Local elections in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania 2011
The 2011 local elections in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania took place on September 4, 2011. The new elections were necessary due to the district reform . The six new districts voted on the occupation of the district assemblies , the district administrators and the new district names. The elections took place parallel to the state elections.
Only the state capital Schwerin and the Hanseatic city of Rostock are not affected by the district reform . At the city and municipal level, the results of the 2009 local elections remain valid. This affects the mayors and the municipal councils.
Electoral process
The legal basis for the preparation and implementation of the election to the state parliament in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania is regulated in particular by the constitution of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , the state and municipal election law (LKWG).
In local elections, everyone who has reached the age of 16 has the right to stand as a candidate . Foreign citizens from the EU are also entitled to vote at the municipal level .
Each voter has three votes in the district council election, which he can distribute as desired via the candidate lists of the parties and voter communities or the individual applicants. The votes can be cast ( variegated ) for three different candidates from one or more parties , but also all for a single candidate ( cumulative ).
Another peculiarity compared to the provisions for state elections is that, in addition to parties and individual applicants, groups of voters can also run. In contrast to the state election, there is no five percent hurdle in the district election .
Elections to the district councils
Depending on their population size and area, the district assemblies of the new great districts are equipped with a different number of seats. The districts of Mecklenburgische Seenplatte and Ludwigslust-Parchim will each have 77 seats, the districts of Rostock , Vorpommern-Rügen and Vorpommern-Greifswald will each have 69 seats and the district of Northwest Mecklenburg will have 61 seats.
The districts were divided into several electoral areas, in which the parties or electoral communities ran with different nominations, i.e. with different candidates. In view of the enormous size of the districts, this should ensure a balanced local distribution of mandates. However, the parties and electoral communities mostly put up well-known personalities in all electoral areas.
District elections
In the district election, the candidate needs an absolute majority of valid votes in order to become district administrator. If this is not achieved by any candidate in the first ballot, there will be a runoff two weeks later between the two best placed applicants, in which the relative majority is sufficient. Applicants for the district office may not be older than 60 years, but office holders may stand for re-election up to the age of 64.
Voting on the district names
The names used so far for the six new districts (Mecklenburg Lake District, Middle Mecklenburg, North West Pomerania, North West Mecklenburg, South West Pomerania and South West Mecklenburg) are only provisional district names. By June 4, 2011, the corporations in the new districts could submit proposals for the new district names. The voting on the district names corresponds formally to the referendum in the municipal constitution ( § 20 ). The proposal with the most votes will be the name of the new county the day after the voting results are announced. In the event of a tie, the lot decides.
The following proposals were put to the vote:
| New county | Name proposals to be voted on | Proposing urban / rural district |
|---|---|---|
| District of Mecklenburg Lake District | District of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Lake District | Demmin district |
| District of Mecklenburg Lake District | Mecklenburg-Strelitz district, Müritz district, Neubrandenburg | |
| District of Middle Mecklenburg | Rostock district | Bad Doberan district |
| District of Güstrow-Bad Doberan | District of Güstrow | |
| District of Northern Pomerania | Stralsund Baltic Sea District | District of Northern Pomerania, Stralsund |
| District of Western Pomerania-Rügen | Rügen district | |
| Northwest Mecklenburg District | Northwest Mecklenburg District | Northwest Mecklenburg District |
| Baltic Sea District Wismar | Wismar | |
| District of South Western Pomerania | District of Vorpommern-Greifswald | Demmin district, Ostvorpommern district, Greifswald |
| Ostsee-Haffkreis Vorpommern | Uecker-Randow district | |
| Southwest Mecklenburg district | Ludwigslust-Parchim district | Ludwigslust district |
| Parchim-Ludwigslust district | Parchim district |
Selected district names
On September 7, 2011, the six new districts were given the names that were determined by votes on September 4. Now there are only two independent cities:
| Provisional district names and independent cities |
Selected district names and independent cities |
Administrative offices | Approval in% | Residents (December 31, 2010) | Area in km² |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| District of Mecklenburg Lake District | District of Mecklenburg Lake District | Neubrandenburg | 83.5 | 272.922 | 5,468 |
| District of Middle Mecklenburg | Rostock district | Guestrow | 55.5 | 216.189 | 3,421 |
| District of Northern Pomerania | District of Western Pomerania-Rügen | Hanseatic city of Stralsund | 51.0 | 230.743 | 3,188 |
| Northwest Mecklenburg District | Northwest Mecklenburg District | Hanseatic city of Wismar | 62.7 | 160.423 | 2.117 |
| District of South Western Pomerania | District of Vorpommern-Greifswald | Hanseatic City of Greifswald | 63.3 | 245.733 | 3,927 |
| Southwest Mecklenburg district | Ludwigslust-Parchim district | Parchim | 55.5 | 218,362 | 4,750 |
| Hanseatic City of Rostock | Hanseatic City of Rostock | - | - | 202.735 | 181 |
| State capital Schwerin | State capital Schwerin | - | - | 95,220 | 131 |
Web links
- State Returning Officer Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
- Topic page of the state center for political education Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
- ndr.de: Dossier on local elections
Individual evidence
- ^ The State Returning Officer Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , accessed on September 5, 2011
- ↑ State and Local Election Act (PDF; 187 kB)
- ^ Suggested names for naming the new districts in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
- ↑ Info from the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania: District names ( Memento of the original from August 31, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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