Overview
- Gordon Schnieder secured the CDU’s top spot in Rhineland-Palatinate with 204 of 205 votes at the Morbach party congress and launched the campaign motto “Weil’s jetzt gilt.”
- An October Infratest dimap survey for SWR put the CDU at 29 percent and the SPD at 23 percent in Rhineland-Palatinate, with the AfD at 19 and the Greens at 10.
- The state votes in Rhineland-Palatinate on March 22, 2026, where the SPD-Greens-FDP coalition currently governs under Minister-President Alexander Schweitzer, and CDU leader Friedrich Merz has scheduled multiple campaign appearances.
- In Saxony-Anhalt, FDP state leader Lydia Hüskens won the Spitzenkandidatin vote with 58.2 percent over Andreas Silbersack in Staßfurt, and Silbersack was subsequently placed second on the list.
- Saxony-Anhalt holds its election on September 6, 2026, with recent polls showing the FDP below five percent and the AfD leading ahead of the CDU.