The results of the district elections in Munich reflect the results of the state elections almost identically. In the state capital’s nine electoral districts, five CSU and four Green candidates also won directly, and in exactly the same constellation. The CSU won the districts of Hadern (with Birgit Hainz), Ramersdorf (Friederike Steinberger), Pasing (Barbara Kuhn), Bogenhausen (Jan Albat) and Moosach (Max Straßer), the Greens won in Munich-Mitte (Ulrike Goldstein) and Giesing (Andreas Ammer), Milbertshofen (Delija Balidemaj) and Schwabing (Florina Vilgertshofer).
In the party ranking, however, the Greens were again just ahead of the CSU, with 29.7 to 26.8 percent. In the state elections, the Greens received 30.7 percent and the Christian Socialists 28.5 percent. The numbers for the other larger parties were slightly higher than those for the state election: the Social Democrats got 12.5 percent, the Free Voters got 7.2, the AfD got 7.1 and the FDP got 6.1. In the entire district, the CSU was ahead of the Greens (18.4), Free Voters (15.6), AfD (11.2), SPD (8.7) and FDP (4.1) with 32.5 percent. All other parties received less than two percent.
Ulrike Goldstein from the Greens received the most first votes of all Munich candidates in the district elections.
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Birgit Hainz collected the most total votes for the CSU.
(Photo: Alessandra Schellnegger)
Ulrike Goldstein received the most first votes of all Munich candidates in the Green stronghold of Munich-Mitte with 28,033 votes (or 43.7 percent). In terms of total votes, CSU woman Birgit Hainz was the most successful; thanks to more than 40,000 second votes, she received a total of 60,267 votes. Munich’s second best vote collector was her direct opponent in Hadern, the Green politician Susanne Mesan: 17,709 first and 21,181 second votes added up to 48,890 total votes, around 4,000 more than her party friend Goldstein.
A total of 82 representatives will meet at the constituent meeting on November 3rd, the same number as last time, but again considerably more than provided for in the state election law. As a result, only 61 mandates should be awarded in the Upper Bavaria constituency – 31 directly and 30 via party lists. The big surplus lies with the CSU, which won 27 of the 31 direct mandates, well over 80 percent. In order to compensate for this predominance in relation to the overall result of the votes, the other parties and groups receive compensatory mandates until the distribution of seats reflects the actual election result.
Because, in contrast to the state parliament, there is no five percent hurdle for the district council that a party has to overcome, the many compensatory mandates now mean that 13 of the 14 parties that stood for election are represented in the next district council. Five years ago, only ten out of 16 groups were involved. New are “The Party”, Basis and Volt; only the V-Party³ (Party for Change, Vegetarians and Vegans) has to stay outside. Your 10,499 votes were not enough. With 3.2 million eligible voters in Upper Bavaria and 2.35 million actual voters, the V Party³’s share was not even a quarter of a percent, it was exactly 0.23 percent.
24 district councilors come from Munich
Of the 82 district councilors, 24 come from Munich, i.e. almost a third. The largest contingent is made up of the Greens, the second strongest faction with 15 seats. They are allowed to delegate all of their nine local direct candidates to the district council. In addition to the four constituency winners, Susanne Mesan (Hadern), Dardan Kolic (Ramersdorf), Erika Sturm (Pasing), Andreas Voßeler (Bogenhausen) and Kathrin Düdder (Moosach) come to the plenum via the list. In the 27-member CSU parliamentary group, apart from the five directly elected candidates, there are no other Munich residents.
The local SPD association is represented by four (of a total of seven) members of the district council: Irmgard Hofmann, Helga Hügenell, Matthias Bonigut and Christina Hörl. Two of the three FDP district councilors also come from the state capital: Claus Wunderlich and Barbara Gräfin von Baudissin-Schmidt. Munich residents also join the committee for the AfD (Rene Dierkes), the Left (Klaus Weber), “The Party” (Oliver Skerlec) and the Animal Welfare Party (Susanne Wittmann). The Free Voters are the third-largest faction with 13 seats, but will not have anyone from the state capital in their ranks.
Munich constituencies 103 (Giesing) and 106 (Pasing) will each be represented by four people in the future district council. There will be a politician from the Greens, CSU and SPD in Giesing, the leftist Klaus Weber, and in Pasing, the animal rights activist Susanne Wittmann. The remaining constituencies are each represented by three councilors, except for Moosach (two) and Schwabing and Mitte. From there, only the Green direct candidates made it to the district council.