Individual applicants

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A single candidate is a candidate for a political office who runs an election without having been nominated by a party . Individual applicants are mostly non-party . However, it also happens that party members run as individual applicants.

Bundestag elections

In order to stand as an individual applicant in German federal elections, you have to present at least 200 supporting signatures from eligible voters in the constituency. If an individual applicant achieves at least 10% of the first votes, he will be reimbursed for election costs .

Number of individual applicants in federal elections
1949 1953 1957 1961 1965 1969 1972 1976 1980 1983 1987 1990 1994 1998 2002 2005 2009 2013 2017
117 * 6th 2 6th 2 19 + 7th 17th 9 9 261 # 51 ° 37 105 60 60 166 % 81 111 &
* Of these, 77 were representatives of organizations of the IDP
+Of these, 10 were Independent Democrats and 69 were members of the Action Group for Independent Germans
#Among them 245 on the peace list
°Including 19 from Der Springende Punkt , an election initiative for three-tier popular legislation
%Including 62 from the Willi-Weise project , 21 from the voters' association for referendums
&Including 17 of the Internationalist List ( MLPD -nah)

In the first federal election , 117 individual applicants stood, partly because the expellee organizations had not received a party license. A total of 4.8% of the votes came from individual applicants. Three individual applicants entered the Bundestag: Eduard Edert (as a joint candidate of the CDU , FDP and DP ), Franz Ott (as representative of expellees) and Richard Freudenberg (later co-founder of the Free Voters Baden-Württemberg ). As early as 1953 , there were only six individual applicants - Freudenberg was unsuccessful in his renewed candidacy. 1987 joined the Peace List in almost all constituencies with individual candidates. Since reunification , the number of individual applicants has risen, but they have not been able to achieve greater success. In 2013 , individual applicants accounted for 0.17% of the first votes.

Results over 10% of individual applicants since 1953
choice Applicants Constituency password be right proportion of comment
1953 Richard Freudenberg 180 Mannheim-Land Freudenberg voters' association "non-party" 15,709 20.8% Elected independent in 1949
1969 Wilhelm Daniels 63 Bonn Action Committee "Daniels in the Bundestag" 29,895 20.1% Former Lord Mayor of Bonn (Ex-CDU)
1983 Helmut Palmer 167 Goeppingen civil rights activist 28,456 19.8% "Rems Valley Rebel"
1987 Helmut Palmer 168 Waiblingen "Citizenship" voter group 31,625 19.2%
Franz Handlos 213 Deggendorf HANDLESS VOTER GROUP 17,523 17.2% since 1972 for CSU in the Bundestag, 1983–1985 chairman of the REP
1990 Helmut Palmer 193 Reutlingen Partner Palmer 16,148 11.3%
2005 Martin Hohmann 176 Fulda Hohmann 39,545 21.5% since 1998 for the CDU in the Bundestag, excluded in 2003
Konrad Dippel 236 willows Thank you for your trust! 17,944 13.6%
2009 Konrad Dippel 235 pastures Your free citizen candidate of the North Upper Palatinate - for referendums - thank you for your trust 17,196 14.1%

Local elections

Individual applicants are often represented in local councils, especially in smaller towns. In some places they even make up the majority of the municipal councils.

Individual evidence

  1. Information on participation in federal elections ( memento of the original from February 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , bundeswahlleiter.de, accessed on May 19, 2012  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bundeswahlleiter.de
  2. https://www.bundeswahlleiter.de/dam/jcr/f44145b0-99b6-4e87-bec9-b8c7dd4aa79a/btw17_sonderheft_online.pdf
  3. a b http://wahlen-in-deutschland.de/bEZB.htm
  4. https://www.rf-news.de/2017/kw37/170914-kandidatenlisten.pdf