Local elections in North Rhine-Westphalia 2009 / Results L – P

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

Leverkusen

The CDU is the strongest party in Leverkusen in the 14th electoral term. Nevertheless, the SPD provides the mayor. In second place of the parties in the council is the SPD. The Leverkusen e. V. is the third strongest political force. It has set itself the goal of gaining up to 30% of the vote in 2009 and catching up with second place.

The personal election alliance Livable, Active, Incorruptible, Progressive for Leverkusen LAUF , which is supported by the Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany MLPD , is against Agenda 2010. It is also involved in the Monday demonstrations in Leverkusen, which, however, have only a very limited audience and are in the Press hardly noticed. LAUF appoints a city council and runs again for election.

Lord Mayor

Incumbent Ernst Küchler (SPD), Reinhard Buchhorn (CDU), Hans-Erich Müller (citizens' list), Roswitha Arnold (Greens), Hiltrud Meier Engelen (FDP), Alfred Mertgen (OWG-UWG)

City council

At the end of the 14th electoral term, the city council looks different from what the voters ordered on September 26, 2004. A council member of the SPD switched to the Independent Voting Community UWG . Two council members of Pro Opladen (OP) left this in 2007 and founded the Opladener voter community - Independent voter community OWG-UWG with the UWG . A council member of the Bürgerliste Leverkusen eV (BL) also switched to the OWG-UWG.

City Council Leverkusen
Electoral term	CDU	SPD	BL	Green	FDP	OP	UWG	RUN	advice
XIII: 2004-2009	24	18/17	8/7	6th	4th	4/2	1/5	1	66
XIV: 2009-2014									66

Circle lip

District council
Electoral term	CDU	SPD	Green	FDP	WG1	District council
2004-2009	25th	22nd	6th	4th	3	60
2009-2014

Märkischer Kreis

District council
Electoral term	CDU	SPD	Green	FDP	REP	NPD	UWG	left	District council
2004-2009	32	22nd	6th	5	1	1	5	-	72
2009-2014	26th	19th	6th	7th	-	1	4th	3	66

The Republicans did not run in this election.

The following district administration candidates were allowed to vote:

• Thomas Gemke (CDU)
• Michael Rolland (SPD)
• Axel Hoffmann (FDP)
• Renate Oehmke (Greens)
• Karsten Renfordt (The Left)
• Sascha Hellerfort (NPD)
• Berthold Wagner (independent)

The UWG has not nominated its own candidate, but has signaled the support of Michael Rolland (SPD). Was elected Thomas Gemke with a vote share of 43.4 per cent before Michael Rolland (32.2 percent).

Mettmann district

District assembly of the Mettmann district: share of the vote and seats
Electoral term									Others		District council
	Share of the vote
VIII: 1975-1984	46.8		44.6		-		8.6		-		k. A.
IX: 1979-1984	47.4		43.7		-		7.9		1.0		k. A.
X: 1984-1989	44.3		38.8		9.9		6.3		0.7		k. A.
XI: 1989-1994	40.1		40.0		8.9		8.4		2.6		k. A.
	Voter share and seats
XII: 1994-1999	42.9	30th	38.8	27	10.6	7th	5.3	3	2.4	0	67
XIII: 1999-2004	51.9	34	31.6	21st	6.9	5	5.9	4th	3.7	2	66
XIV: 2004-2009	46.3	33	29.3	21st	10.1	7th	7.8	6th	6.3	5	72
XV: 2009-2014	41.5	33	23.3	19th	13.4	11	10.6	9	11.1	8th	80

Minden-Lübbecke district

District council
Electoral term	CDU	SPD	Green	FDP	WG1	left	REP	WG2	District council
2004-2009	26th	21st	5	4th	2	-	2	-	60
2009-2014	23	20th	6th	5	2	2	1	1	60

Mönchengladbach

City Councilor of Mönchengladbach

The five parties CDU , SPD , Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen , FDP and NPD and the two voter groups Free Voting Community in Mönchengladbach (FWG) and the LiLO-Linke Liste Mönchengladbach (Lilo) are represented in the XIV term of office of the Mönchengladbach City Council . The NPD reached here after the Ennepe-Ruhr district (2.6%) their nation's second-best result.

City council of Mönchengladbach: share of the vote and seats
Electoral term									FWG		LILO				advice
XII: 1994-1999	43.5	31	37.3	26th	10.3	7th	5.1	3							67
XIII: 1999-2004	48.8	33	28.4	20th	7.7	5	5.9	4th	8.9	6th					68
XIV: 2004-2009	43.1	33	26.8	20th	9.4	7th	8.4	7th	6.8	5	3.0	2	2.5	2	76
XV: 2009-2014

Source: Regional Returning Officer, City of Mönchengladbach

Lord Mayor of Mönchengladbach

Five candidates from the SPD , CDU , FWG , FDP and the Greens are standing for the election of the Lord Mayor, all of whom, apart from Norbert Post from the CDU, have already run for a Mayor election in Mönchengladbach. In the 2004 election, Norbert Bude won in the second ballot after the CDU candidate Stefan Wimmers had led with 8.9 percentage points in the first ballot. Erich Oberem from the FWG did not stand for election in 2004, was in 3rd place in 1999. Anno Jansen-Winkeln from the FDP reached 3rd place in 2004 with a result that was behind that of Oberem in 1999. Karl Sasserath from Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen reached 4th place in 2004.

Party • WG	1999					2004					2009
	candidate	12.09.		26.09.		candidate	26.09.		10.10		candidate	08/30
		number	%	number	%		number	%	number	%		number	%
	elective.	206.236	100.0	205.940	100.0	elective.	206,541	100.0	206,446	100.0	elective.		100.0
	Voters	92,274	44.7	62,235	30.2	Voters	93,356	45.2	64,520	31.3	Voters
	valid St.	91,213	100.0	61,825	100.0	valid St.	91,861	100.0	64.084	100.0	valid St.		100.0
CDU	Bartsch	43,942	48.2	37,656	60.9	Wimmers	39,985	43.5	30,788	48.0	post Office
SPD	shepherd	26,452	29.0	24,169	39.1	Booth	31,828	34.6	33,296	52.0	Booth
FWG	Upper	10,598	11.6			-	-	-			Upper
FDP	Kalthöfer	5,079	5.6			Jansen-W.	8.102	8.8			Jansen-W.
Green	Siemes	5,142	5.6			Sasserath	7,076	7.7			Sasserath
NPD						Geilenkir.	2,171	2.4
-						wagner	1,133	1.2
-						Stevens	1,566	1.7

Source: Regional Returning Officer, press article

Mülheim an der Ruhr

→ See local elections in Mülheim an der Ruhr 2009

Muenster

Lord Mayor

Preliminary final result:

• 58.3% turnout
• 221,698 eligible voters
• 127,413 valid votes

Markus Lewe (CDU) won with 49.5% of the vote, just ahead of Wolfgang Heuer (SPD) with 45.4%. The remaining four applicants for the mayor's office (UWG-MS, ödp, individual applicant Seemann and Social List - DKP) received between 0.7 and 2.3% of the votes.

City council

Preliminary final result:

• 58.3% turnout
• 221,698 eligible voters
• 128,293 valid votes
• 243 constituencies

Council of the independent city of Münster: share of voters and seats since 1994
Electoral term	CDU		SPD		Green		FDP		Left 1		ödp		UWG-MS		Pirates		advice
XII: 1994-1999	44.1	32	32.7	23	16.7	12	4.2	-			0.8	-					67
XIII: 1999-2004	54.0	36	26.2	17th	11.2	8th	5.0	3	1.4	1	0.4	-	1.7	1			66
XIV: 2004-2009	42.7	31	25.3	19th	19.4	14th	7.9	6th	1.5	1	0.9	1	2.3	2			74
XV: 2009-2014	39.2	31	25.0	20th	19.4	16	9.0	7th	3.4	3	0.9	1	1.7	1	1.6	1	80

¹ 1999–2009: PDS , from 2009: Die Linke

Oberbergischer Kreis

In the Oberbergischer Kreis , the FDP was only 9 votes behind the Greens in 2004, which cost them a mandate.

Two groups of voters are active at the district level: the Independent Community of Voters Oberbergischer Kreis (UWG) and the Free Community of Voters Oberbergischer Kreis (FWO) , which have been able to expand their position since 1994 (1994 other: 3.7%) .

District council of the Oberbergischer Kreis: share of the vote and seats since 1994
Electoral term	CDU		SPD		Green		FDP		UWG		FWO		District council
XII: 1994-1999	45.4	27	37.8	23	8.6	5	4.4	-	2.8	-			55
XIII: 1999-2004	52.6	29	31.7	17th	5.7	3	5.6	3	3.7	2			54
XIV: 2004-2009	48.6	27	30.1	17th	8.0	5	8.0	4th	4.1	2	1.2	1	56
XV: 2009-2014

Oberhausen

In the independent city of Oberhausen , the SPD achieved an absolute majority of votes in 2004, but only half of the seats in the city council. Only the five Bundestag parties are represented in the Council. In 1994 the ödp reached 1.2% of the votes, but did not take part in 1999.

Oberhausen City Council: Share of voters and seats since 1994
Electoral term	CDU		SPD		Green		FDP		PDS		advice
XII: 1994-1999	29.4	18th	57.7	37	6.9	4th	2.8	-			59
XIII: 1999-2004	37.9	22nd	50.1	29	5.9	3	3.0	2	3.2	2	58
XIV: 2004-2009	32.0	19th	50.4	29	7.6	4th	4.1	2	6.0	4th	58
XV: 2009-2014
the PDS or Left Council faction is called the Left List Fraction in Oberhausen

District of Olpe

In the Olpe district , the CDU has held the absolute majority for years. Groups of voters do not play a role in the district.

District council of the district of Olpe: share of voters and seats since 1994
Electoral term	CDU		SPD		Green		FDP		District council
XIV: 1994-1999	58.2	30th	32.4	16	6.9	3	1.8	-	49
XIII: 1999-2004	67.9	33	26.0	12	4.4	2	1.7	1	48
XIV: 2004-2009	62.1	30th	26.1	13	6.7	3	5.1	2	48
XV: 2009-2014

Paderborn district

The Paderborn district has been a stronghold of the Catholic Conservatives since the introduction of democratic elections. The CDU has dominated since 1945 and has always received an absolute majority of the seats at district level and in all cities and municipalities. For the first time, in the 2004 local elections in the Altenbeken community, the absolute CDU majority in a local parliament in the district was broken. The SPD is very weakly represented in the Paderborn district. In the second largest city of Delbrück, it regularly only comes to single-digit percentages. The Greens are relatively strong, but not represented in all cities and municipalities. The FDP is rather weak, but has been able to reduce its deficit in recent years. The Left is running for the first time in the local elections in the Paderborn district in 2009. She has announced candidacies for the district council and the city council of Bad Lippspringe. In the city of Paderborn, she decided not to run independently in favor of the Democratic Initiative Paderborn (DIP). The left's top candidate for the district council is the former district chairman, former member of the Bundestag and two-time district administrator candidate for the SPD, Gerd Bauer . In addition to a few other groups of voters who are only running for candidates in one city or municipality, the FBI has a district-wide representation. The FBI in the Paderborn district is networked nationwide under the FBI umbrella . Under this name she ran nationwide in the 2009 European elections. There is no cooperation in the district election between the FBI and other local voter groups.

Electoral term	CDU		SPD		Green		FDP		FBI		The left		District council
XII: 1994-1999	54.6	33	28.5	17th	9.2	5	4.1	-	3.5	-	-	-	55
XIII: 1999-2004	61.7	33	23.4	13	6.3	4th	4.1	2	4.4	2	-	-	54
XIV: 2004-2009	59.4	32	21.1	11	8.8	5	6.6	4th	4.1	2	-	-	54
XV: 2009-2014	52.59	28	18.33	10	11.15	6th	10.83	6th	3.61	2	3.48	2	54

District Administrator of the Paderborn District

In the district elections, as in the district elections, the CDU dominates. In the two previous elections, two candidates each with a CDU party membership ran. In both elections, the two CDU candidates came in first and second. The SPD has not yet had a chance of at least getting into the runoff election.

In 1999 the incumbent senior district director Dr. Rudolf Wansleben against the CDU candidate, the incumbent honorary District Administrator Reinold pieces. After Wansleben was drawn into the runoff against pieces in the first round, he was elected district administrator with 63%.

In 2004, the incumbent District Administrator Wansleben was first nominated for re-election by the CDU. After repeated disputes between Wansleben and his party, the CDU withdrew his candidacy and nominated Manfred Müller, the mayor of Lichtenau. This then decided the district council election for himself in the first ballot. Wansleben is now again working very successfully as a lawyer nationwide.

For this year's district election, the CDU again nominated the incumbent district administrator Manfred Müller. This is also supported by the FDP. The SPD nominated its parliamentary group leader in the district assembly Wolfgang Weigel. The Free Citizens Initiative (FBI) nominated Hans Tegethoff. There are no other candidacies.

Political party	1999			2004		2009
	candidate	12.09.	26.09.	candidate	29.09.	candidate	08/30
CDU	Pieces	48.6	37.0	Müller	57.5	Müller
Independent (CDU dissertation)	Wansleben	24.4	63.0	Wansleben	17.7	-
SPD	Farmer	19.1	-	Farmer	14.6	Weigel
Green	Oak seer	3.8	-	Probst	7.2	-
FBI	Ostermann	2.4	-	Ostermann	3.0	Tegethoff
FDP	Schultz-Tornau	1.7	-	-		(see CDU)

City and local councils

The Paderborn district has 10 cities and municipalities belonging to the district.

As in the district council, the CDU dominates in all city and local councils. The only exception is the local council in Altenbeken, where there was a tie between the SPD-Greens on the one hand and the CDU-FDP on the other. However, this stalemate was postponed further to the detriment of the CDU by the resignation of two CDU council members who founded the Altenbekener Bürger-Allianz (ABA) and a joint ABA-FDP faction. Nonetheless, the SPD provides the mayor in Altenbeken. The mayor of Bad Lippspringe ran as an independent candidate, but was a long-term SPD member until his candidacy. The chairman of the city association of the CDU even called him "CDU mayor" at an election campaign event.

In addition to the CDU, SPD, Greens and FDP, various groups of voters are represented. Particularly noteworthy are the Green Alternative Citizens' Initiative Delbrück (GABI) and Free Voting Community Borchen (FWB), which is closely related to the Greens, the Democratic Initiative Paderborn (DIP), which is close to the party, and the Free Citizens Initiative (FBI), which is now part of the nationwide which was founded in Paderborn and is now also represented in the Salzkotten city council.

The left will run for the first time in the 2009 local elections in the Paderborn district. There will also be new candidacies from the Free Voting Association Bad Lippspringe (FWG) and the Altenbekener Bürger-Allianz (ABA). Both groups are positioned in the middle class. On the other hand, the Independent Voting Association Salzkotten decided to dissolve after 20 years in the council (founded as an FDP city association in 1989, then split from the FDP in 1995).

In 5 of the 10 municipalities, the office holders no longer stand for election. In addition to the two independents Willi Schmidt (Bad Lippspringe) and Heinrich Schwarzenberg (Borchen), these are the CDU mayors Robert Oelsmeier (Delbrück), Wolfgang Runge (Büren) and Karl-Heinz Wange (Lichtenau). The mayors Winfried Menne (Bad Wünnenberg, CDU) and Michael Berens (Hövelhof, CDU), on the other hand, will most likely be re-elected as no opposing candidates have been nominated. The same applies to the CDU candidate Dieter Merschjohann in Lichtenau. The largest selection, however, have the voters in Borchen and Paderborn, who can each choose between 5 candidates. The voters in Bad Lippspringe can choose between 4 candidates. The CDU candidate there attracted attention with a dirty campaign style when he registered the Internet domain with the name of a competitor and redirected it to his own homepage.

Composition of the city and community councils in the Paderborn district
XIV. Term of office 2004–2009
local community	mayor		CDU	SPD	Green	FDP	The left	FBI	Others	advice
Altenbeken	Hans Jürgen Wessels	SPD	13 11	12 12	2	1	-	-	- 2 1	28
Bad Lippspringe	Willi Schmidt	Independently	16	7th	4th	5	-	-	-	32
Bad Wünnenberg	Winfried Menne	CDU	22nd	8th	-	2	-	-	-	32
Borchen	Heinrich Schwarzenberg	Independently	16	8th	2 2	-	-	-	2 3	28
Büren	Wolfgang Runge	CDU	23	11	-	4th	-	-	-	38
Delbruck	Robert Oelsmeier	CDU	27	5 4	3 4	3	-	-	- 1 5	38
Hövelhof	Michael Berens	CDU	24	9	-	1	-	-	-	34
Lichtenau	Karl-Heinz Wange	CDU	21st	7th	2	2	-	-	-	32
Paderborn	Heinz Paus	CDU	30th	13	6th	4 3	2 6	3	- 1 5	58
Salzkotten	Michael Dreier	CDU	22nd	9	2	2	-	1	2 7	38
total			214	89	21st	24	2	4th	4th	358
XV. Term of office 2009–2014
Altenbeken
Bad Lippspringe
Bad Wünnenberg
Borchen
Büren
Delbruck
Hövelhof
Lichtenau
Paderborn
Salzkotten
total

¹ Altenbeken Citizens' Alliance (ABA)
² Borchen Free Voting Association (FWB)
³ Borchen Citizens' Union (BBU)
⁴ Green Alternative Citizens' Initiative Delbrück (GABI)
⁵ Non-party
⁶ Democratic Initiative Paderborn (DIP)
⁷ Independent Voting Community Salzkotten (UWS)

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rheindorf: Ex-Comrade Schoofs warns of danger in Cologne  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , January 15, 2009, accessed January 16, 2009  
2. ↑ Result of the municipal elections in 2009 in the Märkischer Kreis  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Results of all elections between 1975 and 2004 for the Mettmann district (North Rhine-Westphalia) ( Memento of the original from May 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 71 kB) 
4. ↑ Results of the district elections in 1994 and 1999 (share of the vote and seats)
5. ^ City of Münster - local election results 2009: election of the mayor
6. ^ City of Münster - local election results 2009: Election of the council
7. ↑ With the resignation of two CDU council members who founded the Altenbekener Bürger-Allianz (ABA), the majority there shifted further to the detriment of the CDU.
8. ↑ salzkotten.tv  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. then link "Reports previous week", see report "UWS dissolved"