The SPD Hamburg is heading into the state election campaign with Mayor Tschentscher at the helm. The party overwhelmingly put the 58-year-old in first place on the state list.
As expected, the SPD Hamburg is heading into the state election campaign with Mayor Peter Tschentscher at the helm. A state assembly put the 58-year-old in first place on the state list for the election on March 2nd next year with 97.3 percent of the votes. A total of 323 Social Democrats voted for him, 6 voted against him in the Congress Center Hamburg (CCH), and 3 abstained. Tschentscher did not have an opposing candidate.
The SPD has ruled the Hanseatic city without interruption since 2011, first with the then mayor and current Chancellor Olaf Scholz at the helm, and since 2018 with Tschentscher in the executive chair in the town hall. In the most recent state election in 2020, the SPD got 39.2 percent. The Green coalition partner achieved 24.2 percent, meaning that the red-green coalition has a two-thirds majority in parliament.
The state election at the beginning of March is the only election at the state level before the federal election in autumn 2025. The most recent surveys from February put the SPD at 30 percent and the Green coalition partner at 21 percent.
Source: Stern
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