Hard on the heels of national election losses, Angela Merkel’s CDU suffered another setback in yesterday’s regional election in Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony). Having been clearly ahead in the August and early September opinion polls, and with hopes of taking the state after the defection of a Green MP had led to an early election, the […]
Tag: German regional elections
CDU and SPD tie twice as Lower Saxony vote nears
In a dramatic polling turnaround, two surveys in the last 24 hours have shown CDU and SPD tied in Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen), where regional elections will take place on Sunday 15 October. The contrast with three polls carried out in the state in August is stark – these gave the CDU leads of 12, 8 […]
Election result: Nordrhein-Westfalen regional parliament 2017
Angela Merkel’s CDU completed a hat-trick of 2017 state election wins on Sunday with a stunning victory in Nordrhein-Westfalen. Of the three, this result is by far the most significant, by virtue not only of the size and political clout of ‘NRW’, but also the scale of the turnaround, which saw a switch in control […]
Election result: Schleswig-Holstein regional parliament 2017
Angela Merkel’s CDU scored its second regional victory of 2017 yesterday in the northern state of Schleswig-Holstein, beating the locally-ruling SPD by a surprising five point margin. Five years ago the gap between the two major parties was just 0.4 per cent. The result puts an end to the ‘Coastal Coalition’ of Social Democrats, Greens […]
Northern test is next for Merkel and Schulz
One month tomorrow, on 7 May, 2.8 million citizens of the north German state of Schleswig-Holstein will elect a new regional parliament – in the second of three such votes before September’s national parliamentary election. Today’s Infratest dimap poll for regional broadcaster Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) is therefore timely. Snug against the Danish border, Schleswig has […]
Major failure for pollsters in Saarland vote
With the provisional official results just out in tonight’s regional election in Saarland, it is clear the opinion polls have failed to pick up the resilience of Angela Merkel’s CDU and over-estimated the ‘Schulz effect’ from the SPD’s recent change of leader. All six polls carried out in March (by four different firms) […]