Otterndorf: 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 Otterndorf with 30.8% (7 of 21 seats).
In the federal election on 23 February 2025, CDU led in Otterndorf with 28.0% of the second votes, SPD took 27.4%.
- Population
- 7,690 · 229 per km²
- Turnout
- 62.7% · Cuxhaven (Wkr. 029) 82.9% · Germany 82.5%
- Voters
- 3,783 of 6,031 eligible voters
- Stands out against Lower Saxony
- SPD +4.4 · Linke −1.6 · AfD −1.5
- First votes: leading
- SPD candidate
- Constituency
- 29 Cuxhaven – Stade II
Postal votes were counted at collective-municipality level; polling-station votes only shown here.
2026 local elections in Otterndorf
On 13 September 2026, Lower Saxony elected its councils, district councils, mayors and district administrators. Below, the preliminary result for Otterndorf, as of 25.09.2026 14:42. All districts and municipalities: Lower Saxony local elections 2026.
- Largest group: city council
- CDU 30.8% · 7 of 21 seats
- Samtgemeinde council
- CDU 36.1% in the Samtgemeinde Land Hadeln
- District council, votes from the Samtgemeinde Land Hadeln
- CDU 34.7%
- Turnout
- 71.4% · district council election 69.7%
Turnout 71.4% · 6,360 eligible voters · 21 seats · Official final result · 10 of 10 results
Source: Samtgemeinde Land Hadeln, Local elections 2026, official results presentation (votemanager) (file), final result, retrieved 31 Oct 2026, official work, § 5 UrhG. Electoral authority status: 25.09.2026 14:42. Electoral authority's result portal: https://votemanager.kdo.de/20260913/033525411/praesentation/ Compiled by wahlergebnisse.io.
Samtgemeinde Land Hadeln
The municipality belongs to the joint municipality (Samtgemeinde) Land Hadeln, whose council and mayor were also elected.
Samtgemeinde council: 36 seats
Turnout 69.8% · 22,488 eligible voters · 36 seats · Official final result · 39 of 39 results
Samtgemeinde mayor election
- Thielebeule, Einzelbewerber52.4%
- Schwanemann, Einzelbewerber24.3%
- Merz, CDU23.3%
Turnout 69.9% · 22,488 eligible voters · Official final result · 39 of 39 results
Source: Samtgemeinde Land Hadeln, Local elections 2026, official results presentation (votemanager) (file), final result, retrieved 31 Oct 2026, official work, § 5 UrhG. Electoral authority status: 25.09.2026 14:40. Compiled by wahlergebnisse.io.
District council and district administrator: the votes from the Samtgemeinde Land Hadeln
How voters in the Samtgemeinde voted in the district election. The overall result for Cuxhaven is on the district page.
Second votes in Otterndorf
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CDU | 1,052 | 28.0% | 29.5% | 28.1% (-0.1) | 22.6% (+5.4) |
| SPD | 1,030 | 27.4% | 24.4% | 23.0% (+4.4) | 16.4% (+11.0) |
| AfD | 612 | 16.3% | 19.5% | 17.8% (-1.5) | 20.8% (-4.5) |
| Grüne | 420 | 11.2% | 9.1% | 11.5% (-0.3) | 11.6% (-0.4) |
| Linke | 244 | 6.5% | 6.1% | 8.1% (-1.6) | 8.8% (-2.3) |
| FDP | 147 | 3.9% | 3.7% | 4.1% (-0.2) | 4.3% (-0.4) |
| BSW | 136 | 3.6% | 3.8% | 3.8% (-0.2) | 5.0% (-1.4) |
| Freie Wähler | 23 | 0.6% | 0.8% | 0.8% (-0.2) | – |
| Volt | 23 | 0.6% | 0.7% | 0.6% (±0) | – |
| Others | 73 | 1.9% | 2.5% | 2.2% (-0.3) | 10.6% (-8.7) |
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 Land Hadeln: overall result including postal votes
Postal votes in Samtgemeinde Land Hadeln are counted jointly for all 14 member municipalities and cannot officially be attributed to Otterndorf. The figures above therefore show polling-station votes in Otterndorf only. Below is the overall result of the association: polling-station votes of all members plus 4,222 postal voters, which is 23.2% of all votes.
- Turnout in the association
- 83.5%
- Voters
- 18,203 of 21,789 eligible voters
- Postal vote share
- 23.2% · 4,222
- Member municipalities
- 14
| Party | Polling station Otterndorf | Postal vote, association | Samtgemeinde Land Hadeln total | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CDU | 1,052 (28.0%) | 1,340 (31.8%) | 5,542 | 30.6% |
| SPD | 1,030 (27.4%) | 1,156 (27.5%) | 4,528 | 25.0% |
| AfD | 612 (16.3%) | 496 (11.8%) | 3,364 | 18.6% |
| Grüne | 420 (11.2%) | 497 (11.8%) | 1,669 | 9.2% |
| Linke | 244 (6.5%) | 236 (5.6%) | 1,099 | 6.1% |
| FDP | 147 (3.9%) | 139 (3.3%) | 673 | 3.7% |
| BSW | 136 (3.6%) | 171 (4.1%) | 613 | 3.4% |
| Freie Wähler | 23 (0.6%) | 33 (0.8%) | 135 | 0.7% |
| Others | 73 (1.9%) | 119 (2.8%) | 420 | 2.3% |
Member municipalities (polling-station votes only)
- BelumCDU 27.2%
- BülkauCDU 42.9%
- IhlienworthCDU 28.5%
- NeuenkirchenSPD 29.0%
- Neuhaus (Oste), FleckenSPD 26.4%
- NordledaCDU 30.3%
- OberndorfSPD 26.5%
- OdisheimCDU 48.7%
- OsterbruchCDU 31.6%
- OtterndorfCDU 28.0%
- SteinauCDU 46.2%
- WannaCDU 32.0%
- WingstCDU 33.0%
- CadenbergeCDU 27.2%
Source: Federal Returning Officer, polling-district statistics; association total is our own calculation from polling-station and postal-vote districts.
2024 European election in Otterndorf
In the European election on 9 June 2024, CDU came first in Otterndorf with 36.7% of the vote; in Lower Saxony CDU got 31.4%. 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, CDU was the strongest party in Otterndorf with 36.7%, +8.7 points compared with the 2025 federal election. Turnout was 49.7% (2025 federal election: 62.7%).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CDU | 1,119 | 36.7% | 28.0% | +8.7 |
| SPD | 658 | 21.6% | 27.4% | -5.8 |
| Grüne | 347 | 11.4% | 11.2% | +0.2 |
| AfD | 323 | 10.6% | 16.3% | -5.7 |
| FDP | 151 | 4.9% | 3.9% | +1.0 |
| BSW | 133 | 4.4% | 3.6% | +0.8 |
| Linke | 53 | 1.7% | 6.5% | -4.8 |
| Tierschutzpartei | 43 | 1.4% | – | – |
| Die PARTEI | 39 | 1.3% | – | – |
| Volt | 41 | 1.3% | 0.6% | +0.7 |
| Freie Wähler | 16 | 0.5% | 0.6% | -0.1 |
| ÖDP | 10 | 0.3% | – | – |
| Others | 119 | 3.9% | – | – |
Tierschutzpartei, Die PARTEI, ÖDP: 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.
Otterndorf 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
- 7,690 (as of 2025-12-31)
- Area
- 33.6 km²
- Population density
- 229 inhabitants per km²
- Settlement type
- intermediate density (town, suburb)
- Under 19
- 17.0%
- 67 and older
- 24.3%
- Foreign nationals (2022 census)
- 4.8%
- Employees subject to social insurance (place of work)
- 2,706 (as of 2025-06-30)
- Commuter balance
- -70 (more out-commuters than in-commuters)
- Postcode
- 21762
- Elevation
- 0 m
- Twin towns
- 2
- Wikipedia
- Otterndorf (Wikipedia)
Otterndorf has 7,690 inhabitants and is intermediate density (town, suburb).
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)
Otterndorf: location in the Cuxhaven district
All municipalities of the district, coloured by the strongest party of the second votes. Otterndorf highlighted, the other members of Samtgemeinde Land Hadeln shown half-transparent. Tap to open a neighbouring municipality.
Otterndorf: 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 be the strongest party with 23.8%; in 2025 CDU led.
Method: proportional swing of the national polling average, see constituency nowcast.