Bundestag elections in Bochum and Herne: first results! Clear tendency

• SPD: 38,15 %
• CDU: 18.97%
• Greens: 12.53%
• FDP: 8.51%
• AfD: 10.07%
• Left: 4.14%

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Interim status: 10:05 p.m. (168 of 176 polling stations counted)

Turnout: 65.84%

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News blog: Bundestag elections in Bochum and Herne

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26. September 2021

7:52 p.m.: Clear voter migration recognizable

In the meantime, around a third of the polling stations in Bochum’s constituency I have announced their results. Accordingly, the SPD is clearly ahead. If it remained at the current interim status, the CDU would have lost most of the ground. So far, there are 8 percentage points less than the share of second votes in the 2017 Bundestag election. The Greens laugh up their sleeves. You could now almost double your percentage points from 8.9 percent to 17.65 percent so far.

6:59 p.m.: First results from Bochum polling stations arrived

The first official results of the Bundestag election from Bochum are now available. As of now, the SPD will emerge victorious in both constituencies. But given the small number of votes counted, the results are not very meaningful.

6:31 p.m.: CDU crash! Successor spotted?

According to the first forecasts, it looks like the historically worst result in a federal election for the CDU. Will Peter Neururer now take over the helm in the CDU headquarters? At least the football satire portal “Wumms” brings the former coach of VfL Bochum, known as the “firefighter”, into conversation – all with a wink, of course:

6:02 p.m.: Polling stations in Bochum closed – first results!
The polling stations are tight. Now all of Bochum is waiting for the first results of the federal election. You can find the first nationwide election forecast here >>>

4:21 p.m.: City has important information

Final spurt in the polling stations. You can put your cross on the voting slip until 6 p.m. For all postal voters who have not yet submitted their voting papers, there is an important note: “You can also submit your postal voting papers to the postal voting center at the Neues Gymnasium Bochum by 6 pm at the latest,” said the city of Bochum on Twitter.

3:27 p.m.: Turnout continues to rise

In the 2021 federal election in Bochum, 24.75 percent have so far cast their vote at the ballot box in Bochum. Including postal votes, the proportion is 65.0 percent. In the 2017 federal election, the turnout at 3 p.m. was 36.6 percent. With postal votes, the proportion was 59.7 percent.

12.25 p.m.: SPD direct candidate votes

SPD direct candidate in the 2021 federal election, Gereon Wolters, will vote on Sunday, September 26, 2021 at the polling station in the Hufeland School in Bochum-Querenburg.

11.36 a.m.: The turnout is SO high so far

The city of Bochum has published an initial interim status on the turnout in the federal elections in the city. 7.5 percent have already voted at the ballot box. Including postal votes, the voter turnout is currently 47.8 percent.

8.45 a.m.: YOU influence the first 6 p.m. forecast

The 60,000 polling stations in Germany have been open since eight o’clock. Around 60.4 million people are called upon to cast their votes in the Bundestag election – 2.8 million of them are first-time voters.

It is expected that this year more people than ever before will cast their votes by postal vote – according to the federal election committee, at least 40 percent of the voters.

But the high number of postal voters is becoming a real problem, because, for example, older people in particular use postal voting more often than average and people over the age of 60 vote differently than those who go to the polling station. The Union and the SPD traditionally achieve better results with senior citizens than with younger ones. Because of this, the post-election surveys at the polling stations could distort the actual mood that emerges later when the votes are counted. You can find out more about this in our Bundestag election news blog.

8.00 a.m.: Polling stations in Bochum opened

The polling stations in Bochum are open. Voters now have until 6 p.m. to cast their votes. Voters can put postal voting documents in the administrative mailboxes at the town hall by 4 p.m. at the latest or hand them in at the postal voting center at the Neues Gymnasium Bochum by 6 p.m. at the latest.

September 25, 2021: Postal voting record in Bochum

Huge rush for the postal voting documents! Despite a glitch with the postal vote, the interest was enormous. The city received over 107,000 postal voting applications, it said. This corresponds to around 40 percent of all eligible voters.

Bundestag elections in Bochum and Herne: So far SPD strongholds

So far, the matter has been clear: The SPD has the two direct constituency mandates in Bochum and Herne. Since 1961, the two federal electoral districts have always gone to the comrades. But the times in which SPD candidates could gain absolute majorities are over!

For the prominent Social Democrat Michelle Müntefering, Minister of State under Foreign Minister Heiko Maas and married to the former SPD party leader and Vice Chancellor Franz Müntefering since 2009, it should nevertheless be a safe victory.

On the other hand, things could turn out tighter for SPD man Axel Schäfer!

Bundestag constituency Bochum I (constituency 140): Not a sure-fire success for SPD man Axel Schäfer

The 69-year-old Schäfer has a lot of experience, he has been in the Bundestag since 2002 and had previously been in the European Parliament for five years, but in the 2017 Bundestag election he lost a lot of approval. The MP, married to Bochum’s mayor Gaby Schäfer, lost seven percentage points and only got 37.2 percent approval.

The Bundestag constituency Bochum I comprises the districts of Wattenscheid, South, Southwest and Central. Schäfer’s most famous predecessor in this constituency was Erich Ollenhauer. The later SPD party chairman moved directly into the Bundestag as a candidate from Bochum in 1949.

In the 2021 election, Axel Schäfer, the Green candidate in particular, could win important votes from first-time and young voters. The 24-year-old Max Lucks was NRW state chairman for the past few years and then even federal chairman of the Green Youth. He wants to inherit the previous green member of the Bundestag Frithjof Schmidt (68) politically, who has moved into parliament three times since 2009 via the state list.

The CDU sends its district chairman Fabian Schütz into the race. The 39-year-old government director at the State Audit Office in Düsseldorf wants to reach more than the 28.2 percent that candidate Christian Haardt was able to get for the CDU in 2017. Is Schütz getting closer to the direct mandate?

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