Results of the local elections in Erlangen
The following lists the results of the local elections in Erlangen . The results of the city council elections since 1946 and the mayoral elections since 1952 are given.
Only those parties and groups of voters are listed that have received at least two percent of the valid votes in at least one election. If this limit is exceeded several times, results from one percent are also listed. For the elections up to 1990, only the results of the parties listed in the table are listed. The field of the party that received the most votes or seats in the respective election is marked in color.
Parties
- BP: Bavaria Party
- CSU: Christian Social Union in Bavaria
- FDP: Free Democratic Party
- KPD: Communist Party of Germany
- ÖDP: Ecological Democratic Party
- Left: The left
- 2008: Erli
- REP: The Republicans
- SPD: Social Democratic Party of Germany
Groups of voters
- Erli: Erlangen Left → Left
- FWG: Free Association of Voters
- GL: Green List Erlangen (together with Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen )
- Climate list: Climate list
City council elections 1946 to 1978
From the city council elections from 1946 to 1990, the SPD emerged as the strongest party. Twice, in 1946 and 1972, it won an absolute majority. The CSU, on the other hand, had relatively poor results for a long time, measured by the numbers it achieved in state and federal elections in Erlangen. The FDP also always performed worse in the city council elections than in the immediately preceding or subsequent federal or state elections.
With the results for 1946 and the comparison of the results for 1946 with 1948, it should be noted that in 1946 all persons who had joined the NSDAP before 1937 or held an office there or in NS organizations were excluded from the election. In 1948 this exclusion no longer applied. With only an insignificant increase in the population, almost 6,000 more people were eligible to vote in 1948 than in 1946, which corresponds to an increase of almost a third.
Share of votes of the parties in percent
| year | SPD | CSU | FDP | GL | BP | KPD | Others |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1946 | 52.9 | 32.7 | 8.6 | 5.9 | |||
| 1948 | 40.5 | 14.8 | 15.4 | 8.8 | 8.6 | 11.9 | |
| 1952 | 43.7 | 15.2 | 10.0 | 3.8 | 3.0 | 24.3 | |
| 1956 | 42.6 | 26.0 | 7.9 | 2.8 | 2.2 | 18.5 | |
| 1960 | 41.2 | 34.4 | 8.9 | 15.5 | |||
| 1966 | 42.9 | 35.9 | 11.1 | 10.1 | |||
| 1972 | 52.8 | 37.3 | 5.4 | 4.5 | |||
| 1978 | 45.7 | 43.4 | 4.3 | 2.0 | 4.6 |
Distribution of seats
| year | total | SPD | CSU | FDP | GL | Others |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1972 | 44 1 | 24 | 18th | 2 | ||
| 1978 | 50 1 | 24 | 22nd | 2 | 1 | 1 |
Footnotes
1 In addition to the city councils, the mayor also belongs to the “City Council”.
City council elections from 1984
The SPD continued to prevail in the city council elections in 1984 and 1990. In the 1996 election, the CSU became the strongest party for the first time in the post-war period. She has been able to defend this position ever since. The SPD lost percentage points in every election between 1972 and 2008; conversely, the Green List has been able to increase its share of votes in every city council election since it first appeared in 1978. Meanwhile, the Green List is by far the third strongest force in the Erlangen city council and has significantly shortened the gap to the SPD.
Share of votes of the parties in percent
| year | CSU | SPD | GL | FDP | ÖDP | FWG | Erli | AfD | Climate list |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | 40.8 | 45.5 | 6.0 | 4.8 | 1.9 | ||||
| 1990 1 | 38.0 | 39.9 | 7.9 | 6.3 | 2.7 | ||||
| 1996 | 45.8 | 35.0 | 8.4 | 4.9 | 2.5 | 3.4 | |||
| 2002 | 47.3 | 32.2 | 9.2 | 5.2 | 2.9 | 3.1 | |||
| 2008 | 41.6 | 26.4 | 12.8 | 7.9 | 4.0 | 3.1 | 4.2 | ||
| 2014 | 34.0 | 29.3 | 15.8 | 7.1 | 5.0 | 4.8 | 4.0 | ||
| 2020 | 30.3 | 21.7 | 22.4 | 4.6 | 5.7 | 3.9 | 3.8 | 3.7 | 3.9 |
Footnotes
1 1990: additionally: REP: 3.5%
Distribution of seats
When allocating seats, it should be noted that in the last electoral periods in the Erlangen city council there have been repeated exits and transfers and thus changes in the size of the parliamentary groups. In the period from 1990 to 1996, the CSU became the strongest parliamentary group.
It should also be noted that, in addition to the elected city councilors, the mayor is also a member of the “city council”. The number given in this paragraph as the total number of seats only takes into account the councilors without the mayor.
The following list shows the distribution of seats resulting from the respective election results.
| year | total | CSU | SPD | GL | FDP | ÖDP | FWG | Erli | AfD | Climate list | REP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | 50 2 | 21st | 23 | 3 | 2 | 1 | |||||
| 1990 | 50 1 | 20th | 21st | 4th | 3 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| 1996 | 50 1 | 23 | 18th | 4th | 2 | 1 | 2 | ||||
| 2002 | 50 1 | 24 | 16 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| 2008 | 50 1 | 21st | 13 | 7th | 4th | 2 | 1 | 2 | |||
| 2014 | 50 1 | 17th | 15th | 8th | 4th | 2 | 2 | 2 | |||
| 2020 | 50 1 | 15th | 11 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
Footnotes
1 In addition to the city councils, the mayor also belongs to the “City Council”.
Mayor elections since 1952
In 1946 and 1948, the mayor of Erlangen was elected by the city council. Direct elections have been held since 1952. Due to the death of Michael Poeschke in 1959 and the regional reform in Bavaria in 1972, mayor elections took place in both years, each only taking place one year after a regular election. Since 1972 the mayor elections have coincided with the city council elections.
In the 2014 election there was a runoff election for the first time. Previously, all mayors had been elected in the first ballot.
The reason for the higher number of mayor candidates since 1978 is probably also that the mayor elections coincided with the city council elections. Parties and electoral associations usually expect their own mayor candidate to attract more attention to their city council lists.
Election results
| year | CSU | SPD | GL | FDP | other | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1952 | candidate | Michael Poeschke | Adam Heckel ( KPD ) | |||
| percent | 92.4 | 7.6 | ||||
| 1958 | candidate | Heinrich Lades | Michael Poeschke | |||
| percent | 42.2 | 57.8 | ||||
| 1959 | candidate | Heinrich Lades | Peter Zink | |||
| percent | 57.9 | 42.1 | ||||
| 1965 | candidate | Heinrich Lades | Dieter Haack | |||
| percent | 65.1 | 34.9 | ||||
| 1971 | candidate | Heinrich Lades | Dietmar Hahlweg | |||
| percent | 51.9 | 48.1 | ||||
| 1972 | candidate | Heinrich Lades | Dietmar Hahlweg | |||
| percent | 43.6 | 56.4 | ||||
| 1978 | candidate | Gerd Lohwasser | Dietmar Hahlweg | Gerhard Wangemann | unknown | |
| percent | 39.9 | 57.9 | 1.9 | 0.4 | ||
| 1984 | candidate | Gerd Lohwasser | Dietmar Hahlweg | Gerhard Wangemann | ||
| percent | 38.2 | 59.4 | 2.3 | |||
| 1990 | candidate | Joachim Herrmann | Dietmar Hahlweg | Ingrid Säckel | several ∗ | |
| percent | 36.3 | 57.4 | 3.5 | 2.7 | ||
| 1996 | candidate | Siegfried Balleis | Gisela Niclas | Pierrette Herzberger-Fofana | Matthias Faigle | |
| percent | 52.5 | 41.6 | 3.0 | 3.2 | ||
| 2002 | candidate | Siegfried Balleis | Wolfgang Vogel | Claudia Bittner | Matthias Faigle | Frank Höppel ( ödp ) |
| percent | 58.3 | 34.5 | 2.8 | 3.1 | 1.3 | |
| 2008 | candidate | Siegfried Balleis | Ursula Lanig | Helmut Wening | Jutta Helm (ödp) | |
| percent | 55.8 | 33.2 | 7.1 | 4.0 | ||
| 2014 | candidate | Siegfried Balleis | Florian Janik | Susanne Lender-Cassens | Elisabeth Preuss | several ∗ |
| percent | 39.2 / runoff: 36.3 | 37.2 / runoff: 63.7 | 7.0 | 8.9 | 7.7 | |
| 2020 | candidate | Jörg Volleth | Florian Janik | Susanne Lender-Cassens | several ∗ | |
| percent | 35.4 / runoff: 45.5 | 39.2 / runoff: 54.5 | 13.5 | 11.8 |
∗ other 1990: Günter Achenbach ( REP ) 2.0%, Rüdiger Kalupner (WIR + WIR, Die Kreativen) 0.7%; other 2014: Anton Salzbrunn (Erlanger Linke) 2.0%, Frank Höppel (ödp) 2.7%, Anette Wirth-Hücking (Free Voting Association) 3.0%; other 2020: Holger Schulze (FDP) 2.9%; Johannes Pöhlmann (Erlanger Linke) 2.0%, Joachim Jarosch (ödp) 2.9%, Anette Wirth-Hücking (Free Voting Association) 2.7%; Sebastian Hornschild (climate list) 1.3%
Single receipts
- ^ Election results in Erlangen since 1946. (No longer available online.) City of Erlangen, Department of Statistics and Urban Research, archived from the original on September 5, 2009 ; Retrieved November 27, 2010 . 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.
- ^ Norbert Fuchs: 100 years of social democracy in the Erlangen town hall . The first 50 years. In: SPD Erlangen (ed.): Monthly mirror . Erlangen December 2009, p. 13 ( PDF 1 MB [accessed November 27, 2010]).
Web links
- Election results in Erlangen since 1946. City of Erlangen, Statistics and Urban Research Department, accessed on November 27, 2010 .
- Bavarian State Office for Statistics and Data Processing : Local elections in Bavaria
- Election result 2014
- Election result of the 2020 city council election
- Results of the mayoral election 2020