Local elections in North Rhine-Westphalia in 2015

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In the local elections in North Rhine-Westphalia on September 13, 2015, district administrators , mayors and mayors were elected in the districts and municipalities, unless this had already been done in the local elections in North Rhine-Westphalia 2014 through voluntary early elections, of which around 60% of the Cases use was made. The background to this was the law to strengthen local democracy .

General

The district administrator was elected in the eleven districts of Coesfeld , Düren , Euskirchen , Herford , Kleve , Lippe , Steinfurt and Viersen , in the Ennepe-Ruhr district , in the Oberberg district and in the Rhine district of Neuss .

Elections for Lord Mayor took place in the eleven independent cities of Bochum , Bonn , Essen , Herne , Krefeld , Leverkusen , Mülheim an der Ruhr , Münster , Oberhausen , Solingen and Wuppertal .

The 156 towns belonging to the district with elections for mayor included Ahaus , Ahlen , Bad Münstereifel , Bad Oeynhausen , Bad Salzuflen , Beckum , Bocholt , Borken , Castrop-Rauxel , Coesfeld , Dülmen , Düren , Emmerich am Rhein , Euskirchen , Frechen , Geilenkirchen , Geldern , Grevenbroich , Gütersloh , Hattingen , Hürth , Ibbenbüren , Iserlohn , Jülich , Kerpen , Kleve , Lemgo , Lübbecke , Lüdinghausen , Lünen , Menden (Sauerland) , Meschede , Mettmann , Minden , Neuss , Oer-Erkenschwick , Olpe , Pulheim , Rheine , Schwelm , Steinfurt , Tecklenburg , Unna , Viersen , Warendorf , Warstein , Witten and Zülpich .

If none of the candidates received an absolute majority of the votes in the first ballot on September 13, 2015, a runoff election between the two first-placed winners is scheduled in the respective municipality on September 27, 2015.

OB elections in Cologne

Originally, the mayor election in the independent city of Cologne was supposed to take place on September 13th. The election was postponed due to a complaint about the ballot papers, on which the names of the parties were displayed in excessively large font size, but the names of the candidates were rather small, which was criticized as reducing the chances of non-party candidates. The first ballot took place on October 18th, a possible runoff election was planned for November 8th, but then did not have to be held. As a result of the postponement, around 55,000 ballot papers submitted by postal vote had to be declared invalid.

On October 17, 2015, a former neo-Nazi carried out a knife attack on the candidate Henriette Reker and several bystanders due to xenophobic motives.

See also

Web links

Commons : Local elections in North Rhine-Westphalia 2015  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Ministry of the Interior and Local Affairs of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia / State Returning Officer: Election of the mayors of the independent cities and district administrators
  2. ↑ List of the municipalities in which the main administrative officials will be elected on September 13, 2015 ( memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Source: Ministry of the Interior of North Rhine-Westphalia ) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mik.nrw.de
  3. ↑ Christian Wolf: New date after ballot slip: Cologne mayor election now on October 18, message from WDR from September 4, 2015
  4. ↑ Jörg Diehl: Assassination attempt on Cologne's OB candidate: Knife stabber has a right-wing extremist past. In: Spiegel Online . October 17, 2015, accessed June 9, 2018 .

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