Rüdershausen: results of the 2026 local elections and the 2025 federal election
In the local elections on 13 September 2026, CDU became the largest group on the council of Rüdershausen with 56.8% (5 of 9 seats).
In the federal election on 23 February 2025, CDU led in Rüdershausen with 40.6% of the second votes, SPD took 21.0%.
- Turnout56.5% · Göttingen (Wkr. 052, 053) 83.1% · Germany 82.5%
- Voters379 of 671 eligible voters
- Stands out against Lower SaxonyCDU +12.5 · Grüne −6.2 · FDP −3.0
- First votes: leadingCDU candidate
- Constituency53 Göttingen I
Postal votes were counted at collective-municipality level; polling-station votes only shown here.
2026 local elections in Rüdershausen
On 13 September 2026, Lower Saxony elected its councils, district councils, mayors and district administrators. Below, the preliminary result for Rüdershausen, as of 13.09.2026 21:04. All districts and municipalities: Lower Saxony local elections 2026.
- Largest group: municipal councilCDU 56.8% · 5 of 9 seats
- Samtgemeinde councilCDU 48.4% in the Samtgemeinde Gieboldehausen
- District council, votes from the Samtgemeinde GieboldehausenCDU 41.3%
- Turnout74.0% · district council election 67.5%
- CDU56.8% · 5 seats
- SPD20.3% · 2 seats
- BüLi14.3% · 1 seat
- AfD8.7% · 1 seat
Turnout 74.0% · 674 eligible voters · 9 seats · Official final result
Source: Samtgemeinde Gieboldehausen, Local elections 2026, official results presentation (votemanager) (file), final result, retrieved 24 Sep 2026, official work, § 5 UrhG. Electoral authority status: 13.09.2026 21:04. Electoral authority's result portal: https://votemanager.kdo.de/20260913/031595402/praesentation/ Compiled by wahlergebnisse.io.
Samtgemeinde Gieboldehausen
The municipality belongs to the joint municipality (Samtgemeinde) Gieboldehausen, whose council and mayor were also elected.
Samtgemeinde council: 30 seats
- CDU48.4% · 14 seats
- Unabhängige Wähler SGG23.0% · 7 seats
- SPD17.7% · 5 seats
- GRÜNE8.7% · 3 seats
- BüLi2.3% · 1 seat
Turnout 67.6% · 10,968 eligible voters · 30 seats · Official final result · 20 of 20 results
Samtgemeinde mayor election
- Ahrenhold, CDU67.8%
- Nein-Stimmen32.2%
Turnout 67.6% · 10,968 eligible voters · Official final result · 20 of 20 results
Source: Samtgemeinde Gieboldehausen, Local elections 2026, official results presentation (votemanager) (file), final result, retrieved 24 Sep 2026, official work, § 5 UrhG. Electoral authority status: 14.09.2026 13:24. Compiled by wahlergebnisse.io.
District council and district administrator: the votes from the Samtgemeinde Gieboldehausen
How voters in the Samtgemeinde voted in the district election. The overall result for Göttingen is on the district page.
District council election
- CDU41.3%
- SPD16.0%
- AfD15.4%
- WLG10.2%
Turnout 67.5% · 11,021 eligible voters · 20 of 20 results
District administrator election
Run-off on 27 September 2026.
- Adam, CDU38.9%
- Dr. Witt, SPD17.8%
- Riethig, BLG16.6%
- Schneider, GRÜNE9.9%
- Wegener, WLG6.3%
- Lauterbach, Die Linke5.8%
- Hampe, Volt4.7%
Turnout 67.4% · 11,021 eligible voters · 20 of 20 results
Second votes in Rüdershausen
Shares in percent of valid second votes, deviation from the state result in points. Others: all parties not listed individually.
- CDU40.6%+12.5
- SPD21.0%-2.0
- AfD20.2%+2.4
- Linke6.6%-1.5
- Grüne5.3%-6.2
- Freie Wähler2.4%+1.6
- BSW2.1%-1.7
- FDP1.1%-3.0
- Others0.8%-1.4
Change compared with the result in Lower Saxony.
| Party | Votes | Share | District | Lower Saxony | Germany |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CDU | 153 | 40.6% | 26.0% | 28.1% (+12.5) | 22.6% (+18.0) |
| SPD | 79 | 21.0% | 22.6% | 23.0% (-2.0) | 16.4% (+4.6) |
| AfD | 76 | 20.2% | 15.1% | 17.8% (+2.4) | 20.8% (-0.6) |
| Linke | 25 | 6.6% | 10.5% | 8.1% (-1.5) | 8.8% (-2.2) |
| Grüne | 20 | 5.3% | 14.6% | 11.5% (-6.2) | 11.6% (-6.3) |
| Freie Wähler | 9 | 2.4% | 0.7% | 0.8% (+1.6) | – |
| BSW | 8 | 2.1% | 3.8% | 3.8% (-1.7) | 5.0% (-2.9) |
| FDP | 4 | 1.1% | 3.9% | 4.1% (-3.0) | 4.3% (-3.2) |
| Others | 3 | 0.8% | 2.1% | 2.2% (-1.4) | 10.6% (-9.8) |
Source: Federal Returning Officer, 2025 federal election, results by polling district (file), final result, retrieved 7 Sep 2026, Data licence Germany, attribution 2.0. Municipal results are the sum of a municipality's polling districts including the postal-vote districts assigned to it. State and federal results: Federal Returning Officer, kerg2.csv, official final result. Compiled by wahlergebnisse.io.
Samtgemeinde Gieboldehausen: overall result including postal votes
Postal votes in Samtgemeinde Gieboldehausen are counted jointly for all 10 member municipalities and cannot officially be attributed to Rüdershausen. The figures above therefore show polling-station votes in Rüdershausen only. Below is the overall result of the association: polling-station votes of all members plus 2,806 postal voters, which is 30.5% of all votes.
- Turnout in the association85.4%
- Voters9,195 of 10,773 eligible voters
- Postal vote share30.5% · 2,806
- Member municipalities10
- CDU40.0%-0.6
- AfD19.0%-1.2
- SPD16.4%-4.6
- Grüne7.9%+2.6
- Linke5.4%-1.2
- FDP4.5%+3.4
- BSW3.0%+0.9
- Freie Wähler1.5%-0.9
- Volt0.4%
- Others2.1%+1.3
Change compared with polling-station votes in Rüdershausen.
| Party | Polling station Rüdershausen | Postal vote, association | Samtgemeinde Gieboldehausen total | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CDU | 153 (40.6%) | 1,160 (41.4%) | 3,653 | 40.0% |
| AfD | 76 (20.2%) | 416 (14.9%) | 1,741 | 19.0% |
| SPD | 79 (21.0%) | 544 (19.4%) | 1,496 | 16.4% |
| Grüne | 20 (5.3%) | 238 (8.5%) | 718 | 7.9% |
| Linke | 25 (6.6%) | 107 (3.8%) | 489 | 5.4% |
| FDP | 4 (1.1%) | 116 (4.1%) | 409 | 4.5% |
| BSW | 8 (2.1%) | 93 (3.3%) | 272 | 3.0% |
| Freie Wähler | 9 (2.4%) | 48 (1.7%) | 139 | 1.5% |
| Others | 3 (0.8%) | 66 (2.4%) | 190 | 2.1% |
Member municipalities (polling-station votes only)
- BilshausenCDU 35.5%
- BodenseeCDU 37.7%
- Gieboldehausen, FleckenCDU 30.5%
- KrebeckCDU 46.8%
- ObernfeldCDU 42.3%
- RhumspringeCDU 52.1%
- RollshausenCDU 42.4%
- RüdershausenCDU 40.6%
- WollbrandshausenCDU 47.2%
- WollershausenCDU 34.9%
Source: Federal Returning Officer, polling-district statistics; association total is our own calculation from polling-station and postal-vote districts.
Rüdershausen: location in the Göttingen district
All municipalities of the district, coloured by the strongest party of the second votes. Rüdershausen highlighted, the other members of Samtgemeinde Gieboldehausen shown half-transparent. Tap to open a neighbouring municipality.