2024 Baden-Württemberg local elections

2024 Baden-Württemberg local elections

9 June 2024
2,311 district council seats 18,562 municipal council seats
Turnout	5,186,560 (60.83%) 2.20%
First party Second party Third party   Leader Manuel Hagel None Andreas Stoch Party CDU Local voters' associations SPD Last election 642 seats, 28.26% 4,083 seats, 22.84% 550 seats, 24.40% 8,860 seats, 39.15% 322 seats, 14.00% 1,976 seats, 13.43% Seats won 702 4,007 561 8,687 292 1,650 Seat change 60 76 11 173 30 326 Popular vote 1,214,266 1,030,853 988,540 1,697,596 511,371 511,363 Percentage 30.12% 23.85% 24.52% 39.28% 12.68% 11.83% Swing 1.86% 1.01% 0.12% 0.13% 1.32% 1.60%   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Winfried Kretschmann Anton Baron Hans-Ulrich Rülke Party Greens AfD FDP Last election 385 seats, 17.49% 1,258 seats, 12.90% 125 seats, 5.55% 117 seats, 1.92% 138 seats, 6.20% 367 seats, 3.86% Seats won 292 1,077 277 350 121 315 Seat change 93 181 152 233 17 52 Popular vote 514,031 465,231 469,939 181,598 212,429 151,014 Percentage 12.68% 11.83% 11.66% 4.20% 5.27% 3.49% Swing 4.81% 1.07% 6.11% 2.28% 0.93% 0.37%   Seventh party   Leader Sahra Mirow Party Linke Last election 40 seats, 1.99% 63 seats, 1.35% Seats won 27 40 Seat change 13 23 Popular vote 51,346 42,251 Percentage 1.27% 0.98% Swing 0.72% 0.37%

The 2024 Baden-Württemberg local elections were held on June 9, 2024 to elect members of Baden-Württemberg's 35 district councils and 1101 municipal and local councils. The elections were held on the same day as the 2024 European Parliament election in Germany.

Background

All Germans and European Union citizens who have reached the age of 16 and have resided in their municipality for at least three months were eligible to vote.

For the first time, the full address of the candidates was no longer listed in the election announcements and on the ballots. This measure was implemented to protect candidates from harassment.

Results

Following the election local voters' associations remained the largest political grouping at the municipality level and the second largest grouping at the district level. Meanwhile the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) remained the second largest party at the municipal level and the largest party at the district level. The Social Democratic Party, Greens, Free Democratic Party, Die Linke all lost seats. Meanwhile, the Alternative for Germany (AfD) tripled its municipal representation, and gains were also made by a number of smaller political parties. Small parties that won district or municipal seats included: the Free Voters, Ecological Democratic Party, German Communist Party, Team Todenhöfer, Pirate Party Germany, Die PARTEI, and Volt Germany.

In the state capital, Stuttgart, the Christian Democratic Union received the most votes, followed by the Greens. The CDU also received the most votes in the cities of Mannheim, Ravensburg, Aalen, and Baden-Baden. The Greens received the most votes in the cities of Karlsruhe, Heidelberg, Ulm, Freiburg im Breisgau, and Tübingen. The Alternative for Germany placed first in Pforzheim and second in Rastatt and Göppingen.

Summary of results for the 2024 Baden-Württemberg local elections

Party		Votes (District)	%	+/-	Seats	+/-	Votes (Municipal)	%	+/-	Seats	+/-
	Christian Democratic Union (CDU)	1,214,266	30.12	1.86	702	60	1,030,853	23.85	1.01	4,007	76
	Local voters' associations	988,540	24.52	0.12	561	11	1,697,596	39.28	0.13	8,687	173
	Social Democratic Party (SPD)	511,371	12.68	1.32	292	30	511,363	11.83	1.60	1,650	326
	The Greens (Grüne)	514,031	12.75	4.74	292	93	465,231	10.77	2.13	1,077	181
	Alternative for Germany (AfD)	469,939	11.66	6.11	277	152	181,598	4.20	2.28	350	233
	Free Democratic Party (FDP)	212,429	5.27	0.93	121	17	151,014	3.49	0.37	315	52
	Die Linke	51,346	1.27	0.72	27	13	42,251	0.98	0.37	40	23
	Joint election proposals	37,852	0.94	0.22	22	6	171,804	3.98	0.38	784	42
	Other parties	32,156	0.80	0.15	17	6	69,682	1.61	0.67	77	26
Total		4,031,930			2,311	58	4,321,392			18,562	112
Invalid votes		112,019					153,329
Voter turnout		4,338,972	62.42				5,186,560	60.83
Eligible voters		7,064,954					8,526,601