Local election in Munich 2014

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The first round of local elections in Munich 2014 took place on March 16, 2014 , as in all of Bavaria . The runoff election for the mayor took place on March 30, 2014. On March 16, the district committees were elected in addition to the mayor and city ​​council .

Innovations in the right to vote

In February 2012, the Bavarian State Parliament passed some changes to the municipal and district electoral law that will apply to the 2014 municipal elections. Among other things, postal voting is made easier and eligible voters only need to have lived in the constituency for two months instead of the previous three. An important change is the elimination of the so-called “focus of life relationships”. Up until now it was only possible to elect those who had been the main focus of living in the constituency, in this case Munich, for at least six months. This clause is now being relaxed. It is now possible to choose who has an apartment in the constituency for at least three years that does not have to be the main residence, or who - without having an apartment - usually stays in the constituency.

Election of the Lord Mayor

Ballot for the election of the mayor (first ballot)

In the major district cities of Bavaria , the title of the first mayor, directly elected by the citizens , is “ Lord Mayor ”. The city ​​council in Munich elects the second and third mayor from among its ranks.

In 2014 Christian Ude was no longer able to run because the legal age limit precludes a new candidacy. The office of Lord Mayor is thus reassigned and, for the first time since 1978, there is an election in Munich in which all applicants have no mayor experience (Christian Ude was second mayor since 1990 before his election in 1993, while Georg Kronawitter had the election 1984 already a term of office between 1972 and 1978 behind him).

OB candidacies in the first ballot

The Munich SPD chose Dieter Reiter as a candidate. In an intra-party process, 33 of the 44 SPD local associations spoke out in favor of him. The chairman of the SPD city council, Alexander Reissl, and the social affairs officer Brigitte Meier missed the nomination. The election was confirmed by a party conference of the Munich SPD at the end of 2011.

As in 2008, Josef Schmid entered the race for the CSU . The board of directors of the Munich CSU nominated him at the end of 2011 as candidate for mayor.

In a member's decision in mid-2012, the Munich Greens decided on Sabine Nallinger as the mayor candidate. Nallinger had prevailed in an internal party procedure against the third mayor Hep Monatzeder and the former party chairman of the Munich Greens, Nikolaus Hoenning. On June 8, 2013, the FDP nominated Michael Mattar, chairman of the city council, with 94% of the votes, as candidate for mayor. City councilor Brigitte Wolf from Die Linke was nominated as a candidate for mayor in December 2013. As the youngest candidate for the office of Lord Mayor, City Councilor Tobias Ruff ran for the ÖDP . The Free Voters ran with Johann Altmann as Lord Mayor candidate, while the Bavarian Party sent the linguist Horst Münzinger into the race. City councilor Karl Richter was a candidate for the citizens' initiative to stop foreigners (BIA) .

These candidacies did not require any supporter signatures . The following parties and groups not represented on the city council had to have 1,000 confirmed support signatures for both the city council and the mayoral elections in order to be able to draw up a candidate for mayor and a list of the city council:

The following candidacies failed due to a lack of support signatures and therefore did not take part in the election:

The Pink List and the Pirate Party renounced a candidate for mayor.

First ballot

The official final result of the first ballot for the election of the Lord Mayor on March 16, 2014 was as follows:

Political party candidate Votes (absolute) Votes (in percent)
SPD Dieter Reiter 183.903 40.4%
CSU Josef Schmid 166,925 36.7%
GREEN Sabine Nallinger 66,679 14.7%
FDP Michael Mattar 6,193 1.4%
THE LEFT Brigitte Wolf 5,581 1.2%
AfD Andre Wächter 5,519 1.2%
ÖDP Tobias Ruff 5,026 1.1%
FREE VOTERS Johann Altmann 4,889 1.1%
Voting group HUT Wolfgang Zeilnhofer-Rath 4,057 0.9%
Bavaria Party Horst Münzinger 2.112 0.5%
The freedom Michael Stürzenberger 2,078 0.5%
Citizens' initiative to stop foreigners Karl Richter 1,876 0.4%

Second ballot

Since both Dieter Reiter and Josef Schmid missed an absolute majority in the first ballot , there was a runoff between these two candidates on March 30, 2014.

Political party candidate image be right (in %)
SPD Dieter Reiter
SPD candidate Dieter Reiter
 235.753 56.7
CSU Josef Schmid
CSU candidate Josef Schmid
 180.135 43.3

City council election

Ballot for the 2014 city council election in Munich: paper size 1.4 by 0.6 meters, paper color light green

Even if Munich, with over 1.4 million inhabitants, is the largest city with a municipal administration in Germany (Berlin and Hamburg are federal states with the corresponding institutions), the city councils are voluntary. The professional city councils (referred to as speakers in Munich as heads of the respective units ) are elected by the city council for six years. You are a member of the city council and have the right to speak but not to vote. Due to resignations and retirements, the speakers' elections take place on different dates, regardless of the local elections.

The Munich city council consists of 80 members. Since there is no five percent hurdle , it is possible to get a seat from around 0.6–0.7% of the valid votes.

Each voter has as many votes as the city council has seats. In the local elections in Bavaria, voters can cumulate and variegate . Each eligible voter has 80 votes, which corresponds to the number of city council members to be elected. It is possible to give a candidate up to three votes. Candidates from different party lists can also be elected, but the total number of 80 votes must not be exceeded. It is also possible to tick an entire party list, with each candidate on the list receiving one vote. Candidates can also be removed from the checked list.

The following candidacies failed due to a lack of support signatures and therefore did not take part in the election:

New seat allocation procedure

In 2010 the Bavarian State Parliament decided that local elections should no longer be counted according to the d'Hondt system , but according to Hare / Niemeyer . This prevents small parties and groups from being disadvantaged. Already 0.6 to 0.7% are now enough to win one of the 80 seats.

The FDP, Bavaria Party and the citizens' initiative to stop foreigners have benefited from the new seat allocation procedure . According to the old d'Hondt procedure, around 1.25% of the votes were required for one seat (100% = 80 seats). For other parties this value was roughly reached. In the ÖDP and CSU one seat corresponds to approx. 1.25% of the votes, in the SPD 1.23% or in the Left 1.2%.

According to Hare-Niemeyer, the number of party votes is multiplied by the number of seats and divided by the total number of votes. The result is a quota with decimal places. The results of all lists are rounded down to a whole number and the seats are assigned accordingly. As a result, 73 of the 80 seats were awarded in Munich.

The seven remaining seats were awarded in the order of the highest decimal places of the quotas, i.e. one after the other to AfD, Piratenpartei, Die Linke, FDP, Bayernpartei, SPD and the citizens' initiative Ausländerstopp. The pink list was the first group whose remaining seat was no longer sufficient for an allocation. If the Pink List had entered into a list connection with the Greens, as in previous elections, the joint remainder would have been higher and this list connection would already have received the fourth remaining seat and the BIA would have received nothing.

Election result

Allocation of seats in the city council
             
A total of 80 seats

Official final result after counting all 1022 voting areas:

Political party Votes
(absolute) 		Votes
(in percent) 		Change compared to 2008
(in percentage points) 		Seats
CSU 11,111,791 32.6% + 4.9% 26 a
SPD 10,522,290 30.8% −8.9% 25 b
GREEN 5,661,568 16.6% + 3.6% 13 c
FDP 1,151,314 3.4% −3.4% 3 d
FREE VOTERS 906.631 2.7% +1.1% 2 e
ÖDP 868.509 2.5% + 0.8% 2
AfD 851.771 2.5% not started 2 g
THE LEFT 826.051 2.4% −1.3% 2
Pink list 651.230 1.9% + 0.0% 1 c
Voting group HUT 459.741 1.3% not started 1 d
Pirate party 401,526 1.2% not started 1 h
Bavaria Party 292,647 0.9% −0.6% 1 f
Citizens' initiative to stop foreigners 233,466 0.7% −0.7% 1
The freedom 203,409 0.6% not started 0
a With the resignation of Eva Caim and Mario Schmidbauer on March 30, 2016, the CSU parliamentary group was reduced by two seats
b When Josef Assal left the SPD parliamentary group, the SPD lost a seat on March 26, 2014.
c The GREEN and Pink Lists form a group
d FDP and HUT form a parliamentary group
eThe FW formed a committee community with the AfD city councils and the representative of the Bavarian party until July 2015, and formed a parliamentary group with the Bavarian party until September 2016. After the move of City Councilor Johann Altmann to the Bavarian Party in March 2016, the parliamentary group only consists of one city councilor.
f After Josef Assal (until March 2014 SPD), Eva Caim and Mario Schmidbauer (until March 2016 CSU) and Johann Altmann (until March 2016 FW), the parliamentary group of the Bavarian Party has had five members since September 2016.
GThe two city councilors elected for the AfD, Fritz Schmude and Andre Wächter, resigned from the AfD in July 2015, and the committee that had existed until then with the “Bürgerliche Mitte” faction from FW and BP had been terminated by them at the same time. The AfD parliamentary group first renamed itself ALFA , then LKR .
H The pirate's representative, Thomas Ranft, switched to the FDP in May 2017, with whom he had previously formed a parliamentary group together with HUT.

District committee election

In Bavaria, district committees must be formed in cities with more than one million inhabitants (Art. 60, Paragraph 2, Clause 3 of the Municipal Code). These have the task of supporting and enforcing district-related issues of the citizens. One also speaks of a “district parliament”. According to the municipal code for the Free State of Bavaria (Art. 60, Paragraph 3, Clause 2), the election takes place at the same time as the city council members for the city council's election period.

Results:

CSU (in%) SPD (in%) FW (in%) FW / ÖDP (in%) Green (in%) Greens / ÖDP (in%) FDP (in%) Pink list (in%) DaGG / ÖDP (in%)
Munich as a whole 36.3 34.0 1.5 1.1 20.7 0.4 4.5 0.4 1.1
Altstadt-Lehel 33.8 28.1 - - 28.2 - 9.8 - -
Ludwigsvorstadt-Isarvorstadt 23.4 22.4 - - 35.2 - 4.9 14.0 -
Maxvorstadt 27.6 31.7 - - 33.7 - 7.0 - -
Schwabing-West 26.8 37.5 - 4.2 25.3 - 6.2 - -
Au-Haidhausen 23.8 34.7 - - 36.4 - 5.1 - -
Sendling 26.7 40.8 - - 28.9 - 3.7 - -
Sendling West Park 38.0 35.4 - - 22.7 - 3.9 - -
Schwanthalerhöhe 19.9 39.8 - - 35.9 - 4.4 - -
Neuhausen-Nymphenburg 30.5 33.8 3.1 - 24.0 - 4.3 - 4.3
Moosach 38.0 42.6 - - - 15.9 3.5 - -
Milbertshofen-Am Hart 33.3 40.3 - 8.6 14.6 - 3.2 - -
Schwabing-Freimann 33.3 34.8 6.0 - 20.0 - 5.9 - -
Bogenhausen 43.1 28.9 - - 17.2 - 6.2 - 4.7
Berg am Laim 37.8 35.6 - 7.0 16.5 - 3.1 - -
Trudering-Riem 44.7 27.6 7.1 - 16.7 - 3.9 - -
Ramersdorf-Perlach 40.6 37.8 1.8 - 14.2 - 2.1 - 3.5
Obergiesing 28.5 37.5 6.7 - 23.8 - 3.6 - -
Untergiesing-Harlaching 35.1 30.9 5.9 - 23.8 - 4.3 - -
Thalkirchen-Obersendling-Forstenried-Fürstenried-Solln 41.3 34.3 - - 18.8 - 5.5 - -
Rags 47.4 32.7 - - 16.5 - 3.4 - -
Pasing-Obermenzing 39.7 29.9 7.5 - 18.3 - 4.6 - -
Aubing-Lochhausen-Langwied 48.1 30.9 - - 17.2 - 3.7 - -
Allach-Untermenzing 53.6 26.4 - - 15.9 - 4.1 - -
Feldmoching-Hasenbergl 45.5 38.0 - - 13.0 - 3.5 - -
Laim 37.2 37.6 - - 21.7 - 3.5 - -

Postal vote

For all elections, the citizens of Munich can apply for postal voting documents online before they receive the voting notification.

See also

Individual evidence

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  4. ↑ Nallinger beats Monatzeder. In: sueddeutsche.de . July 24, 2012, accessed October 13, 2018 .
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  22. ↑ Andreas Glas: "The AfD is dead" . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . July 6, 2015.
  23. ↑ Florian Zick: Man overboard: Munich pirate runs over to the FDP . In: evening newspaper . May 12, 2017.
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