There are numerous candidates for the mayor election in Düsseldorf. Nevertheless, it is already clear to many which favorites the decision will be made between.
- Candidates from all major parties will compete in the 2020 election in Düsseldorf .
- The incumbent Lord Mayor stands for election for a second term.
- If no decision is made on September 13th, a runoff election is planned for the local elections in NRW.
Düsseldorf - A relatively long ballot is waiting for the voters in the local elections in Düsseldorf. There will be 15 candidates for the 2020 OB election . The ruling Lord Mayor Thomas Geisel (SPD) is applying for another term of office. Whether he will achieve his goal can be decided in the first ballot on September 13th. On this date, the local elections will take place despite the corona virus. If no candidate gets an absolute majority of the votes, the decision will be postponed to the second local election date.
All candidates for the mayor election in Düsseldorf 2020
After examining all nominations, the following candidates are admitted to the mayor election in Düsseldorf . The order corresponds to the official announcement of the city of Düsseldorf.
- Dr. Stephan Keller (CDU)
- Thomas Geisel (SPD)
- Stefan Engstfeld (Greens)
- Dr. Marie Agnes-Strack-Zimmermann (FDP)
- Udo Adam Bonn (Die Linke)
- Florian Josef Hoffmann (AfD)
- Marc Olejak (pirates)
- Dr. Hans Joachim Grumbach (Free Voters)
- Andre Mariera (REP)
- Claudia Krüger (animal welfare here!)
- Michael Baumeister (independent)
- Markus Brakonier (DSP)
- Celine Coldewe (Climate List Düsseldorf)
- Dominique Mirus (The Party)
- Mark Schenk (Volt)
Lord Mayor Thomas Geisel is running again in the local elections in Düsseldorf
The lawyer Thomas Geisel from the SPD is currently in power in the state capital Düsseldorf . He is mayor in his first term and a veteran in the SPD. He joined the party in 1983 and later became an employee of the SPD parliamentary group in the first freely elected) People's Chamber in the GDR. During his career he was also a department head at the Treuhandanstalt and gas purchasing director at E.ON Ruhrgas AG for almost 14 years .
Dr. Stephan Keller is the CDU candidate for the 2020 OB election in Düsseldorf
Dr. Stephan Keller , the mayor candidate of the Düsseldorf CDU , has been city director in Cologne since 2017 . In the past, however, he has also worked in the city of Düsseldorf. For six years he was an alderman for law, order and traffic. Just like the incumbent, Dr. Stephan Keller Lawyer, among other things he worked as a judge at the Administrative Court in Cologne. The beginnings of his CDU career go back a long way. Keller joined the Junge Union in high school .
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The ballot for the mayor election in Düsseldorf
In the municipal elections in North Rhine-Westphalia, the same principle applies on all ballot papers: the voter can make exactly one cross . If he makes more crosses, the ballot will be invalid and the vote will not be counted. For the mayor elections, this means that every person entitled to vote must choose exactly one candidate.
OB election 2020 can go into the runoff election
It is possible that on September 13th there will be no decision on the future mayor of Düsseldorf. In fact, the candidate who can win more than 50 percent of the votes is always elected to office. With a total of 15 OB candidates, the likelihood increases that nobody will collect the required number of votes in the first ballot. In this case, there will be a runoff election on September 27th , in which only the two candidates with the previously highest share of votes will compete against each other. After that at the latest there will be a final result for the mayor election in Düsseldorf. (rm)