As of: 09/27/2021 00:07
A number of cities and municipalities in Lower Saxony voted in a runoff election on mayors, mayors and district administrators on Sunday. Here you can read an overview of important final results.
Even after the departure of Hauke Jagau, the SPD in the Hanover region provides the president: Steffen Krach prevailed against the CDU candidate Christine Karasch in the runoff election. According to the preliminary final result, he won 63.91 percent of the vote. In Braunschweig, Lower Saxony’s second largest city, there is Thorsten Kornblum, a new SPD mayor. His party colleague Ulrich Markurth did not run for re-election. Kornblum won 65.9 percent of the vote and was clearly ahead of Kaspar Haller from the CDU.
New CDU mayor in Osnabrück
Katharina Pötter (CDU) is the new mayor of Osnabrück.
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In the city of Osnabrück, the post of Lord Mayor remains in the hands of the CDU: Katharina Pötter succeeds her party colleague Wolfgang Griesert, who for reasons of age did not run for the mayor election. Annette Niermann from the Greens had already admitted her defeat in the runoff election before the preliminary final result was announced and congratulated Pötter. In the city of Göttingen, Petra Broistedt succeeds her SPD party colleague Rolf-Georg Köhler as Lord Mayor. Broistedt received 52.96 percent of the vote in the runoff election and was ahead of the Green candidate Doreen Fragel.
Krogmann remains mayor in Oldenburg
In Oldenburg, too, the result of the runoff election for the post of Lord Mayor is certain: The SPD candidate Jürgen Krogmann remains in office. With 54.07 percent of the vote, he was clearly ahead of Daniel Fuhrhop from the Greens. In Wolfsburg, Dennis Weilmann of the CDU becomes the new Lord Mayor of the city. In the runoff election on Sunday, he was 55.9 percent ahead of his competitor Iris Bothe from the SPD. After ten years in office, Lord Mayor Klaus Mohrs (SPD) did not run for election.
Lüneburg gets a green mayor
Claudia Johanna Kalisch from the Greens becomes mayor of Lüneburg.
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The mayor election in Lüneburg was won by the Green candidate Claudia Johanna Kalisch (Greens) with 55.46 percent of the vote and thus prevailed against Heiko Meyer from the Lüneburg electoral community. Mayor Ulrich Mägde (SPD), who has been in office since 1991, did not run for election again. In Delmenhorst, the CDU candidate Petra Gerlach won the runoff election with a clear result of 67.94 percent of the vote.
Mayor Junk in Goslar voted out of office
In Goslar, the incumbent Lord Mayor Oliver Junk (CDU) clearly lost the runoff election, according to the preliminary final result. Urte Schwerdtner (SPD) is now the new mayor. 62.78 percent of the electorate voted for them. The Lower Saxony Ministry of the Interior initiated disciplinary proceedings against junk on September 10th. He is suspected of having manipulated files in an award procedure. Junk defends itself against the allegations.
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