What are the results of the election in Lower Saxony in the constituency Meppen (81)?
Created: 09/10/2022, 18:40
The state elections in Lower Saxony will take place on October 9, 2022.
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On October 9th, 2022 there will be state elections in Lower Saxony.
What is the result of the election in the Meppen constituency?
Meppen – The people of Lower Saxony will elect a new state parliament on October 9, 2022.
The people in the Meppen constituency also help decide which parties will enter the state parliament and who has the best chance of forming a government.
Here you can find the results of the election in Lower Saxony in the constituency of Meppen (81).
Election in Lower Saxony: Who is running in the constituency of Meppen (81)?
In the Lower Saxony elections, people in the Meppen constituency have two votes.
For the first vote, they can choose from people who are running for office in their constituency.
Whoever receives the most votes moves into the state parliament via the direct mandate.
The following candidates are running in the 2022 Lower Saxony elections in the Meppen constituency (81):
Andrea Koetter (SPD)
Lara Evers (CDU)
Nicolas Breer (Greens)
Thomas Rosemann (FDP)
Danny Meiners (AfD)
Thorsten Heymann (left)
Max Egbers (The Party)
With the second vote, those entitled to vote in the state elections in Lower Saxony decide which parties or political associations will enter the state parliament.
The voters select the state list of a party.
The result determines how many seats the parties get in the state parliament.
Constituency Meppen (81): When will the results of the election in Lower Saxony be known?
In the Lower Saxony election, the polling stations close at 6 p.m. and the counting of the votes begins.
The first forecasts are also published at this time.
The first projections can be expected from around 6:30 p.m.
In the course of the evening, the election workers determine who gets the most first votes and thus wins the direct mandate and which party was able to appeal to the most voters.
The results of the Lower Saxony elections in the Meppen constituency (81) can be found here.
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Election in Lower Saxony: Which municipalities belong to the constituency of Meppen (81)?
Around 83,200 eligible voters live in the Meppen constituency.
In the 2022 Lower Saxony elections, the following cities and municipalities belong to the constituency of Meppen:
Haren
Haselünne
meppen
Municipality of Geeste
Municipality of Twist
Joint municipality of Herzlake
Joint municipality of Lengerich
The other communities and towns in the Emsland district are in the constituencies of Lingen (80) and Papenburg (82).
Constituency Meppen (81): The results of the 2017 election in Lower Saxony
In the state elections in Lower Saxony in 2017, Bernd-Carsten Hiebing (CDU) won the direct mandate in the Meppen constituency (81) with 59.28 percent of the first votes.
Other candidates were:
Andrea Kötter (SPD, 25.92%)
Rainer Levelink (FDP, 7.00%)
Martina Markus (Greens, 4.64%)
Thorsten Heymann (left, 3.16%)
In the last Lower Saxony election, the CDU received the most second votes in the Meppen constituency.
The results of the 2017 election at a glance:
CDU 55.46%
SPD 24.32%
FDP 7.54%
Green 5.31%
AfD 3.63%
Left 2.32%
Voter turnout in the last state election in Lower Saxony in the Meppen constituency was 64.98 percent.
The election in Lower Saxony at Merkur.de
Merkur.de accompanies the Lower Saxony elections in 2022 in the news ticker.
You will also get all the important information about postal voting, a ticket to vote and what you should consider when filling out the ballot paper.
There is also an overview of the current surveys and forecasts.
And if you're still not sure who to vote for, the Wahl-O-Mat might be able to help.