Local elections in Munich 2020
The local elections in Munich 2020 took place on Sunday, March 15, 2020 , as in all of Bavaria . In addition to the Lord Mayor of the state capital Munich , the city council was also elected. The district committees of the 25 Munich boroughs were also elected. Because the SPD candidate Dieter Reiter narrowly missed the absolute majority, an OB runoff election was scheduled for March 29, 2020, which Reiter won.
Starting position
In the 2014 municipal elections in Munich , in which the mayor was also elected alongside the city council and the district committees, the turnout was just 42.1 percent.
Dieter Reiter ( SPD ) was elected Lord Mayor , who ran for the first time after the retirement of the previous incumbent Christian Ude . He won 40.4 percent in the first ballot and 56.4 percent in the runoff election on March 30, 2014 against the opposing candidate from the CSU , Josef Schmid .
The previous red-green coalition lost its majority in the city council. Since then there has been a cooperation agreement between the SPD and the CSU, also known as the “GroKo” based on the grand coalition in the federal government.
Innovations in the right to vote
In the 2020 local elections, the Sainte-Laguë method was used for the first time to calculate mandates, replacing the Hare-Niemeyer method that had been in force since 2013 . Here, the number of votes that the parties have received are divided by a certain number, the so-called divisor, which must be determined anew with each election. The number of mandates for each party is determined from the rounded results. It is considered to be the counting procedure with the least disadvantage for parties large and small. The CSU advocated a calculation based on the D'Hondt method , which disadvantages small parties.
The new Bavarian municipal electoral law also abolished list connections . In return, several lists from individual parties may be registered for election under certain conditions.
Election of the Lord Mayor
The SPD sent incumbent Dieter Reiter into the race again. With Kristina Frank, the CSU had nominated the incumbent municipal officer of the city administration as a candidate, while their parliamentary group leader Katrin Habenschaden stood for the Greens . The Munich FDP had nominated Jörg Hoffmann, a city council member for the mayor's office. The Left stood with Thomas Lechner as a candidate for the mayor's office. OB candidate and at the same time the top candidate of the ÖDP was (as in 2014) its city councilor Tobias Ruff. The AfD had nominated Wolfgang Wiehle . Ender Beyhan-Bilgin (SPD member) was the first candidate with a migrant background to run for the mayor's office on the FAIR list. Moritz Weixler worked for Die PARTTEI , a party primarily known for satire . Stephanie Dilba was OB candidate for the courage party . Mayor candidate for the Munich list was Dirk Höpner. The group of voters together Bavaria (ZuBa) stood with Cetin Oraner (city councilor) as an mayor candidate
The following candidacies failed due to missing support signatures and therefore do not take part in the election:
- Beate Lippmann for the alliance of “Democracy in Motion” and the Pirate Party
- Susanne Wittmann for the Human Environment Animal Welfare party
Heinz Meyer, head of Pegida Munich, was not allowed to run as a candidate for the BIA for the mayor election. The electoral committee of the city of Munich excluded him from the election because he doubted the candidate's loyalty to the constitution.
The pink list renounced its own mayoral candidate and supported the candidate of the Greens, Katrin Habenschaden.
Mode, polls, runoff
In the event that none of the applicants achieves an absolute majority (50%) in the first ballot, the Bavarian municipal electoral law stipulates that a second ballot will hold a runoff between the two leading candidates.
In the election for the mayor of Munich, there have only been two runoff elections since the direct election of the OB in 1952: 1984 and 2014, whereby only in 1984 an incumbent OB had to stand in the runoff election.
In surveys before the local elections in Munich, a three-way battle was expected, in which Dieter Reiter was clearly ahead, but did not reach 50%. In the event of a runoff, Katrin Habenschaden seemed to be the opposing candidate. She was ahead of Kristina Frank in all polls. Surprisingly, Frank landed on election evening with 21.3% just before property damage (20.8%) and is running in a runoff against Dieter Reiter (47.9%). The Greens did not recommend voting for this runoff election.
| medium | date | Dieter Reiter | Kristina Frank | Katrin Habenschaden |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GMS | February 27, 2020 | 39% | 16% | 23% |
| INSA | February 28, 2020 | 48% | 18% | 19% |
| INSA | February 29, 2020 | 49% | 16% | 17% |
In the runoff election on March 29, 2020, Dieter Reiter was elected with 401,859 (71.7%) of the votes. Due to the rampant COVID-19 pandemic , the runoff vote was only possible by postal vote .
Election of the city council
The city council of the state capital Munich was elected together with the mayor . It consists of 81 members, 80 of whom are elected from the lists of the parties. The 81st member and chairman of the city council is the Lord Mayor. The speakers of the city administration belong to the city council as advisory, but not entitled to vote members (professional city councilors) and have the right to propose and speak in relation to their area of responsibility.
Since there is no 5 percent hurdle at the municipal level in Bavaria, around 0.7 percent of the votes were sufficient for a first seat on the city council. As a result, small groups have also been represented on the city council for many years. However, four city councils are required to form a parliamentary group, as the city council has set a minimum number of 5 percent of the members. Each voter had 80 votes, which he could distribute among the candidates. He could distribute (cumulate) up to three votes to a candidate, but also distribute his votes to the candidates of different parties (variegate). If he made his election cross at a party, he distributed all votes to that party. Approx. 5-10 percent of the electorate made use of the option of cumulation and variegation in the elections of recent years. This means that the counting of the choice is usually very tedious and usually takes several days.
Survey
| medium | date | CSU | SPD | Green | FDP | FW | ÖDP | AfD | LEFT | BP | Otherwise. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GMS | 02/27/2020 | 28% | 24% | 26% | 3% | 3% | 2% | 5% | 3% | - | 6% |
| INSA | 02/28/2020 | 24% | 22% | 25% | 5% | 6% | 2% | 5% | 3% | - | 9% |
| INSA | 02/29/2020 | 23% | 23% | 27% | 4% | 3% | 3% | 7% | 4% | 3% | 3% |
| Election 2014 | March 16, 2014 | 32.6% | 30.8% | 16.6% | 3.4% | 2.7% | 2.5% | 2.5% | 2.4% | 0.9% | 6.5% |
Election result
Preliminary final result after counting all 1274 voting areas:
| Political party | Votes (absolute) |
Votes (in percent) |
Change compared to 2014 (in percentage points) |
Seats |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GREEN | 11,762,516 | 29.1% | + 12.5% | 23 |
| CSU | 9,986,014 | 24.7% | −7.8% | 20th |
| SPD | 8,884,562 | 22.0% | −8.8% | 18th |
| ÖDP | 1,598,539 | 4.0% | +1.4% | 3 |
| AfD | 1,559,476 | 3.9% | +1.4% | 3 |
| FDP | 1,420,194 | 3.5% | + 0.1% | 3 |
| THE LEFT | 1,319,464 | 3.3% | + 0.8% | 3 |
| FREE VOTERS | 1,008,400 | 2.5% | −0.2% | 2 |
| Volt Munich | 732.853 | 1.8% | not started | 1 |
| The party | 528.949 | 1.3% | not started | 1 |
| Pink list | 396.324 | 1.0% | −0.9% | 1 |
| Munich list | 339.705 | 0.8% | not started | 1 |
| Bavaria Party | 273,737 | 0.7% | −0.2% | 1 |
| courage | 247,679 | 0.6% | not started | 0 |
| FAIR (Free Alliance for Innovation and Rule of Law) |
142,455 | 0.4% | not started | 0 |
| ZuBa (Together Bavaria) | 120,975 | 0.3% | not started | 0 |
| BIA | 86,358 | 0.2% | −0.5% | 0 |
| Invalid ballot | 12,937 | 2.4% | + 0.4% | - |
District Committees
As a community with more than one million inhabitants in Munich "neighborhood parliaments" 25 are district committees (Art. 60 para. 2 sentence 3 of the Municipal Code) in the Munich city districts selected. For example, they have decision-making authority for project orders for urban civil engineering works with a construction cost of up to € 2.5 million or project planning and expansion of streets and squares up to € 500,000.
For the 2020 local elections, the CSU, Greens, SPD and FDP will run their own lists for all BA elections across the board. Free voters and ödp cooperate on 19 lists and compete with a common list. The free voters also appear four times with their own list, the ödp twice in cooperation with David contra Goliath . AfD (15) and LINKE (10) only compete in one part of the city districts with their own lists, while the Pink List and Munich List each only compete in one city district.
| CSU | Green | Free voters /
ödp |
Free voters | AfD | SPD | FDP | Pink list | LEFT | DaCG /
ödp |
Munich list | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Altstadt-Lehel | 27.1 | 40.4 | 5.2 | - | 0.6 | 18.8 | 7.9 | - | - | - | - |
| 2 Ludwigsvorstadt-Isarvorstadt | 17.7 | 45.5 | - | - | - | 17.1 | 6.0 | 7.6 | 6.2 | - | - |
| 3 Maxvorstadt | 20.2 | 48.2 | 4.7 | - | 2.4 | 19.3 | 5.2 | - | - | - | - |
| 4 Schwabing-West | 20.6 | 40.9 | 5.2 | - | 1.3 | 21.2 | 5.4 | - | 5.4 | - | - |
| 5 Au-Haidhausen | 17.2 | 47.7 | 5.5 | - | - | 19.2 | 4.6 | - | 5.8 | - | - |
| 6 Sendling | 17.7 | 44.9 | 6.7 | - | - | 26.5 | 4.2 | - | - | - | - |
| 7 Sendling-Westpark | 26.4 | 35.5 | 6.1 | - | - | 23.1 | 4.5 | - | 4.4 | - | - |
| 8 Schwanthalerhöhe | 14.7 | 45.9 | 5.0 | - | - | 19.5 | 4.1 | - | 10.7 | - | - |
| 9 Nymphenburg-Neuhausen | 22.7 | 39.2 | - | 2.1 | 2.8 | 21.0 | 3.9 | - | 4.1 | 4.3 | - |
| 10 Moosach | 28.0 | 26.6 | 8.4 | - | 4.1 | 29.2 | 3.7 | - | - | - | - |
| 11 Milbertshofen-Am Hart | 24.8 | 28.1 | 8.2 | - | 6.4 | 28.2 | 4.4 | - | - | - | - |
| 12 Schwabing-Freimann | 24.9 | 37.6 | - | 4.2 | 4.3 | 22.9 | 6.1 | - | - | - | - |
| 13 Bogenhausen | 35.6 | 30.3 | - | 4.2 | - | 17.7 | 6.1 | - | 1.6 | 4.5 | - |
| 14 Berg am Laim | 29.7 | 29.4 | 8.7 | - | - | 23.4 | 4.2 | - | 4.6 | - | - |
| 15 Trudering belt | 36.5 | 30.8 | 7.9 | - | - | 18.1 | 4.3 | - | 2.4 | - | - |
| 16 Ramersdorf-Perlach | 31.7 | 28.8 | 7.1 | - | 1.3 | 26.1 | 2.9 | - | 2.1 | - | - |
| 17 Obergiesing pheasant garden | 20.4 | 45.0 | - | 4.8 | 2.0 | 24.3 | 3.5 | - | - | - | - |
| 18 Untergiesing-Harlaching | 24.9 | 42.1 | 6.7 | - | 2.3 | 20.1 | 4.0 | - | - | - | - |
| 19 Thalkirchen-Obersendling-Forstenried-Fürstenried-Solln | 30.6 | 32.0 | 6.6 | - | 5.0 | 21.2 | 4.6 | - | - | - | - |
| 20 rags | 36.4 | 30.1 | 7.9 | - | - | 21.7 | 3.9 | - | - | - | - |
| 21 Pasing-Obermenzing | 31.2 | 34.4 | 7.3 | - | 2.4 | 20.2 | 4.5 | - | - | - | - |
| 22 Aubing-Lochhausen-Langwied | 37.9 | 28.6 | 11.1 | - | - | 18.9 | 3.5 | - | - | - | - |
| 23 Allach-Untermenzing | 38.1 | 28.3 | 7.5 | - | 4.3 | 18.1 | 3.7 | - | - | - | - |
| 24 Feldmoching-Hasenbergl | 32.4 | 21.4 | 6.2 | - | 6.0 | 21.1 | 2.7 | - | - | - | 10.1 |
| 25 laim | 25.1 | 39.6 | - | - | 4.6 | 26.2 | 4.6 | - | - | - | - |
Trivia
- The size of the voting slip for the election of the Munich city council is 164 cm × 60 cm (corresponds to almost one square meter).
- Since many volunteer election workers had canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic , teachers from city schools were forced to replace them. This caused criticism, as several thousand teachers had to gather in the Riem exhibition halls.
See also
- Local elections in Bavaria 2020
- Results of the mayor elections in Munich
- Local electoral law (Bavaria)
- Administrative division of Bavaria
- Munich Mayor
- Munich City Council
Web links
- “Munich chooses” - campaign by the city of Munich with information on voting
- How does the election work? - Notes on the process
- Online sample ballot - interactive sample ballot paper
Individual evidence
- ↑ Munich voted - like this. In: muenchen.de. Retrieved March 16, 2020 .
- ↑ Election of the City Council - Munich - overview. Retrieved July 21, 2019 .
- ^ As in the federal government: New suffrage for Bavaria's municipalities. Retrieved July 21, 2019 .
- ↑ Local election 2020: This is how the counting process works. Retrieved July 21, 2019 .
- ↑ State Parliament enacts new municipal electoral law | Bavarian State Parliament. Retrieved January 12, 2020 .
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- ↑ Jakob Wetzel: FDP elects Jörg Hoffmann as OB candidate . In: sueddeutsche.de . June 30, 2019, ISSN 0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed July 21, 2019]).
- ^ Süddeutsche Zeitung: Local election in Munich: AfD nominates ex-CSU city council. Retrieved February 29, 2020 .
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- ↑ Local election 2020: This is how the runoff election works in Bavaria. Retrieved February 29, 2020 .
- ↑ Will it be a thriller by choice? Politics professor declares a three-way battle for Munich City Hall. February 13, 2020, accessed February 15, 2020 .
- ↑ OB election in Munich: Surprising runoff constellation - Corona forces you to vote by mail , merkur.de , March 17, 2020
- ↑ Heiner Effern: Why the Greens do not give a recommendation for the OB runoff election. In: www.sueddeutsche.de. March 25, 2020, accessed March 25, 2020 .
- ^ Bavarian State Newspaper Reiter in Munich in front
- ↑ a b BILD survey on local elections: THIS is how Munich would vote! Retrieved February 29, 2020 .
- ↑ OB election in Munich: Exclusive survey - This is how OB Reiters chances are - and those of the competition. March 2, 2020, accessed March 2, 2020 .
- ↑ State Capital of Munich District Administration Office - Electoral Office: Runoff election for the Lord Mayor 2020. muenchen.de - The official city portal, March 29, 2020, accessed on April 1, 2020 .
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- ↑ Rainbow Town Hall: CSU parliamentary group leader warns of a “catastrophic” scenario after a survey. March 3, 2020, accessed March 3, 2020 .
- ↑ Electoral Office: List of votes. In: Election of the City Council 2020. City of Munich District Administration Office, March 19, 2020, accessed on March 19, 2020 .
- ↑ Decision-making rights of the district committees. In: muenchen.de. Portal München Betriebs-GmbH & Co. KG, accessed on November 10, 2015 .
- ↑ Thomas Kronewiter: BA election 2020 in Munich: City district map becomes more colorful. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . Retrieved February 29, 2020 .
- ↑ Katarina Amtmann: Corona hammer in Munich: Carrying out the local elections "acutely at risk"? Teachers are made compulsory. In: www.merkur.de. March 15, 2020, accessed March 25, 2020 .
- ↑ City tip orders “Corona Party” for teachers. Retrieved on April 5, 2020 (German).
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