Overview
- Polling stations opened at 8:00 for the state election with nearly three million eligible voters, and they close at 18:00.
- The state election authority reported roughly 40 percent participation by 10:00, including about 34 percent who applied for postal ballots, a lower postal share than in 2021.
- The final pre‑election ZDF Politbarometer put the CDU at 29 percent to the SPD’s 27 percent, with the AfD near 19 percent and the Greens around 9 percent.
- Analyses highlight that the FDP risks missing the 5 percent threshold, narrowing options to a CDU–SPD or SPD–CDU government, with cooperation with the AfD ruled out.
- Across Bavaria, mayoral runoffs are being decided today, including Munich (Dieter Reiter vs Dominik Krause), Regensburg (Astrid Freudenstein vs Thomas Burger) and Bamberg (Jonas Glüsenkamp vs Sebastian Niedermaier), with outlets publishing live results from official data feeds.