To provide a control device for a vehicle performing the automatic stop control of an internal combustion engine and suppressing the occurrence of a situation that the internal combustion engine can not be restarted.

The control device 1 for the vehicle is characterized in that it comprises a battery 10 supplying electric power to an electric start means for starting the internal combustion engine 40, a determination means 56 for determining a short-circuit possibility of the battery caused by a conductive deposit deposited in the battery and when an automatic stop condition of the internal combustion engine is satisfied, the automatic stop control is performed when the determination means determines that the short-circuit possibility is high and does not perform the automatic stop control of the internal combustion engine when the determination means determines that the short-circuit possibility is low.