Law on the election of district days
The law on the election of district days (Bezirkswahlgesetz - BezWG) regulates the election of district days in the Free State of Bavaria .
The election of the district days of the districts as the third municipal level is not regulated by the municipal electoral law, but by a separate law. This corresponds in the main to the state election law . The district assembly is elected every five years at the same time as the Bavarian state parliament. This election is called district election (colloquially also district election ) and is regulated in the District Election Act - BezWG .
In the election, every citizen of the district has two votes for direct candidates and lists. Until the beginning of 2011, the D'Hondtsches maximum number method was used for counting votes . Since then, the Hare-Niemeyer procedure , which was first used in the 2013 election, has been in force. As is customary in Bavarian municipal electoral law, there is no five percent clause . The district councils elected in this way determine the main features of the district policy, adopt the budget and elect the district council president from among their number as chairman of the district council and head of the district administration.
The original law on the election of the district days in the version of August 11, 1954 regulated the election procedure for the restored district days (historically also district councils or district days ) as the third municipal level. Current is the District Election Act in the version announced on February 12, 2003 (Bayer. GVBl p. 144, BayRS 2021-3-I), last amended by Section 1, Paragraph 47 of the Ordinance of March 26, 2019 (GVBl. P. 98 ), valid.
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- ↑ Andreas Ostermeier: Large selection at the urn. Süddeutsche Zeitung , September 13, 2018, accessed on October 12, 2018 .
- ^ Electoral system for the district days in Bavaria. In: Wahlrecht.de. Retrieved September 16, 2013 .