Click through our interactive election map for the local elections in Hesse: On March 14th, we will always offer you the latest election results from all Hessian municipalities and districts.
All of Hesse is voting
: In around 420 cities and municipalities and 21 districts, the ballot box will be held on Sunday, March 14th.
Interactive results
: Click through our new Hessen election card in this article.
Four elections at once
: In the local elections in Hesse, mayors, district administrators, local councils and district assemblies are elected.
Wiesbaden - Decisive elections are due on March 14, 2021 in Hesse.
Then the residents can decide on politics at the local level.
Mayors, district administrators and municipal councils and district assemblies are elected.
From Bad Karlshafen in the north to Neckarsteinach in the south, those eligible to vote go to the ballot box.
And in the background we are again making a lot of data journalistic effort * in order to keep you
informed throughout the election evening with the latest results of the local elections in Hesse in 2021
* from all communities and districts.
Use our interactive voting card
.
This contains the latest election results - i.e. all four elections, all cities and municipalities, all districts and including all trend results.
Option 1 to use the Hessen map: Simply click and zoom through.
If you click on a municipality or a district, a window appears with all the prepared election results.
Option 2: Simply use the search function to find your municipality or district - or select it from the list.
By the way, we expect the first results of the local elections in Hesse on election evening from around 6.30 p.m.
Interactive election map: All results of the local elections in Hesse in 2021
In order to always be able to offer you the most up-to-date results of the local elections on the map, we directly access the raw data of the cities, municipalities and districts and also integrate a lot of data from Statistics.Hesse.
We also take into account the so-called trend results, which are primarily counted and published.
These are all votes that the voter gave to a list - and not a single candidate.
With the latter, the counting takes longer.
More about our data methodology at the end of this article.
When can I expect the first and when the last election results?
In the past, the first election results were available from 6.30 p.m.
First of all, the mayor elections * are always counted, which is why they should be available first.
The reliable official election results from Hesse then follow step by step for each municipality and district and should be available during the election evening.
We expect the final results a little later, the counting can definitely go into the late evening or into the night.
In general, due to the corona pandemic and a high number of postal votes, there may be delays at the authorities.
Is the displayed trend result meaningful at all?
The trend result is an official and collected intermediate result of the count.
Trend results already take into account all votes that went directly to a list.
Only votes that were allocated to individual candidates are usually only counted later in the evening due to the high effort involved.
Experience has shown that trend results only rarely deviate significantly from the later, preliminary official final result.
We want to consider further interim results, such as complete quick reports or individual names at the level of individual electoral districts, in future elections.
How quickly do the election results update on the map?
We are constantly collecting new election results from all data sources.
Normally you will find new results of the local elections * in Hesse very quickly.
If you have already opened the article for a long time, it can also be helpful to briefly update it - then the very latest election results flow directly into the interactive map.
Questions and answers about the local elections in Hesse in 2021: Interactive voting card
How are municipalities and districts colored on the map?
As soon as there is an official trend result, we color the respective area and the diagrams according to the strongest party.
This applies to all parties that received at least one percent of the votes in the previous state elections - we have colored all others in a uniform gray for better clarity.
In the municipality view of the map, we generally take into account the municipal councils *, in the district view the district assemblies *.
Unlike in the past, we do not follow the personal elections like mayors: inside, as these are only elected in Hesse on March 14th in a smaller number.
What do I do if the map or the data are not fully or optimally usable?
The interactive voting card in this article is used for the first time in the results of the local elections in Hesse.
Even if we tested and prepared them with a lot of effort - there could be a problem at one point or another.
In this case, we ask for your forbearance - and we are generally very happy to receive suggestions and feedback.
And if the map needs a little bit to load: there is a lot of complex data behind election results at the community level.
Nevertheless, we attached great importance to speed during development, so that the amount of data transferred remains as low as possible.
If there are individual delays in phases of high demand, we ask for a little patience.
What can I do if my device, browser or operating system does not display the dialing card optimally?
We have tested the interactive voting card on more than 200 end devices and optimized it accordingly.
Nevertheless, on individual device combinations, the display of the voting card may not be optimal or not at all.
If you use an Internet Explorer version 11 or lower or an Apple device with iOS9 or older (year 2012 or earlier), we are currently unable to offer you the voting card due to the extremely high technical complexity.
In this case, please install a current browser such as Firefox or Chrome (instructions can be found on the Internet at Chip).
It is also possible that individual ad blockers do not recognize the voting card as a journalistic offer in some cases.
In this case, however, we offer you a wide range of articles on our portals so that you can find out about the local elections in Hesse in other ways.
Questions and answers: If you have any suggestions or concerns about the election data project
What do I do if I have a suggestion or a question?
If you have any concerns about the interactive voting card, please send us an email at any time.
We read each one and look forward to being able to respond even better to your needs in future developments.
A short email to datenteam@zentralredaktion.news is sufficient.
The interactive election data team 2021: Luisa Billmayer, Nicolas Bruckmann, Christina Büscher, Elvir Büyükbayrak, Monika Gemmer, Florian Gutwald, Selin Hubert, Maximilian Litzka, Michael Peter, Philipp David Pries.
* Merkur.de, FR.de and HNA.de are offered by IPPEN.MEDIA.
Transparency: Our data, sources and methods
All election results and data on the interactive map come from official sources.
We integrate them technically, standardize them and prepare them for you in the most accessible form possible.
All personal elections, i.e. elections for mayors and district administrators, are taken into account directly by the respective municipalities and districts.
In some cases, we record their official websites directly (such as pages via Votemanager) and integrate the information presented there.
For all trend results, we integrate the data from Statistics.Hessen, which provides many numbers in a structured file format (CSV).
In turn, we record the final results directly from municipalities, cities and districts, which means we can deliver them to you promptly and much faster than via other sources.
In individual cases, we also research the results directly on site - for example, if a municipality does not offer digital data delivery.
