Mayor election in Stuttgart: CDU man follows Green Kuhn - left camp beats itself

A new mayor will be voted on in Stuttgart.

After the first ballot, it is now round two.

All information about the battle for the top of the town hall here in the news ticker.

• The mayor election took place in Stuttgart on November 8th.

• The current OB candidate Fritz Kuhn from the Greens is no longer up for election.

• Stuttgart's mayor election goes into the second round on November 29th.

Update from November 29th:

The second ballot in the struggle for the town hall in Stuttgart seems to have been decided:

admitted

his

on Sunday, even before all votes were counted.

He wishes him all the best for shaping the city over the next few years, said the mayor of Tengen at

.

At the time he had around 37 percent of the vote, Nopper around 43 percent.

Schreier (30) ran as an

.

The 30-year-old saw the fact that he surprisingly clearly came in second as confirmation that “politics can also go beyond the established and deadlocked structures”.

A total of 450,000 eligible voters were able to vote.

The incumbent

did not run for election again after eight years at the top of the town hall.

Since none of the applicants was able to win an absolute majority of the votes in the first ballot three weeks ago, a simple majority, i.e. the most votes, is sufficient in the open second vote.

Stuttgart's city councilor

from the SÖS / Linke parliamentary group came

in third

.

He was initially assigned a good 17 percent of the votes.

Mayor election in Stuttgart: Debacle for the Greens - are left parties now helping CDU man into office?

Update from November 12, 3:15 p.m.:

After her exit from the race for the top of the town hall in Stuttgart, the

holding back

with a recommendation for one of the two remaining applicants from the center-left camp.

"She will not comment on it," said her campaign team on Thursday.

Kienzle told the “Stuttgarter Zeitung” that she couldn't say that one was better than the other.

Both the

and the

from the SÖS / Linke parliamentary group

had previously

announced that they would run again in the second ballot on November 29th.

The field of remaining applicants for the OB post has clearly thinned after the first election and the sensational withdrawal of Kienzel.

In addition to Kienzle, the AfD candidate Malte Kaufmann, the SPD politician Martin Körner and two other candidates have decided to withdraw from the race, as the city announced on Thursday.

CDU candidate Frank Nopper and Schreier and Rockenbauch are now favorites for the OB post.

OB election in Stuttgart: Green candidate gets out

Update from November 11th, 4.15 p.m.:

The Green candidate

withdraws from the

in

.

That became known on Wednesday.

She will not take part in the new election on November 29th.

The background is that both city councilor Hannes Rockenbauch from the SÖS / Left party alliance and the social democrat Marian Schreier, who ran as an independent candidate, had announced their own candidacy.

In order to win,

would have had

to pull the center-left camp on their side - and the other two candidates would have to drop out of the race.

After Nopper, she was runner-up with 37,619 votes.

With her as the third candidate, she sees no chance for an eco-social majority against

, said

Kienzle of the German press agency.

In the

it is said that the candidates

, Martin Körner, Marian Schreier and Hannes Rockenbauch could not agree on a common approach at several meetings.

Rockenbauch criticized Marian Schreier's behavior.

When it became clear that he would not withdraw his candidacy, Kienzle announced that he would not run again in the new elections.

Update from November 9th, 4 p.m.:

Although the Christian Democrat

the nose in front

in

after the first ballot, it will remain exciting until the second round of elections on November 29th.

Because the runners-up could still prevent his election as mayor.

But only together, writes the German Press Agency.

A head-to-head race is likely.

Nopper

got 31.8 percent of the votes in the first ballot - followed by

(Greens) with 17.2 percent.

In order to win, Kienzle has to win over as many voters from the other applicants in the center-left camp as possible.

For this, however, according to the

(9.8 percent), the social democrat

(15 percent) and Stuttgart city councilor

from the SÖS / Linke parliamentary group (14 percent) would also have to get out of the race

as an independent applicant

.

However, there is currently little to be said for this, the two candidates have so far kept a low profile on this possibility.

After the first round of elections: mayor election in Stuttgart - does Green politician still have a chance?

The German Press Agency writes that the

has only won one stage so far.

In the next three weeks up to the new election, he wants to trump with his experience: "In this crisis-ridden time, you need a manager with many years of experience in the town hall." The poor performance of the Green politician

is due to the disappointed hopes placed in the

set.

Political scientist Frank Brettschneider from the University of Hohenheim said that this would be transferred to the Greens.

The election of the

important

for the Greens

.

For decades the state capital was considered a bastion of the

.

Kuhn's election victory changed this.

Since then,

a stronghold of the Greens.

As the German Press Agency writes, an election defeat would cost the party prestige and influence.

OB election in Stuttgart: AfD candidate was apparently attacked

Update from November 9, 9:50 a.m.: Malte Kaufmann

,

candidate for the office of

, has apparently been attacked.

The

was, according to Kaufmann on Saturday afternoon around 17:45 near the Schiller square in

occurred when he had just been on his way to the car.

He was hit on the head from behind.

The

to escape, but there are several witnesses.

An ambulance was not necessary.

“In the meantime, the headache is gone,” wrote

on

.

The police confirmed that there was a charge of

.

Update from November 8th, 9:00 p.m.:

The

in the first round of the OB election in Stuttgart.

"That looks really good," he told the dpa on Sunday evening.

"Experience, competence and demeanor brought Frank Nopper very clearly and absolutely deservedly into first place", emphasized Strobl.

"It was to be expected that there would be no decision today - such a large, clear gap between Frank Nopper and the candidates behind him, although hardly anyone had predicted that." 

OB election in Stuttgart: After head-to-head races, there is no clear winner in the election

Update from November 8, 8:58 p.m.:

the

In the first ballot, the CDU candidate Frank Nopper was ahead with 31.8 percent of the votes according to preliminary results on Sunday evening, with Green politician Veronika Kienzle coming in second with 17.2 percent.

The Stuttgart-based company will now have to

in a

who will succeed the green incumbent Fritz Kuhn

.

OB election in Stuttgart: head-to-head race in the election - CDU candidate is in the lead

Update from November 8th, 7.40 p.m.:

The

.

According to the city, the 29-year-old member of the state parliament narrowly beat incumbent Guido Till (CDU), who won 41.3 percent, in the second ballot that became necessary on Sunday with 41.8 percent of the votes.

Since 2005, Till has been town hall chief in the municipality, which has around 58,000 inhabitants.

In the first ballot in mid-October, Till received the most votes, but missed the absolute majority that was necessary at the time.

In the new election, Maier now had a simple majority to win.

Third behind Maier and Till was the non-party politician Stefan Horn (16.8 percent).

Whether election in Stuttgart: CDU candidate Frank Nopper is surprisingly in the lead

Update from November 8th, 7:15 pm:

In the

After counting 381 of the 545 electoral districts, the incumbent Lord Mayor from Backnang received around 32.3 percent of the vote on Sunday evening and thus stood out from his strongest competitor, the Green politician Veronika Kienzle, who has so far received 16.9 percent of the votes.

The social democrat Marian Schreier, who stood as an independent applicant, Stuttgart's city councilor Hannes Rockenbauch from the SÖS / Left party alliance and, somewhat beaten, the official SPD candidate Martin Körner followed in the other places.

If none of the applicants get an absolute majority of the votes, they will be re-elected on November 29th.

Then the simple majority of the valid votes decides.

A total of 450,000 eligible voters were able to vote, 14 applicants stood for election.

The incumbent Lord Mayor Fritz Kuhn (Greens) did not run for election again after eight years at the top of the town hall.

OB election in Stuttgart: incident with AfD candidate - "I have been attacked"

Update from November 8, 5:15 p.m.:

The

mayoral

,

, was attacked on Saturday while walking to his car.

He was

in Stuttgart

, wrote Kaufmann on Twitter.

A spokesman for the Stuttgart police said on Sunday that Kaufmann had been charged with assault.

Investigate the matter.

There is at least one witness for the incident.

The unknown perpetrator fled, reports the

.

In the Stuttgart mayor election on Saturday, Kaufmann was one of 14 applicants.

Mayor election in Stuttgart: The Greens are under pressure - who will appoint the next mayor?

First report from November 8th

Stuttgart - Despite the tight

, the

take place

.

On Saturday, the Baden-Württemberg administrative court in Mannheim rejected complaints against a corresponding order from the state capital.

The week-long

will come to an end this Sunday, because the residents of

have been able to

elect

a new

since the early hours of the morning

.

A

should it then in the evening to

enter.

However, it is not yet entirely clear whether a new mayor will be determined.

In most cases, applicants in elections in which the incumbent is no longer a candidate have a hard time getting an absolute majority of the votes at the first attempt.

As a reminder: Fritz Kuhn (Greens), who held the office of Mayor of Stuttgart for eight years, will not stand for election this time.

OB election in Stuttgart: The Greens are under the greatest pressure

The 14 successor candidates, including the two favorites

and

from the

, are fighting for

today

.

If none of the applicants succeed,

a second election will take

place on

- then a simple majority of the votes will decide on the new

.

The greatest pressure is

probably on the

before the

.

After all, the Greens make up the largest parliamentary group in the local council, all four direct mandates for the Landtag went to the Greens in Stuttgart and the district president is also a member of the party.

It is therefore expected that the Greens will

be able to defend

the

.

Any other outcome could be interpreted as a bad sign for the

upcoming

in

.