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5:30 p.m.: Urs Hofer’s election ceremony took place despite the defeat
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4:38 pm: Katrin Cometta celebrates her election success in a small group
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3:45 pm: Michael Künzle on the new city councilor: “We look forward to working with you”
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3:30 p.m.: Urs Hofer on his defeat
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3:15 p.m .: “I assumed a close result”
In an interview with RADIO TOP, Katrin Cometta explains how she witnessed the election:
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3:00 p.m .: Katrin Cometta is happy about the victory
An overjoyed Katrin Cometta thanks the voters for their support:
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2:45 p.m .: Katrin Cometta is officially introduced as the new city councilor
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2:45 p.m .: Katrin Cometta has been elected
After the last two constituencies, the decision was made. Katrin Cometta is elected.
It has 12,125 votes. Urs Hofer has 9,620 votes.
The 44-year-old Cometta is currently still working as a manager for a social company. She has been a member of the Zurich Cantonal Council for the Green Liberals since 2019. Before that, she was active in the Winterthur city parliament for around nine years. For the first time, the GLP is represented in the executive branch of the second largest city in the canton of Zurich. In future, the FDP will only have one seat on the seven-member body.
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14:23: Final result can be waited for
The original plan was for the final result to be announced at 2:15 p.m.
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2:08 p.m.: Four out of seven constituencies are counted
The constituencies of Winterthur Old Town, Wülflingen and Lakes are still missing.
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1:44 p.m.: Cometta is in the lead after four constituencies
Mattenbach and Veltheim are also counted. Katrin Cometta is still in the lead.
It has 5,872 votes. Urs Hofer had 4,211 votes.
(Statistics: City of Winterthur)
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1:36 p.m .: Katrin Cometta is in the lead
The first two constituencies are counted: Oberwinterthur and Töss.
Katrin Cometta won 2,224 votes in Oberwinterthur and 750 in Töss.
Urs Hofer won 1,843 votes in Oberwinterthur and 679 in Töss.
Katrin Cometta is in the lead with 2,974 votes. Urs Hofer has 2,522 votes.
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1:32 p.m .: The results should follow soon
In response to a request from RADIO TOP, the responsible authority in the city states that the first interim results will be published shortly.
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1:18 p.m.: The first interim results are still a long time coming
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1 p.m .: No results are available yet
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12:00 p.m .: The urns are closed
The first results are expected around 1 p.m.
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Everything is ready for today’s election and voting Sunday. You can still cast your vote at the urn locations in the neighborhoods, and people are already busy working in the counting rooms. From 1 p.m. we expect the first results from the constituencies. pic.twitter.com/ZSxHd3c1hc
– City of Winterthur (@StadtWinterthur) August 23, 2020
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Surprisingly high voter turnout in Winterthur city council elections:
The election of a replacement for the resigning Barbara Günthard-Maier moves the people of Winterthur. The turnout was higher on the Friday before the elections than with the last year’s replacement election.
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The initial situation:
The green liberals are trying for the seventh time to make the leap to the Winterthur city council. They have never succeeded in doing this before. This time the chances are actually better than already. On the one hand, the party benefits from the green wave. The GLP outstripped the FDP in the National Council elections last October. However, the FDP holds more seats than the GLP in the Winterthur City Council.
The gender issue is also an issue. Should FDP candidate Urs Hofer be elected, Christa Meier (SP) would be the only woman on the Winterthur city council. Hofer’s chances, on the other hand, are strengthened by his attitude. In view of the left-green majority in the city council, a clear bourgeois representation should definitely have a chance.
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The resignation
On April 29, 2020, the Winterthur FDP city councilor Barbara Günthard-Maier informed the media about her resignation. The head of the Department for Safety and Environment is moving to the federal government after eight years on the Winterthur City Council. There she devotes herself to a new position at the FDFA. The FDP presented its candidate Urs Hofer on the same day. This is to defend the vacated seat for the FDP. He is challenged by the green liberals. They want to conquer the seat with Katrin Cometta. It is already the seventh attempt by the GLP for a seat on the Winterthur city council.
The candidates have to vote in the run-up to the elections TOP POLIT PODIUM met.
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Urs Hofer (FDP) in portrait RADIO TOP and TELE TOP
• 39 years old (born August 30, 1980)
• President of the parliamentary group in the Winterthur municipal council
• Political career: moved up to the city council in 2013, defended seat in 2014, member of the supervisory committee since then, parliamentary group president since 2018 • Grew up in Nürensdorf, has lived in Winterthur for 18 years
• Married, one daughter (October 2019)
• Matura at the Rychenberg Cantonal School, law degree at the Universities of Zurich and Neuchâtel
• Since 2016 own law firm in Winterthur (together with friends, ten-person team)
• Military pilot (Helicopter)
• Board of directors in various startups (firm im Turm AG, swisspeers AG, Dürr Dental Schweiz AG, Eulachhallen AG, Startup & Innovation Space AG, board member of the KMU Verband Winterthur und Umgebung)
• Leisure time: traveling, photography, volleyball (board member and player trainer VBC Nürensdorf), tennis (TC Brütten, Interclub players), windsurfing (Steckborn windsurf club), ski tours and skiing
• Slogan in the 2020 election campaign: “For the Winterthur of possibilities”
Katrin Cometta (GLP) RADIO TOP and TELE TOP
• 44 years old (born September 01, 1975)
• Canton center
• Political career: 2010 – 2019 City Council of Winterthur (member of the Social Affairs and Security Commission; 2018/19 parliamentary group president), member of the Zurich Cantonal Council since 2019 (President of the Education and Health Supervisory Commission), 2014 – 2018 founding president of GLP Women Switzerland 13 years in Winterthur
• Married, two school-age children
• Degree in political science at the University of St.Gallen
• Head of Staff & Services in the «Läbesruum» (Winterthur social company), previously employed by the State Chancellery of the Canton of Schaffhausen
• Leisure time: nature, cycling, reading, playing with friends • Slogan in the 2020 election campaign: «Green – Social – Liberal»
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