Local elections in North Rhine-Westphalia 2009 / Results D – G

This article contains the results of the local elections in North Rhine-Westphalia in 2009 the counties and cities with the initial letter D to G .

Dortmund

→ see also: Facts and figures on politics in Dortmund

Dortmund is a social democratic stronghold. The SPD has ruled uninterruptedly since the Second World War, in coalition with the Greens since the 2004 election. There are several groups to the left of the SPD. The far right DVU is represented on the city council, while the Republicans have not been elected to the council for 20 years.

Dortmund City Council

Current seating arrangements in the city council

On December 31, 2007, 586,909 people lived in Dortmund. Thus the city council will have at least 82 members.

The Dortmund SPD lost an absolute majority in the council in 1999. From 1999 to 2004 the SPD ruled with changing majorities. The SPD and the Greens have been ruling in a coalition since 2004.

Since 2004, nine parties and groups of voters have been represented in the council. FDP and citizen list form a group of factions. Two groups are represented on the left of the SPD: Die Linke and Linke Bündnis Dortmund , which also form a parliamentary group (“Die Linke in the Council”). Because of the transfer of a council member from the DVU to the NPD, the DVU parliamentary group broke up two months before the election and is now faced with the reclamation of pre-paid parliamentary group contributions by the city administration. The offensive D or FBI council member is non-attached.

Offensive D and the urban green voters' association are no longer running for the 2009 city council elections. Instead, in addition to those already represented in the council (SPD, CDU, Greens, FDP, Die Linke., Linkes Bündnis, BürgerListe, FBI, DVU, NPD), the “Dortmund Independent Voting Community 2009” (DUW 2009), “Aufbruch Grundeinkommen - Hartz IV must go ”(Hartz IV must go) and a single applicant.

Dortmund City Council: Voter share and seats since 1994
Electoral term																								advice
		%		%		%		%		%		%		%		%		%		%		%
XII	1994-1999	51.4	46	30.4	27	12.2	10	2.1	-			1.6	-					0.0	-					83
XIII	1999-2004 (2004)	41.0	34	41.7	34	9.9	8th	1.8	1			2.6	2 1	2.0	2					1.0	1	-	- 1	82
XIV	2004–2009 (2009)	41.3	36	32.7	29 28	11.5	10	3.8	3 5	2.8	2 3	3.1	3 1	3.1	3 2	-	- 1	-	- 1	0.8	1	0.7	1 -	88
XV	2009-2014	37.8	37	28.7	28	15.4	15th	6.3	6th	5.5	5	2.0	2	1.5	1	1.1	1	0.9	1	0.6	-			96
In 2004 the left was still called PDS-OL. Election period 1999–2004: A RM (council member) switched from the citizens' list to the Schill Party or Offensive D. Election period 2004–2009: A RM switched from the CDU to the FDP. A RM switched from the citizens' list to the FDP. A RM switched from the citizens' list to Die Linke. One RM switched from DVU to NPD. An RM switched from Offensive D and founded the FBI.

Polls for the 2009 council elections in Dortmund

The following surveys were published from the beginning of 2008:

		width = "80" |	width = "80" |	width = "80" |	width = "80" |	width = "80" | Others
Start Institute November 2007	41%	35%	12%	3%	5% 1	4%
Forsa April 2008	36%	33%	13%	6%	6%	6%
Forsa June 2008	34%	34%	14%	6%	6%	6%
Forsa September 2008	36%	32%	14%	7%	7%	4%
Forsa January 2009	35%	35%	16%	6%	5%	3%
Forsa April 2009	37%	34%	14%	6%	4%	3%
Chair of Marketing & Trade Uni Duisburg-Essen June 2009	44%	24%	10%	10%	8th %	Citizen List 2%, FBI 2%
Start Institute June 2009	38%	32%	11%	7%	5%	7%
Forsa June 2009	39%	28%	12%	7%	6%	8th %
Chair of Marketing & Trade at the University of Duisburg-Essen, August 2009	49%	26%	7%	7%	3%	8th %
Infratest Dimap August 2009	36%	32%	12%	7%	7%	6%
Start Institute August 2009	41%	30%	11%	6%	5%	7%

¹ Due to the questions posed in the surveys, it is not possible to clearly differentiate whether the figures for the party Die Linke. or for the parliamentary group "Die Linken im Rat" (incl. "Left Alliance"). Consequently, the values ​​of the Left Alliance can optionally be entered in the column Die Linke. or appear in the "Other" column. The Start Institute asked about the parliamentary group, Forsa about the party. It is doubtful whether the respondents were always aware of this.

In an initial survey of OB-dial (Forsa January 2009), the following values were determined: Sierau (SPD) 29%, Pohlmann (CDU + FDP) 26%, Kruger (Green) 10%, None of which 35%
in the second survey OB election (Forsa April 2009) the following values ​​were determined: Sierau (SPD) 32%, Pohlmann (CDU + FDP) 27%, Krüger (Greens) 7%, none of them 34%
In the third survey on OB election (Uni Duisburg-Essen June 2009) the following values ​​were determined: Sierau (SPD) 43%, Pohlmann (CDU + FDP) 33%, Krüger (Greens) 12%, Manz (Left) 7%, Zielazny (citizens' list) 3%, Weikert ( FBI) 2%.
In the fourth survey for the election of the OB (Start-Institut June 2009) the following values ​​were determined: Sierau (SPD) 34%, Pohlmann (CDU + FDP) 26%, Krüger (Greens) 5%, other candidates 4%, undecided 31 %.
The following values ​​were determined in the fifth poll for the OB election (Forsa June 2009): Sierau (SPD) 32%, Pohlmann (CDU + FDP) 29%, Krüger (Greens) 6%, other candidates 6%, none of them 27% .
In the sixth survey on the OB election (Uni Duisburg-Essen August 2009) the following values ​​were determined: Sierau (SPD) 49%, Pohlmann (CDU + FDP) 33%, Krüger (Greens) 6%, Manz (Left) 3% , Other candidates 3%, Undecided 6%.
In the seventh poll for the OB election (Infratest Dimap August 2009) the following values ​​were determined: Sierau (SPD) 44%, Pohlmann (CDU + FDP) 34%, Krüger (Greens) 5%, Manz (Linke) 5%, Zielazny (BürgerListe) 5%, Weikert (FBI) 3%, other candidates 4%.
In the eighth poll for the OB election (Start Institute August 2009) the following values ​​were determined: Sierau (SPD) 48%, Pohlmann (CDU + FDP) 38%, Krüger (Greens) 5%, other candidates 9%.

In the European elections on June 7, 2009, all parties running for local elections also ran. Therefore, there is at least some comparability. In contrast to the polls listed above, these are real votes. The result for Dortmund: SPD 33.4%, CDU 27.3%, Greens 14.8%, FDP 9.9%, Die Linke 6.6%, DVU 0.8%, FW (including Dortmund citizens' list) 0 , 3%, FBI 0.3%, DKP (incl. Left Alliance Dortmund) 0.1%. Other parties received 6.5%.

In June 2009 Forsa published a "model calculation" between the European election results and the local election results. According to this model calculation, a comparison of the 2009 European election results with the 2004 European and local election results (by calculating the change in voter mobilization among the individual parties) would result in the following figures: SPD 42.3%, CDU 27.3%, Greens 11.2 %, FDP 6.5%, Die Linke 5.1%, others 7.6%.

Lord Mayor of Dortmund

Candidates

The SPD nominated the previous city director Ullrich Sierau.

The CDU and the FDP nominated Joachim Pohlmann, who was not a party to the party, as their joint candidate for the office of Lord Mayor.

The Greens nominated their group leader in the Council, Mario Krüger, as their candidate.

The citizens' list for Dortmund nominated the authorized signatory and works council chairwoman Petra Zielazny as its candidate.

The Left has elected the party's deputy state spokesman and district representative from the north of the city center, Helmut Manz, as its candidate for the mayor. He is the only candidate who ran for the office of Lord Mayor five years ago.

The newly founded Free Citizens Initiative (FBI) has chosen the entrepreneur Norbert Weikert as an OB candidate.

The NPD has elected the previous DVU council member Axel Thieme as its candidate for the mayor.

The DVU has elected council member and former parliamentary group leader Waldemar Stanko as its candidate for the mayor.

Andreas Blaschke is running as an independent.

Political party	1999			2004			2009
	candidate	12.09.	26.09.	candidate	29.09.	10.10.	candidate	08/30
CDU	Geers	45.6	47.8	Hengstenberg	33.4	37.5	Pohlmann	36.2
SPD	Langemeyer	42.2	52.2	Langemeyer	48.1	62.5	Sierau	45.5
Green	Moor	7.6	-, -	Snail burger	7.7	-, -	Kruger	9.0
Citizen List	Pohlschröder	1.8	-, -	Fisherman	2.1	-, -	Zielazny	1.3
DVU	Stanko	1.3	-, -	Stanko	2.6	-, -	Stanko	1.2
	Mödder	0.8	-, -	-			Blaschke	1.0
FDP	Stratenwerth	0.7	-, -	Littmann	2.7	-, -	(see CDU)
left	-			Manz	2.3	-, -	Manz	4.5
Offensive D	-			Münch	0.6	-, -	-
Left alliance	-			Sander	0.6	-, -	-
FBI	-						Weikert	0.7
NPD	-						Thieme	0.7
In 2004 the left was still called PDS-OL

District Mayor of Dortmund 2004–2009

District offices

Although an independent city should have a maximum of ten boroughs, Dortmund has twelve. This is possible because the three inner city districts formally form a city district, but are in fact treated as three districts. All district offices have 19 members.

During the 14th electoral period, the SPD was the strongest party in 10 districts, the CDU in two. The SPD provides eleven district mayors and the CDU one, with the Greens optionally serving as the SPD or CDU as coalition partners. Only in Hörde, the SPD Greens alone do not have a majority and are tolerated by the representative of the left. In one district, the Greens are the first deputy, in three districts they are the second deputy. Represented parties and voter groups are: SPD, CDU, Greens, FDP, DVU, Die Linke and the citizens' list for Dortmund.

(As of January 2009)

Composition of the district representatives of Dortmund
XIV. Term of office 2004–2009
Borough	District Mayor		SPD	CDU	Green	FDP	BL	DVU	left	FBI	BV
Downtown North District	Siegfried Böcker	SPD Greens	8th	4th	3	1	1	1	1	-	19th
City District Downtown East	Udo Dammer	SPD Greens	7th	7th	3	1	0	0	1	-	19th
Downtown West District	Hans-Ulrich Kruger	SPD Greens	7th	5	4th	1	0	1	1	-	19th
Eving borough	Helmut Adden	SPD Greens	9	5	2	1	1	1	-	-	19th
Scharnhorst district	Heinz Pasterny	SPD Greens	9	6th	1	1	0	1	1	-	19th
Brackel borough	Karl-Heinz Czierpka	SPD Greens	8th	6th	2	1	1	1	0	-	19th
Aplerbeck district	Sascha Mader	CDU Greens	7th	7th	3	1	1	0	0	-	19th
District of Hörde	Manfred Renno	SPD Greens	7th	7th	2	1	1	0	1	-	19th
Hombruch district	Ulrich Steinmann	SPD Greens	7th	8th	3	1	0	0	0	-	19th
Lütgendortmund district	Heiko Brankamp	SPD Greens	9	5	2	1	1	1	0	-	19th
Huckarde district	Harald Hudy	SPD Greens	9	5	2	1	0	1	1	-	19th
Mengede district	Bruno Wisbar	SPD Greens	8th	6th	2	1	0	1	1	-	19th
total			95	71	29	12	6th	8th	7th	-	228
XV. Term of office 2009–2014
Downtown North District	Siegfried Böcker	SPD left	8th	4th	3	1	1	0	2	-	19th
City District Downtown East	Udo Dammer	SPD Greens	6th	6th	4th	2	0	0	1	-	19th
Downtown West District	Friedrich A. Roesner	Green CDU	7th	5	5	1	0	0	1	-	19th
Eving borough	Helmut Adden	SPD Greens	8th	4th	2	1	1	1	1	1	19th
Scharnhorst district	Rudiger Schmidt	SPD Greens	10	5	2	1	0	0	1	-	19th
Brackel borough	Karl-Heinz Czierpka	SPD Greens	8th	6th	3	1	0	0	1	-	19th
Aplerbeck district	Sascha Mader	CDU Greens	6th	6th	4th	1	1	0	1	-	19th
District of Hörde	Manfred Renno	SPD-CDU	7th	6th	3	1	1	0	1	-	19th
Hombruch district	Hans Semmler	CDU-SPD	6th	8th	3	1	0	0	1	-	19th
Lütgendortmund district	Heiko Brankamp	SPD Greens	8th	5	3	1	1	0	1	-	19th
Huckarde district	Harald Hudy	SPD Greens	9	5	2	1	0	1	1	-	19th
Mengede district	Bruno Wisbar	SPD Greens	9	5	2	1	0	1	1	-	19th
total			92	65	36	13	5	3	13	1	228

Duisburg

→ See: Local election in Duisburg 2009

District of Düren

A total of 10 voter communities are active in the Düren district .

• Düren : Citizens for Düren (BfD); Europeans for Düren (EfD)
• Heimbach : Independent Voters' Association (UWV)
• Jülich : Independent community of voters - Jülich's non-partisan list (UWG-JÜL)
• Nideggen : The independents
• Aldenhoven : Free Voting Association (FWG); Independent Social Alternative (UsA)
• Langerwehe : Association of Free Citizens (VfB)
• Niederzier : Bürgergemeinschaft Niederzier (BG)
• Vettweiß : Citizens' Initiative Vettweiß (BI)

One of them, the Independent Voting Association Jülich's non-partisan list (UWG-JÜL) won a mandate in the district council in 2004. She was one of the supporters of the initiative “More Democracy in Voting” by Mehr Demokratie e. V.

For the local elections in 2009, the citizens' initiative Vettweiß , the UWV Heimbach , the independents from Nideggen, the Association of Free Citizens (VfB) in Langerwehe, the BG Niederzier , the BfD from Düren, the FWG from Aldenhoven and the UWG-JÜL from Jülich want to work together across the district compete and establish one yourself where there are no independent voter communities.

District Council Düren

During the XIV. Electoral term, one member each of the FDP and the PDS left their respective parliamentary groups and founded the Free List (FL) , which is not yet legitimized by elections.

The PDS is called Die Linke.

District Council Düren
Electoral term	CDU	SPD	Green	FDP	PDS	JUL	FL	UWG	NPD	advice
XIV: 2004-2009	28	16	4th	3 2	2 1	1	0 2			54
XV: 2009-2014	25th	15th	5	4th	2			2	1	54
JÜL: Independent community of voters Jülich's non-partisan list (UWG-JÜL) - FL: Free List (FL)

Düren District Administrator

Wolfgang Spelthahn (CDU) has been a full-time district administrator since 1999. In January 2009, the SPD sub-district of Düren elected Jens Bröker as its district administrator candidate.

District-dependent cities and communities in Düren

With 8.2% of the seats, the free voter groups are the third strongest political force in the city and local parliaments in the district.

Dusseldorf

The incumbent Lord Mayor Elbers received 59.7% of the vote in his election in August 2008.

Council of the City of Düsseldorf

The composition of the City Council of Düsseldorf changed significantly during the XIV term of office in 2009.

The SPD nominated its candidates on January 10, 2009. The CDU and the Greens held their party congresses on January 17, 2009.

Council of the State Capital Düsseldorf: Share of voters and seats since 1994
Electoral term	CDU		SPD		Green		FDP		left		REP		Gray ones		FW		advice
XII: 1994-1999	39.7	35	41.5	37	12.7	11	3.8	-	-	-	1.8	-	-	-	-	-	83
XIII: 1999-2004	49.4	40	35.2	29	7.1	6th	4.3	4th	2.3	2	1.5	1	-	-	-	-	82
XIV: 2004-2009	44.5	37	30.3	25th	12.3	10 9	6.2	5	2.9	2 3	1.7	1	1.0	1 0	1.0	1 2	82
XV: 2009-2014																	82

Lord Mayor

Composition of the district representatives 2004–2009

The Lord Mayor of Düsseldorf is Dirk Elbers . He was only elected to office for 6 years in a by-election in August 2008. Thus, due to the local election law of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, there will be no new mayor election on the occasion of the local elections in Düsseldorf.

The 10 district offices of Düsseldorf

The 10 boroughs of Düsseldorf are numbered from 01 to 10. The chairmen of the district councils are called district chairmen.

In 2004–2009 the CDU was the strongest parliamentary group in all districts. Of the 10 district heads, 7 are from the CDU . The SPD provides three district heads. Besides these two parties, only the FDP is represented in all BVs. The Greens, who are only represented in 9 districts, have more district representatives overall.

On the left side there is the party Die Linke (5) , Linke Liste Düsseldorf (1) , Linke Liste Flingern (1) and the German Communist Party (2)

The right margin was insignificant from 2004 to 2009: only the Republicans provided 1 district representative in Ward 10.

Ennepe-Ruhr district

The current district administrator is Arnim Brux (SPD) . The voter community Ennepe-Ruhr (WGEN) has been called Free Voters Ennepe-Ruhr (FW-EN) since 2008 . They want to benefit from the popularity of the Free Voters since the Bavarian election.

In August 2009 a total of eight parties were fighting for a seat in the district assembly: SPD, CDU, Greens, FDP, Free Voters Ennepe-Ruhr (FW-EN), Witten Citizens Community (WBG), Die Linke and NPD.

Ennepe-Ruhr district council
Electoral term	CDU		SPD		Green		FDP		The left		NPD		FW-EN		WBG		Day
XIV: 2004-2009		21st		23		7th		4th		1		1		2		1	60
XV: 2009-2014		28		22nd		9		6th		4th		1		1		1	72
WBG: Witten Citizens Community

Six candidates apply for the office of district administrator:

- Incumbent Arnim Brux from Schwelm (SPD)
- Annette Fischer (CDU)
from Gevelsberg - Jörg Obereiner from Breckerfeld (Greens)
- Ronald Mayer from Sprockhövel (FDP)
- Karlheinz Berger-Frerich from Gevelsberg (Die Linke)
- Thorsten Crämer from Schwelm ( NPD).

eat

See local elections in Essen 2009

District of Euskirchen

In the Euskirchen district , the CDU is the strongest party everywhere, sometimes with an absolute majority.

The SPD is in second place both in the district council and in the local councils. Since the district elections in 1999 it has been below 23%.

Although the FDP is the third largest party in the district, also in terms of the number of community representatives, its third place in several community parliaments is contested by the independent electoral association UWV and in one community council by the Junge Alternative (JA) and the independent Nettersheimer Alternative UNA . The UWV is fourth in the district and displaced the Greens in fifth. Political parties from the right or left are nowhere represented.

Euskirchen district council

Euskirchen district council
Electoral term							UWV				District council
XII: 1994-1999	47.7	26th	31.4	17th	5.3	2	4.7	-	8.1	4th	49
XIII: 1999-2004	58.7	28	22.9	11	6.4	3	5.3	3	5.6	3	48
XIV: 2004-2009	50.2	24	22.0	10	10.1	5	9.5	5	8.2	4th	48
XV: 2009-2014
Sources: The regional returning officer

District Administrator of the Euskirchen district

The first full-time district administrator elected in Euskirchen in 1999 was Günter Rosenke , who had previously been an honorary district administrator since 1994. The future Minister of the Interior of North Rhine-Westphalia , Ingo Wolf of the FDP , also stood for election in 1999 .

In 2009, the CDU withdrew its district administrator's trust and no longer made him a candidate for district administration. He then left the CDU and ran as an independent candidate.

Political party	1999		2004		2009
	candidate	12.09.	candidate	26.09.	candidate	08/30
CDU	Rosenke	63.1%	Rosenke	55.3%
SPD	Mosquito	21.1%	Schmitz	25.3%
FDP	wolf	11.0%	Reiff	9.3%	-	-, -
B90 / G	Danninger	4.9%	-	-, -
UWV	-	-, -	Troschke	10.0%
independent					Rosenke
Sources: The regional returning officer

City and local councils in the Euskirchen district

The CDU has been by far the strongest party in the municipal councils since 2004. The SPD is the second strongest party in only 10 local councils, and shares its place with the FDP in one local council.

The CDU provides 10 out of 11 mayors, one mayor is independent.

2004

Councils of the district-dependent cities and communities in the district of Euskirchen
Electoral term	Municipality ( LAU )	CDU	SPD	FDP	Green	UWV	rest	-	total
XIV: 2004-2009
	Bad Münstereifel	17th	9	4th	3	5			38
	Euskirchen	22nd	11	4th	4th	3			44
	Mechernich	15th	7th	2	2	6th			32
	Schleiden	12	5	5	3	2		1	28
	Zülpich	15th	10	2	1	2	4th		34
	Blankenheim	19th	4th	2	2	5			32
	Dahlem	14th	3	2	1				20th
	Hellenthal	16	7th	2	3	4th			32
	Call	15th	7th	7th	3				32
	Nettersheim	12	4th	1			3		20th
	Weilerswist	18th	9	4th	3				34
	total	175	76	35	25th	27	4/3/1		346
XV: 2009-2014:
	Bad Münstereifel
	Euskirchen
	Mechernich
	Schleiden
	Zülpich
	Blankenheim
	Dahlem
	Hellenthal
	Call
	Nettersheim
	Weilerswist

Gelsenkirchen

In Gelsenkirchen there are two groups to the left of the SPD: the PDS (2009: Die Linke.PDS) and the personal electoral alliance AUF Gelsenkirchen , which together have 6.2% of the vote and form a parliamentary group in the council.

To the right of the CDU, the right-wing populist pro-citizen party and the right-wing extremist Republicans entered the council in 2004. Both council parties no longer exist in 2009. Two members of the republicans formed in 2005 with the Councilor We Gelsenkirchen fraction Alliance 05 / We Gelsenkirchen . Both parts of the parliamentary group do not want to be classified either left or right.

The third councilor of the Republicans and the councilor of the pro-citizens party will be run as non -party by the city of Gelsenkirchen in 2009.

Gelsenkirchen City Council

Gelsenkirchen City Council: Voter share and seats since 2004
choice	SPD		CDU		Green		FDP		PDS / The Left		ON		REP		B05		WE		PBP		BIG		ProNRW		pl		advice
2004	41.9	28	35.4	23	6.8	4th	3.3	2	3.2	2	3.0	2	4.0	3 0	-, -	0 2	1.1	1	1.1	1 0	-, -	0	-, -	0	-, -	- 2nd	66
2009	50.4	34	22.5	15th	6.4	4th	4.5	3	5.5	4th	1.7	1	-, -	0	-, -	0	0.5	0	-, -	0	3.7	2	4.3	3	-, -	0	66
Strongest party highlighted in color. PDS and AUF formed a parliamentary group between 2004 and 2009 and WIR for Gelsenkirchen formed a parliamentary group with Alliance 05 at the same time , which consisted of two former republicans.

Gelsenkirchen Lord Mayor

In 1999, Oliver Wittke (CDU) became the first directly elected Lord Mayor of Gelsenkirchen. With 123 votes, he was ahead of Klaus Haertel from the SPD. There were only five candidates in total, including an independent one, Jürgen Schimanek, a former editor at UFA, WDR and taz-NRW.

In 2004, nine candidates ran for the mayoral elections. Although there were two applicants to the left of the SPD with the candidate from AUF Gelsenkirchen Monika Gärtner-Engel ( MLPD member) and Wolfgang Erich Meyer from the PDS , the challenger from the SPD Frank Baranowski won the incumbent Oliver Wittke with a 3,272 vote lead Beat the second ballot - even though it still led in the first.

In 2009 there was no more runoff. OB becomes whoever can unite the most votes. A runoff would not have been necessary anyway, since incumbent Frank Baranowski was able to unite the absolute majority of the votes.

Political party	1999					2004					2009
	candidate	12.09.		26.09.		candidate	29.09.		10.10.		candidate	08/30
		St.	%	St.	%		St.	%	St.	%		St.	%
CDU	Wittke	41,291	44.8	45,595	50.1	Wittke	41,853	42.9	40,909	48.1	Mortar	17,366	19.4%
SPD	Haertel	40,971	44.4	45,472	49.9	Baranowski	40,726	41.7	44.181	51.9	Baranowski	57,346	63.9%
Green	Sott	4,678	5.1			Matzkowski	3,378	3.5			Mihalic	2,083	2.3
FDP	Koelling	1.994	2.2			Schaperdot	2,275	2.3			Schaperdot	2,598	2.9
REP						Tusks	3,030	3.1
PDS / The Left						Meyer	2,346	2.4			Herrmann	3,263	3.6
ON						Gardener-En.	2,291	2.3			Gardener-En.	1,076	1.2
PBP						Rikowski	961	1.0
WE						Kowalewski	739	0.8			Kowalewski	226	0.3
independent	Schimanek	3,315	3.6
Pro NRW											Tusks	2,745	3.1
Sources: Regional Returning Officer www.wahlen.lds.nrw.de , CDU GE , OB.BA , FDP GE

District offices

In § 2 of the main statute of the city of Gelsenkirchen, the five districts center, north, east, south and west are defined. In all five district representations, the SPD is the strongest party with a total of 38 out of 95 district representatives and has four district mayors. The CDU is the second strongest party with 31, the PDS third strongest with 7 and the Greens with 6 fourth strongest party.

The FDP is represented in three district representatives with one member each.

district	District Mayor	SPD	CDU	Gre	FDP	PDS	B05 / WE	REP	pl
center	Detlef Preuss, SPD	8th	7th	1	1	1	1		19th
North	Thomas Klasmann, SPD	8th	7th	1	1	1	1		19th
east	Heinz Macziaßek, SPD	7th	6th	1	1	1		1		19th
south	Annelie Hensel, CDU	7th	6th	1		2		1	19th
west	Joachim Gill, SPD	8th	5	2		2		1	19th
total		38	31	6th	3	7th	2	1	2	95

Gütersloh district

In the Gütersloh district , the groups of voters have come together to form the District Association of Free and Independent Voting Communities in the Gütersloh District (FWG-UWG).

Gütersloh district council: share of voters and seats since 1994
Electoral term	CDU		SPD		Green		FDP		ödp		FWG-UWG
XII: 1994-1999	45.1	30th	34.5	22nd	9.7	6th	3.7	-	0.8	-	6.0	3	61
XIII: 1999-2004	54.4	33	27.6	16	6.6	4th	3.7	2	-	-	7.7	5	60
XIV: 2004-2009	49.2	29	27.1	16	8.5	5	5.9	4th	1.1	1	8.3	5	60
XV: 2009-2014

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.presseportal.de/pm/7899/1460230/wdr_westdeutscher_rundfunk
2. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from August 21, 2009 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. 
3. ↑ http://www.buergerforum-phoenix.de/de/dortmund-barometer/juni-2009/politische-stimmung-in-dortmund-im-juni-2009/index.html
4. ^ WR : The long search for the OB candidate , Dortmund, December 29, 2008, accessed January 8, 2009
5. ↑ WR : Citizen List enters the race with a woman , October 16, 2008, accessed on July 7, 2015
6. ↑ openPR: [UWG JÜL supports democracy-people's initiative - voters should be able to set up their "City Hall team"] (press release from: Independent voter community Jülich), March 30, 2007, accessed January 17, 2009
7. ^ Südkreis: Community of voters is now called Free Voters Ennepe-Ruhr. In: Westfälische Rundschau - www.derwesten.de. December 4, 2008, accessed on July 8, 2015 : “The district association of the electoral communities in the EN district decided at an extraordinary delegates' meeting in Schwelm to rename itself as part of an amendment to the statutes. "We are relying on the brand» Free Voters «, which is becoming more and more popular nationwide, " said Chairman Gerd Peters. " 
8. ↑ http://www.derwesten.de/staedte/witten/elf-parts-urrency-an-id491254.html
9. ↑ YES Young Alternative
10. ^ UNA Independent Nettersheim Alternative
11. ↑ ON / PDS

swell

• Local Election Act (KWahlG NRW)
• Municipal code for the state of North Rhine-Westphalia (GO NRW)
• Law on the Ruhr Regional Association (RVRG)
• Home Office
• The regional returning officer