Greens with 14%, BSW with 5%, the FDP with 3%, the left with 3%and other parties with 9%. These developments can be important for the upcoming election campaign.

In addition, the Welt of the results of the Bundestag election 2021, in which a total of 60.4 million people were eligible and 299 constituencies exist. The turnout in the Kassel constituency was 74.5%, and 218,446 voters were registered in the entire constituency.