State elections in Saarland 2022: When will there be a result in the Saarbrücken regional association?
Created: 03/26/2022, 20:30
Postal ballot envelopes are in a ballot box (symbol image) © Thomas Frey / dpa
The state elections in Saarland will take place on March 27, 2022.
When will there be a result in the Saarbrücken regional association?
All info.
Saarbrücken – On Sunday, March 27, 2022, a new state parliament will be elected in Saarland, as the legislative period of the CDU-led government under Prime Minister Tobias Hans is coming to an end (all information in the news ticker).
According to current polls, there could be a clear election winner on Sunday.
The Saarbrücken constituency is one of three constituencies.
Specifically: Saarbrücken (Saarbrücken regional association), Neunkirchen (St. Wendel, Saar-Palatinate district, Neunkirchen) and Saarlouis (Merzig-Wadern, Saarlouis).
This means: The Saarbrücken regional association essentially performs the tasks of a district for its ten affiliated towns and communities.
The state elections in Saarland are so-called proportional representation.
This means that citizens can vote for the members of the state parliament, and the sum of the votes cast determines the number of seats a party has.
Voters have exactly one vote.
They use it to vote for a party's electoral lists: the state list and the constituency list.
The candidates of the parties in the respective constituencies are on these constituency lists.
The legislative period of the elected state parliament is set for five years, with the last election taking place in 2017.
State elections - which parties will compete in Saarland in 2022?
Incumbent Tobias Hans is fighting for his position in the 2022 election.
He competes against Anke Rehlinger from the SPD.
A total of 18 parties are running in the state elections:
CDU
SPD
The left
AfD
Green
FDP
The family party
pirates
Free voters
the base
colourful.saar
ÖDP
The humanists
The party
The Party for Health Research
Animal Welfare Party
SGV
volt
Saarland state elections: Results in the Saarbrücken regional association as an interactive map
Saarbrücken regional association – when will there be a result on election night?
On election day, citizens can cast their votes at the polling stations from 8:00 a.m.
Postal voting is also possible.
The polling stations in Saarland will close at 6:00 p.m.
Then the counting starts immediately.
At the same time, the first forecasts based on voter surveys at the polling stations will be published.
Experience has shown that the first extrapolation will be available by 6:30 p.m., which is actually based on the first counts.
In the course of the evening, the extrapolations will become more and more accurate.
When will the results of the 2022 election in Saarland come out?
Five years ago, the provisional official final result was available at a relatively early time: the results were published at 9 p.m. on the evening of the election.
This result then had to be checked and confirmed.
Saarbrücken regional association – who can vote?
The Saarbrücken constituency includes the cities of Püttlingen, Saarbrücken and Völklingen as well as the communities of Großrosseln, Kleinblittersdorf and Riegelsberg of the Saarbrücken regional association.
In principle, all Germans who have reached the age of eighteen on the day of the election, have been resident in Saarland for at least three months or otherwise usually reside there and are not otherwise excluded from the right to vote are entitled to vote.
Saarbrücken regional association – the result of the last state election
The Saarland state parliament, which is still in office, was elected in 2017.
The CDU won with top candidate Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer with 40.7 percent.
The SPD received 29.6 percent, Die Linke won 12.8 percent of the votes, and the AfD was elected by 6.2 percent.
The Greens, on the other hand, failed with 4.0 percent of the vote at the five percent hurdle and did not move into the state parliament.
The pirates, who were previously represented in the Saarland state parliament, also lost a significant number of votes and only came to 0.7 percent.
In the Saarbrücken regional association there were 127,531 eligible voters in 2017, of whom 82,753 cast valid ballot papers.
The election result with a turnout of 64.89 percent:
CDU: 27,200 votes, share of the vote 33.2%, profit 3.7%
SPD: 22,919 votes, share of the vote 28.0%, loss -1.5%
Die Linke: 13,953 votes, share of the vote 17.0%, loss -1.4%
Pirates: 825 votes, share of the vote 1.0%, loss -7.4%
Greens: 8,455 votes, share of the vote 5.2%, loss -1.0%
Family: 559 votes, share of the vote 0.7%, loss -0.5%
FDP: 3,751 votes, share of the vote 4.6%, profit 2.9%
NPD: 621 votes, share of the vote 0.8%, loss -0.3%
Free voters: 238 votes, share of the vote 0.3%, loss -0.8%
AfD: 5,019 votes, share of the vote 6.1%, profit 6.1%
BGE: 229 votes, share of votes 0.3%, profit 0.3%
DBD: 66 votes, share of votes 0.1%, profit 0.1%
The unit: 149 votes, voting share 0.2%, profit 0.2%
Reformer: 159 votes, share of the vote 0.2%, profit 0.2%
LKR: 174 votes, share of votes 0.2%, profit 0.2%
