In addition to the general election, runoff elections for the local government will also take place on Sunday in Lower Saxony.
All current results and figures in the overview.
In Lower Saxony, on Sunday (September 26th), in addition to the general election, runoff elections for the previous local elections will take place.
The results of the first round made the second ballot necessary in several municipalities.
The focus is on the election of the mayor in Braunschweig and the direct election of the president of the Hanover region.
You will find the most important runoff election results in this article on election evening.
Hanover / Braunschweig - In addition to the overshadowed Bundestag election and the two state elections in Berlin and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, there will also be an election follow-up on Sunday (September 26) in Lower Saxony: the runoff elections for the local elections held two weeks earlier will take place in the state.
Some larger cities are also affected - and the Hanover region.
Local elections in Lower Saxony: Result of the mayor's run-off elections on Sunday - also in Braunschweig and Hanover
In the second largest city of Braunschweig in Lower Saxony, for example, the SPD candidate Thorsten Kornblum was ahead with 38.4 percent in the first round of the mayor's office.
He now has to compete in the runoff election against the second-placed CDU competitor Kaspar Haller, who achieved 26.7 percent.
Also in the highly acclaimed direct election of the new president of the Hanover region, Steffen Krach, the SPD applicant, was ahead.
According to the preliminary result, it reached 37.1 percent.
He has to go into a runoff election on Sunday against the CDU candidate Christine Karasch, who got 29.6 percent.
The Hanover region is an amalgamation of the capital Hanover and the surrounding district.
Both share certain administrative tasks.
In other direct elections on September 12, the Greens did well.
In the mayoral election in Lüneburg, for example, the Green candidate Claudia Johanna Kalisch with 33.7 percent was clearly ahead of the CDU candidate Monika Scherf with 18.4 percent.
They too are now competing against each other in a runoff election.
Whoever takes over the three offices will show the results on Sunday evening.
Local election Lower Saxony: CDU asserted itself in front of the SPD - sign for the federal election?
In Lower Saxony's local elections, the CDU narrowly defended its position as the nation's strongest force against the SPD.
In the votes at district level, the Christian Democrats came to 31.7 percent on the day after the election, according to the state election committee, while the SPD reached 30 percent, as
reported by
Kreiszeitung.de
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The Greens increased significantly to 15.9 percent and thus achieved their best result so far in a local election in Lower Saxony.
In contrast, the CDU and SPD lost slightly compared to 2016.
The CDU had reached 34.3 percent in the elections at the district level, the SPD reached 31.2 percent at the time.
Before the election on Sunday, it was eagerly awaited whether the Social Democrats could overtake the CDU for the first time in a local election.
Again, it wasn't enough, but the gap continued to shrink.
Nevertheless, the Union assessed the results as a positive sign for the federal election.
An overview of the results of the first ballot in Lower Saxony can be found in this article in an interactive map.
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