Local elections in North Rhine-Westphalia 2009 / Results A – C

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

City region Aachen

District assembly / urban region assembly

See also : Results of the local elections in the Aachen city region

The Aachen law provides that the Aachen district and the district-free city of Aachen will form the new Aachen city ​​region on October 21, 2009 . In the local elections it is already Städteregionstag and Städteregionsrat selected. Despite belonging to the city region, the city of Aachen remains officially independent and thus continues to elect its own mayor in addition to the city council, city region council and city region day.

District Council / City Council since 2004
Body	Electoral term											UWG		REP		Single applicant		OJ		advice
District council	XIV: 2004-2009	43.9%	25th	32.5%	18th	8.2%	5	6.3%	3			5.7%	3	3.3%	2					56
City region day	XV: 2009-2014	38.22%	27	29.15%	21st	14.79%	11	8.64%	6th	4.44%	3	3.50%	3	1.15%	1	0.10%	-	0.02%	-	72
Sources: " Local elections; Issue 1: Results of previous elections in North Rhine-Westphalia - 2009. (PDF; 3.73 MB) Landesbetrieb Information und Technik Nordrhein-Westfalen , July 2009, p. 29 , accessed on December 30, 2014 .  City region Aachen - City region day election August 30, 2009 - Distribution of seats. In: Elections in the Aachen City Region - Local Election 2009 ( Memento from January 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). City region of Aachen , archived from the original on January 20, 2015 ; accessed on December 30, 2014 .  City region Aachen - city region day election 08/30/2009 - overall result. In: Elections in the Aachen City Region - Local Election 2009 ( Memento from January 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). City region of Aachen , archived from the original on January 20, 2015 ; accessed on December 30, 2014 .

District Administrator / City Region Council

Political party	09/26/2004 - District Administrator			08/30/2009 - City Region Council
	candidate	number	%	candidate	number	%
Eligible voters		237.372			429.311
Voters		138,246	58.24		234,557	54.64
invalid votes		4,324	3.13		6,272	2.67
valid votes		133,922	96.87		228.285	97.33
CDU	Carl Meulenbergh	67.276	50.24	Helmut Etschenberg	91.505	40.08
SPD	Josef Stiel	43,256	32.30	Uwe Zink	65,911	28.87
GREEN	Aggi Majewsky	8,417	6.29	Dr. Thomas Griese	33,459	14.66
FDP	Franz-Josef Zwingmann	6,903	5.15	Dr. Werner Arrow	18,982	8.32
THE LEFT				Uwe F. Löhr	10,448	4.58
UWG district Aachen	Dr. Renate Ortmanns-Lilge	8,070	6.03	Erich Spies	7,980	3.50
Sources: District of Aachen (ed.): Statistisches Jahrbuch 2004 . District representation elections. Aachen 2004, p. 36 . City region Aachen - Election of the city region council 08/30/2009 - Overall result ( Memento from December 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) In: Elections in the city region Aachen - Local elections 2009 ( Memento from January 21, 2015 in the Internet archive ) City region Aachen , accessed on December 30, 2014

Councils of the district-dependent cities and municipalities

Aachen

City council

See also : City council elections in Results of the local elections in Aachen

The city council in Aachen consisted of 74 members during the 15th electoral period, 32 of whom were elected in electoral districts. 28 direct mandates went to the CDU, 4 to the SPD.

187,618 voters were eligible to vote, of which 100,321 or 53.47% took part in the election. 1,585 votes (1.58%) were invalid.

Aachen City Council: Share of voters and city councilors since 2004
Electoral term													UWG		FWG		ELA		OJ		GGS		advice
XIV: 2004-2009	37.33%	22nd	32.01%	19th	17.59%	10	5.25%	3	2.44%	1		-	1.28%	1		-	0.53%	-	2.13%	1	0.78%	1	58
XV: 2009-2014	37.74%	28	26.44%	20th	19.04%	14th	7.50%	6th	4.13%	3	1.70%	1	1.57%	1	0.78%	1	0.73%	-	0.24%	-		-	74
Sources: " Election of the Council of the City of Aachen on September 26, 2004. (PDF; 144 kB) City of Aachen, p. 30 , accessed on December 21, 2014 .  City of Aachen - Council election August 30, 2009 - distribution of seats. In: Elections in Aachen - Local elections 2009 ( Memento from December 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ). City of Aachen, archived from the original on December 21, 2014 ; accessed on December 21, 2014 .  City of Aachen - Council election August 30, 2009 - overall result. In: Elections in Aachen - Local elections 2009 ( Memento from December 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ). City of Aachen, archived from the original on December 21, 2014 ; accessed on December 21, 2014 .

Aachen Lord Mayor

See also : Elections of the Lord Mayor in Results of the local elections in Aachen

The incumbent Mayor Jürgen Linden (SPD) did not stand for election in 2009.

Political party	September 26, 2004			8/30/2009
	candidate	number	%	candidate	number	%
Eligible voters		182,619			187.618
Voters		102,821	56.30		100,344	53.48
invalid votes		1,183	1.15		1,375	1.37
valid votes		101,638	98.85		98,969	98.63
CDU	Sabine Verheyen	29,084	28.62	Marcel Philipp	42,869	43.32
SPD	Dr. Jürgen Linden	62.092	61.09	Karl Schultheis	39,694	40.11
GREEN	Hilde Scheidt	5,001	4.92	Hilde Scheidt	9,475	9.57
FDP	Wilhelm Helg	2,050	2.02	Wilhelm Helg	3,800	3.84
UWG City of Aachen	Horst Schnitzler	827	0.81	Horst Schnitzler	1,528	1.54
Individual applicants				Jörg Polzin	964	0.97
FWG City of Aachen	Hans-Dieter Schaffrath	1,087	1.07	Hans-Dieter Schaffrath	639	0.65
Sources: Election of the Lord Mayor of Aachen on September 26, 2004. (PDF; 79.0 kB) City of Aachen, p. 14 , accessed on December 30, 2014 .   City of Aachen - Election of the Lord Mayor 30.08.2009 - Overall result ( Memento from December 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) In: Elections in Aachen - Local elections 2009 ( Memento from December 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) City of Aachen, accessed on 22nd December 2014

The seven Aachen district representatives

See also : Elections to the district representatives in results of the local elections in Aachen

Bielefeld

So a city with 323,000 inhabitants Bielefeld has a city council with at least 66 members, 33 of which are elected in electoral districts .

251,782 voters were entitled to vote, of which 133,105 or 52.9% took part in the election.

City council

In 2009, 5 parties and 2 groups of voters made it to the Bielefeld City Council.

Bielefeld City Council: Share of voters and city councils since 1994
Electoral term																	advice
XII: 1994-1999	36.2%	24	41.3%	28	12.5%	8th			2.5%	-	7.4%	5		-		-	65
XIII: 1999-2004	45.7%	32	31.3%	22nd	10.6%	8th			3.3%	2	6.3%	4th		-	2.8%	2	70
XIV: 2004-2009	36.8%	22nd	31.4%	19th	15.5%	9			4.3%	2	6.4%	4th	2.9%	2	2.7%	2	60
XIV: 2004-2009	33.2%	22nd	30.3%	20th	17.2%	11	5.7%	4th	5.6%	4th	5.2%	3	2.7%	2	s. left		66
Sources: The Regional Returning Officer , www.bielefeld.de

Lord Mayor

The incumbent Lord Mayor Eberhard David (CDU) did not stand for election for reasons of age.

Political party	candidate	08/30/2009
		number	%
Total eligible voters		251779	100.0
Voters		133,089	52.9
Valid votes		131,373	100.0
SPD	Pit Clausen	56,933	43.3
CDU	Bernd Landgraf	52,809	40.2
GREEN	Marianne Weiss	12,812	9.8
	Hans-Joachim Ludwig	4582	3.5
FDP	Harald Buschmann	4237	3.2

Borken district

The district of Borken had invested 5 million euros as a fixed-term deposit in the German subsidiary of the Lehman Brothers bank, which became insolvent in 2008 . The district was able to get back the investment amount, but it lost interest of over 100,000 euros.

Another central topic of the district policy is the planned expansion of the airfield Stadtlohn-Vreden (also: Flugplatz Wenningfeld or Stadtlohn-Wenningfeld) , against which the Greens in particular are vehemently. They want to, if necessary with the expansion of citizens' stop.

District council for the Borken district

In 2007, the former district chairman of the FDP Borken and district council member Jens Steiner from Heek was excluded from the party because of a financial scandal surrounding the district's JuLis. He joined the Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen party, but is not a member of their parliamentary group in the district council, but non-attached. Steiner did not want to resign from his district council mandate (he had entered the district council via the party list), as was demanded by the FDP, among others.

Another political force has been represented in the district council since 1989 with the Independent Voting Community of Borken District (UWG) .

The losers in the 2009 election were the CDU and the UWG. The FDP and the Greens grew and pushed the UWG from third to fifth position in favor of the electorate. The city party and the Left Party moved into the district assembly for the first time. The SPD hardly changed.

District council for the district of Borken: share of voters and mandates since 1994
Electoral term														City party		fl		Day
XII:	1994-1999	51.1	33	31.5	20th	2.7	-	7.0	4th	7.7	4th							64
XIII:	1999-2004	59.1	35	25.1	15th	2.9	2	4.9	3	8.0	5							60
XIV:	2004-2009	55.2	33	21.7	13	6.0	4 3	7.3	4th	9.8	6th					-	- 1	60
XV:	2009-2014	49.5	30th	21.9	13	8.8	5	8.2	5	8.2	5	2.5	1	0.9	1			60
Sources: The Regional Returning Officer, ea

District Administrator of the Borken district

The incumbent District Administrator Gerd Wiesmann (born 1943) will no longer run for reasons of age. The CDU district association Borken sends the mayor of Heek , Kai Zwicker, into the race, the SPD sub-district Borken the state parliament member Hans-Theodor Peschkes and Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen Kreisverband Borken the district parliamentary group chairman Gertrud Welper.

Election of the district administrator of the Borken district
Political party	1999		2004		2009
	candidate	12.09	candidate	26.09	candidate	08/30
CDU	Gerd Wiesmann	64.7	Gerd Wiesmann	66.1	Kai Zwicker	62.1
SPD	Roman Cebaus	23.8	Roman Cebaus	26.8	H.-T. Peschkes	26.2
Green	Siegfried Martsch	4.9	-	-, -	Gertrud Welper	11.7
FDP	-	-, -	Stefan Grüll	7.1
UWG	Werner Thesing	6.6	-	-, -

Councils of the district-dependent cities and municipalities

Bochum

In Bochum since 2004 ruled a red-green coalition. With the exception of one district representation, the Bochum SPD is the strongest party both in the council and in the other district representations.

To the left of the SPD, two groups are competing: the party Die Linke and the voter group Social List Bochum .

In the Wattenscheid district, the Wattenscheid Independent Voting Association (UWG) takes on the role of council and district representation.

Bochum City Council

Due to compensation mandates, the Bochum city council grew to 82 (instead of 66) members. This also explains why the SPD lost favor with the voters, but gained an additional mandate. The CDU and the two voter groups, Independent voter community Wattenscheid and Social List Bochum, have also lost .

Alliance 90 / The Greens were able to slightly expand their result.

The winners of the council elections are the FDP and Die Linke , both of whom were able to double the number of their city councilors from 3 to 6 (for the Left in comparison to the PDS). As a result, the left improved from sixth to fifth in the ranking of voter favor.

The NPD is new to the city council .

Bochum City Council: Voter share and city councils since 1994
Electoral term													Social List Bochum						advice
XII: 1994-1999	50.5%	38	29.4%	22nd	12.6%	9	1.7%	-			2.5%	-							69
XIII: 1999-2004	41.3%	27	40.5%	27	10.6%	7th	2.9%	2			4.5%	3							66
XIV: 2004-2009	40.9%	31	32.3%	25th	12.0%	9	4.3%	3			4.2%	3	2.8%	2			3.4%	3	76
XV: 2009-2014	38.9%	32	27.3%	22nd	12.4%	10	7.7%	6th	6.9%	6th	3.5%	3	2.1%	2	1.0%	1	s. LEFT		82

Mayor of Bochum

The incumbent Lord Mayor of Bochum is Ottilie Scholz from the SPD Bochum . The CDU Bochum nominated Lothar Gräfingholt and the Social List Bochum nominated Günter Gleising co-founder of the Socialist German Workers' Youth and temporarily DKP district chairman.

Election of the Lord Mayor
Political party	2004			2009
	candidate	26.09.	10.10.	candidate	08/30
CDU	Lothar R. Graefingholt	35.6	39.2	Lothar R. Graefingholt
SPD	Ottilie Scholz	47.2	60.8	Ottilie Scholz
Green	Wolfgang Cordes	9.3	-
FDP	Ute Dreckmann	3.6	-	Jens Lücking
SLB	-	-	-	Günter Gleising
	Heinrich Mohrenz	4.3	-

The six Bochum district representatives

Source: www.bochum.de. With the exception of Bochum-Süd Soziale Liste, only groups that have won mandates are listed.

The city of Bochum is further subdivided into the districts of Bochum-Mitte , Bochum-Wattenscheid , Bochum-North , Bochum-East , Bochum-South and Bochum-Southwest . In Wattenscheid, the Independent Voting Association Wattenscheid (UWG) reaches around a quarter of the voters. In the other districts, however, it does not play a role.

In 2004, the Bochum SPD was the strongest party in all city districts except in the south. In the south, the Bochum CDU reached more voters, but won the same number of seats as the SPD.

The more electorate Social List Bochum (SoLi) is in direct competition with the weaker party Die Linke . They both competed in Bochum-Süd and Die Linke only narrowly won in 2004. If the votes for the two groups had been distributed only a little more evenly, neither of the two would have received a seat.

In 2004–2009 the right-wing extremist NPD provided a district representative in Wattenscheid.

Bonn

Bonn has had a social democratic mayor since the 1994 election, although the CDU was the strongest party in the 1999 and 2004 local elections . The SPD was the second largest party in each case.

At the municipal level there are two associations of voters in Bonn : the Bürger Bund Bonn (BBB) and the Independent Voting Association Bonn (UWG Bonn) .

Of the parties monitored by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, only the PDS (today: Die Linke) was able to obtain mandates in Bonn .

Of the small parties, the Biblical Christians Party (PBC) last ran in 1999 at district level in a local election.

In 2009, the citizens' movement pro NRW and the "Alliance for Peace and Fairness (BFF)" are new to the race . The UWG Bonn is no longer represented in the council .

The City Council of Bonn

In the XIV. Term of office (2004–2009) were the CDU , SPD , Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen , the FDP , the PDS , the Bürger Bund Bonn (BBB) , the Independent Voters Community Bonn (UWG Bonn) and in the City Council of Bonn Non-affiliated representatives represented.

On June 1, 2008, city councilor Barbara Ingenkamp resigned from the SPD. The Citizens' Federation of Bonn lost its former chairman Johannes Gröner in the XIV. Term of office, who still sits on the council as a non-party.

After the local elections on August 30, 2009, the Bonn city council will have 80 seats. The turnout for the election of the council was 56.02 percent.

The CDU, the SPD and the Bürger Bund Bonn suffered losses, but the last two did not lose their mandate. Reasons, FDP and Die Linke have won. The left pushed the citizens of Bonn from fifth to sixth in the ranking of the parties in favor of the voters.

The Alliance for Peace and Fairness and Pro NRW are now represented with two mandates . The Independent Voting Association Bonn (UWG) left the council.

City Council of Bonn: Share of voters and city councils since 1994
Electoral term									BBB				BFF		Pro NRW				Others		advice
XII: 1994-1999	41.1%	31	35.3%	26th	13.6%	10	4.6%	-									2.5%	-	2.9%	-	67
XIII: 1999-2004	51.0%	34	27.6%	18th	10.3%	7th	5.8%	4th	3.8%	2	1.5%	1									66
XIV: 2004-2009	38.0%	25th	29.6%	19 18	16.2%	11	8.5%	6th	4.8%	3 2	1.8%	1					1.2%	1	-, -	- 2nd	66
XV: 2009-2014	32.9%	27	23.8%	19th	18.6%	15th	13.0%	10	3.6%	3	3.8%	3	2.1%	2	1.6%	1	0.5%	-			80
BBB: Citizens Bund Bonn; BFF: Alliance for Peace and Fairness; UWG Bonn: Independent Community of Voters Bonn Sources: City of Bonn , municipal elections Bonn 2009

The Lord Mayor of Bonn

In Bonn, the incumbent mayor Bärbel Dieckmann is no longer running for personal reasons. She was the first female SPD mayor in Bonn since 1945. The SPD in Bonn then nominated the headmaster of the IGS Bonn-Beuel Jürgen Nimptsch as an OB candidate.

Of the larger parties, the CDU with the postal worker Christian Dürig, the FDP with the savings bank business economist Werner Hümmrich and the Greens with the SolarWorld employee Peter Finger stand up with their own OB candidate . In addition, the left also competes for the first time with the qualified lawyer and doctoral student Michael Faber. The BBB (Bürger Bund Bonn) takes on the former Cologne City Director and former CDU member Bernhard Wimmer. The UWG Bonn nominated its deputy chairwoman Heide Baach.

In the local elections on August 30th, Jürgen Nimptsch was elected as the successor to Mayor Bärbel Dieckmann with 40.91 percent of the vote . He will be sworn in as the new Lord Mayor of Bonn on October 29th. The turnout for the election of the mayor was 56.04 percent.

Election of the Lord Mayor
Political party	1999			2004		2009
	candidate	25.09.	10.10.	candidate	26.09.	candidate	08/30
SPD	Bärbel Dieckmann	45.2	51.2	Bärbel Dieckmann	56.8	Jürgen Nimptsch	40.91
CDU	Helmut Stahl	47.6	48.7	Pia Heckes	31.1	Christian Dürig	35.49
GREEN	Dorothea Pass-Weingartz	2.8	-	Dorothea Pass-Weingartz	4.8	Peter Finger	10.19
FDP	Werner Hümmrich	1.9	-	Werner Hümmrich	3.7	Werner Hümmrich	7.07
BBB	Heinz Schott	2.2	-	Heinz Schott	3.1	Bernhard Wimmer	2.90
left	-	-	-	-	-	Michael Faber	2.65
-	Enzo Pellarini	0.4	-	Enzo Pellarini
UWG	-	-	-	Claus Plantiko	0.8	Heide Baach	0.79
Sources: City of Bonn , Bonn municipal elections 2009

See also: List of Lord Mayors and City Directors of Bonn

The four district offices of Bonn

Since the municipal reorganization in 1969, Bonn has consisted of the four city districts of Bad Godesberg , Bonn , Beuel and Hardtberg . The chairmen of the district councils are called district mayors. In 2009 the CDU became the strongest party in all districts. The SPD, the Greens, the FDP and the LINKE moved into each district council in 2009.

Bottrop

Bottrop is a traditionally social democratic city. Two nationally less important parties have their strongholds here: the ödp achieved its second best result nationwide with 6.6% and four seats in the city council behind Bad Driburg / Höxter district (8.7% (three)). The DKP also achieved four seats and thus its best result nationwide.

City Council of Bottrop

Bottrop had 118,597 inhabitants on December 31, 2007. Thus, the city has a council of at least 58 members, 29 of whom are directly elected in constituencies. From 1994 to 1999 the SPD held an absolute majority. In 1999 the CDU became the strongest party, in 2004 the SPD again . Since the fall of the electoral threshold are ödp , DKP and FDP represented in the Council. The Greens also benefited in 1999 from the fall of the threshold clause.

Bottrop is one of the few independent cities in which the SPD was able to gain a share of the vote in the council elections. Due to the downsized council, however, it nevertheless lost a council mandate.

The CDU, ödp and DKP have lost both their share of the vote and mandates. Greens and the FDP have gained. The Greens were unable to convert their gains into an additional council mandate, but they ousted the DKP to fifth place among voters.

The Left and the Free Voters are new to the Council.

Bottrop City Council: Share of voters and seats since 1994
Electoral term																									Seats
		%			%			%			%			%			%			%			%
XII: 1994-1999		52.5	34		31.8	21st		2.0	-		6.8	4th		3.8	-		1.9	-							59
XIII: 1999-2004		40.2	23		42.0	24		6.4	4th		4.5	3		4.4	3		2.5	1							58
XIV: 2004-2009		41.2	24		37.1	21st		6.6	4th		5.0	3		6.5	4th		3.3	2							58
XV: 2009-2014		42.2	23		28.5	16		6.4	3		6.2	3		5.6	3		5.4	3		4.6	2		1.1	1	54
Sources: Regional Returning Officer , www.bottrop.de ; : Losses ,: gains,: new

Mayor of Bottrop

The incumbent Lord Mayor Peter Noetzel (SPD) will no longer stand for election for reasons of age. Bernd Tischler will stand for the SPD in the mayoral election in 2009. On December 18, 2008, the CDU nominated Marc Buchholz from Duisburg . Other candidates are: Klaus Dobrindt (ÖDP), Michael Gerber (DKP), Andrea Swoboda (Greens), Bernhard Günter Blocks (Left) and Bodo Schulte (Free Independent Voters).

Composition of the three district representatives in Bottrop

The three Bottrop district representatives

In 2004 the CDU achieved an absolute majority in the district representation of the Kirchhellen district, the SPD the relative majority in the other two districts. Greens, FDP and ödp are represented in all district representatives, the DKP only in Bottrop-Süd and-Mitte.

Overall, the CDU provides most of the district representatives.

District mayor, parties and composition of the district councils
Borough	District Mayor		CDU	SPD	Green	FDP	ödp	DKP	district
XIV: 2004-2009
Bottrop-South	Gerhard Bongers	SPD	4th	7th	1	1	1	1	15th
Bottrop center	Klaus Kalthoff	SPD	6th	7th	1	1	1	1	17th
Kirchhellen	M. Hülskemper	CDU	10	4th	1	1	1	-	17th
total			20th	18th	3	3	3	2	49
XV: 2009-2014
Bottrop-South									15th
Bottrop center									17th
Kirchhellen									17th
total									49

Coesfeld district

The district council of Coesfeld

District Council of Coesfeld: Share of voters and mandates since 2004
Electoral term	CDU		SPD		Green		FDP		ödp		Day
XIV: 2004-2009	53.6	29	24.4	13	11.0	6th	8.7	5	2.3	1	54
XV: 2009-2014

District Administrator of Coesfeld

Konrad Püning ( CDU ) has been the district administrator since October 1, 2004 . He was elected on September 26, 2004 in the first ballot with 56.6% of the vote.

The Greens are not nominating a candidate for the 2009 election.

Political party	1999		2004		2009
	candidate	12.09.	candidate	26.09.	candidate	08/30
CDU	Hans Pixa	64.1	Konrad Püning	56.6
SPD	Ilse Ridder-Melchers	27.2	André Stinka	24.6	André Stinka
GREEN	Rainer Michaelis	5.3	Willi Kortmann	11.1	not a candidate
FDP	Thomas M. Schneider	2.6	Gerhard Stauff	7.6
ödp	Peter Diercksen	0.9	-	-, -

Representations of the district-dependent municipalities

The CDU and SPD are represented in all 11 municipal parliaments. The CDU has a majority everywhere, six times even an absolute majority.

In 2004, six CDU mayors won the election, three independent and one from the SPD, which was supported by the Greens and the Independent Citizens' Community Nottuln.

In 2008, various voter communities merged to form the United Coesfeld voter community (VWC) . They are represented in five local parliaments, in Coesfeld and Rosedahl they are even the second strongest political force ahead of the Social Democrats. They are not represented in the district council.

In 2008, three independent groups did not join the United Voting Community Coesfeld VWC : the Independent Citizens' Community Nottuln (UBG) , the Independent Voting Community Ascheberg (UWG) , the Green Alternative List Dülmen (GAL) .

The ödp represented in the district council plays no role in the cities and municipalities.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Bocholter-Borkener Volksblatt : The change from yellow Saul to green Paulus  ( page no longer available , search in web archives ), October 18, 2007, accessed March 27, 2009
2. ↑ Information according to the UWG website . This contradicts unproven information on Wikipedia
3. ^ WAZ : Lord Mayor Candidates: Only two have been determined , November 10, 2008, accessed July 7, 2015
4. ^ WAZ : Social List Nominated Gleising , December 8, 2008, accessed July 7, 2015
5. ↑ Lisa Inhoffen: SPD councilwoman resigns from the party: After losing the election, Barbara Ingenkamp accounts. In: General-Anzeiger online . General-Anzeiger , June 2, 2008, accessed on September 11, 2017 : “Bad Godesberg city councilor Barbara Ingenkamp announced her resignation from the SPD on Sunday evening. The 69-year-old wants to keep her council mandate. The chairman of the social committee and the SPD working group 60-plus had felt downright "dumped" for the city council last Thursday when the local associations Godesberg Süd and Nord were nominated for candidates for the 2009 local elections. [...] In a letter to party leader Ernesto Harder, she also complains about the lack of democracy in the internal party discussions and cites her dissatisfaction with the SPD's policy in the federal government as another reason for her resignation. " 
6. ^ WAZ : The OB candidates - who will compete in the district towns?
7. ^ WAZ : CDU top candidate wants to reduce kindergarten fees , Bottrop December 18, 2008, accessed July 7, 2015
8. ↑ derwesten.de accessed on July 16, 2009

swell

• Local Election Act (KWahlG NRW)
• Municipal code for the state of North Rhine-Westphalia (GO NRW)
• Law on the Ruhr Regional Association (RVRG)
• Ministry of the Interior and Local Affairs of North Rhine-Westphalia (MIK NRW)
• The State Returning Officer for the State of North Rhine-Westphalia

Please note the information on legal issues!