Local elections in North Rhine-Westphalia 2009 / Results H – K

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

Hagen

In Hagen , two voter communities are represented in the council: Hagen Aktiv (HA) and Bürger für Hagen (BfH).

City council of Hagen: share of voters and seats since 1994
Electoral term	CDU		SPD		Green		FDP		PDS / The Left		REP		BfH		HA / FWG
XII: 1994-1999	35.5	23	48.7	31	8.2	5	3.2	-			2.5	-					59
XIII: 1999-2004	45.5	27	39.8	23	5.9	3	4.6	3			3.2	2					58
XIV: 2004-2009	37.3	22nd	36.2	21st	7.3	4th	5.3	3	2.6	2	3.4	2	4.4	3	2.3	1	58
XV: 2009-2014	33.3	20th	29.3	17th	11.9	7th	7.6	4th	4.1	2	2.1	2	3.6	2	7.7	5	58

Hamm

The independent city of Hamm has 183,065 inhabitants (December 31, 2007) and a council with 58 members. There are three groups of voters active in Hamm: the Free Voting Community Hamm (FWG) , the Bürgergemeinschaft Hamm (BG) and the Liberale Aufbruch Hamm (LA) . The latter has never been represented on the council, but tried to win mandates as early as 2004.

City Councilor of Hamm

About the council member of the community of citizens Hamm (BG) Peter Kessler writes indymedia that he long-standing member of the Party Republican was. In a blog in October 2005 it was written about the same councilor that he had the word popping protected under trademark law, and then took action against a chip manufacturer who said “already popped today? “Wanted to sell his potato products.

The Republicans themselves are represented by a council member, retired Gerald Thörner.

The German Senior Citizens' Party disbanded on July 20, 2007. Thus their council member Günter Naust became non-party. In 2005 the Greens lost their council member Uwe Atorf (now non-party). The council information system of the city of Hamm also lists the representatives of the FWG as nonpartisan among the electoral groups, but not that of the BG.

Hamm City Council: Share of voters and seats since 1994
Electoral term	CDU		SPD		Green		FDP		REP		DSP		FWG		LA		BG		pl.
XII: 1994-1999	42.1	26th	41.5	26th	6.6	4th	1.7	-	1.9	-			5.2	3							59
XIII: 1999-2004	49.6	29	35.8	21st	5.4	3	2.4	1	-	-			6.8	4th							58
XIV: 2004-2009 2005 2007	47.3	28	34.5	20th	7.5	4 3	3.0	2	1.8	1	1.4	1 0	2.4	1	0.8	-	1.2	1	-, -	1 2	58
XV: 2009-2014	47.0	27	32.2	18th	8.2	5	5.7	3	4.7	3	1.2	1	-	-	0.9	1					58
The result for FWG 1994 is given as “other” by the state returning officer.

Lord Mayor

The candidate of the CDU: Thomas Hunsteger-Petermann
The SPD candidate: Hans Estermann
The candidate of the Greens: Reinhard Merschhaus
The candidate of the FDP: Norwin Wegner
The candidate of the FWG: Frauke Walther
The candidate of the liberal awakening Hamm: Georg Schroeter

District of Heinsberg

In the Heinsberg district , five MPs left the party for which they were elected to the district assembly.

On June 30, 2008, the three members of the FDP district council, Walter Leo Schreinemacher, Heinz-Jürgen Wolter and Frank Schott, left the FDP parliamentary group and founded the Independent Citizens parliamentary group (UB). They were not prepared to give their mandate back to the party.

The former sub-district chairman and district parliamentary group chairman Franz-Josef Fürkötter resigned from the SPD in November 2008 after internal power struggles and is now non-attached. Heinz-Wilhelm Schmitz, head of AWO care in Heinsberg, is also non-attached.

District council of the Heinsberg district: share of the vote and seats since 1994
Electoral term	CDU		SPD		Green		FDP		NPD		UB		fl.		Day
XII: 1994-1999	51.1	30th	35.4	20th	9.0	5	4.5	-							55
XIII: 1999-2004	58.9	32	29.7	16	6.3	3	5.1	3							54
XIV: 2004-2009 2008	54.8	29	25.8	14 12	9.0	5	8.8	5 2	1.5	1	-, -	- 3	-, -	2	54
51.8	29	XV: 2009-2014	19.8	11	9.7	5	9.0	5	4.7	2	3.5	2	1.6	1	-	-	-	-	54

Herford district

In the Herford district , the groups of voters have come together to form the Free Voters in the Herford District (FWKH) .

Herford district council: share of voters and seats
Electoral term	CDU		SPD		Green		FDP		FWKH		Day
XII: 1994-1999	40.0	23	46.6	27	9.0	5	4.2	-			55
XIII: 1999-2004	47.6	25th	41.8	22nd	5.5	3	4.7	2			52
XIV: 2004-2009	41.8	21st	39.1	20th	9.0	4th	6.4	3	3.1	2	50
XV: 2009-2014
Strongest party highlighted in color.

Herne

Herne is a stronghold of the SPD. In 2004 it achieved 44.6% of the votes, 12.9 percentage points more than the national average. There are two parties to the left of the SPD: the Left and the Alternative List .

Herne is also a stronghold of the Republicans, who in 2004 achieved a 4.7% share of the vote, 4.1 percentage points more than the national average.

City Council Herne

City council of Herne: share of the vote and seats
Electoral term	CDU		SPD		Green		FDP		REP		PDS		AL		Day
XII: 1994-1999	28.8	18th	58.0	36	9.3	5	1.3	-	2.6	-					59
XIII: 1999-2004	40.1	23	44.5	26th	6.4	4th	1.8	1	3.7	2	3.4	2			58
XIV: 2004-2009	31.2	21st	44.6	29 30	8.4	6 5	3.3	2	4.7	3	3.4	2 3	4.3	3 2	66
XV: 2009-2014
Strongest party highlighted in color. Absolute majority in bold. AL: Alternative List Herne for social justice, work and democracy. The result of the Greens 1994 comes from the voter community Die Grünen Herne .

The four district offices of Herne

The independent city of Herne consists of the four districts Eickel, Herne-Mitte, Sodingen and Wanne. The heads of the district representatives call themselves district heads in Herne.

The four district representatives of Herne: share of the vote and seats
Electoral term	district	CDU	SPD	Green	AL	FDP	Rep	Lin	otherwise.	BV
XIV: 2004-2009	Eickel	5	7th	1	1	1	1	1		17th
	Herne center	6th	8th	2	1	1	1			19th
	Sodingen	4th	9	1			1		1	19th
	Tub	6th	7th		3		1			17th
	total	21st	31	4th	5	2	4th	1	1	72
XIV: 2009-2014	Eickel									17th
	Herne center									19th
	Sodingen									19th
	Tub									17th
	total									72
AL: Alternative list Herne for social justice, work and democracy - Lin: Die Linke

Mayor of Herne

The incumbent Horst Schiereck from the Herner SPD is standing for re-election for the first time. His main rival, Markus Schlüter from the CDU in Herne, is taking on him for the second time since 2004.

Election of the Lord Mayor of Herne
Political party	2004			2009
Political party	candidate	26 Sep	Oct 10	candidate	30 Aug
CDU	Markus Schlueter	33.9	36.8	Markus Schlueter	29.2
SPD	Horst Schiereck	47.6	63.2	Horst Schiereck´	59.3
GREEN	Dorothea Schulte	7.8	-
FDP	Martina Balzk	3.0	-	Thomas Bloch	6.9
PDS	Andreas Ixert	3.6	-	-	-
The left	-	-	-	-
REP	Wilhelm Elbracht	4.2	-	Bernd Blech	4.5

Hochsauerlandkreis

The Hochsauerlandkreis is jet black. The CDU achieved up to 4/5 of the votes in individual municipalities. In 2004 it did not achieve an absolute majority in only two municipalities.

At the local level, free voter communities are very strong. In Schmallenberg, they reached 2nd and 3rd place in 2004 and banished the SPD to 4th place.

The Greens are deeply divided. The two district council members Reinhard Loos and Matthias Schulte-Huermann split off from the Green District Assembly and founded the District Assembly Sauerland Citizens List , which had to face a district election for the first time on August 30th. The cause of the rift is Harald Friedrich, former head of department in the North Rhine-Westphalian Ministry of the Environment under Bärbel Höhn and the minister's fault in the PFT scandal over contaminated drinking water.

District council

The CDU has held an absolute majority in the Hochsauerlandkreis district assembly for years.

District assembly of the Hochsauerlandkreis: share of the vote and seats
Electoral term	CDU		SPD		FDP		Green		SBL		Day
XII: 1994-1999	53.5	31	35.6	20th	3.9	-	7.0	4th			55
XIII: 1999-2004	61.7	33	29.5	16	4.6	3	4.2	2			54
XIV: 2004-2009	59.7	32	26.1	14th	7.6	4th	6.6	4 2	-, -	0 2	54
XV: 2009-2014
SBL: Sauerland Citizens List (split from the Green District Assembly)

District Administrator

After the CDU district administrator Franz-Josef Leikop resigned not even 10 months later for reasons of age after his election in 2004, a by-election was necessary in the Hochsauerlandkreis in 2005, which Karl Schneider (CDU) won.

Election of the district administrator
Political party	2004		2005		2009
Political party	candidate	26 Sep	candidate	Sept. 18	candidate	30 Aug
CDU	Franz-Josef Leikop	66.8	Karl Schneider	55.1
SPD	Eckhard Scholz	26.5	Michael Schult
FDP	Karl Peter Brendel	6.7	Josef Mühlenbein
Green			Reinhard Loos

Municipal agencies

The Hochsauerlandkreis consists of 10 cities and 2 communities.

Local councils: mayors, parties: voter share and seats
Electoral term	Commune	mayor		CDU		SPD		Green		FDP		WG1				BV
XIV: 2004-2009
	Arnsberg	Hans-Josef Vogel	CDU	53.3	25th	32.2	15th	6.8	3	7.6	3					46
	Brilon	Franz Schrewe	SPD	45.6	17th	42.1	16	-	-	5.8	2	6.5	3			38
	Hallenberg	Michael Crown Eye	CDU	78.4	16	6.2	1	-	-	-	-	15.5	3			20th
	Marsberg	Hubertus Klenner	independent	47.9	18th	32.8	13	6.0	2	-	-	10.2	4th	3.0	1	38
	Medebach	Heinrich Nolte	CDU	56.1	16	12.5	4th	-	-	8.8	2	22.6	6th	-	-	28
	Meschede	Hans-Ulrich Hess	CDU	50.9	22nd	22.3	10	4.6	2	7.3	3	14.8	7th	-	-	44
	Olsberg	Elmar Reuter	CDU	65.1	25th	28.0	11	6.9	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	38
	Schmallenberg	Bernhard Halbe	CDU	62.1	24	11.3	4th	-	-	-	-	14.9	6th	11.7	4th	38
	Sundern	Detlef Lins	CDU	59.8	23	23.6	9	7.0	3	9.5	3	-	-	-	-	38
	Winterberg	Werner Eickler	CDU	68.2	22nd	31.8	10	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	32
	Bestwig	Christof Sommer	CDU	62.1	16	37.9	10	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	26th
	Eslohe	Reinhold Weber	CDU	69.9	22nd	17.6	6th	-	-	12.5	4th	-	-	-	-	32
	Total Hochsauerlandkreis			246		109		12		17th		34				418
XIV: 2009-2014
	Arnsberg															46
	Brilon															38
	Hallenberg															20th
	Marsberg															38
	Medebach															28
	Meschede															44
	Olsberg															38
	Schmallenberg															38
	Sundern															38
	Winterberg															32
	Bestwig															26th
	Eslohe															32
	Total Hochsauerlandkreis											-		-		418
Brilon: WG1: Brilon Citizens List - Hallenberg: WG1: Citizens for Hallenberg (BfH) - Marsberg: WG1: Citizens' Community ; WG2: WIR for Marsberg - Medebach: WG1: free voter group - Meschede: WG1: Independent voter group Meschede (UWG) - Schmallenberg: WG1: Independent voter group Schmallenberg (UWG) (CDU dissidents); WG2: Citizens' Community for Schmallenberg (BfS) (SPD dissidents)

Höxter district

District council
Electoral term	CDU	SPD	Green	FDP	WG1
2004-2009	24	10	3	2	3

Cologne

See local elections in Cologne 2009

Kleve district

District election 2009

(in %)

%

60

50

40

30th

20th

10

0

51.9

22.9

10.9

10.8

3.5

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compared to 2004

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-2

-4

-3.0

-2.8

+1.8

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+3.5

District council
Electoral term	CDU	SPD	Green	FDP	left
2004-2009	29	14th	6th	5	-
2009-2014	28	12	6th	6th	2

Krefeld

In 2004 four representatives from three groups of voters were elected to the Krefeld city council. The Krefeld district / the independents and the KWG formed a parliamentary group under the chairmanship of Ralf Krings. After this was replaced by Frank Lippke as parliamentary group chairman, he left the parliamentary group and remained non-attached with his Krefeld voter community - The Independent (KWG) .

In January 2008 Wilfried Lattrich left the FDP parliamentary group and joined the Krefeld district / the independents parliamentary group . A few days later, the previous parliamentary group chairman Frank Lippke left the parliamentary group in order to also be non-attached to the council for the independents .

In November 2008, Andreas Drabben left the CDU parliamentary group and founded the Krefeld Citizens' Policy with Frank Lippke .

Thus, the council coalition of CDU and FDP no longer has a majority even with the mayor's vote. The Krefeld district forms z. Currently a parliamentary group with the UKB. The KB (Krefeld Bürgerpolitik) forms a group in the council of the city of Krefeld.

City council of Krefeld: share of the vote and seats
Electoral term									KWG		UKB		KK		KB		ADVICE
XIV: 2004-2009 Jan. 2008 Nov. 2008	42.4	26 25	28.6	18th	12.6	8th	9.1	6 5	3.5	2 1	2.6	1	1.0	1 2		1 2	62
XV: 2009-2014	35.59	21st	30.67	18th	14.41	8th	10.24	6th	1.5	1	0	0	1.46	1	1.68	1	58

Individual evidence

↑ independent media watch: Antifa demo in Hamm: press reactions. In: de.indymedia.org. January 27, 2005, accessed on April 8, 2009 : "The" Councilor Peter Kessler "of the BG Hamm used to be a long-term member of the right-wing extremist party" The Republicans "(REP)"

↑ Blogger CJ: Already paid today? In: I blog you! - AJ 's and CJ' s private weblog. AJ and CJ, October 16, 2005, accessed on April 8, 2009 : “At least this is what the Westfälischer Anzeiger reports from October 15, 2005. In 2000, Kessler registered the name“ Poppen ”as a trademark at the German Patent and Trademark Office (file number 39982350.6) register. It remains to be seen whether he will not marry when he tries to ask Procter & Gamble to check out. Even his patent attorney has doubts. The product Pringles is sold under confectionery. However, it is precisely for these goods and services (WDV) that Kessler apparently failed to register the brand name. "

↑ Press release: GREEN parliamentary group surprised at Atorf's exit. (No longer available online.) In: www.gruene-fraktion-hamm.de . Council faction of the GREEN Hamm, January 14, 2005, formerly in the original ; retrieved on 8 April 2009 : “The group expresses its regret that Mr Atorf is mixing personal problems with the political work of the group in the Council. In addition, the Greens in the Council are disappointed that Mr Atorf wants to keep his mandate in the Council. He joins the long line of those who declare the political mandate to be personal property. This falsifies the will of the voter. "

↑ Sources: The Regional Returning Officer ( www.wahlen.lds.nrw.de ) and City of Hamm ( results of municipal elections 2004 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to instructions and then remove this notice. )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.hamm.de

↑ STEFAN CLAASSEN: District of Heinsberg: FDP district assembly group splits. (No longer available online.) In: RP ONLINE . Rheinische Post , September 7, 2007, formerly in the original ; accessed on April 8, 2009 : “The Ratheim FDP district member and deputy parliamentary group leader Heinz-Jürgen Wolter continues to cause unrest in his party. In March, the district executive asked Wolter to leave the parliamentary group and resign from his mandate. But in vain. This was followed by an application by the district association for exclusion from the party. The association accused Wolter of statements that were incompatible with the basic intellectual attitude of the FDP and were harmful to the party. This is exactly what his group colleagues Hilde Hecker and Manfred Offermanns took yesterday as an opportunity to initially distance themselves from the rest of the parliamentary group, if not to found their own. As Hilde Hecker explained in response to a request from RP, she asked District Administrator Stephan Pusch to allocate her and her colleague their own consultation room as well as spatially distant places in the district council. In addition, it should be checked whether there can be two FDP parliamentary groups. "

↑ MARIO EMONDS: Kreis Heinsberg: Former FDP trio wants to keep his mandates. (No longer available online.) In: RP ONLINE . Rheinische Post , July 4, 2008, formerly in the original ; accessed on April 8, 2009 : “This was triggered by alleged xenophobic statements by Wolters. Then the two other district council members of the party, Hilde Hecker and Manfred Offermanns, distanced themselves from him ... And what happens afterwards? “Maybe we stand for election as a group of voters. But we have to wait and see what happens over the next few months, "said Schreinemacher."

↑ Udo Stüßer: Franz-Josef Fürkötter leaves the SPD after 30 years. In: www.an-online.de . Aachener Nachrichten , November 9, 2008, accessed on April 8, 2009 : “The 55-year-old Fürkötter was parliamentary group leader in the Übach-Palenberg city council from 1989 to 1995, later chairman of the sub-district for four years and chairman of the SPD district parliamentary group for five years. In his last two offices he was not re-elected two and a half years ago and one and a half years respectively. «And that as the longest serving subdistrict board member. At that time, I was a member of the UB board for 18 years. But I said at the time: You can't prescribe decency. But I've only now drawn the consequences. " While he strongly criticizes the subdistrict chairman of the SPD in the Heinsberg district, Norbert Spinrath (“Spinrath and consorts run a demolition company”), he praises the “good policies of District Administrator Stephan Pusch”: “It is difficult to oppose this seriously Task.""

↑ Sources: The Regional Returning Officer ( www.wahlen.lds.nrw.de ) and District of Heinsberg www.kreis-heinsberg.de

↑ Regional Returning Officer

^ WR : PFT scandal: Greens continue to be criticized , April 24, 2008, accessed on July 13, 2015

↑ Results of the municipal elections in 2009, the Lower Rhine municipal computing center

^ Daniel Gonzales: Dispute in the FDP parliamentary group: Lattrich goes overboard. In: newsline . Westdeutsche Zeitung (WZ), January 4, 2008, accessed on April 8, 2009 : “… made strong for Lattrich to be honored within the party. "The written exit without a personal conversation disappoints me," said the FDP leader, who has been trying in vain for days to reach the renegade in Spain. “We urgently need clear and clean conditions. If we don't create order quickly, it will have negative effects on the FDP in Krefeld, ”urges Heitmann. A possible party withdrawal procedure is currently not an issue for the chairman of the city association. "As long as Wilfried Lattrich does not work massively against the FDP parliamentary group or join another group, this step is not necessary," says Heitmann. "

↑ (RP): Krefeld: City Council: The next exit. (No longer available online.) In: RP online . Rheinische Post , January 5, 2008, formerly in the original ; accessed on April 9, 2009 : “The resignation of FDP councilor Wilfried Lattrich is drawing circles. Yesterday Frank Lippke, the parliamentary leader of the Krefeld district (KK), left the parliamentary group. From now on he will announce his mandate as an independent councilor. "

↑ DIETER HILLA: Krefeld: Coalition loses the majority. (No longer available online.) In: RP online . Rheinische Post , November 25, 2008, archived from the original on July 8, 2009 ; retrieved on April 9, 2009 : “After Councilor Andreas Drabben left the CDU parliamentary group, the FDP and CDU do not have a majority in the city council. Now it's time to compromise. The city threatens to stand still. Why did Andreas Drabben leave? The 41-year-old councilor left the CDU party and parliamentary group after he was no longer nominated for local elections by the party. According to the CDU, he did not do enough. “I am not a nicker,” explains Drabben. “ 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.

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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

[1] t media watch: Antifa demo in Hamm: press reactions. In: de.indymedia.org. January 27, 2005, accessed on April 8, 2009 : "The" Councilor Peter Kessler "of the BG Hamm used to be a long-term member of the right-wing extremist party" The Republicans "(REP)"

[2] Blogger CJ: Already paid today? In: I blog you! - AJ 's and CJ' s private weblog. AJ and CJ, October 16, 2005, accessed on April 8, 2009 : “At least this is what the Westfälischer Anzeiger reports from October 15, 2005. In 2000, Kessler registered the name“ Poppen ”as a trademark at the German Patent and Trademark Office (file number 39982350.6) register. It remains to be seen whether he will not marry when he tries to ask Procter & Gamble to check out. Even his patent attorney has doubts. The product Pringles is sold under confectionery. However, it is precisely for these goods and services (WDV) that Kessler apparently failed to register the brand name. "

[3] Press release: GREEN parliamentary group surprised at Atorf's exit. (No longer available online.) In: www.gruene-fraktion-hamm.de . Council faction of the GREEN Hamm, January 14, 2005, formerly in the original ; retrieved on 8 April 2009 : “The group expresses its regret that Mr Atorf is mixing personal problems with the political work of the group in the Council. In addition, the Greens in the Council are disappointed that Mr Atorf wants to keep his mandate in the Council. He joins the long line of those who declare the political mandate to be personal property. This falsifies the will of the voter. "