For the first time in more than 70 years, the SPD will no longer be the mayor of Hanover. The SPD candidate Marc Hansmann landed after the preliminary official final result with 23.5 percent in third place. Instead, pull in the capital of Lower Saxony now for the CDU lined up former VW manager Eckhard Scholz and the Green Party candidate Belit Onay in the run-off. Both achieved 32.5 percent each.
The former SPD Mayor Stefan Schostok had resigned after a charge of "serious infidelity" in April and announced new elections. The allegation against him: Schostok's office manager Frank Herbert is said to have received since 2015 unlawful extra payments in addition to his salary - with the knowledge and support of his boss. He denies the allegations.
The Lord Mayor for Mainz is also determined in a runoff election. In the election on Sunday, incumbent Michael Ebling (SPD) was ahead with 41.0 percent, followed by the non-party candidate Nino Haase with 32.4 percent. The Green candidate Tabea Rößner came the preliminary final result with 22.5 percent in third place.
Striking on the day of the Thuringian state election were the differences to the East German state. In Hanover, the AfD candidate scored 4.6 percent of the vote, the left-wing candidate 1.9 percent. In Mainz, the AfD came to 5.3 percent and the left to 5.9 percent.
State election Thuringia 2019
Preliminary final result
Second vote result
Shares in percent
CDU
21.8
-11.7
The left
31
+2.8
SPD
8.2
-4.2
AFD
23.4
+12.8
green
5.2
-0.5
FDP
5
+2.5
other
5.4
-1.7
allocation of seats
Total: 90
Majority: 46 seats
29
8th
5
5
21
22
The Left (29)
SPD (8)
Green (5)
FDP (5)
CDU (21)
AfD (22)
Source: Provincial Returning Officer
Results in detail
Also in Kiel was voted on Sunday about the mayor post. The acting SPD politician Ulf fighters won the vote in the first ballot - he came to 65.8 percent of the vote. His new term of office is six years. Since 2014 Fighter is head of administration in Schleswig-Holstein's state capital.
The high school teacher Andreas Ellendt, who was sent by the Union, achieved 20.3 percent. For the left-politician Björn Thoroe voted 9.1 percent. Florian Wrobel (The Party) received 4.8 percent of the vote.
Election campaign pushed into the background
The incumbent has also prevailed in the mayoral election in Halle an der Saale. Bernd Wiegand clearly decided the run-off against Hendrik Lange, as the town council announced. According to preliminary results Wiegand came to 61.42 percent of the vote, his competitor received 38.58 percent. Lange had started for SPD, Grüne and Linke.
In Halle, a mayor is elected every seven years. After the attack on a right-wing extremist with two deaths in mid-October - four days before the first round of voting - the election campaign had receded into the background. Final rallies were canceled. Wiegand is not undisputed. He was on trial for infidelity because he wrongly classified his close associates into higher pay grades. He was finally acquitted.