2025 federal election · strongholds
Where the SPD is strongest
Nationwide, the SPD took 16.4% of the second votes. Across the districts the range runs from 6.0% in Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge to 29.6% in Emden, Stadt. Below, the municipalities and districts with the highest shares, the weakest regions and the divide by municipality size.
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SPD share by district
The stronger the colour, the higher the share. Tap to open the district with all its municipalities.
Municipalities
The 25 strongest municipalities with at least 1,000 voters
- 1.HinteAurich, Lower Saxony · 4,971 voters33.9%
- 2.KrummhörnAurich, Lower Saxony · 8,291 voters33.4%
- 3.Delligsen, FleckenHolzminden, Lower Saxony · 5,162 voters31.3%
- 4.WesertalKassel, Hesse · 3,525 voters31.3%
- 5.IhlowAurich, Lower Saxony · 8,831 voters31.2%
- 6.Hage, FleckenAurich, Lower Saxony · 4,579 voters31.0%
- 7.Upgant-SchottAurich, Lower Saxony · 2,545 voters30.7%
- 8.BundeLeer, Lower Saxony · 4,576 voters30.5%
- 9.JemgumLeer, Lower Saxony · 2,441 voters30.4%
- 10.EsensWittmund, Lower Saxony · 3,470 voters30.1%
- 11.SöhrewaldKassel, Hesse · 3,178 voters29.9%
- 12.Eime, FleckenHildesheim, Lower Saxony · 1,348 voters29.6%
- 13.EmdenEmden, Stadt, Lower Saxony · 28,767 voters29.6%
- 14.BerumburAurich, Lower Saxony · 1,829 voters29.6%
- 15.WeenerLeer, Lower Saxony · 9,640 voters29.5%
- 16.MenslageOsnabrück, Lower Saxony · 1,138 voters29.5%
- 17.SüdbrookmerlandAurich, Lower Saxony · 12,541 voters29.4%
- 18.NiedernwöhrenSchaumburg, Lower Saxony · 1,023 voters29.2%
- 19.SandeFriesland, Lower Saxony · 5,766 voters29.1%
- 20.NordenhamWesermarsch, Lower Saxony · 15,142 voters29.1%
- 21.Hattorf am HarzGöttingen, Lower Saxony · 1,850 voters29.0%
- 22.Marienhafe, FleckenAurich, Lower Saxony · 1,557 voters29.0%
- 23.BoffzenHolzminden, Lower Saxony · 1,175 voters28.9%
- 24.Brake (Unterweser)Wesermarsch, Lower Saxony · 8,801 voters28.8%
- 25.Bad FallingbostelHeidekreis, Lower Saxony · 7,204 voters28.5%
Cities
The strongest and weakest cities with at least 40,000 voters
Strongest
- 1.DinslakenWesel, North Rhine-Westphalia · 42,329 voters26.7%
- 2.HerneHerne, Stadt, North Rhine-Westphalia · 80,757 voters26.1%
- 3.DuisburgDuisburg, Stadt, North Rhine-Westphalia · 239,017 voters25.5%
- 4.WilhelmshavenWilhelmshaven, Stadt, Lower Saxony · 44,467 voters25.1%
- 5.BremerhavenBremerhaven, Stadt, Bremen · 55,034 voters25.0%
- 6.MoersWesel, North Rhine-Westphalia · 61,212 voters24.9%
- 7.LünenUnna, North Rhine-Westphalia · 48,757 voters24.8%
- 8.OberhausenOberhausen, Stadt, North Rhine-Westphalia · 113,485 voters24.6%
- 9.GladbeckRecklinghausen, North Rhine-Westphalia · 40,261 voters24.6%
- 10.BochumBochum, Stadt, North Rhine-Westphalia · 214,915 voters24.5%
- 11.WittenEnnepe-Ruhr-Kreis, North Rhine-Westphalia · 58,575 voters24.4%
- 12.Hamburg, Freie und Hansestadt, Bezirk Wandsbek, Hamburg · 247,298 voters24.3%
- 13.MindenMinden-Lübbecke, North Rhine-Westphalia · 47,015 voters24.3%
- 14.SalzgitterSalzgitter, Stadt, Lower Saxony · 52,163 voters24.2%
- 15.GelsenkirchenGelsenkirchen, Stadt, North Rhine-Westphalia · 122,676 voters24.1%
Weakest
- 1.GeraGera, Stadt, Thuringia · 54,546 voters8.5%
- 2.DresdenDresden, Stadt, Saxony · 349,704 voters9.4%
- 3.Zwickau, Stadt, HochschulstadtZwickau, Saxony · 51,522 voters9.7%
- 4.ErfurtErfurt, Stadt, Thuringia · 130,686 voters10.6%
- 5.LeipzigLeipzig, Stadt, Saxony · 379,912 voters10.7%
- 6.WeimarWeimar, Stadt, Thuringia · 40,627 voters10.7%
- 7.Berlin, Stadt, Bezirk Marzahn-Hellersdorf, Berlin · 149,493 voters10.9%
- 8.ChemnitzChemnitz, Stadt, Saxony · 144,921 voters11.1%
- 9.JenaJena, Stadt, Thuringia · 67,796 voters11.5%
- 10.Berlin, Stadt, Bezirk Lichtenberg, Berlin · 155,397 voters11.9%
Districts
Strongest and weakest districts
Strongest
- 1.EmdenLower Saxony · 28,767 voters29.6%
- 2.AurichLower Saxony · 126,932 voters28.4%
- 3.WesermarschLower Saxony · 55,413 voters26.6%
- 4.HerneNorth Rhine-Westphalia · 80,757 voters26.1%
- 5.FrieslandLower Saxony · 68,317 voters26.0%
- 6.NortheimLower Saxony · 85,612 voters25.9%
- 7.PeineLower Saxony · 87,590 voters25.9%
- 8.HeidekreisLower Saxony · 89,362 voters25.8%
- 9.HolzmindenLower Saxony · 43,519 voters25.5%
- 10.LeerLower Saxony · 108,801 voters25.5%
- 11.DuisburgNorth Rhine-Westphalia · 239,017 voters25.5%
- 12.KasselHesse · 155,732 voters25.2%
- 13.WilhelmshavenLower Saxony · 44,467 voters25.1%
- 14.WittmundLower Saxony · 38,022 voters25.0%
- 15.BremerhavenBremen · 55,034 voters25.0%
Weakest
- 1.Sächsische Schweiz-OsterzgebirgeSaxony · 160,372 voters6.0%
- 2.GörlitzSaxony · 155,057 voters6.4%
- 3.BautzenSaxony · 193,325 voters6.6%
- 4.ErzgebirgskreisSaxony · 216,319 voters6.9%
- 5.Saale-Orla-KreisThuringia · 51,544 voters6.9%
- 6.MeißenSaxony · 157,184 voters7.1%
- 7.HildburghausenThuringia · 39,906 voters7.1%
- 8.GreizThuringia · 63,523 voters7.1%
- 9.SömmerdaThuringia · 44,633 voters7.2%
- 10.RegenBavaria · 49,476 voters7.3%
Urban and rural
SPD by municipality size
All municipalities grouped by number of eligible voters. All parties in the urban-rural comparison.
- under 2,00012.6%
- 2,000 to 10,00013.8%
- 10,000 to 50,00017.1%
- 50,000 to 100,00018.6%
- over 100,00018.2%
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. Compiled by wahlergebnisse.io.