Local elections in Bavaria 2020
The municipal elections in Bavaria 2020 took place on March 15, 2020 in all municipalities of the Free State of Bavaria as the election of the municipal and district representatives and in the majority of the municipalities and districts as the election of the ( lord ) mayors and district administrators . In the bodies in which none of the applicants achieved more than 50%, the two leading candidates were voted again in a runoff on March 29th . The terms of office of the elected began on May 1, 2020.
In total, around 39,500 mandates were to be filled in the 71 rural districts , 25 independent cities and over 2000 municipalities of Bavaria. According to the Bavarian municipal electoral law, the municipal representatives are elected every six years in general elections in a combination of cumulation and variegation , with each voter usually having as many votes as there are municipal council and district council seats.
In local elections, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, precautionary measures were taken that some election officials believed were inadequate. That is also why it was criticized that the elections were held at all.
Interested in the choice
The interest in the Bavarian local elections was extremely high. 79% of the citizens questioned indicated a strong or even very strong interest in a survey, 9% more than in the 2014 election. The turnout rose to 58.8%.
Innovations in the right to vote
The 2020 local elections were counted for the first time using the Sainte-Laguë procedure , which replaces the Hare-Niemeyer procedure that has been in force since 2013 . The second votes of the parties are divided by a certain number, the 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 had advocated a count based on the D'Hondt method .
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.
COVID-19 and postal votes
The postal vote was also, but not only , increasingly used on March 15, 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Bavaria .
On March 29, 2020, following a change in the law , the required run-off elections were held purely as postal votes . The documents were automatically sent to the voters.
Against this background, Landtag Vice President Markus Rinderspacher (SPD) suggested that the same thing should be done in the Landtag and Bundestag elections in the future; polling stations should be abolished. In view of increasing mobility, this is a "contemporary, citizen-friendly and sensible option."
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the counting of votes took more time than usual, as many election workers called in sick at short notice or stayed at home out of caution. In Munich , Lord Mayor Dieter Reiter has therefore obliged civil servants to help with the count.
Result
City councils of the independent cities and district councils of the districts
| Political party | cities | % | +/- | District meetings | % | +/- | all in all | % | +/- |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CSU | 381.925 | 27.6 | -6.0 | 1,629,865 | 36.6 | -4.7 | 2,011,790 | 34.5 | -5.2 |
| GREEN | 320.615 | 23.2 | +10.6 | 689,567 | 15.5 | +6.0 | 1,010,182 | 17.3 | +7.1 |
| SPD | 282.391 | 20.4 | -9.9 | 515.198 | 11.6 | -6.2 | 797.589 | 13.7 | -7.0 |
| according to WV | 65,672 | 4.7 | +1.8 | 475.244 | 10.7 | +6.8 | 540.916 | 9.3 | +5.6 |
| Groups of voters | 88,469 | 6.4 | -3.1 | 415.776 | 9.3 | -7.9 | 504.245 | 8.6 | -6.7 |
| AfD | 65,397 | 4.7 | +3.4 | 211,743 | 4.8 | +4.7 | 277.140 | 4.7 | +4.4 |
| FW | 13,861 | 1.0 | +0.1 | 223,771 | 5.0 | +0.4 | 237.632 | 4.1 | +0.3 |
| FDP | 46.154 | 3.3 | +0.3 | 113.190 | 2.5 | +0.2 | 159,344 | 2.7 | +0.3 |
| ÖDP | 48.167 | 3.5 | +0.9 | 103,824 | 2.3 | +0.4 | 151.991 | 2.6 | +0.5 |
| THE LEFT | 42.205 | 3.0 | +1.3 | 45.241 | 1.0 | +0.9 | 87,446 | 1.5 | +1.0 |
| BP | 3,923 | 0.3 | -0.1 | 25,776 | 0.6 | -0.2 | 29,699 | 0.5 | -0.1 |
| The party | 10.179 | 0.7 | [+0.7] | 614 | 0.0 | [+0.0] | 10,793 | 0.2 | [+0.2] |
| volt | 10,318 | 0.7 | [+0.7] | - | - | - | 10,318 | 0.2 | [+0.2] |
| Others | 5,087 | 0.4 | -0.1 | 1,693 | 0.0 | -0.4 | 6,780 | 0.1 | -0.4 |
The CSU remained by far the strongest party, but suffered considerable losses and achieved one of the worst results in the country's history with a good 34 percent. The Greens once again increased their record result achieved in 2014 and became the second strongest force in the Free State with over 17%. In contrast, the SPD experienced another crash after its negative record in 2014 and landed at just under 14 percent. There were major changes in the results for the joint election proposals and the electoral groups. The vast majority (7.9%) of the joint election proposals were made up of lists drawn up by Free Voters and previously independent Free Voting Communities and other groups of voters. The difference to 2014 is therefore rather small when it comes to offsetting. The AfD competed in most districts and independent cities in 2020 and was thus able to improve its result. The other parties in the bar chart include Die Linke , which also ran for more committees and achieved a result of 1.5%. The Bavarian Party , the Pirate Party , which only ran independently in Hof , and the Republicans , who won two seats, suffered losses . The PARTY , Volt and the V-Party³ should be mentioned as new parties , who occasionally moved into the city councils or district assemblies for which they were candidates. The Franks reached a seat in Hof.
Elected mayors and district administrators
| Nomination | Lord Mayor | District administrators | Together |
|---|---|---|---|
| CSU | 9 | 44 | 53 |
| Free voters (national association) | - | 2 | 2 |
| SPD | 12 | 1 | 13 |
| CSU and others | 2 | 6th | 8th |
| FDP | 1 | - | 1 |
| GREEN | - | 1 | 1 |
| Free voters and others | - | 6th | 6th |
| Other joint election proposals | - | 1 | 1 |
| Groups of voters | - | 3 | 3 |
| total | 24 | 64 | 88 |
| No choice on this date | 1 | 7th | 8th |
| District-free city | Lord Mayor | Nomination | Runoff |
|---|---|---|---|
| On the mountain | Michael Cerny | CSU | - |
| Ansbach | Thomas Deffner | CSU | Yes |
| Aschaffenburg | Jürgen Herzing | SPD | Yes |
| augsburg | Eva Weber | CSU | Yes |
| Bamberg | Andreas Starke | SPD | Yes |
| Bayreuth | Thomas Ebersberger | CSU | Yes |
| Coburg | Dominik sourdough | SPD | Yes |
| gain | Florian Janik | SPD | Yes |
| Fuerth | Thomas Jung | SPD | - |
| court | Eva Döhla | SPD | Yes |
| Ingolstadt | Christian Scharpf | SPD | Yes |
| Kaufbeuren | Stefan Bosse | CSU | - |
| Kempten (Allgäu) | Thomas Kiechle | CSU / Free Voters / Free Voters-ÜP | - |
| Landshut | Alexander Putz | FDP | Yes |
| Memmingen | - | - | - |
| Munich | Dieter Reiter | SPD | Yes |
| Nuremberg | Marcus King | CSU | Yes |
| Passau | Jürgen Dupper | SPD | - |
| regensburg | Gertrud Maltz-Schwarzfischer | SPD | Yes |
| Rosenheim | Andreas March | CSU | Yes |
| Schwabach | Peter Reiss | SPD | Yes |
| Schweinfurt | Sebastian Remelé | CSU | - |
| Straubing | Markus Pannermayr | CSU | - |
| Willows in the Upper Palatinate | Jens Meyer | SPD | Yes |
| Wurzburg | Christian Schuchardt | CSU / FDP / Citizens' Forum Würzburg | - |
* Reelected ones highlighted in color
* Reelected ones highlighted in color
Wherever none of the candidates got more than half of the votes in the first round, a runoff election took place on March 29, 2020. According to the Bavarian Ministry of the Interior , this was the case in 750 municipalities, cities and districts, including the five largest Bavarian cities of Munich, Nuremberg, Augsburg, Regensburg and Ingolstadt. Because of the corona crisis , those eligible to vote could only take part in this runoff election by postal vote .
See also
Web links
- Topic pages of the state returning officer in the state office for statistics and data processing
- Municipal and District Election Act (GLKrWG)
- Municipal and district election regulations (GLKrWO)
- Bavarian Broadcasting Portal for the 2020 local elections in Bavaria
- Bavarian Ministry of the Interior : municipal and district elections
Individual evidence
- ↑ For municipalities with up to 3000 inhabitants, up to twice as many votes can be given as the total number of candidates.
- ↑ Criticism of local elections during the corona pandemic , br.de , March 15, 2020.
- ↑ Bayerischer Rundfunk : survey results in 79% of the citizens questioned with strong or very strong interest , March 14, 2020.
- ↑ www.kommunalwahl2020.bayern.de
- ^ As in the federal government: New suffrage for Bavaria's municipalities. February 22, 2018, accessed June 13, 2019 .
- ↑ Local election 2020: This is how the counting process works. January 10, 2019, accessed June 13, 2019 .
- ↑ State Parliament enacts new municipal electoral law | Bavarian State Parliament. Retrieved January 12, 2020 .
- ↑ Local elections: Probably the postal voting record in Eastern Bavaria , on br.de.
- ↑ Greens are big losers in elections in Bavaria: runoff in municipalities due to coronavirus only as postal vote , tagesspiegel.de , March 16, 2020.
- ↑ Münchner Merkur Online from March 16, 2020.
- ↑ Art. 60a GLKrWG, Art. 9a para. 2 BayIfSG
- ^ Runoff ballot under the sign of Corona: A purely postal vote , sueddeutsche.de, March 29, 2020
- ↑ Rinderspacher: Germany should switch entirely to postal voting , merkur.de, March 29, 2020.
- ↑ Permanent abolition of polling stations? SPD politician with revolutionary proposal. tz, March 29, 2020, accessed on March 29, 2020 .
- ↑ Landtag Vice-President Rinderspacher only wants postal votes. BR24, March 29, 2020, accessed March 29, 2020 .
- ↑ Local elections: Will we soon only vote by postal vote? BR24, March 30, 2020, accessed March 30, 2020 .
- ↑ Karin Finkenzeller: Victories in times of Corona. In: The time. March 16, 2020, accessed July 3, 2020 .
- ↑ a b Local elections on March 15th, 2020: Election of the city councils and district assemblies (preliminary result) , on kommunalwahl2020.bayern.de.
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