Local election in Essen 2009

See also: Local elections NRW 2009

Data

Date:	August 30, 2009
Choice:	Local election
Elective area:	eat
Eligible to vote :	459.246
Turnout :	47.3%
Procedure :	Sainte-Laguë

Results of the council election

Political party	%	+/-%	Seats	+/-
SPD:	37.2%	+3.0	31	+3
CDU:	31.9%	−7.5	26th	−6
Greens:	11.4%	+0.6	9	=
FDP:	6.4%	+2.3	5	+2
Left:	5.6%	+2.6	5	+3
EBB:	4.2%	−0.5	3	−1
REP:	1.2%	−1.1	1	−1
NPD:	0.8%		1
ON:	0.7%	−0.1	1	=

Results district representatives

Results of the mayoral election

candidate	Political party	Voters	%
Reinhard Pass	SPD	98,782	46.1%

The local elections in Essen 2009 took place within the framework of the local elections in North Rhine-Westphalia 2009 on August 30, 2009. In the election, every Essen citizen aged 16 and over who is a citizen of an EU country has three votes: one vote for the election of the mayor , one vote for the city council of Essen and one vote for the district representative of his city district. In the independent city of Essen , nine parties and three groups of voters held seats in the council or in the district representatives during the 14th session of the council . Due to its size, Essen has a city council with at least 82 people's representatives.

Parties in food

Seven parties and two groups of voters were represented in the Essen City Council in the 14th session . The strongest party was the Essen CDU , followed by the SPD . Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen came in third. The group of voters from Essen Citizens Alliance in fourth place is one of the free voters . The FDP has been growing steadily since 1994 and has reached 5th place.

The left edge of the political spectrum is divided into two parties and one electoral group. The party Die Linke , which stood in 2004 and 1999 as the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS) , and the German Communist Party (DKP) on the one hand and the Essen electoral group is OPEN , which the Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany (MLPD) as a local election platform for serves its members to another. Together, the three achieved a 4.7% share of the vote and four council seats in the 2004 council election. The parties Die Linke, DKP and MLPD are observed by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution. In addition, from 2004 to 2008 there was one member each of the Northern Citizens' List in the district council of districts V and VI. The party civil rights movement Solidarity (BüSo) is running in 2009 with its own candidate for mayor.

From the right edge of the political spectrum, the Republicans have been represented in the council since 2004 and the NPD since 2009 . In 2009 pro NRW competes with its own mayoral candidate in Essen.

The City Council of Essen

In the local elections in 2009, the SPD was the strongest party with 31 seats. It was able to convert the five percentage point gap on the CDU (26 seats) into an equally large lead. The Greens landed in third place with nine seats ahead of the FDP parliamentary group , which received five seats in the new council. The Left also has five representatives on the council, while the Essen Citizens' Alliance has lost a seat and moved into the city council with three representatives.

Essen is UP and the Republicans and the NPD each moved into the city council with one member. The DKP lacked 37 votes in defense of its council mandate.

Essen City Council: Share of voters and seats since 1994
choice																					ADVICE
1994	33.6	30th	49.3	44	10.9	9			2.8	-			1.4	-	0.1						83
1999	49.4	40	35.0	29	8.1	7th			2.9	2	2.1	2	2.5	2							82
2004	39.4	32	34.2	28	10.7	9	4.7	4 2	4.0	3 5	3.1	2	2.3	2	0.8	1	0.8	1			82
2009	31.9	26th	37.2	31	11.4	9	4.2	3	6.4	5			1.2	1	0.6	0	0.7	1	5.6	5	82

Lord Mayor of Essen

The previous Lord Mayor Wolfgang Reiniger had been in office since 1999. He turned 65 in 2009 and did not stand as a candidate in the local elections on August 30, 2009. Therefore, the CDU nominated Franz-Josef Britz as a candidate, who was defeated by Reinhard Pass , who stood again for the SPD . Both of them held office as parliamentary group chairmen of their parties in the council during the past council period. Pass took up the post of Lord Mayor on October 22, 2009.

The GRÜNEN candidate was again the parliamentary group leader Hiltrud Schmutzler-Jäger. Christian Stratmann entered the race for the FDP.

For the party Die Linke, the former Green Party and social worker Hans-Peter Leymann-Kurtz stood.

Political party	CDU	SPD	Green	FDP	Rep	Flat share
candidate	cleanser	Samland	Herrmann	Emperor	Barth	wolf
9/12/1999	51.7	36.4	6.4	1.7	1.6	2.0
Political party	CDU	SPD	Green	FDP	PDS	DKP	POLITICAL PARTY
candidate	cleanser	Passport	Schmutzler-J.	Geer	Freye	Schnittker	Town man
09/26/2004	49.0	36.4	6.0	2.3	2.8	1.1	2.4
10/10/2004	54.9	45.1	-	-	-	-	-
Political party	CDU	SPD	Green	FDP	left	DKP	Pro NRW	BüSo
candidate	Britz	Passport	Schmutzler-J.	Stratmann	Leymann-K.	Average	Berger	Kruczkowski
08/30/2009	35.5	46.1	6.1	5.8	4.7	0.7	0.0	1.0

The nine district offices of Essen

Composition of the district representatives 2004–2009

Essen is divided into nine districts, which are numbered with Roman numerals.

Session period 2004–2009
district	District Mayor	CDU	SPD	Gre	EBB	FDP	Lin	BLN	REP
I.	Peter Valerius, CDU	7th	6th	2	1	1	1			18th
II	Herbert Bauckhage, CDU	8th	5	3	1	1	1			19th
III	vacant	6th	7th	2	1	1	1			18th
IV	Helmut Kehlbreier, SPD	7th	7th	2	1	1	1			19th
V	Hans-Wilhelm Zwiehoff, SPD	4th	8th	1	2	2		1	1	19th
VI	Gisela Juschka, CDU	6th	8th	1	1	1		1	1	19th
VII	Klaus Stumpe, CDU	7th	6th	2	2	1	1			19th
VIII	Norbert von der Gathen, CDU	9	6th	2	1	1				19th
IX	Hanslothar Kranz, CDU	10	5	2	1	1				19th

Status: January 12, 2009

Web links

www.essen.de Website of the city of Essen
www.wahlresults.nrw.de Website of the Interior Ministry of North Rhine-Westphalia with the election results

Individual evidence

↑ in the council election

↑ GREEN: [1] ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2
↑ Die Linke: Die Linke.Essen nominates candidates for mayor. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2
↑ after the death of Bruno Pöllen (CDU) before the election

[1] the council election