Soest: the 2025 federal election result
In the federal election on 23 February 2025, CDU led in Soest with 35.0% of the second votes, followed by AfD with 18.9%. Below, the results of all 14 municipalities.
- District Administrator
- Eva Irrgang (CDU), since 2007 · Wikidata
- Population
- 298,457 · 225 per km²
- Largest sector
- Manufacturing 29%
- Turnout
- 83.0% · North Rhine-Westphalia 82.2% · Germany 82.5%
- Voters
- 190,466 of 229,384 eligible voters
- Compared with North Rhine-Westphalia
- CDU +4.9 · AfD +2.1 · SPD −1.6 · Grüne −2.4
- CDU range across municipalities
- 29.3% to 45.1%
North Rhine-Westphalia local elections 2025: result in Soest
Official result of the election of 14 September 2025, run-offs on 28 September 2025, from the data of Die Landeswahlleiterin des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen, IT.NRW. Overview of all districts.
- Largest list in the Kreistag
- CDU 39.5% (27/68)
- Landrat, run-off
- Frieling, Heinrich (CDU), 60.3%
- Turnout
- 58.6%
Turnout 58.6% · 245,073 eligible voters · 68 seats
Source: Die Landeswahlleiterin des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen, IT.NRW, Kommunalwahlen 2025 in Nordrhein-Westfalen, Endgültige Ergebnisse (Downloads) (file), final result, retrieved 3 Nov 2026, Amtliches Werk (§ 5 UrhG), Quellenangabe. Direktwahlen: nur Sieger und Stichwahl-Gegner mit Prozent; Wählergruppen als Summe. Compiled by wahlergebnisse.io.
Landrat election Soest
The state returning officer publishes only the winner and the run-off opponent with their share; all candidates are listed on the municipality's election portal.
Run-off 28 September 2025
- Frieling, Heinrich, CDU60.3%
- Weber, Dr. Bastian, SPD39.7%
First round 14 September 2025
- Frieling, Heinrich, CDU48.2%
- Weber, Dr. Bastian, SPD25.8%
Second votes in Soest
Deviation from the state result in points.
Where do these figures come from?
Official results of the 2025 federal election from the Federal Returning Officer's district file, second votes per district.
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.
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.
2024 European election in Soest
In the European election on 9 June 2024, CDU came first in Soest with 37.5% of the vote; in North Rhine-Westphalia CDU got 31.2%. 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 Soest with 37.5%, +2.5 points compared with the 2025 federal election. Turnout was 63.8% (2025 federal election: 83.0%).
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 (kerg2.csv), votes per district and independent city.
| Party | Votes 2024 | European election 2024 | Federal election 2025 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CDU | 56,066 | 37.5% | 35.0% | +2.5 |
| SPD | 24,342 | 16.3% | 18.4% | -2.1 |
| AfD | 20,804 | 13.9% | 18.9% | -5.0 |
| Grüne | 15,895 | 10.6% | 10.0% | +0.6 |
| FDP | 8,818 | 5.9% | 4.1% | +1.8 |
| BSW | 6,327 | 4.2% | 3.9% | +0.3 |
| Die PARTEI | 2,595 | 1.7% | – | – |
| Linke | 2,368 | 1.6% | 6.1% | -4.5 |
| Tierschutzpartei | 2,315 | 1.5% | – | – |
| Volt | 2,102 | 1.4% | 0.5% | +0.9 |
| Freie Wähler | 1,096 | 0.7% | 0.5% | +0.2 |
| ÖDP | 427 | 0.3% | – | – |
| Others | 6,209 | 4.2% | – | – |
Die PARTEI, Tierschutzpartei, ÖDP: counted as Others in the 2025 federal election, so no difference is shown.
Source: Federal Returning Officer, 2024 European election, results by state and district (kerg2.csv) (file), final result, retrieved 28 Sep 2026, Data licence Germany, attribution 2.0. Berlin East and Berlin West are aggregated from the boroughs as in the 2025 federal election. Comparison values: second votes of the 2025 federal election in the same area. Compiled by wahlergebnisse.io.
Soest 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
- 298,457 (as of 2025-12-31)
- Area
- 1,328.6 km²
- Population density
- 225 inhabitants per km²
- Under 19
- 17.9%
- 67 and older
- 19.7%
- Foreign nationals (2022 census)
- 10.0%
- Employees subject to social insurance (place of work)
- 114,966 (as of 2025-12-31)
- Largest sectors
- Manufacturing 29% · Health and social work 20% · Trade and vehicle repair 14%
- Commuter balance
- -11,306 (more out-commuters than in-commuters)
- Unemployment rate
- 6.1% (as of 2026-09)
- Sparkasse Hellweg-Lippe
- 406 employees (2018)
- Volksbank Beckum-Lippstadt
- 344 employees (2016-12-31)
- Volksbank Hellweg
- 276 employees (2016-12-31)
- Volksbank Delbrück-Hövelhof
- 189 employees (2016-12-31)
- District seat
- Soest
- Municipalities
- 14
- Elevation
- 137 m
- Website
- www.kreis-soest.de
- Wikipedia
- Soest (Wikipedia)
Soest has 298,457 inhabitants. The largest sector is Manufacturing with 29% of employees. The largest company headquartered in Soest is Hella with 37,448 employees. The unemployment rate is 6.1%.
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)
Strongest party by municipality in Soest
Tap to open the municipality result. Labels appear on the largest municipalities by area; all values are in the table below.
Strongest party: CDU in 14 municipalities of 14. Highest share: CDU with 45.1% in Rüthen.
What does the map show?
Each municipality is coloured by the party with the highest second-vote share at the 2025 federal election; the intensity follows the share. Postal votes counted at the level of a joint administration are shown on the administration's page. Click a municipality for its full result.
All municipalities in Soest
Sorted by number of voters. Range across the district: CDU 29.3 to 45.1%, AfD 15.6 to 22.7%, SPD 16.1 to 20.6%, Grüne 7.5 to 13.6%, Linke 4.5 to 7.6%, FDP 3.2 to 4.8%, BSW 2.9 to 4.5%.
| Municipality | Voters | Turnout | CDU | AfD | SPD | Grüne | Linke | FDP | BSW |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lippstadt | 40,662 | 80.9% | 31.4 | 19.7 | 19.0 | 10.7 | 6.9 | 4.2 | 4.5 |
| Soest | 30,016 | 82.4% | 29.3 | 18.4 | 19.0 | 13.6 | 7.6 | 4.2 | 4.1 |
| Werl | 17,630 | 79.1% | 34.8 | 19.3 | 17.8 | 9.3 | 7.0 | 3.9 | 4.3 |
| Warstein | 16,137 | 82.9% | 37.8 | 17.4 | 19.7 | 9.1 | 5.2 | 3.2 | 3.8 |
| Geseke | 13,357 | 83.4% | 34.3 | 22.7 | 17.1 | 8.2 | 6.4 | 3.9 | 4.0 |
| Erwitte | 10,614 | 84.9% | 37.8 | 19.8 | 17.9 | 7.5 | 5.2 | 4.8 | 3.6 |
| Welver | 8,514 | 87.7% | 33.9 | 19.4 | 19.7 | 9.8 | 5.7 | 4.5 | 3.3 |
| Ense | 8,414 | 86.5% | 42.2 | 16.6 | 17.4 | 9.0 | 4.7 | 3.7 | 3.2 |
| Bad Sassendorf | 8,232 | 83.3% | 35.5 | 17.6 | 20.6 | 10.1 | 4.7 | 4.4 | 3.8 |
| Lippetal | 8,063 | 86.6% | 44.0 | 15.6 | 16.1 | 9.5 | 4.7 | 3.9 | 3.0 |
| Möhnesee | 7,680 | 85.4% | 40.3 | 15.9 | 16.7 | 11.5 | 5.1 | 3.9 | 3.2 |
| Wickede (Ruhr) | 7,164 | 82.6% | 35.1 | 21.0 | 19.4 | 7.7 | 5.5 | 3.7 | 4.0 |
| Rüthen | 7,050 | 87.3% | 45.1 | 15.6 | 16.2 | 8.0 | 4.5 | 4.3 | 2.9 |
| Anröchte | 6,933 | 86.0% | 38.0 | 22.4 | 16.2 | 7.5 | 4.7 | 3.9 | 4.0 |
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. Compiled by wahlergebnisse.io.