Polls opened within the northern German city-state of Hamburg on Sunday, only one week after the nation held nationwide elections.
Polling stations opened at 8 am (0700 GMT) and are as a consequence of shut at 6 pm in what is about to be Germany’s solely election on the state stage this yr.
Hamburg is one in every of Germany’s three city-states, alongside Berlin and Bremen.
The Social Democratic Get together (SPD) – which suffered a crushing defeat in final Sunday’s federal election – is anticipated to stay the largest drive within the port metropolis, with Mayor Peter Tschentscher hoping for an additional coalition with the Greens.
Virtually 1.3 million residents are eligible to vote in Hamburg, the place the voting age is 16.
Slightly below a 3rd of these eligible to vote are prone to have already solid their poll.
In keeping with the state electoral workplace, greater than 420,000 postal voting paperwork had already been issued by Friday – considerably greater than over the past Hamburg election 5 years in the past.
