Local election 2020 in Essen: runoff election? It's going to be pretty tight

Local elections are due again in Essen in September and the results will be exciting.

Will CSU Lord Mayor Kufen keep his scepter - or will someone else take over?

The SPD and the Greens are prepared for the runoff election.

• Local elections will be

  held

  again

  in

  NRW

  in autumn

  - we will keep you informed of all events in the news ticker.

• Due to the

  coronavirus pandemic

  and the

  safety and hygiene measures

  , there could be delays at the ballot box.

• Here you will find the results of the mayoral elections and results for the Ruhr Parliament.

Update from September 13, 7.43 p.m.:

For Thomas Kufen (CDU) it looks like a successful re-election, but he

still has to overcome

one hurdle in the

.

After counting around half of all voting districts, it is 51.77 percent of the votes.

However, this does not mean that it will actually win an absolute majority.

If Kufen falls below the 50 percent mark on the evening of the election, the path will lead to the

in two weeks

.

Update from September 13th, 6.48pm: It's

still early in the evening and only 21 of 429 voting districts are counted in the OB election.

Nevertheless, the result in Essen seems quite clear.

Thomas Kufen (CDU) is at the top with 49.2 percent, while his most important opponent Oliver Kern (SPD) only has 21.5 percent of the vote.

Nevertheless, everything is still open, because it is important for Kufen whether he can achieve an election result above 50 percent in order to avoid a runoff.

Update from September 13th, 6:25 p.m.:

While the local election result in Essen is of course still a bit long in coming, a state-

provides information on how people across the entire state voted.

The CDU is ahead (36 percent), ahead of the SPD (23.5 percent) and the Greens (19 percent).

Update from September 13th, 6 p.m .:

Essen has voted and the

can begin.

It will probably take a few hours for all the elections to be counted.

We will keep you up to date with all the figures that will be published in advance, as well as the final results from Essen.

Update from September 13, 4:52 p.m.:

Even if you have to wait a bit for the results from Essen, there are already the first figures from the city.

As of 4 p.m., the turnout was 40.8 percent, which is a slight plus of 0.7 percentage points compared to the last local election.

All the results of the local elections in Essen - the first figures can be there early

Update from September 13:

, the

counted

.

First, the votes of the OB election come in turn.

Although there are no quick

local elections

, voters can generally expect concrete interim results to be published during the election evening.

This also applies to the further elections in the city, which are only counted after the OB election.

As soon as there is new information on the evening of the election, we will keep you up to date - right here in the results ticker for Essen.

Local elections in Essen: The first results are expected throughout North Rhine-Westphalia today

eat

- The

are imminent.

After the city was the one in

with the lowest turnout

in the last elections

, one hopes for more euphoria this year.

In the

2014, the turnout in Essen was only 27.7 percent - a figure that

we

can hopefully

in September - because a

is not considered to be so unlikely.

The

are eagerly awaited, not only because of the large number of candidates who are running for the office of Lord Mayor

make an effort, but also because young people

eligible to vote

for the first time in autumn 2020

.

For every

there is a lot to consider, because the Essen residents will decide

on the interests of their city

on September

with a total of three ballot papers

.

Not only the

will be redefined, but also the members of the

and the nine

.

Local election 2020: Voters are only allowed to put one cross per piece of paper

In addition, voters in

still have to make a fourth election, because this year they can also

directly through the parties in the

for the first time

vote.

This is an association meeting of the

Ruhr

Association.

But be

careful

when placing the crosses on the

: Although several ballot papers have to be

filled out

for the local elections in

,

may be

made

- otherwise not only is the

invalid, but the vote is wasted too.

Local election 2020: result for Essen will come from 6 p.m.

The polling stations in

and will

close at 6 p.m. on September 13th

the

other cities in which voting is also made: Wuppertal, Bochum, Duisburg, Dortmund, Düsseldorf and Cologne.

By then, all ballot boxes and postal votes must have been cast.

Then the big counting begins for the election workers.

Only when all valid

from all electoral districts have been recorded can the

the

and the nine

be announced.

Due to the coronavirus protective measures, the authorities have already warned in advance that there may be delays this year, so that the results would not be known on the same evening - as is so often the case.

Even without

related delays,

on September 13th could actually not find a final outcome.

If you believe a representative survey on the

, it seems likely that the city's next

this year will not be determined after the first ballot.

Because only if a candidate can win at least 50 percent of the electorate is it enough for him

to hold

the

.

Further election results from the major cities

Not only on the results of food keeps you

to date.

In addition to the results overview for the whole of North Rhine-Westphalia, you will find further articles that will deal with the figures from the largest cities in the state from the evening of the election:

• Local election results from Cologne

• Local election results from Düsseldorf

• Local election results from Dortmund

• Local election results from Duisburg

• Local election results from Bochum

• Local election results from Wuppertal

• Local election results from Bielefeld

• Local election results from Bonn

• Local election results from Münster

Video: First elections due to the coronavirus pandemic only by letter

Local election 2020: result for Essen could be exciting

For the incumbent

could be tight, because there are some promising challengers in Essen.

Nine candidates are running for the office of Lord Mayor.

If none of the candidates reaches the required number of votes,

a

election

must be held on

, which will ultimately

decide

on the

in the town hall.

In Essen - apart from the incumbent - Oliver Kern from the SPD and Mehrdad Mostofizadeh from the Greens are favorites.

While Kern, a health and social economist, has been managing director of the AWO district association in Essen since 2016, Mostofizadeh has been a member of the state parliament since 2010.

The deputy chairman of the NRW Greens studied law, social sciences and English in Bochum.

So

whoever

wields the scepter

in

will remain exciting.

The fact is that the last two elections were mostly a close affair for the

.

Kufen has ruled since 2015 with a 1st mayor from the SPD, Rudolf Jelinek.

The

is barely the strongest parliamentary group in Essen and the

also been catching up since the 2019 European elections

, especially since the young voters in particular

could tip the scales

in the

.