Municipal elections in Baden-Württemberg 2014
The municipal elections in Baden-Württemberg took place on May 25, 2014, at the same time as the 2014 European elections in Germany and local elections in nine other federal states.
The members of the municipal councils and district councils in 1101 municipalities and 35 rural districts as well as the regional assembly of the Stuttgart Region Association were elected . As in previous Baden-Württemberg municipal elections, voters were able to collect ( cumulate ) votes for individual applicants as well as distribute ( variegate ) their votes to candidates from different nomination lists .
Compared to the municipal elections in Baden-Württemberg in 2009 , however, a number of changes came into force, resulting from the changes to the municipal and district regulations and the municipal election law (Baden-Württemberg) passed by the state parliament on April 11, 2013 :
- The minimum age for the right to vote was reduced from 18 to 16 years, while the minimum age for the right to stand at 18 years of age remained unchanged.
- The previously used D'Hondt procedure , which favors large parties, has been replaced as the seat allocation procedure by the Sainte-Laguë procedure , which has been used for the state elections in Baden-Württemberg since 2011.
- District council candidates are no longer allowed to run in two constituencies .
- The revised Section 9, Paragraph 6 of the Local Election Act reads: “Men and women should be considered equally when drawing up an election proposal. This can be done in such a way that men and women are alternately taken into account in the order of the applicants in the nominations. The observance of sentences 1 and 2 is not a prerequisite for the approval of a nomination. "
Nominations for election could be submitted until March 27, 2014.
Results
| Final result of the municipal council elections in Baden-Württemberg | 2014 | 2009 | |
| FW | Free and Independent Electoral Associations | 37.9 | 37.6 |
| CDU | Christian Democratic Union of Germany | 27.9 | 28.1 |
| SPD | Social Democratic Party of Germany | 16.4 | 16.8 |
| GREEN | Alliance 90 / The Greens | 8.5 | 7.4 |
| FDP | Free Democratic Party | 2.8 | 4.6 |
| THE LEFT | The left | 1.0 | 0.7 |
| AfD | Alternative for Germany | 0.9 | - |
| PIRATES | Pirate Party Germany | 0.3 | - |
| The party |
Party for work, the rule of law, animal welfare, elite support and grassroots initiative |
0.1 | - |
| REP | The Republicans | 0.1 | 0.2 |
| ÖDP | Ecological Democratic Party | 0.0 | 0.1 |
| NPD | National Democratic Party of Germany | 0.0 | - |
| DKP | German Communist Party | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| GRAY | Allianz Graue Panther Germany | 0.0 | - |
| UNIT | Aussiedler and Migrants Party Germany | 0.0 | - |
| BIG | Alliance for Innovation and Justice | 0.0 | - |
| SPD / GREEN | 0.0 | - | |
| CDU / FDP | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
| Together | Joint election proposals by parties with electoral associations | 4.1 | 4.5 |
| total (rounding difference possible) | 100.0 | 100.0 | |
| voter turnout | 49.1% | 50.7% | |
The traditionally strong voter associations in Baden-Württemberg together achieved 37.9 percent (+0.3). The CDU achieved 27.9 percent (-0.2). The SPD, a small coalition partner of the Greens at the state level, lost slightly and with 16.4 percent achieved 0.4 percentage points less than in 2009. The ruling party GREEN increased its result from 7.4 to 8.5 percent. The FDP slumped to 2.8 percent (-1.8).
| Final result of the district council elections in Baden-Württemberg | 2014 | 2009 | |
| CDU | Christian Democratic Union of Germany | 35.7 | 34.6 |
| FW | Free and Independent Electoral Associations | 24.3 | 24.3 |
| SPD | Social Democratic Party of Germany | 17.6 | 17.9 |
| GREEN | Alliance 90 / The Greens | 12.3 | 10.8 |
| FDP | Free Democratic Party | 4.6 | 7.4 |
| THE LEFT | The left | 1.8 | 1.3 |
| AfD | Alternative for Germany | 0.9 | - |
| ÖDP | Ecological Democratic Party | 0.6 | 0.7 |
| REP | The Republicans | 0.3 | 0.6 |
| PIRATES | Pirate Party Germany | 0.0 | - |
| NPD | National Democratic Party of Germany | 0.0 | 0.1 |
| NO! | NO! -Idea | 0.0 | - |
| Others | other parties (only 2009) | - | 0.1 |
| Together | Joint election proposals by parties with electoral associations | 1.9 | 2.3 |
| total (rounding difference possible) | 100.0 | 100.0 | |
| voter turnout | 49.6% | 51.5% | |
Web links
- Site for local elections from the state center for political education
- Local Election Act
- 2014 municipal elections in Baden-Württemberg on the information portal on political education
Individual evidence
- ↑ Law on the amendment of municipal electoral law and municipal budget regulations ( Memento of February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) of April 16, 2013, published in the Law Gazette for Baden-Württemberg , No. 4/2013, pp. 55–58.
- ↑ http://www.kommunalwahl-bw.de/kommunalwahl_termine.html
- ↑ http://www.statistik-bw.de/Wahlen/Kommunal/02045000.tab?R=LA
- ↑ http://www.statistik-bw.de/Wahlen/Kommunal/02043000.tab?R=LA