Local elections in North Rhine-Westphalia 2009 / Results R – W

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

Recklinghausen district

In the Recklinghausen district , several groups of voters apply for electoral favor. The Independent Citizens' Party (UBP) has not yet stood for an election, but gained its mandate through the dissolution of the Pro-Citizen Party (PBP) in 2005 and the subsequent transfer of the now non-party elected officials at district and community level.

District council for the Recklinghausen district

In the district council of the Recklinghausen district sits a mandate holder of the Independent Citizens Party (UBP) who was elected for the pro-citizen party . The UBP has not yet made any elections.

The mandate holders of WIR - electoral alliance in the Recklinghausen district (WIR) are members of the Recklinghausen voter initiative and the WIR for Marl (WIR) citizens' list . The electoral representative for First Voter Community (EEC) is a member of Neue Recklinghauser Voting Community (NRW) .

District council for the Recklinghausen district: share of the vote and mandates
Electoral term	CDU		SPD		Green		FDP		PDS		PBP		We		EEC		UBP		otherwise.		Day
XII: 1994-1999	35.7	27	50.8	39	9.8	7th	2.5	-	-		-		-						1.2	-	73
XIII: 1999-2004	45.2	33	40.7	29	5.7	4th	2.8	2	1.9	1			3.6	3					1.1	-	72
XIV: 2004-2009	39.1	28	38.9	28	8.4	6th	5.1	4th	3.5	2	0.9	1 0	2.7	2	1.0	1	-, -	- 1	0.4	-	72
XV: 2009-2014
2004: PDS, WiR, EWG and UBP are run by the council system as non-attached . 1999: other contains 0.5% DKP

City and local councils in the Recklinghausen district

In Marl , the mayor Uta Heinrich joined the XIII. Term of office (1999–2004) from the CDU and approached the civil union marl . Nevertheless, she was elected in 2004 with 68.8% in the second ballot.

Two parties in the Council of Oer-Erkenschwick won their seats without an election. The Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen party won a seat by leaving the Oer-Erkenschwick Green List . The Left Party even won parliamentary groups with two seats. The Independent Voting Association Oer-Erkenschwick (UWG) is a member of the State Association of Free and Independent Citizens' and Voting Communities North Rhine-Westphalia eV (LWG)

In Waltrop , the CDU, SPD, FDP and the Waltrop Green List each lost one mandate. Two were members of the Bürger für Waltrop (BfW) voter group , two remained non-attached.

Remscheid

In Remscheid , in addition to the four parties CDU, SPD, Greens and FDP, a group of voters called WiR voter community is active in Remscheid . The CDU Remscheid has been the strongest party since 1999, but the SPD Remscheid , along with Beate Wilding, has been mayor since the same election .

City council of Remscheid

In the 1999 local elections, the 5 percent hurdle no longer applied for the first time. This benefited the FDP Remscheid , which otherwise would not have made it into the council. WiR voter community in Remscheid moved into the council for the first time, was able to improve its result in the 2004 election and won a fourth mandate.

At the election party conference, the Liberals declared 18% of the vote to be the election target for 2009.

City council of Remscheid
Electoral term	CDU		SPD		Green		FDP		We		fl		advice
XII: 1994-1999	36.7	23	46.0	29	7.2	4th	5.2	3					59
XIII: 1999-2004	50.0	27	34.5	19th	5.5	3	4.6	2	5.4	3			54
XIV: 2004-2009 (2009)	41.3	24	32.9	19 18	10.5	6 5	7.8	5	6.7	4th	-, -	- 2nd	58

Mayor of Remscheid

In the first direct election of the mayor in 1999, Fred Schulz (CDU) was able to replace his predecessor from the SPD. In 2004 he was replaced by Beate Wilding (SPD).

The FDP Remscheid last took part in 1999 with its own candidate in a mayoral election. The former athlete and Olympic medalist Liesel Westermann-Krieg only reached 1,201 voters (2.8%). WiR voter community in Remscheid started in 1999 with Michael Dickel. He also failed to win the election and instead became chairman of the electoral group's council.

For the 2009 election, a civic alliance of CDU, FDP and WiR voter community in Remscheid against the incumbent was planned. Since the CDU set up Jochen Siegfried on its own initiative, after Fred Schulz, who had failed in 2004, was also in discussion, the FDP refrained from recommending an election in favor of Siegfried and the WiR nominated its own candidate with its 2nd chairman Gunther Brockmann.

Election for Mayor of Remscheid: candidates, share of the vote
Political party	1999		2004			2009
	candidate	12.09	candidate	26.09	10.10.	candidate	08/30
CDU	Fred Schulz	50.9	Fred Schulz	49.4	49.9	Jochen Siegfried
SPD	Reinhard Ulbrich	38.9	Beate Wilding	38.9	50.1	Beate Wilding
Green	Christel Herrmann	3.2	Frank vom Scheidt	11.6	-	like SPD
FDP	Westermann War	2.8	-			without recommendation
We	Michael Dickel	4.2	-			Gunther Brockmann
Winners and election winners (bold) highlighted in color

The four district offices of Remscheid

Source: www.remscheid.de. Only groups that won mandates are listed.

All five Remscheid parties CDU, SPD, Greens, FDP and WiR are represented in all four district representatives in 2004. The CDU provides all mayors, the SPD all 1st deputies and the FDP a 2nd deputy. Of the 52 district representatives, the CDU 22 represents the SPD 15, the Greens 6, the FDP 5 and WiR 4.

Rhein-Erft district

In the Rhein-Erft district , besides the four state parliament parties, no other parties or groups of voters are represented in the district assembly. Groups of voters are only represented in the councils of cities and municipalities, where they have every 20th mandate. In 2009 the Free Voters will run across the district. The Citizens Alliance Kerpen (BBK) wants to compete in Kerpen at least.

District council for the Rhein-Erft district

In the 14th term of office, the SPD lost a mandate to the citizen alliance of Kerpen when it left.

District council for the Rhein-Erft district: share of the vote and mandates
Electoral term	CDU		SPD		Green		FDP		BBK		otherwise.		Day
XII: 1994-1999	38.4	28	47.1	34	8.1	5	4.3	-			2.0	-	67
XIII: 1999-2004	49.7	33	38.7	26th	6.3	4th	5.1	3			0.1	-	66
XIV: 2004-2009	45.0	30th	34.6	23 22	10.0	7th	9.2	6th	-, -	1	1.3	0	66
XV: 2009-2014
Other 1999: City Initiative Pulheim (CIP)

City and local councils in the Rhein-Erft district

Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis

In the Rheinisch-Bergisch district three constituencies are active: the Independent Voter Community - Citizens for Citizens - Rhein-Berg (UWG BfB) , FUWG and the Civic Forum . In the XIII. The 1999–2004 term of office was the Wermelskirchener Neue Kommunalpolitik (WNK) today: Wermelskirchener Neue Kommunalpolitik Independent Voting Association (WNK UWG) represented separately from the UWG-BfB in the district council. Today WNK UWG is a member group of UWG-BfB.

District council for the Rheinisch-Bergisch district: share of the vote and mandates
Electoral term	CDU		SPD		Green		FDP		UWG-BfB		FUWG		BF		WNK		Pro NRW		KID		Day
XII: 1994-1999	45.1	26th	35.0	20th	11.7	6th	6.9	3	1.3	-											55
XIII: 1999-2004	51.3	28	28.5	15th	8.0	4th	7.1	4th	3.8	2					1.2	1					54
XIV: 2004-2009	40.4	25th	27.8	17th	12.1	8th	10.0	6th	6.2	4th	1.7	1	1.8	1							62
XV: 2009-2014	38.4	28	22.9	16	12.9	10	11.9	9	4.8	3			1.9	1					2.0	1	1.4	1	70
In 1999, WNK and UWG-BfB competed separately. WKN UWG is now a member of UWG-BfB.

Rhine district of Neuss

In the Rhein-Kreis Neuss ( district Neuss until July 1, 2003) there are two parties that are not represented in the state parliament: the German Center Party and the Offensive D The voter groups Active Citizens Community / The Active and UWG Rhein-Kreis Neuss form a parliamentary group in the district assembly .

The group of voters, Active Citizens Community / Die Aktive from Korschenbroich , founded in 2003, is an association of citizens from different walks of life . They arose from the groundwater actives. They name the solution to the groundwater problem in Korschenbroich as an important focus of their political work.

District assembly for the Rhein-Kreis Neuss: Voting share and mandates
Electoral term	CDU		SPD		Green		FDP		UWG NE		PDS		center		Active		Off. D.		Pro NRW		Day
XII: 1994-1999	47.3	35	35.4	26th	8.2	6th	4.1	-	3.9	-			1.1	-							67
XIII: 1999-2004	55.7	37	27.0	18th	5.7	4th	5.3	3	4.0	2	1.2	1	1.1	1							66
XIV: 2004-2009	49.7	33	25.9	17th	8.3	6th	7.6	5	3.5	2	2.0	1	1.6	1	0.9	1	0.6	-			66
XV: 2009-2014	43.8	32	22.6	17th	10.5	8th	11.6	9	3.4	3	2.8	2	1.9	1	1.2	1	-	-	1.7	1	74

Rhein-Sieg district

District council for the Rhein-Sieg district: share of the vote and mandates
Electoral term	CDU		SPD		Green		FDP		The left		FUW		NPD		German		BfM		other		total
XII: 1994-1999	46.3	35	34.0	26th	11.3	8th	5.2	4th	0.3	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2.9	-	73
XIII: 1999-2004	57.0	41	27.9	20th	8.6	6th	5.9	4th	-	-	-	-	0.5	1	0.1	-	-	-	-	-	72
XIV: 2004-2009	49.4	36	25.7	19th	11.8	8th	8.4	6th	1.6	1	-	-	1.6	1	1.5	1	-	-	-	-	72
XV: 2009-2014	43.0	32	22.6	17th	13.6	10	12.8	9	3.1	2	1.8	1	1.0	1	1.3	1	0.7	1	-	-	72

Community and city councils in the Rhein-Sieg district

Local councils: mayors, parties: voter share and seats
Electoral term	Commune	mayor		CDU		SPD		Green		FDP		Flat share		Others		BV
XIV: 2004-2009
	Alfter	Bärbel Steinkemper	CDU	42.9	16	20.1	8th	14.6	6th	8.8	3	13.6	5			38
	Bad Honnef	Wally Feiden	SPD	34.6	15th	22.8	10	11.3	5	8.9	4th	22.3	10			44
	Bornheim	Wolfgang Henseler	SPD	44.6	20th	26.8	12	11.2	5	5.7	2	11.6	5			44
	Eitorf	Rudiger Storch	FDP	50.7	16	19.6	6th	7.9	3	12.1	4th	9.7	3			32
	Hennef	Klaus Pipke	CDU	47.0	21st	19.5	8th	10.8	5	8.6	4th	14.1	6th	-	-	44
	Koenigswinter	Peter Wirtz	CDU	52.2	21st	24.4	10	14.2	5	9.2	4th	-	-	-	-	40
	Lohmar	Wolfgang Röger	CDU	39.7	16	21.0	9	25.5	10	5.5	2	8.3	3	-	-	40
	Meckenheim	Yvonne Kempen (currently voted out)	CDU	47.4	19th	25.8	10	7.2	3	8.1	3	11.6	5	-	-	40
	Much	Alfred Haas	CDU	57.6	16	23.3	7th	12.0	3	7.1	2	-	-	-	-	28
	Neunkirchen-Seelscheid	Helmut Meng	CDU	47.9	16	24.9	9	12.2	4th	15.0	5	-	-	-	-	34
	Niederkassel	Anton Walter Esser	CDU	53.2	20th	26.9	10	8.6	4th	11.2	4th	-	-	-	-	38
	Rheinbach	Stefan Raetz	CDU	47.5	17th	24.0	9	7.3	3	6.7	2	14.6	5	-	-	36
	Ruppichteroth	Hartmut Drawz	CDU	56.5	17th	22.5	7th	10.2	3	10.8	3	-	-	-	-	30th
	Saint Augustine	Klaus Schumacher	CDU	48.7	24	31.4	16	11.5	6th	8.4	4th	-	-	-	-	50
	Siegburg	Franz Huhn	CDU	57.2	25th	22.7	10	11.3	5	5.6	3	-	-	3.2	1	44
	Swisttal	Eckhard Maack	CDU	56.1	21st	24.9	10	10.5	4th	8.5	3	-	-	-	-	38
	Troisdorf	Manfred Uedelhoven	CDU	48.2	24	35.5	18th	7.4	4th	5.1	2	3.8	2	-	-	50
	Wachtberg	Theo Hüffel	CDU	49.5	19th	22.6	8th	7.7	3	9.6	4th	10.6	4th	-	-	38
	Windeck	Jürgen Funke	SPD	42.4	14th	37.8	12	8.0	2	8.2	3	-	-	3.7	1	32
	Total Rhein-Sieg district			357		189		83		61						740

Siegen-Wittgenstein district

Siegen-Wittgenstein district council: share of voters and mandates
Electoral term	CDU		SPD		Green		FDP		UWG		REP		FWU		UWG Neunkirchen		total
XIII: 1999-2004	49.2	27	34.3	18th	5.1	3	5.7	3	5.2	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	54
XIV: 2004-2009	42.0	24	30.7	17th	7.8	4th	8.0	4th	7.2	4th	2.7	1	1.1	1	0.5	-	54
XV: 2009-2014																	54

Soest district

Soest district in South Westphalia

Bürgergemeinschaft Kreis Soest (BG) political association

Citizens' Community (BG)

District council for the Soest district

District council for the Soest district: share of the vote and mandates
Electoral term	CDU		SPD		BG		FDP		Green		SO!		The left		Day
XII: 1994-1999	45.9	27	37.2	21st	5.4	3	4.0	-	7.5	4th			55
XIII: 1999-2004	52.3	29	31.1	17th	7.2	4th	4.5	3	4.9	3			56
XIV: 2004-2009	47.8	29	26.9	16	9.4	5	8.0	5	6.4	4th	1.5	1	60
XV: 2009-2014	42.8	28	24.0	16	10.8	7th	10.2	7th	7.4	5	1.5	1	3.3	2

Solingen

The political spectrum in Solingen is subject to great fluctuations. The stay of the Ecological Democratic Party in the Council lasted just one term (the XIII.) . The citizens' community for Solingen , founded by former CDU members among others , was able to increase its council mandates from 3 to 6 from the XIII. to the XIV. term of office, but she lost two of them by leaving.

The Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany is present in Solingen with its subsidiary Solingen Aktiv, which was founded in 2003 .

City Councilor of Solingen

Since the local elections in 2004, the Solingen city council has changed a lot. In 2005 six council members split off from the CDU and founded the Free Citizens Union of Solingen (FBU) . Two of them left the FBU parliamentary group in 2007 and joined the FDP parliamentary group. The FBU will have to face the electorate for the first time in 2009.

In the summer of 2008, Helmut Teschner left the Civic Community for Solingen and has been non-attached since then. Gudrun Wüsthof followed him in March. Both were members of the CDU before the BfS.

Council of the City of Solingen: Voter share, seats and castling
Electoral term	CDU		SPD		Green		FDP		ödp		BfS		SG-A		FBU		fl / pl		advice
XII: 1994-1999	40.0	25th	41.3	25th	8.3	5	6.8	4th	1.9	-	-, -	-							59
XIII: 1999-2004	50.6	29	29.6	17th	5.9	4th	6.6	4th	1.9	1	5.3	3							58
XIV: 2004–2009 2005 2007 2008 2009	43.2	29 23	27.4	19th	9.3	6th	8.8	6 8			8.5	6 5 4	2.6	2	-, -	6 4	-, -	1 2	68
XV: 2009-2014	class = "background color5" 33.4	24	23.7	18th	13.1	10	11.3	8th			10.4	8th	4.4	3	3.7	1					72

Steinfurt district

The district of Steinfurt with over 445,000 inhabitants has a district council with 66 representatives.

Share of voters and district council members
Electoral term	CDU		SPD		Green		FDP		Day
XII: 1994-1999	44.0	29	39.0	26th	10.3	6th	4.5	-	61
XIII: 1999-2004	55.0	34	32.9	21st	6.9	4th	5.2	3	62
XIV: 2004-2009	50.8	32	30.3	19th	10.0	6th	8.8	5	62
XIV: 2009-2014

Unna district

2004

• Democratic Socialism Party (PDS)
• Free Association of Voters District Association Unna (FWG)
• INSTEAD OF PARTY THE INDEPENDENTS (INSTEAD OF PARTY)

District council for the Unna district

The following parties are running for the district elections in 2009: SPD, CDU, FDP, Greens, Die Linke, FWG, Statt Party and GFL ("Together for Lünen").

Unna district council: share of voters and mandates since 1994
Electoral term	SPD		CDU		Green		FDP		PDS		FWG-UN		INSTEAD OF		Day
XII: 1994-1999	50.4	35	35.2	24	11.3	8th	2.7	-							67
XIII: 1999-2004	42.0	28	45.0	30th	8.1	5	3.6	2	1.3	1					66
XIV: 2004-2009	40.6	27	36.7	24	10.2	7th	6.3	4th	3.4	2	1.9	1	0.8	1	66
XV: 2009-2014

District Administrator of Unna

According to the decision of the district electoral committee, the following candidates are running for the district election in 2009:
- the incumbent district administrator Michael Makiolla , SPD
- Wilhelm Jasperneite, joint candidate of CDU and FDP
- Herbert Goldmann, Greens
- Helmut Stalz, FWG

District of Viersen

District of Viersen

In 2004, the small party Offensive D stood for the district election, but only achieved 361 votes or 0.3% of the vote.

District council of the Viersen district
Electoral term	CDU		SPD		FDP		Green		Day
XII: 1994-1999	46.7	29	35.6	22nd	6.0	3	8.9	5	59
XIII: 1999-2004	57.0	31	29.0	16	6.3	3	7.5	4th	54
XIV: 2004-2009	50.5	30th	27.3	16	11.1	7th	10.9	7th	60
XIV: 2009-2014

Warendorf district

Warendorf district

The Free Community of Voters District Warendorf (FWG)

Voting Community District Warendorf eV (KWG)

Share of voters and district council members
Electoral term	CDU		SPD		Green		FDP		FWG		KWG		Day
XII: 1994-1999	48.2%	27	36.6%	21st	9.3%	5	5.2%	2	-, -	-	-, -	-	55
XIII: 1999-2004	55.7%	30th	27.4%	15th	5.7%	3	4.8%	3	-, -	-	5.4%	3	54
XIV: 2004-2009	49.5%	27	24.1%	13	9.6%	5	7.6%	4th	9.2%	5	-, -	-	54
XV: 2009-2014											-, -	-

Wesel district

The following parties were approved by the election committee for the district elections in 2009:
CDU, SPD, Greens, FDP, Die Linke, and the United Voters Community (VWG).
The NPD's candidacy was unanimously rejected because the party did not submit support signatures.

District council
Electoral term	CDU		SPD		Green		FDP		VWG		Day
XII: 1994-1999	35.3	25th	48.3	35	10.3	7th	4.1	-	-	-
XIII: 1999-2004	46.5	31	39.3	26th	8.0	5	4.4	3	1.7	1
XIV: 2004-2009	41.3	27	38.1	25th	10.3	7th	7.2	5	3.0	2	66

The election committee approved the following nominations for the district election:
- Incumbent Ansgar Müller (SPD)
- Ralf Berensmeier (CDU)
- Hubert Kück (Greens)
- Martin Kuster (VWG)
- Gerd Baßfeld (Die Linke)

The FDP does not submit its own applicant, but spoke in advance for the candidate of the CDU.
The NPD candidate was not admitted because he was unable to provide the necessary support signatures.

Wuppertal

City Councilor of Wuppertal

WfW city councilor Christoph Grüneberg left his parliamentary group in 2005 and remained non-attached until March 2008. Before that he was also a member of the district board of the CDU Wuppertal. On February 28, 2008, he and Christa Aulenbacher von den Grauen (who decided to dissolve themselves) founded the council group Free Voting Community Wuppertal Generational Alliance (FWG) . As a council group, the two, who until then had been sole mandate holders, should receive more money from the city treasurer according to the law.

City council of Wuppertal: share of the vote and mandates
Electoral term	CDU		SPD		Green		FDP		PDS		REP		Gray ones		WfW		FWG-G		pl		advice
XIV: 2004–2009 2009:	37.8	28	28.3	21st	12.3	9	6.5	5 4	3.6	3 2	2.3	2	2.2	1 0	6.9	5 3	-, -	0 2	-, -	0 2	75 73

The district representatives of Wuppertal

Gerhard Hirsch, WfW district representative for the Cronenberg district, left the group of voters in 2008. He joined the Free Voters' Community of Wuppertal Generations Alliance of City Councilors Grüneberg and Aulenbacher. The electoral community then published several untrue claims about the reason for his resignation. The number of members of the WfW has continuously decreased since the municipal elections in 2004. Especially between 2004 and 2008, numerous members and office holders resigned. The then Chairman of the Council Group, Prof. Dr. Schiller resigned his mandate as a member of the Elberfeld district council, although the WfW had no successor for him there.

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Gerhard Pick: Remscheid: FDP without OB candidate. In: RP Online . February 16, 2009, accessed on April 2, 2009 : “... give Mayor Beate Wilding (SPD) and her challenger Jochen Siegfried (CDU) ... clear refusals. ... who repeatedly conjured up 18 as the election result that evening. "  
2. ↑ Aims of the Active Citizens Community / The Active: Who We Are ... , accessed on March 27, 2015.
3. ↑ (RP): Solingen: The FBU at the crossroads. In: Rheinische Post . December 8, 2007, accessed on April 3, 2009 : "Hohn does not want to hear anything about the disintegration of his FBU:" We are currently in the process of becoming more. "" 
4. ↑ (RP): Solingen: Teschner has left BfS. In: Rheinische Post . July 12, 2008, accessed on April 3, 2009 : “Founding member Dr. Helmut Teschner has left the parliamentary group. He ... is said to have stated in a letter to the city that he wanted to sit far away from the BfS. " 
5. ↑ http://www.derwesten.de/staedte/nachrichten-aus-unna-kamen-bergkamen-holzwickede-und-boenen/fwg-statt-partei-und-gfl-kandidieren-in-bergkamen-id490063.html
6. ^ FWG, STATT party and GFL are running in Bergkamen , WAZ from July 16, 2009
7. ↑ http://www.derwesten.de/staedte/nachrichten-aus-wesel-hamminkeln-und-schermbeck/die-kandidaten-haben-fest-id492674.html
8. ^ Robert Maus: Two city councilors form a group and collect 100,000 euros. In: Westdeutsche Zeitung . March 6, 2008, accessed on April 2, 2009 : ““ Decisions by the city must not be unilaterally at the expense of the citizens ”, is the first sentence of the political program of the new group in the city council, which bears the name“ Wuppertal Generational Alliance ”. But the exact decision of Christa Aulenbacher (previously Graue) and Christoph Grüneberg (previously non-attached) will initially cost the citizens of the city 100,000 euros. "  

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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