Essel: the 2025 federal election result
In the federal election on 23 February 2025, CDU led in Essel with 26.0% of the second votes, AfD took 25.0%.
- Turnout60.2% · Heidekreis (Wkr. 035) 82.5% · Germany 82.5%
- Voters581 of 965 eligible voters
- Stands out against Lower SaxonyAfD +7.2 · SPD −3.2 · Grüne −3.2
- First votes: leadingSPD candidate
- Constituency35 Rotenburg I – Heidekreis
Postal votes were counted at collective-municipality level; polling-station votes only shown here.
Second votes in Essel
Shares in percent of valid second votes, deviation from the state result in points. Others: all parties not listed individually.
- CDU26.0%-2.1
- AfD25.0%+7.2
- SPD19.8%-3.2
- Grüne8.3%-3.2
- FDP7.1%+3.0
- Linke6.6%-1.5
- BSW3.1%-0.7
- Freie Wähler1.2%+0.4
- Volt0.3%-0.3
- Others2.6%+0.4
Change compared with the result in Lower Saxony.
| Party | Votes | Share | District | Lower Saxony | Germany |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CDU | 150 | 26.0% | 27.4% | 28.1% (-2.1) | 22.6% (+3.4) |
| AfD | 144 | 25.0% | 20.7% | 17.8% (+7.2) | 20.8% (+4.2) |
| SPD | 114 | 19.8% | 25.8% | 23.0% (-3.2) | 16.4% (+3.4) |
| Grüne | 48 | 8.3% | 8.5% | 11.5% (-3.2) | 11.6% (-3.3) |
| FDP | 41 | 7.1% | 3.5% | 4.1% (+3.0) | 4.3% (+2.8) |
| Linke | 38 | 6.6% | 6.7% | 8.1% (-1.5) | 8.8% (-2.2) |
| BSW | 18 | 3.1% | 3.4% | 3.8% (-0.7) | 5.0% (-1.9) |
| Freie Wähler | 7 | 1.2% | 1.0% | 0.8% (+0.4) | – |
| Volt | 2 | 0.3% | 0.8% | 0.6% (-0.3) | – |
| Others | 15 | 2.6% | 2.2% | 2.2% (+0.4) | 10.6% (-8.0) |
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 Schwarmstedt: overall result including postal votes
Postal votes in Samtgemeinde Schwarmstedt are counted jointly for all 5 member municipalities and cannot officially be attributed to Essel. The figures above therefore show polling-station votes in Essel only. Below is the overall result of the association: polling-station votes of all members plus 2,169 postal voters, which is 24.7% of all votes.
- Turnout in the association85.6%
- Voters8,795 of 10,272 eligible voters
- Postal vote share24.7% · 2,169
- Member municipalities5
- CDU25.4%-0.6
- SPD24.5%+4.7
- AfD23.4%-1.6
- Grüne9.0%+0.7
- Linke6.5%-0.1
- FDP4.2%-2.9
- BSW3.4%+0.3
- Freie Wähler0.9%-0.3
- Volt0.4%+0.1
- Others2.2%-0.4
Change compared with polling-station votes in Essel.
| Party | Polling station Essel | Postal vote, association | Samtgemeinde Schwarmstedt total | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CDU | 150 (26.0%) | 621 (28.7%) | 2,223 | 25.4% |
| SPD | 114 (19.8%) | 617 (28.5%) | 2,141 | 24.5% |
| AfD | 144 (25.0%) | 330 (15.2%) | 2,044 | 23.4% |
| Grüne | 48 (8.3%) | 229 (10.6%) | 788 | 9.0% |
| Linke | 38 (6.6%) | 132 (6.1%) | 572 | 6.5% |
| FDP | 41 (7.1%) | 75 (3.5%) | 370 | 4.2% |
| BSW | 18 (3.1%) | 70 (3.2%) | 301 | 3.4% |
| Freie Wähler | 7 (1.2%) | 21 (1.0%) | 76 | 0.9% |
| Others | 15 (2.6%) | 57 (2.6%) | 192 | 2.2% |
Member municipalities (polling-station votes only)
Source: Federal Returning Officer, polling-district statistics; association total is our own calculation from polling-station and postal-vote districts.
Essel: location in the Heidekreis district
All municipalities of the district, coloured by the strongest party of the second votes. Essel highlighted, the other members of Samtgemeinde Schwarmstedt shown half-transparent. Tap to open a neighbouring municipality.