Bochum, Stadt: AfD would now come first, ahead of SPD
Bochum, Stadt (Nordrhein-Westfalen) has 264,445 voters. Below: how it voted at the federal election of February 2025, and the same figures moved to today's national polls. Municipal elections are set by each Land, on different dates.
- 264,445voters
- 20.8%AfD on today's polls (Germany: 27.6%)
- 24.5%SPD, first at the federal election of February 2025
Today's polls here, against the federal election of February 2025
- AfD 15.2% → 20.8%
- SPD 24.5% → 20.8%
- Greens 13.8% → 17.6%
- CDU/CSU 23.3% → 16.6%
- Linke 11.5% → 13.7%
- FDP 3.5% → 3.2%
- BSW 4.1% → 2.5%
- Others 4.0% → 4.8%
Pale bar: the federal election of February 2025; solid: today's national polls carried down to Bochum, Stadt (each party moves by its national change, half by the same number of points and half in proportion, scaled so that every Gemeinde adds up to the national average). Our national polls: Germany forecast →
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About Bochum, Stadt
Bochum, Stadt has 264,445 voters, the 6th largest of 396 in Nordrhein-Westfalen and 16th of 10,648 across Germany.
At the federal election of February 2025 it voted SPD 24.5%, CDU/CSU 23.3%, AfD 15.2%. SPD did 8 points better here than across Germany.
Moved to today's national polls, our projection here has AfD on 20.8% and SPD on 20.8%.
Gemeinden of a similar size in Nordrhein-Westfalen
- Münster, Stadt237,654 voters · Greens first
- Bielefeld, Stadt231,967 voters · Greens first
- Wuppertal, Stadt228,470 voters · AfD first
- Bonn, Stadt228,194 voters · Greens first
- Duisburg, Stadt312,352 voters · AfD first
- Mönchengladbach, Stadt181,209 voters · AfD first
- Essen, Stadt397,968 voters · AfD first
- Dortmund, Stadt399,163 voters · AfD first
Every Gemeinde in Nordrhein-Westfalen → · All of Germany →
Die Bundeswahlleiterin, Wiesbaden 2025 (dl-de/by-2-0): Bundestag election of 23 February 2025, second votes by polling district, summed by Gemeinde. Postal votes counted for a group of Gemeinden appear under the Gemeinde that counted them.