Peine: results of the 2026 local elections and the 2025 federal election
In the federal election on 23 February 2025, CDU led in Peine with 26.4% of the second votes, followed by SPD with 25.9%. Below, the results of all 7 municipalities.
- Turnout85.0% · Lower Saxony 83.4% · Germany 82.5%
- Voters87,590 of 103,040 eligible voters
- Compared with Lower SaxonyCDU −1.7 · SPD +2.9 · AfD +2.3 · Grüne −2.3
- CDU range across municipalities24.2% to 32.0%
2026 local elections in Peine
On 13 September 2026, the district council was newly elected, along with the district administrator. Official final result, as of 24.09.2026 09:01. All districts: Lower Saxony local elections 2026.
- Largest group: district councilSPD 33.7% · 17 of 50 seats
- District administrator: run-offSemper 42.1% v Lauenstein 21.6% · run-off on 27 September 2026
- Turnout66.6%
- SPD33.7% · 17 seats
- CDU22.2% · 11 seats
- AfD18.8% · 9 seats
- GRÜNE10.9% · 6 seats
Turnout 66.6% · 108,033 eligible voters · 50 seats · Official final result · 188 of 188 results
Source: Landkreis Peine, Local elections 2026, official results presentation (votemanager) (file), final result, retrieved 24 Sep 2026, official work, § 5 UrhG. Electoral authority status: 24.09.2026 09:01. Electoral authority's result portal: https://votemanager.kdo.de/20260913/03157000/praesentation/ Compiled by wahlergebnisse.io.
District administrator election
No candidate above 50 percent: run-off on 27 September 2026 between Semper and Lauenstein. The result will appear here automatically on election night.
- Semper, SPD42.1%
- Lauenstein, CDU21.6%
- Rudzka, AfD Niedersachsen17.8%
- Weigand, GRÜNE10.9%
Turnout 66.5% · 108,033 eligible voters · Preliminary result · 188 of 188 results
District council election by municipality and Samtgemeinde
| Area | Turnout | SPD | CDU | AfD | GRÜNE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gemeinde Edemissen | 72.9% | 34.7% | 22.6% | 16.6% | 13.0% |
| Gemeinde Hohenhameln | 69.6% | 33.3% | 19.8% | 19.6% | 11.2% |
| Gemeinde Lengede | 65.8% | 38.0% | 19.3% | 22.0% | 9.1% |
| Stadt Peine | 61.3% | 36.4% | 20.3% | 20.0% | 8.6% |
| Gemeinde Vechelde | 70.8% | 32.7% | 27.2% | 16.3% | 13.5% |
| Gemeinde Wendeburg | 73.6% | 29.5% | 30.3% | 14.4% | 15.3% |
| Gemeinde Ilsede | 66.4% | 28.6% | 19.7% | 20.1% | 10.7% |
Joint municipalities (Samtgemeinden) are administrative unions of several municipalities; their member municipalities also have their own councils. Shares in percent of valid votes, others not listed individually.
Second votes in Peine
Deviation from the state result in points.
- CDU26.4%-1.7
- SPD25.9%+2.9
- AfD20.1%+2.3
- Grüne9.2%-2.3
- Linke6.8%-1.3
- BSW3.9%+0.1
- FDP3.6%-0.5
- Freie Wähler0.9%+0.1
- Volt0.6%±0
- Others2.6%+0.4
Change compared with the result in Lower Saxony.
Source: Federal Returning Officer, 2025 federal election, results by independent city and district (file), final result, retrieved 7 Sep 2026, Data licence Germany, attribution 2.0. Compiled by wahlergebnisse.io.
Strongest party by municipality in Peine
Tap to open the municipality result. Labels appear on the largest municipalities by area; all values are in the table below.
All municipalities in Peine
Sorted by number of voters. Range across the district: CDU 24.2 to 32%, SPD 22.3 to 27.6%, AfD 17 to 23%, Grüne 7.3 to 11.8%, Linke 5.8 to 8%, BSW 3 to 5.3%, FDP 3.2 to 4.7%.
| Municipality | Voters | Turnout | CDU | SPD | AfD | Grüne | Linke | BSW | FDP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Peine | 28,891 | 81.1% | 24.2 | 27.4 | 20.6 | 8.6 | 8.0 | 4.2 | 3.2 |
| Ilsede | 14,558 | 85.6% | 24.4 | 27.6 | 21.0 | 8.4 | 6.7 | 4.0 | 3.3 |
| Vechelde | 12,358 | 88.0% | 28.9 | 24.7 | 18.7 | 10.4 | 6.1 | 3.6 | 3.7 |
| Lengede | 9,390 | 85.9% | 25.3 | 24.8 | 23.0 | 7.3 | 6.7 | 5.3 | 3.2 |
| Edemissen | 8,673 | 88.3% | 29.7 | 24.8 | 17.9 | 10.8 | 5.8 | 3.1 | 3.8 |
| Wendeburg | 7,443 | 89.3% | 32.0 | 22.3 | 17.0 | 11.8 | 5.8 | 3.0 | 4.7 |
| Hohenhameln | 6,277 | 86.2% | 27.1 | 25.5 | 21.4 | 8.4 | 6.0 | 3.4 | 4.3 |
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.