Local elections in Rhineland-Palatinate 2009
On 7 June 2009, found local elections in Rhineland-Palatinate in 2009 instead. There are county councils , city councils of urban districts, municipality councils, municipal / city councils association of free churches, other community / town councils, local councils and the county council in Bezirksverband Palatinate selected. There were also direct elections for local administrators as well as some mayors and district administrators, with the runoff elections that might be required being scheduled for June 21st. The European Parliament elections were held on the same day . Local elections were held in parallel in four other German federal states .
Legal
Citizens of a member state of the European Union were entitled to vote in the municipal representative bodies (local advisory council, municipal / city council, association council, district council) as well as in the elections of the mayors and district administrators . The prerequisites for this were that they were 18 years of age on the day of the election, that their main residence had been in the electoral area for at least three months and that the person in the Federal Republic of Germany could not be excluded from voting.
They were eligible for election if they were not excluded from voting or eligibility in the Federal Republic of Germany and were not excluded from eligibility in their country of origin.
Confiscation of election posters during election campaigns
The Koblenz district court decided in mid-May 2009 to confiscate all posters of the NPD regional association Rhineland-Palatinate with the caricature “Have a good flight home”. These posters had already been viewed as inciting the people in the state elections in Bavaria a year earlier . This view was confirmed in court in September 2009. The population was asked to notify the nearest police station if such a poster was found, but not to remove the posters themselves.
Results
For the CDU, the local elections in 2009 brought heavy losses in contrast to the 2004 election (−7.4%). The FDP (+3.1%) and the left (+2.6%) benefited primarily from this, but also the Greens (+1.0%) and the SPD (+0.6%). Republicans lost 0.4% while other parties and electoral associations gained 0.5%. Nevertheless, the CDU remains the strongest force in the municipal councils in Rhineland-Palatinate with 37.6% of the vote. Its greatest losses were in the Vulkaneifel district , where it fell from 55.1% to 35.8%.
In the state capital Mainz the Greens were able to record a sensational success with 21.9% of the votes. There they only have one seat less than the SPD. In the inner-city districts of Mainz-Altstadt and Mainz-Neustadt , the Greens were the strongest party with over 30% of the votes. Eleven run-off elections were held two weeks later on June 21st in the 15 districts of the state capital when electing the mayor. In Mainz-Neustadt the candidates from the SPD and Greens take part in the runoff election, in Mainz-Ebersheim the candidates from the CDU and FDP.
Special features in the electoral system
Due to the peculiarities of the Rhineland-Palatinate electoral system in local elections (personalized proportional representation), the percentage of votes shown in the graph are shown as "weighted results", which can only represent the voting behavior arithmetically. In the municipal council elections in particular, instead of a “personalized proportional representation” (“multiple names” in connection with cumulation and variegation ), especially in smaller local communities, there is a majority vote in which the applicants or the elected cannot belong to a party.
There were places where no applicants for mayor's office could be found, e.g. B. forest mills . There were also places where there was no electoral list, e.g. B. Homberg (Westerwald) . The ballot paper always appeared blank, but names could be entered.
See also
Web links
- Local election results 2009
- Abc of the right to vote with the regional returning officer Pheinland-Pfalz
Individual evidence
- ↑ wahlen.rlp.de/kw/presse/lwl09001 ( Memento from February 27, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (archived copy accessed on August 4, 2019)
- ↑ ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) angelstein-tv.de
- ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate: LWL RLP - Local elections: Results of the council elections: Election results 2009 . In: rlp.de .
- ↑ http://www.swr.de/nachrichten/wahl/-/id=4869426/nid=4869426/did=4951532/1egdgxe/index.html
- ↑ http://internet.mainz.de/wahl/stadtrat/2009/sr_2009.html
- ↑ election results on Mainz.de
- ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate: LWL RLP - Local elections: Results of the council elections: Election results 2009 . In: rlp.de . Archived from the original on October 2, 2011. Retrieved May 25, 2011.
