State election in Wolfsburg

On Sunday, October 9, 2022, the 19th Lower Saxony state parliament will be elected in the period from 08:00 to 18:00.

There are 87 constituencies in Lower Saxony.

Constituency7 Wolfsburg is the name of the constituency for the urban area of Wolfsburg - without the urban and local districts Vorsfelde, Wendschott, Brackstedt, Velstove, Warmenau.

Constituency5 Gifhorn-Nord/Wolfsburg includes, in addition to the urban and local districts of Vorsfelde, Wendschott, Brackstedt, Velstove, Warmenau from Wolfsburg, the joint municipalities of Hankensbüttel, Wesendorf, Brome, Boldecker Land and the municipalities of Sassenburg and Wittingen of the district of Gifhorn.

86,385 citizens (as of 09.08.2022) are eligible to vote in Wolfsburg (for electoral districts 5 and 7).

To be eligible to vote, citizens must...

• be 18 years of age,
• have German citizenship and
• have lived in Lower Saxony for at least three months.

Each eligible voter has 2 votes:

• 1 first vote for the election of a constituency representative
• 1 second vote for the election of a state list (party).

The second vote is the decisive vote for the distribution of seats among the individual parties.

At least 135 members of parliament are to be elected in total. 87 of them are elected by personal vote (first-past-the-post votes, i.e. the person who receives the most votes in his or her constituency is represented in the state parliament) and 48 by proportional representation (second-past-the-post votes).

5 percent of the votes must be achieved in order to be taken into account in the distribution of seats. This does not apply to the direct mandate.

In the election committee meeting on 12.08.2022, the following six election proposals for the electoral district 7 Wolfsburg were approved:

Ms. Immacolata Glosemeyer (SPD)
Ms. Cindy Lutz (CDU)
Ms. Katharina Rosch (The Greens)
Mr. Mats-Ole Maretzke (FDP)
Mr. Andreas Kinne (dieBasis)
Mr. Johann Sebastian Günter Hönig (individual candidate)

For the electoral district 5 Gifhorn North/Wolfsburg the following seven district election proposals were admitted by the district election committee of the district Gifhorn:

Ms. Kirsikka Anna Lansmann (SPD)
Ms. Lena-Sophie Laue (CDU)
Mr. Christian Schroeder (GREENS)
Mr. Helge Gülzau (FDP)
Mr. Stefan Marzischewski-Drewes (AfD Lower Saxony)
Ms. Nicoline Rohweder (DIE LINKE.)
Mr. Harald Finzer (dieBasis)

What was the voter turnout in the last state elections?

2017: 58.0 percent
2013: 53.0 percent
2008: 58.4 percent

How was the absentee ballot received?

InWolfsburg , 129 polling stationsare set up for the election; 26 of these are absentee polling stations.

Of the 103 general polling stations in the city, a total of 96 are accessible to wheelchair users.

26 polling places are wheelchair-accessible without an assistant and another 70 polling places are wheelchair-accessible with an assistant.

Polling stations that are not wheelchair accessible are located at the Nordsteimke Elementary School, the Eichelkamp Forest School, the Mörse Elementary School and the Friedrich-von-Schiller Elementary School.

1,032 election workers will be deployed at the polling stations.

In addition, around 100 other people (including the press office, IT department, and school janitors) will be on duty to ensure that the elections run smoothly.

Four representative constituencies are set up for statistical purposes in Wolfsburg (in constituency 5: two in Vorsfelde, constituency 7: Tiergartenbreite and Wohltberg).

For evaluation purposes, the ballots are marked according to six age groups and gender, anonymity is guaranteed.

Polling districts 312 and 414 were selected by Infratest for ARD's election coverage.

The Wahlen research group selected polling stations 117 in Vorsfelde-Süd, 320 in Nordsteimke and 512 in Almke for ZDF's coverage. There, voters are approached and questioned anonymously after leaving the polling room.

Simply fill out the form on the back of your election notification and send it to the address provided.

If you would like to have your absentee ballot documents sent to a different address, please indicate this when you apply.

Apply in writing (no pre-printed form) to:

City of Wolfsburg
Department of Citizen Services
Election Office
Porschestrasse 49
38440 Wolfsburg

The following information is required:

Family name
First names
Date of birth
Address (street, house number, postal code, city)

If you wish to have your absentee ballot documents sent to a different address, please indicate this when applying.

Send an email to wahlscheine_on@stadt.wolfsburg.de.

The following information is required:

Family name
First name
Date of birth
Address (street, house number, postal code, city)

If you wish to have your absentee ballot documents sent to a different address, please indicate this when applying.

Scan the QR code on the front of your election notification. This will take you to the online application "OLIWA".

If you would like to have your absentee ballot documents sent to a different address, please specify this when you apply.

Submit the application directly via the online application "OLIWA".

If you would like to have your absentee ballot documents sent to a different address, please specify this when applying.

Come to the absentee polling station in person:

City Hall A
Meeting room 5
Porschestrasse 49
38440 Wolfsburg

Opening hours:

Mondays and Tuesdays: 08:30 - 16:30
Wednesdays and Fridays: 08:30 - 12:00 hrs
Thursdays: 08:30 - 17:30 hrs

You can also place your crosses there directly on site, if desired. Please bring your identity card or passport with you. If you wish to apply for and/or collect absentee ballots on behalf of another person, you will need a written power of attorney.