Record 1 Million Accesses to Wahl-O-Mat Ahead of Saxony-Anhalt Election

The Wahl-O-Mat, Germany’s digital guide for comparing party positions, has reached a record more than 1 million uses ahead of Saxony-Anhalt’s state election on September 6, 2026.

The Federal Agency for Civic Education said the figure had already surpassed 1 million. That is more than double the total recorded in the previous state election five years ago. In 2021, 431,000 users in Saxony-Anhalt turned to the tool for guidance, according to the state agency for civic education.

The platform aims to help voters make their decisions. It presents 38 statements, allowing users to compare their own answers with the positions of the parties standing for election. The Wahl-O-Mat then calculates the level of agreement between the user and each party. The question-and-answer format has been available since 2002.

Nearly 1.7 million people are eligible to vote for a new state parliament in Saxony-Anhalt. Opinion polls before Sunday’s election put the AfD, led by Ulrich Siegmund, clearly ahead of the governing CDU, whose state premier is Sven Schulze. The AfD, which the state’s Office for the Protection of the Constitution classifies as confirmed far-right extremist, is seeking to govern alone and install a state premier for the first time in a German state. Whether it can do so will also depend on how many parties enter parliament, while all other parties have ruled out coalitions with the AfD.