The counting in NRW has been completed, all runoff elections are over.
You can find all the results of the mayoral elections in NRW here.
The results of the nearly 400
mayoral elections
and the runoff elections in the 2020 local elections in North Rhine-Westphalia *.
Election results
: All runoff results in our voting card.
It is also worth taking a look at an election analysis of the first ballot: seven interesting and curious facts.
In our
interactive voting cards
you can call up all the results from 2020 - and all the victorious candidates in the last NRW elections.
In the
local elections in North Rhine-Westphalia
, the mayors were elected in most of the 396 cities and municipalities, and the runoff election was due on Sunday.
In this article you will find all the final results of the mayoral elections in NRW and all the results of the runoff elections.
The first result came in with Nieheim at 6:32 p.m.
Shortly before 10 p.m., Cologne was also the last city.
A detailed data analysis will follow on Monday.
Mayoral elections 2020 in North Rhine-Westphalia: All results in our interactive map
Click through the map - you will find the results of the mayoral election for each municipality.
In order to supply you as quickly and comprehensively as possible, we have automatically recorded the data in a complex process.
As always, you will find more information on our general election procedure in a transparency info box at the end of the article.
Results of the mayoral elections in NRW 2020: This is how the interactive voting card works
As soon as the final result in the respective municipality was determined, the
corresponding area was
colored
on the map
.
The color depends on the party to which the respective winner belongs.
Every party that received at least 0.5 percent of the vote in the 2019 European elections in North Rhine-Westphalia is provided with the usual color or one based on the party logo.
All other lists and parties are uniformly colored pink.
Municipalities in which a runoff election is required after the first ballot appear dark gray.
On the interactive map above you can click and see the results of the mayoral elections for each municipality in North Rhine-Westphalia.
You can use the zoom function at the top right to change the map section as you wish.
You can activate the function either via the plus and minus buttons on the map, or you can hold down the CTRL key and use the mouse wheel.
On smartphones or tablets, you simply operate the zoom as usual with two fingers.
The mayoral election is a majority vote.
A candidate needs more than half the vote to win the election.
In communities where no candidate met this criterion, a
runoff election was
held
two weeks later, on September 27, on a second election date *
.
The two candidates who previously won the most votes stood for election.
At the same time, the district council, district council, municipal council and Ruhr parliament elections were held on the first election Sunday.
Mayoral elections: After a court ruling in North Rhine-Westphalia there were again runoff elections in 2020
In the last mayor elections in 2014 and 2015, the trend towards ever lower
voter turnout
continued and reached an
all-time low
.
If the turnout in 2014 was around 50 percent, this figure fell further in 2015 to 40.9 percent.
The city of
Essen
was at the
bottom
when the runoff election only attracted 27.7 percent of the voters to the polls.
For the local elections in 2020, the black and yellow state government had abolished the concept of the runoff election for various reasons.
But after a complaint by the
SPD
and the
Greens,
the constitutional court revised the decision - and so there will be runoff elections again this year.
V
on Luisa Bill Mayer, Hubert Selin, Danijel Komljenovi
æ
and Philip David Pries.
* Merkur.de is part of the Ippen-Digital network
Transparency: Our data, sources and methods
We obtained all election results from official sources.
In the NRW election, these were the approx. 400 cities and municipalities that published all data individually digitally.
We have recorded, checked, enriched these in an automated process and integrated them into elements such as the interactive maps.
We contacted municipalities that did not provide us with the election results in this way directly on the evening of the election and integrated the data.
You can find more background information about our election data work in the data background text on the local elections in Bavaria.