According to a new survey, around a week before the state elections in Lower Saxony, the SPD led by Prime Minister Stephan Weil is further ahead of the CDU. This is the result of the ZDF “political barometer” from Friday, for which the research group elections interviewed a total of 1023 eligible voters.
The SPD would therefore come to 32 percent. The CDU with challenger Bernd Althusmann is at 27 percent, followed by the Greens with 16 percent and the AfD with 11 percent. The FDP would have to tremble with 5 percent to remain in the state parliament. The left would miss the entry with 4 percent.
The state elections in Lower Saxony are on October 9th. The SPD and CDU are currently governing in a grand coalition in Lower Saxony. In the 2017 election, the SPD (36.9 percent) became the strongest force, followed by the CDU (33.6 percent), the Greens (8.7 percent), the FDP (7.5 percent) and the AfD (6.2 percent). .
For the survey from September 26th to 29th, the Wahlen research group interviewed a total of 1023 randomly selected voters in Lower Saxony by telephone. Election polls are generally subject to uncertainties. Among other things, declining party ties and increasingly short-term voting decisions make it difficult for the opinion research institutes to weight the data they collect. In principle, surveys only reflect the opinion at the time of the survey and are not a forecast for the outcome of the election.
