2026 Saxony-Anhalt state election
6 September 2026
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The 2026 Saxony-Anhalt state election to elect the 9th Landtag of Saxony-Anhalt will be held on 6 September 2026[1], two weeks before the 2026 Berlin and 2026 Mecklenburg-Vorpommern state elections.[2]
The outgoing parliament consists of six parties of which three (plus the non-represented BSW) are close to the "five percent hurdle" according polls of summer 2026. If only few parties regain representation, and up to 20% of votes do not win any seats, the Alternative for Germany (AfD), considered right wing and subject to a "firewall policy" though the collusion of all other parties, with high-ranking German politicians advocating a quick ban[3], could win a majority of seats despite polling only around 40%. To prevent a possible AfD-led government, political initiatives[4] call for "tactical voting" to support the smaller parties, mainly SPD and Greens[5].
Background
In the 2021 Saxony-Anhalt state election, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) emerged again as the strongest party. The Alternative for Germany (AfD) experienced slight losses but remained the second-largest force. Contrary to pre-election predictions of a tight race between the CDU and AfD, the CDU secured a 16-percentage-point lead over the AfD.[6] The Left Party (Die Linke) also recorded losses, achieving 11% of the vote. The Social Democratic Party (SPD) suffered its worst result in Saxony-Anhalt's history. The Free Democratic Party (FDP), with 6.4% of the vote, returned to the state parliament after a decade-long absence. The Greens (Die Grünen) secured 5.9%, narrowly retaining their parliamentary representation.[6]
Following the election, due to a fragile 49/97 majority "grand coalition" between the CDU and SPD alone, the FDP was included, and the CDU, SPD, and FDP formed a black-red-yellow coalition, with same political colors as in the German flag, thus known as the "Germany coalition", and consisting of all the three factions that were represented in the West-Germany-only Bundestag from 1961 to 1983.[7][8] Reiner Haseloff (CDU) was re-elected as Minister-President and head of the state government, although he secured a majority of votes only in the second ballot. The coalition government holds a clear majority in the state parliament, commanding 56 of the 97 seats.[9]
Election date
According to Article 43 of the State Constitution, the state election must take place between the 58th and 62nd month after the start of the legislative period, unless the period is terminated early. The 8th Landtag of Saxony-Anhalt had its first session on 6 July 2021. Consequently, possible election dates initially included all Sundays and public holidays between 10 May and 6 September 2026. In May 2025, the state parliament designated 6 September 2026, thus the last possible day, as the election date.[1]
Electoral system
The State Parliament of Saxony-Anhalt consists of at least 83 members, though this number may increase due to overhang and compensatory mandates. Of these, 41 members are directly elected in constituencies, while the remaining seats are allocated to parties based on their state lists. Each voter has two votes: a first vote (Erststimme) to elect a constituency representative and a second vote (Zweitstimme) to select a party's state list, which determines the proportional distribution of seats in the parliament. The allocation of seats is governed by the Hare/Niemeyer method, with only parties receiving at least 5% of the valid second votes considered for proportional distribution. The State Election Committee oversees the process, first determining the total second votes cast for each state list. Seats are then distributed as follows:
- The committee identifies the number of seats won by independent constituency candidates and by parties that fail to meet the 5% threshold. These are subtracted from the base number of 83 seats to calculate the seats available for proportional allocation.
- The remaining seats are distributed among qualifying parties based on their second vote totals. Each party's share is calculated by multiplying the total remaining seats by the party's second votes, divided by the total second votes of all qualifying parties. Whole seats are assigned first, and any remaining seats are allocated based on the highest fractional remainders. In case of ties, a lottery conducted by the State Election Officer decides.
- If a party with over half of the second votes receives less than half of the available seats, it is awarded an additional seat before further distribution.
- Seats won in constituencies are deducted from a party's total allocated seats, with the remainder filled from the party's state list in the order specified. Candidates already elected in constituencies are excluded from the state list allocation.
- Overhang mandates occur when a party wins more constituency seats than its proportional share. In such cases, the total number of parliamentary seats increases by twice the number of overhang seats, and the distribution process is repeated. If overhang seats persist, they are retained by the party, and the total number of seats is adjusted accordingly. This process continues until the overhang seats no longer exceed half the number required to form a parliamentary group, calculated as the seats a hypothetical party with 5% of second votes would receive.
- Non-elected candidates on state lists of parties securing at least one seat are designated as substitutes in the order determined by the State Election Committee, excluding those already elected in constituencies. The election adheres to the provisions of the Saxony-Anhalt Election Law (Landeswahlgesetz, LWG), as published on 18 February 2010, and the state's electoral regulations. This system ensures a balance between direct constituency representation and proportional party representation, with mechanisms to address disparities caused by overhang mandates while maintaining fair seat allocation.[10]
Parties
| # | Name | Ideology | Lead Candidate | 2021 result | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes (%) | Seats | ||||||
| 1 | CDU | Christian Democratic Union of Germany Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands |
Christian democracy | Sven Schulze | 37.1% | 40 / 97 | |
| 2 | AfD | Alternative for Germany Alternative für Deutschland |
Right-wing populism | Ulrich Siegmund | 20.8% | 23 / 97 | |
| 3 | Left | Die Linke Die Linke |
Left-wing populism | Eva von Angern | 11.0% | 12 / 97 | |
| 4 | SPD | Social Democratic Party of Germany Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands |
Social democracy | Armin Willingmann | 8.4% | 9 / 97 | |
| 5 | FDP | Free Democratic Party Freie Demokratische Partei |
Classical liberalism | Lydia Hüskens | 6.4% | 7 / 97 | |
| 6 | Grüne | Alliance 90/The Greens Bündnis 90/Die Grünen |
Green politics | Susan Sziborra-Seidlitz | 5.9% | 6 / 97 | |
The following minor parties submitted a state list of candidates to the returning officer and were approved to appear on the ballot:[11][12]
- Free Voters (FW)
- Grassroots Democratic Party of Germany (dieBasis)
- Party Human Climate Animal-Protection (Tierschutzpartei)
- Garden Party (Gartenpartei)
- The Party for Labour, Rule of Law, Animal Protection, Promotion of Elites and Grassroots Democratic Initiative (Die PARTEI)
- Alliance for Human Rights, Animal and Nature Protection (Tierschutzallianz)
- Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW)
- Party of Progress (PdF)
- Volt Germany (Volt)
Campaign
Lead candidates
CDU
Then Minister-President Reiner Haseloff announced on 7 August 2025 that he would not seek re-election in 2026.[13][14] Sven Schulze was selected to be the CDU's lead candidate.[14][15] On 28 January 2026, Schulze was elected Minister-President.[16] Previously he had served as a member of the European Parliament for seven years. In 2021, he became the CDU's state chairman. Schulze was the State Minister for Economic Affairs in the Third Haseloff cabinet.[14]
AfD
In a state party conference in Magdeburg, Ulrich Siegmund was selected by the AfD to be their lead candidate, getting 98.3% of the votes.[17] Since 2016, Siegmund has been a member of the State Landtag.[18][19] In 2022, Oliver Kirchner, chair of the AfD parliamentary group in Saxony-Anhalt, proposed that both of them could be lead candidate.[20] Shortly after, Siegmund began co-chairing the parliamentary group with Kirchner.[20][21] Siegmund was chair of the social affairs committee until February 2024 when the parliament voted to remove him from the role due to his participation in the 2023 Potsdam far-right meeting.[22] On 13 August 2026, German weekly news magazine Der Spiegel had a mug-shot style photo of him on its cover[23], calling him ‘the most dangerous man in Germany.’[24] Siegmund used the magazine cover for his campaign, signing many copies, while the Der Spiegel had to defend the move.[25][26]
During a AfD campaign event in Dessau-Roßlau (Saxony-Anhalt) in July 2026. AfD co-leader Tino Chrupalla and Ulrich Siegmund would sing the former GDR national anthem "Risen from Ruins", afterwards, the German national anthem was also sung.[27][28] Martin Huber from the CSU Christian Social Union would criticize the playing of the former GDR anthem.[29]
Die Linke
Eva von Angern was selected to be Die Linke's lead candidate after getting a large majority of votes at a party conference in Leuna.[30][31] She was nominated by the party's two state chairs: Janina Böttger and Hendrik Lange.[32] Von Angern has been a member of the state parliament since 2002 and deputy chair of Die Linke's state parliamentary group from 2014 until she became the chair in 2020.[31][33] Additionally, she was the lead candidate for her party in 2021.[31][32] Die Linke suffered record losses, although Dietmar Bartsch, the then-leader of Die Linke's national parliamentary group, argued that this was partly due to tactical voting.[34]
SPD
Getting votes from 97 of the 98 delegates, Armin Willingmann was elected the lead candidate for the SPD at a party conference in Quedlinburg.[35] Earlier, the party's state executive committee unanimously voted to nominate him for the position.[36][37] During the Second Haseloff cabinet, Willingmann served as State Secretary in the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Science for 6 months before becoming the Minister. In 2021, he ran to represent the constituency of Wernigerode in the state parliament.[38][39] He came in second place, but was still able to become a member of parliament via the party list.[19][39] In October 2021, Willingmann resigned from the state parliament and joined the Third Haseloff cabinet as the Minister of Science, Energy, Climate Protection and the Environment.[40][41] After Minister-President Haseloff resigned, Willingmann maintained this position in the newly announced Schulze cabinet.[42] In 2022, he was elected deputy chair of his party's state parliamentary group.[43]
FDP
On 6 November 2025, the FDP's state delegates' assembly voted to select Lydia Hüskens as their lead candidate.[44][45] Since 2021, she has been Minister of Infrastructure and Digitalization and Second Deputy Minister-President in the Third Haseloff cabinet and Schulze cabinet.
Greens
The Greens' state party conference in Wittenberg selected Susan Sziborra-Seidlitz as their lead candidate. 66 out of the 90 delegates voted for her.[46][47] Since 2016, Sziborra-Seidlitz has been one of her party's state chairs.[48][49] In 2021, she was elected to the state parliament, entering through the party list.[19][46][49]
BSW
Due to internal party conflicts at the state level, the BSW selected two lead candidates: Thomas Schulze and Claudia Wittig. Neither of them have held public office before.[50][51]
Opinion polls

| Polling firm | Fieldwork date | Sample size |
CDU | AfD | Linke | SPD | FDP | Grüne | BSW | Others | Lead |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Forschungsgruppe Wahlen[52] | 25–27 Aug 2026 | 1,053 | 23 | 40 | 13 | 9 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 17 |
| Infratest dimap[52] | 24–25 Aug 2026 | 1,511 | 22 | 42 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 20 |
| pollytix[52] | 3–8 Aug 2026 | 2,604 | 23 | 43 | 13 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 20 |
| INSA[52] | 31 Jul – 6 Aug 2026 | 1,000 | 22 | 42 | 13 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 20 |
| Infratest dimap[52] | 23–28 Jul 2026 | 1,149 | 24 | 41 | 13 | 7 | – | 5 | 4 | 6 | 17 |
| INSA[52] | 14–21 Jul 2026 | 1,000 | 24 | 41 | 14 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 17 |
| INSA[52] | 23–30 Jun 2026 | 1,000 | 23 | 41 | 13 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 18 |
| INSA[52] | 5–12 May 2026 | 1,000 | 24 | 42 | 13 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 18 |
| Infratest dimap[52] | 29 Apr – 5 May 2026 | 1,164 | 26 | 41 | 12 | 7 | – | 4 | 4 | 6 | 15 |
| INSA[52] | 17–24 Mar 2026 | 1,000 | 25 | 38 | 13 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 13 |
| INSA[52] | 20–27 Jan 2026 | 1,000 | 26 | 39 | 11 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 13 |
| INSA[52] | 7–14 Oct 2025 | 1,000 | 26 | 40 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 14 |
| Infratest dimap[52] | 28 Aug – 2 Sep 2025 | 1,167 | 27 | 39 | 13 | 7 | – | 3 | 6 | 5 | 12 |
| INSA[52] | 10–17 Jun 2025 | 1,000 | 34 | 30 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 5 | 4 |
| Federal election[53] | 23 Feb 2025 | – | 19.2 | 37.1 | 10.8 | 11.0 | 3.1 | 4.4 | 11.2 | 3.3 | 17.9 |
| INSA[52] | 8–13 Jan 2025 | 1,000 | 32 | 31 | 4 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 14 | 4 | 1 |
| INSA[52] | 21–28 Oct 2024 | 1,000 | 32 | 30 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 16 | 5 | 2 |
| INSA[52] | 24 Jun – 5 Jul 2024 | 1,000 | 29 | 29 | 4 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 16 | 6 | Tie |
| INSA[52] | 3–11 Jun 2024 | 1,000 | 31 | 30 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 13 | 6 | 1 |
| European Parliament election[54] | 9 Jun 2024 | – | 22.8 | 30.5 | 4.8 | 8.7 | 2.5 | 3.9 | 15.0 | 11.8 | 7.7 |
| INSA[52] | 10–17 Apr 2024 | 1,000 | 32 | 29 | 5 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 7 | 3 |
| Wahlkreisprognose[55] | 21–29 Jan 2024 | 1,000 | 34.5 | 32.5 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 5.5 | – | 9.5 | 2 |
| INSA[52] | 16–23 Oct 2023 | 1,000 | 32 | 33 | 9 | 8 | 4 | 5 | – | 9 | 1 |
| INSA[52] | 21–26 Jun 2023 | 1,000 | 31 | 29 | 9 | 9 | 6 | 6 | – | 10 | 2 |
| Wahlkreisprognose[56] | 16–28 May 2023 | 732 | 37 | 26 | 10 | 12 | 6 | 4 | – | 5 | 11 |
| INSA[52] | 6–13 Mar 2023 | 1,000 | 35 | 26 | 11 | 8 | 6 | 7 | – | 7 | 9 |
| Wahlkreisprognose[57] | 6–13 Jan 2023 | 982 | 31.5 | 26 | 10 | 13 | 4.5 | 4.5 | – | 10.5 | 5.5 |
| Wahlkreisprognose[58] | 7–15 Jun 2022 | 1,000 | 33 | 23 | 9 | 15 | 5 | 6 | – | 9 | 10 |
| Infratest dimap[52] | 17–22 Feb 2022 | 1,161 | 33 | 20 | 11 | 16 | 6 | 5 | – | 9 | 13 |
| Wahlkreisprognose[59] | 13–21 Feb 2022 | 1,005 | 33 | 20 | 9 | 19 | 6.5 | 5 | – | 7.5 | 13 |
| Federal election[60] | 26 Sep 2021 | – | 21.0 | 19.6 | 9.6 | 25.4 | 9.5 | 6.5 | – | 8.4 | 4.4 |
| State election[61] | 6 Jun 2021 | – | 37.1 | 20.8 | 11.0 | 8.4 | 6.4 | 5.9 | – | 10.4 | 16.3 |
Minister-President polling
| Polling firm | Fieldwork date | Sample size |
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None/ Unsure/ Don't know |
Lead |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Schulze CDU |
Siegmund AfD | |||||
| Forschungsgruppe Wahlen[62] | 25–27 Aug 2026 | 1,053 | 48 | 32 | 20 | 16 |
| Infratest dimap[63] | 24–25 Aug 2026 | 1,511 | 41 | 39 | 20 | 2 |
| INSA[64] | 23–30 Jun 2026 | 1,000 | 28 | 32 | 40 | 4 |
| INSA[65] | 5–12 May 2026 | 1,000 | 28 | 30 | 42 | 2 |
| Infratest dimap[66] | 29 Apr – 5 May 2026 | 1,164 | 36 | 32 | 32 | 4 |
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Notes
- ↑ Including one AfD deputy who is not a member of the AfD faction but non-attached.
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