In the new district day one party will sit more than after the result of mid-March. The recount, which was more extensive than initially assumed, gave the left a mandate from the district council. The CSU had to relinquish its 21st seat.
County - The final result of the district election has been available since yesterday, and it is significantly different from the preliminary status immediately after the local election four weeks ago. The CSU loses another seat, but Die Linke made it the first time in the district council.
Shortly after the election on March 15, the electoral committee suspected that the left was entitled to one of the 60 district council seats instead of none - yesterday, after the recounting of five electoral districts, this suspicion was confirmed. The district election committee decided unanimously to correct the final election result yesterday, which means that the CSU is now only entitled to 20 instead of the 21 district council seats previously announced on May 1. The left will be represented by graduate economist Andreas Neubauer from Gauting. The distribution of seats between the other parties remains the same.
The reason for the new count in the five electoral districts was inconsistencies between the numbers transmitted to the district office and the votes read in the digital election program. Inconsistencies are normal with every election, election director Holger Albertzarth said yesterday, but the differences between the results from two constituencies in Gilching, one in Gauting, one in Berg and one in Inning could not be explained plausibly. At the beginning of the month, for example, the election committee had the new counts counted in four districts - the electoral district in Inning was also subsequently asked to count. The 465 ballots from Inning were then re-counted until Wednesday, the 1179 ballots from the other four districts were already counted on April 7. The constituency in Gauting gave reason to believe that the seat allocation could shift. There, the barcode readers, which should have automatically assigned three votes to each of the list candidates when the list was selected, had not worked properly.
Counted five constituencies
The election committee assumes that the programming was wrong: Ultimately, however, this led to Die Linke in Gauting only receiving 207 votes instead of 379 in the minutes of the election program. There were also inconsistencies among the AfD and the ÖDP, but the recount was able to confirm the result of the minutes. In the two constituencies in Gilching, a test file that had been read in before the election probably led to the differences between the minutes and the election program, in Berg a ballot paper that had subsequently been declared invalid had caused discrepancies, and in Inning a double-read ballot paper was probably the cause of the inconsistencies .
The final distribution of seats in the district council now provides 20 seats for the CSU, 18 for the Greens, eight for the free voters, five for both the SPD and the FDP, two for the ÖDP and one each for the AfD and Die Linke. The turnout was almost 63 percent.
Thomas Beigel from Starnberg, who was supposed to advance as the 21st CSU district council for the designated district administrator Stefan Frey, is now losing the mandate again. Andreas Neubauer from Gauting joins the committee for the left: “I no longer expected a seat, but the results of this election have changed so often that it was said twice that I had been elected and twice that I was not elected was, ”says Neubauer (52). The left had first started with a list in the local elections at the district level. Neubauer wants to keep an eye on the financial situation of the district mainly because of the Corona crisis. He acquired the specialist knowledge during an economics degree. He is currently not working due to a severe disability. "I am opposed to cutting financially in the crisis," says Gilchinger, "if there is any way, we should also be able to finance the Herrsching high school and the 365 euro ticket."
The second new party in the district council is the AfD, which is represented by the member of the state parliament, Prof. Ingo Hahn.