Local elections in North Rhine-Westphalia 2014

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Local elections in NRW 2014
North Rhine-WestphaliaNorth Rhine-Westphalia
200920142020
Data
Date: May 25, 2014
Choice: Local election
Elective area: North Rhine-Westphalia
Eligible to vote : 14,275,974
Turnout : 49.97%
Procedure : Sainte-Laguë
Results (in%)
 %
40
30th
20th
10
0
37.5%
31.4%
11.7%
4.7%
4.7%
2.5%
1.7%
0.5%
2.6%
Attendees
25 parties :

CDU , SPD , GREEN , FDP , DIE LINKE , pro NRW , NPD , REP , ÖDP , ZENTRUM , DKP , referendum , PIRATE , SO !, The PARTY , LD , AfD , ARMINIUS-Bund, EINHEIT , BIG , DIE RECHTE , DIE VIOLETS , FAMILY , Animal Welfare Party


Voter groups :

Democratic Independent Voters' Association (DUW) and others

Ballot for the election to the council of the community Rödinghausen

The 2014 municipal elections in North Rhine-Westphalia were set for May 25, 2014. At the same time as these local elections in North Rhine-Westphalia , the European elections in Germany 2014 and the election to the integration councils were scheduled. On the same day, the local elections in Baden-Württemberg , Brandenburg , Hamburg , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Rhineland-Palatinate , Saarland , Saxony , Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia took place.

General

The minimum age for the active right to vote was 16, for the passive right to vote 18 years. The number of community representatives to be elected in the councils was between 20 and 90. There was no longer a five percent hurdle. The mandates were distributed according to the divisor procedure with standard rounding according to André Sainte-Laguë .

Special regulations

After the decoupling of the Mayor and district elections in 2007 in the reign of Jürgen Rüttgers decided, but later during the reign of Hannelore Kraft was reversed, there were some special rules in this election, which the law to strengthen local democracy by the 9th April 2013:

  • The councils of the cities, municipalities and districts as well as the district representatives were elected once for six years, then again for five years.
  • The (upper) mayors and district administrators who were elected together with the general local elections in 2009 were offered a one-time right of resignation, so that the direct elections could be combined with the council elections. According to a survey by WDR at the end of 2013, around 197 of the 427 mayors , lords and district administrators in the state wanted to resign their office early in order to synchronize the election dates with the dates for the local elections, mostly for cost reasons. Any runoff elections that might be necessary for the election of mayors, lords and district administrators took place on June 15, 2014. The election dates for mayors and district administrators who do not want to leave their office early are September 28, 2014 and September 13, 2015 .

Results

State result (district assemblies and councils of independent cities)

Political party agree
completely
percent Change compared
to 2009
in percentage points
Eligible voters 14,275,974
Voters 7,133,816 49.97 −1.93
Valid votes 7,028,269 98.52 +0.41
CDU 2,636,369 37.51 −1.16
SPD 2,207,862 31.41 +1.97
GREEN 821.128 11.68 −0.31
FDP 333,766 4.75 −4.38
LEFT 326.923 4.65 +0.33
AfD 179,485 2.55 +2.55
Pirates 111.178 1.67 +1.64
per NRW 36,082 0.51 −0.06
Other parties 52,155 0.74 −0.19
Groups of voters 316.224 4.50 −0.40
Individual applicants 1,097 0.02 −0.01

Local elections in Cologne

The election result in Cologne received nationwide attention and the public discussion about a recount there that lasted until May 2015. In Cologne, the red-green city government received a majority of just one seat in the city council, see the results of the local elections in Cologne . With only 8 more votes, the CDU would have received another mandate in the council and the Red-Green majority would have been lost. In the postal voting district of Rodenkirchen, a stronghold of the CDU, according to the official final result, contrary to the trend, the CDU had clearly lost votes and the SPD won. The proportion of votes between the two parties was almost reversed compared to the previous election. The SPD then won 298 votes, the CDU 175. The suspicion arose that the two election stacks had been swapped. The CDU's request for this electoral district to be recounted was rejected by the electoral committee. Only after political pressure did the Greens decide to call for a recount of all electoral districts. The city council decided this procedure with votes from the CDU, FDP and the Greens, but the decision was overturned by the district president Gisela Walsken (SPD). It was based on a decree of the SPD-led interior ministry. The council's action for the recounting of all electoral districts was rejected by the Cologne Administrative Court , as there was only one constituency suspected of having made a mistake. The CDU's lawsuit to recount the Rodenkirchen electoral district, however, was successful: The electoral district was recounted and it emerged that the values ​​of the CDU and SPD had actually been reversed.

As a result, election officer Kahlen resigned. He had justified the non-counting with the fact that the records of the election in Rodenkirchen had been made "above average carefully" and therefore there was no reason for doubt. The CDU won a seat on the council. The SPD lost one seat. Jochen Ott , the SPD's candidate for the mayoral election in Cologne , had to give up his seat .

See also

Web links

Commons : Local elections in North Rhine-Westphalia 2014  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
General
Law

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e North Rhine-Westphalia municipal electoral system. Retrieved June 10, 2019 .
  2. Local elections. Retrieved June 10, 2019 .
  3. www.derwesten.de
  4. For the exact election result, see the election results from the regional returning officer, page 51, online (PDF; 5.14 MB).
  5. ^ Quake in Cologne City Council - votes of CDU and SPD swapped; in: N-TV from May 19, 2015, online .
  6. For the new results see the election results on the website of the city of Cologne. Elections on the side of the city of Cologne .
  7. The longest electoral thriller in the world ; in: FAZ of May 23, 2015, p. 10.