Local elections 2020 in Bavaria: Here you will find the results of all elections for the mayor, mayor, district administrator, district council and municipal or city council.
- On election evening you will find the results of the 2020 municipal election at the municipal and district level.
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- Until then, stay up to date with the election tickers for Bavaria * and Munich *.
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Update of March 20, 2020: In many municipalities and cities there is a runoff election between the mayor candidates who won the most votes in the first ballot. Here you will find an overview of who can vote in Munich *, Nuremberg *, Augsburg *, Regensburg * and Ingolstadt * on March 29.
Update of March 17: The SPD threatens a loss of majority in the city council in its stronghold Nuremberg in the local elections . After counting 298 of the 524 voting districts, the SPD has only 26.45 percent of the vote. The CSU is in the lead with 31.25 percent of the votes. The Greens currently have just under 20 percent, the AfD more than six percent, and would move into the Nuremberg City Council for the first time.
In the election for mayor , SPD candidate Thorsten Brehm has to run in the run-off election against CSU applicant Marcus König, who is just in the lead.
In 2014, the SPD, headed by Mayor Ulrich Maly , still received 44 percent of the votes in the local council. Due to massive technical problems, the counting in Nuremberg takes longer than in many other municipalities, as the city administration announced.
Local election 2020 in Bavaria: All results for each election
Update of March 16, at 9:59 p.m .: Local elections in Bavaria will result in runoff elections in many places. For example, the OB elections in Munich , Nuremberg and Augsburg * did not bring a final decision in the first ballot. The run-off elections are scheduled for March 29 . To this end, voters will automatically receive postal voting documents by post without a prior application.
In total, mayors were elected in 24 out of 25 of the independent cities on Sunday. The incumbent was re-elected in eight of these cities, and the run-off elections in 16 cities .
The turnout in Bavaria was 58.5 percent according to the first figures from the Bavarian Radio . In 2014 it was around 55 percent - the previous record in the history of local elections.
Update at 9:15 p.m .: Mayoral elections in Bavaria 2020 * - here are all the results from the cities and municipalities.
Local elections in Bavaria: Results for many mayors are counted
Update 7.40 p.m .: OB elections in the 2020 local elections in Bavaria: In Fürth , Thomas Jung (SPD) has the best chance of being re-elected. After around 50 percent of the counted voting districts, Jung is practically impossible to catch up with a good 73 percent of the votes. Dietmar Helm (CSU) , after 91 out of 131 counted constituencies, has less than ten percent .
In Coburg , citizens may once again elect their mayor: According to the preliminary status, there will be a runoff between Dominik Sauerteig (SPD, 28.2 percent) and Christian Meyer (CSU, 26.7 percent) . The incumbent mayor Norbert Tessmer (SPD) was no longer running for election.
The suspended Mayor of Regensburg, Joachim Wolbergs, who is on trial for suspected corruption, has - presumably - not been re-elected *. In the municipal election, a runoff election between CSU candidate Astrid Freudenstein and Mayor Gertrud Maltz-Schwarzfischer (SPD) emerged , which Wolbergs has represented since its suspension in 2017.
In Ansbach there is also a runoff election between incumbent Carda Seidel (independent, 31.4 percent) and CSU candidate Thomas Deffner (36.1 percent) .
Straubing's incumbent mayor Markus Pannermayr (CSU) , on the other hand, has been confirmed in office with an overwhelming majority. According to preliminary figures, he received 73.25 percent of the vote.
Update 7:03 p.m .: The first constituencies have already been counted. While incumbent Dieter Reiter (SPD) is in the lead in the OB election in Munich , a head-to-head race is emerging in Nuremberg *.
Update 6.42 p.m .: The evaluation of the election board members and helpers is still in full swing.
Update 6:01 p.m .: The polling stations in Bavaria have closed in the meantime, now the votes are counted.
One result of the local elections: the turnout in Bavaria increased
Update of March 15, 2020, 5:30 p.m .: The results of the local elections in Bavaria are expected on Sunday evening. The exit is open. So far, it is only certain that the turnout was probably higher than in the election six years ago. In Munich , according to the city, 46.6 percent of those entitled to vote, including the postal voters, cast their votes on Sunday until 4 p.m. In 2014 it was 38.4 percent at the same time.
How our local elections developed before election day can be read in our Bayern election ticker * and Munich election ticker *.
What determines the outcome of the 2020 local elections in Bavaria?
Bavaria elects its municipal elected representatives: On Sunday, March 15, 2020, citizens in all 2056 municipalities, markets and cities in the Free State as well as in the 71 counties will be called to the polls. On this day, new mayors *, mayors, district councils *, district councils, municipal councils * and city councils are appointed. A total of around 39,500 political representatives are elected. There is news from all districts on the topic page on the Bavarian election *.
How long are polling stations open?
The polling stations will be open from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Sunday, March 15, 2020 for the local elections throughout Bavaria *. The counting of votes then begins.
When are the first results of the 2020 local elections in Bavaria?
When there is a result * depends on the size of the respective municipality or city. In communities with 1,500 inhabitants, it will be clear around 6.30 p.m. (maybe a few minutes earlier) who will hold the mayor's office in the next six years. In larger cities, the results of the 2020 local elections in Bavaria take significantly longer to count.
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- Merkur.de (@merkur_de) January 29, 2020The order of the counting is precisely defined: First it is about the mayors, then the district councilors, then the municipal councils and finally the district councils. The district committees are added in Munich. In this case, it should even take until Friday, March 20, 2020, for a final result to be available. Because: The last count on the 25 boroughs of Munich is on the agenda.
In some town halls and district offices, even after all votes have been counted on election evening, it will not be clear who will govern in the future. If no candidate gets more than 50 percent of the vote on election day, a runoff election is due. This seems particularly likely for those offices for which there are three or more applicants.
In the run-off elections *, which take place exactly two weeks later, on Sunday, March 29, 2020, the two candidates who received the most votes in the first round will move in. Before the election you will find various surveys from Bavaria * and the collected surveys for Munich * on merkur.de *.
Infographic for the 2020 local elections: how local politics work in Bavaria
Infographic for the 2020 local elections in Bavaria: how local politics work.
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Where is the result of the local election in Bavaria particularly interesting?
Especially in the state capital Munich * tension is guaranteed: Mayor Dieter Reiter (SPD), who has held his office since 2014, can continue to govern in Munich City Hall?
A runoff is practically guaranteed with ten applicants. Incumbent Dieter Reiter, Greens candidate Katrin Habenschaden and CSU wife Kristina Frank are given the best chances for the office of OB. Political observers assume that the Greens candidate in particular has realistic chances of replacing OB Reiter. The reason: the strength of the Greens in the past elections in Munich. In the 2019 European elections, the eco-party consolidated its top position and won 31.2 percent in Munich. This is a value that the SPD can currently only dream of.
On the other hand, local elections are always personality choices. OB Reiter is popular in Munich, he did not make a big mistake in his first term. That could speak for a re-election of the mayor. Then it is still questionable whether the result of the local election in Bavaria will bring the majority in the city council for his SPD.
Local elections 2020 in Bavaria: What are the tasks of the district administrator?
But there can also be surprises in many communities. Because: If there are not enough candidates in a municipality for the number of positions to be filled, voters can also put candidates on the lists on election day that do not run themselves. Specifically, this means that if there is no official opposing candidate for the incumbent mayor in a municipality, voters can put a name on the list.
This regulation caused a sensation in the last municipal election in the municipality of Schwaigen (Garmisch-Partenkirchen district). In 2014, a man became mayor who was not on the ballot paper at all: Hubert Mangold was so popular that 55 citizens spontaneously wrote him on their ballots * and thus sent him to the runoff. The incumbent mayor Karl Schwarzberger had not even received half of the votes cast in the first ballot - even though he was the only candidate. Mangold won the runoff election against incumbent Schwarzberger, who had previously announced that he would withdraw.
You can look forward to such interesting and surprising results from the 2020 local elections in Bavaria on the election evening of March 15, 2020. In our result article you will not miss any election results!
Local elections 2020 in Bavaria: results from cities and counties
- Bad Toelz-Wolfratshausen
- Miesbach
- Munich (district)
- Munich (city)
- Garmisch-Partenkirchen
- Weilheim-Schongau
- Fürstenfeldbruck
- Starnberg
- Ebersberg
- Dachau
- Freising
- Erding
- Nuremberg
- Passau
- augsburg
- regensburg
- Ingolstadt
For election day, we recommend all voters in Bavaria to download and print out our cheat sheet for the Bavaria 2020 local elections as a PDF file.
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