Runoff election in Wuppertal: candidates almost on par - local election depends on a few percent

The OB election in Wuppertal goes into the runoff election.

Two candidates can still raise their hopes - because they are very close together.

• The election of the Lord Mayor of

  Wuppertal

  will lead to a runoff

• The

  CDU

  has not nominated its own candidate, but supports the Green candidate in the local elections in Wuppertal.

• The final decision will be made on September 27th between two OB candidates.

• You can find all current developments in the municipal elections in NRW in our news ticker.

Update from September 22, 2020:

With a slight lead for the joint candidate of the Greens and the CDU, the

is in Wuppertal

.

Uwe Schneidewind was able to take the lead in the first ballot with 40.8 percent.

Behind him came the SPD candidate Andreas Mucke with 37.0 percent.

Nobody was able to achieve

a

of over 50 percent of all votes cast, which is why the two candidates with the strongest election results will now contest the runoff in Wuppertal.

It is a rather small lead that the Green Cutting Wind has.

Just like Mucke, he still has to get many voters on his side to win.

A math problem without a clear solution, as long as the votes have not been cast.

In a few cities in North Rhine-Westphalia, the outcome of the runoff seems as open as in Wuppertal.

It is only certain that OB Mucke has a serious opponent.

In the OB election in Wuppertal, there are seven candidates to choose from: Black-Green against SPD

First report:

Wuppertal - If the voters in North Rhine-Westphalia are allowed to tick the box on September 13, they have to choose their favorite from seven candidates for the OB election in Wuppertal.

The

does not submit its own candidate for these elections and instead supports

from the parliamentary group of the

.

He should therefore also be the biggest challenger to the incumbent mayor

.

If the result of the local election in Wuppertal does not produce an OB candidate with an absolute majority after the first ballot, the two candidates with the most votes will run again for a runoff two weeks later.

OB election in Wuppertal: All candidates at a glance

The election committee has approved a total of seven candidates for the mayor election in Wuppertal.

In this year's local elections in North Rhine-Westphalia, the following OB candidates are running in the city of Wuppertal:

• Andreas Mucke, SPD

• Uwe Schneidewind, GREEN

• Bernhard Sander, DIE LINKE

• Marcel Hafke, FDP

• Henrik Dahlmann, WfW / FW

• Mira Lehner, THE PARTY

• Panagiotis Paschalis, individual applicant

Lord Mayor Andreas Mucke is again a candidate for the 2020 OB election in Wuppertal

The incumbent

announced early on during his current term of office that he wanted to run again and was

again put up as a candidate for the

election in Wuppertal

by the

.

Mucke has been a member of the SPD since 1982 and was chairman of the Jusos Wuppertal from 1990 to 1994.

Since 2018 he has also been a member of the state board of the Social Democratic Association for Local Politics in NRW eV.

Before taking office, the graduate engineer was already active as an energy consultant for the Wuppertaler Stadtwerke and managing director of the Wuppertal district development company.

In the last election he prevailed in the runoff against his CDU competitor.

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Uwe Schneidewind is an OB candidate for the Greens and CDU

The

sending

into the election campaign

with the support of the

, which will not present its own candidate for the OB election in Wuppertal in these elections

.

In addition to the incumbent mayor, Uwe Schneidewind will probably have the best chances for the position in the town hall.

When he was nominated, he received all votes from the members of his parliamentary group present and a large part of the votes from the CDU.

The economist was already President of the University of Oldenburg and the Wuppertal Institute for the Environment, Climate and Energy and also has a lot of experience in politics.

Among other things, he was a member of the scientific advisory board of

(Federation for the Environment and Nature Conservation Germany).

In his work in politics, Schneidewind always tries to reconcile economic and environmental issues.

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- Uwe Schneidewind (@UweSchneidewind) June 13, 2020

OB election in Wuppertal: Tick candidates on the voting slip

In

, the majority vote with one vote applies to the mayoral election.

If more than one vote is distributed on a voting slip, it is considered invalid.

The office of mayor is held by the candidate who has received the majority of valid votes.

If this does not apply to any candidate, the two applicants with the most votes have to run against each other again in a runoff.

Runoff possible in the OB election in Wuppertal

Although there are only seven candidates running for the mayor of Wuppertal, it is not unlikely that there will be a

.

Since the CDU does not have its own applicant and instead supports the Greens, a close race between Uwe Schneidewind (GREEN) and Andreas Mucke (SPD) is likely.

If none of the candidates receives more than 50 percent of all valid votes, the two applicants will

run again for a runoff

two weeks later, on

.

On

you will also find an overview of the

other cities in North Rhine-Westphalia:

• OB candidates in Cologne

• OB candidates in Düsseldorf

• OB candidates in Dortmund

• OB candidates in Essen

• OB candidates in Duisburg

• OB candidates in Bochum

• OB candidates in Bielefeld

• OB candidates in Bonn

• OB candidates in Münster