Essen, Stadt: AfD would now come first, ahead of CDU/CSU
Essen, Stadt (Nordrhein-Westfalen) has 397,968 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.
- 397,968voters
- 23.1%AfD on today's polls (Germany: 27.6%)
- 26.5%CDU/CSU, first at the federal election of February 2025
Today's polls here, against the federal election of February 2025
- AfD 17.0% → 23.1%
- CDU/CSU 26.5% → 19.1%
- SPD 22.2% → 18.8%
- Greens 12.4% → 16.1%
- Linke 9.5% → 11.5%
- FDP 4.0% → 3.7%
- BSW 4.4% → 2.7%
- Others 4.0% → 4.8%
Pale bar: the federal election of February 2025; solid: today's national polls carried down to Essen, 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 →
Gemeinden of a similar size in Nordrhein-Westfalen
- Dortmund, Stadt399,163 voters · AfD first
- Düsseldorf, Stadt413,320 voters · Greens first
- Duisburg, Stadt312,352 voters · AfD first
- Bochum, Stadt264,445 voters · AfD first
- Münster, Stadt237,654 voters · Greens first
- Bielefeld, Stadt231,967 voters · Greens first
- Wuppertal, Stadt228,470 voters · AfD first
- Bonn, Stadt228,194 voters · Greens 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.