Arholzen: results of the 2026 local elections and the 2025 federal election
In the local elections on 13 September 2026, Frank Beckmann became the largest group on the council of Arholzen with 18.7%.
In the federal election on 23 February 2025, SPD led in Arholzen with 31.5% of the second votes, CDU took 27.5%.
- Population
- 327 · 61 per km²
- Turnout
- 68.1% · Holzminden (Wkr. 046) 81.5% · Germany 82.5%
- Voters
- 201 of 295 eligible voters
- Stands out against Lower Saxony
- SPD +8.5 · Grüne −3.0 · Linke −2.1
- First votes: leading
- SPD candidate
- Constituency
- 46 Hameln-Pyrmont – Holzminden
Postal votes were counted at collective-municipality level; polling-station votes only shown here.
2026 local elections in Arholzen
On 13 September 2026, Lower Saxony elected its councils, district councils, mayors and district administrators. Below, the preliminary result for Arholzen, as of 25.09.2026 14:01. All districts and municipalities: Lower Saxony local elections 2026.
- Largest group: municipal council
- Frank Beckmann 18.7%
- Samtgemeinde council
- UWG 23.6% in the Samtgemeinde Eschershausen-Stadtoldendorf
- District council, votes from the Samtgemeinde Eschershausen-Stadtoldendorf
- UWG 22.1%
- Turnout
- 75.8% · district council election 66.2%
- Frank Beckmann18.7%
- Ronald Brünig18.1%
- Annika Oppermann16.0%
- Carsten Campe12.4%
- Frank Güldner11.6%
- Michael Meyer9.2%
- Eva Reyes Specht4.9%
- Kai Klingenhagen4.8%
- Heike Seifert4.3%
Turnout 75.8% · 298 eligible voters · 7 seats · Official final result
Source: Samtgemeinde Eschershausen-Stadtoldendorf, Local elections 2026, official results presentation (votemanager) (file), final result, retrieved 31 Oct 2026, official work, § 5 UrhG. Electoral authority status: 25.09.2026 14:01. Electoral authority's result portal: https://votemanager.kdo.de/20260913/032555409/praesentation/ Compiled by wahlergebnisse.io.
Samtgemeinde Eschershausen-Stadtoldendorf
The municipality belongs to the joint municipality (Samtgemeinde) Eschershausen-Stadtoldendorf, whose council and mayor were also elected.
Samtgemeinde council: 30 seats
Turnout 66.5% · 11,907 eligible voters · 30 seats · Official final result · 25 of 25 results
Source: Samtgemeinde Eschershausen-Stadtoldendorf, Local elections 2026, official results presentation (votemanager) (file), final result, retrieved 31 Oct 2026, official work, § 5 UrhG. Electoral authority status: 25.09.2026 14:43. Compiled by wahlergebnisse.io.
District council and district administrator: the votes from the Samtgemeinde Eschershausen-Stadtoldendorf
How voters in the Samtgemeinde voted in the district election. The overall result for Holzminden is on the district page.
Second votes in Arholzen
Shares in percent of valid second votes, deviation from the state result in points. Others: all parties not listed individually.
Where do these figures come from?
Official results of the 2025 federal election from the Federal Returning Officer's polling-district statistics, aggregated to the municipality. Postal votes counted by a joint administration are shown on that administration's page.
What does the comparison show?
The lighter bar is the state result of the same election, so you can see where the area differs from its state. Differences are in percentage points.
| Party | Votes | Share | District | Lower Saxony | Germany |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SPD | 63 | 31.5% | 25.5% | 23.0% (+8.5) | 16.4% (+15.1) |
| CDU | 55 | 27.5% | 26.3% | 28.1% (-0.6) | 22.6% (+4.9) |
| AfD | 39 | 19.5% | 22.3% | 17.8% (+1.7) | 20.8% (-1.3) |
| Grüne | 17 | 8.5% | 8.2% | 11.5% (-3.0) | 11.6% (-3.1) |
| Linke | 12 | 6.0% | 6.2% | 8.1% (-2.1) | 8.8% (-2.8) |
| BSW | 6 | 3.0% | 3.8% | 3.8% (-0.8) | 5.0% (-2.0) |
| FDP | 4 | 2.0% | 4.4% | 4.1% (-2.1) | 4.3% (-2.3) |
| Freie Wähler | 2 | 1.0% | 0.7% | 0.8% (+0.2) | – |
| Others | 2 | 1.0% | 2.1% | 2.2% (-1.2) | 10.6% (-9.6) |
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 Eschershausen-Stadtoldendorf: overall result including postal votes
Postal votes in Samtgemeinde Eschershausen-Stadtoldendorf are counted jointly for all 11 member municipalities and cannot officially be attributed to Arholzen. The figures above therefore show polling-station votes in Arholzen only. Below is the overall result of the association: polling-station votes of all members plus 3,134 postal voters, which is 32.5% of all votes.
- Turnout in the association
- 82.5%
- Voters
- 9,630 of 11,672 eligible voters
- Postal vote share
- 32.5% · 3,134
- Member municipalities
- 11
| Party | Polling station Arholzen | Postal vote, association | Samtgemeinde Eschershausen-Stadtoldendorf total | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CDU | 55 (27.5%) | 992 (31.8%) | 2,550 | 26.8% |
| AfD | 39 (19.5%) | 573 (18.4%) | 2,504 | 26.3% |
| SPD | 63 (31.5%) | 844 (27.0%) | 2,255 | 23.7% |
| Grüne | 17 (8.5%) | 222 (7.1%) | 593 | 6.2% |
| Linke | 12 (6.0%) | 129 (4.1%) | 482 | 5.1% |
| FDP | 4 (2.0%) | 138 (4.4%) | 473 | 5.0% |
| BSW | 6 (3.0%) | 113 (3.6%) | 366 | 3.8% |
| Freie Wähler | 2 (1.0%) | 25 (0.8%) | 56 | 0.6% |
| Volt | 0 (0.0%) | 18 (0.6%) | 43 | 0.5% |
| Others | 2 (1.0%) | 67 (2.1%) | 195 | 2.0% |
Member municipalities (polling-station votes only)
- ArholzenSPD 31.5%
- DeensenAfD 30.3%
- DielmissenAfD 35.6%
- EimenSPD 29.3%
- EschershausenAfD 32.8%
- HeinadeSPD 26.4%
- HolzenSPD 27.3%
- LenneCDU 28.9%
- LüerdissenAfD 26.8%
- StadtoldendorfAfD 34.8%
- WangelnstedtCDU 35.1%
Source: Federal Returning Officer, polling-district statistics; association total is our own calculation from polling-station and postal-vote districts.
2024 European election in Arholzen
In the European election on 9 June 2024, SPD came first in Arholzen with 32.0% of the vote; in Lower Saxony SPD got 19.5%. The bars show the European election shares, the small figures the gap to the 2025 federal election in the same area.
In the 2024 European election, SPD was the strongest party in Arholzen with 32.0%, +0.5 points compared with the 2025 federal election. Turnout was 49.8% (2025 federal election: 68.1%).
Why do the European and federal elections differ?
The European election has no electoral threshold, so small parties such as Volt, Die PARTEI or the animal-welfare party win more votes. Turnout is much lower, and the political mood shifted between June 2024 and February 2025. The single European-election vote is compared with the second vote of the federal election in the same area; parties that count as Others in 2025 get no difference.
Where do these figures come from?
Official final result of the 2024 European election from the Federal Returning Officer's polling-district statistics, aggregated to the municipality. Postal votes counted by a joint administration are not included here.
| Party | Votes 2024 | European election 2024 | Federal election 2025 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SPD | 48 | 32.0% | 31.5% | +0.5 |
| CDU | 42 | 28.0% | 27.5% | +0.5 |
| AfD | 27 | 18.0% | 19.5% | -1.5 |
| Grüne | 9 | 6.0% | 8.5% | -2.5 |
| FDP | 6 | 4.0% | 2.0% | +2.0 |
| Die PARTEI | 4 | 2.7% | – | – |
| Linke | 2 | 1.3% | 6.0% | -4.7 |
| Tierschutzpartei | 2 | 1.3% | – | – |
| Volt | 2 | 1.3% | – | – |
| Freie Wähler | 1 | 0.7% | 1.0% | -0.3 |
| BSW | 1 | 0.7% | 3.0% | -2.3 |
| Others | 6 | 4.0% | – | – |
Die PARTEI, Tierschutzpartei, Volt: counted as Others in the 2025 federal election, so no difference is shown.
Source: Federal Returning Officer, 2024 European election, results by polling district (file), final result, retrieved 28 Sep 2026, Data licence Germany, attribution 2.0. Municipal results are the sum of a municipality's polling districts including assigned postal-vote districts; Hamburg's boroughs are derived from the polling-district number. Postal votes were counted at collective-municipality level; polling-station votes only shown here. Comparison values: second votes of the 2025 federal election in the same area. Compiled by wahlergebnisse.io.
Arholzen in figures
Key facts about the place from official statistics and Wikidata, so the election result can be put in context. The figures describe, they do not explain.
- Population
- 327 (as of 2025-12-31)
- Area
- 5.4 km²
- Population density
- 61 inhabitants per km²
- Settlement type
- thinly populated (rural)
- Under 19
- 14.6%
- 67 and older
- 23.8%
- Foreign nationals (2022 census)
- 5.3%
- Employees subject to social insurance (place of work)
- 26 (as of 2025-06-30)
- Commuter balance
- -122 (more out-commuters than in-commuters)
- Postcode
- 37627
- Elevation
- 215 m
- Wikipedia
- Arholzen (Wikipedia)
Arholzen has 327 inhabitants and is thinly populated (rural).
Where do the profile figures come from?
Population, area and coordinates from the Federal Statistical Office's municipality register, employees, sectors and unemployment from the Federal Employment Agency, age structure from the 2022 census, coat of arms, website and companies from Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons. All sources are openly licensed and linked below the list.
Does the profile explain the election result?
No. It describes the place so readers can put figures in context. Whether sector, age or density relate to voting can only be tested across many places, not from a single result.
Sources: Wikidata (CC0 1.0) · Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis), Gemeindeverzeichnis GV-ISys (Datenlizenz Deutschland – Namensnennung – Version 2.0) · Statistik der Bundesagentur für Arbeit (© Statistik der Bundesagentur für Arbeit, Nutzung mit Quellenangabe) · Zensus 2022, Statistische Ämter des Bundes und der Länder, Regionaltabelle Demografie (Datenlizenz Deutschland – Namensnennung – Version 2.0)
Arholzen: location in the Holzminden district
All municipalities of the district, coloured by the strongest party of the second votes. Arholzen highlighted, the other members of Samtgemeinde Eschershausen-Stadtoldendorf shown half-transparent. Tap to open a neighbouring municipality.
Arholzen: if the election were held today
The current national polling average (as of 7 Nov 2026) applied to the municipality's 2025 second-vote result. A rough estimate without local factors.
SPD would remain the strongest party with 27.3% (2025: 31.5%).
Method: proportional swing of the national polling average, see constituency nowcast.
In context
More municipalities in Holzminden (Wkr. 046)
- HolzmindenCDU 25.5%
- Delligsen, FleckenSPD 31.3%
- Briefwahl SG Eschershausen-StadtoldendorfCDU 31.8%
- Briefwahl SG Bodenwerder-PolleCDU 29.9%
- Bodenwerder, MünchhausenstadtSPD 25.5%
- StadtoldendorfAfD 34.8%
- Bevern, FleckenAfD 26.4%
- EschershausenAfD 32.8%
- BoffzenSPD 28.9%
- Briefwahl SG BevernSPD 26.4%
- Briefwahl SG BoffzenSPD 31.1%
- Lauenförde, FleckenSPD 27.6%