2019 Saarland local elections

2019 Saarland local elections

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207 district council seats 1,743 municipal council seats
Turnout	512,717 (63.58%) 11.09% 512,070 (63.71%) 11.18%
First party Second party Third party   Leader Tobias Hans Anke Rehlinger Markus Tressel & Tina Schöpfer Party CDU SPD Greens Last election 87 seats, 38.32% 745 seats, 38.76% 77 seats, 34.71% 683 seats, 36.06% 10 seats, 6.13% 72 seats, 5.61% Seats won 76 689 65 591 28 160 Seat change 11 56 12 92 18 88 Popular vote 170,385 177,089 150,395 154,908 63,083 55,189 Percentage 34.02% 35.38% 30.03% 30.94% 12.60% 11.02% Swing 4.30% 3.38% 4.68% 5.12% 6.47% 5.41%   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Josef Dörr Oskar Lafontaine [a] Oliver Luksic Party AfD Linke FDP Last election 9 seats, 5.35% 21 seats, 2.04% 14 seats, 7.30% 106 seats, 7.30% 2 seats, 2.45% 27 seats, 2.65% Seats won 16 66 13 95 6 53 Seat change 7 45 1 11 4 26 Popular vote 42,834 24,785 37,452 32,446 21,264 19,917 Percentage 8.55% 4.95% 7.48% 6.48% 4.25% 3.98% Swing 3.20% 2.91% 0.18% 0.82% 1.80% 1.33%

The 2019 Saarland local elections were held on May 26, 2019 to elect members of Saarland's 6 district councils and 52 municipal councils. Voters also elected the state's 34 directly-elected mayors. ^[1] The elections were held on the same day as the 2019 European Parliament election in Germany.

Results

Both of Germany's two historically dominant political parties, Christian Democratic Union and Social Democratic Party, lost seats in the election. Conversely, the parties with the strongest gains were The Greens, Alternative for Germany (AfD), and the Free Democratic Party (FDP).

Summary of results for the 2019 Saarland local elections ^[2]

Party		Votes (District)	%	+/-	Seats	+/-	Votes (Municipal)	%	+/-	Seats	+/-
	Christian Democratic Union (CDU)	170,385	34.02	4.30	76	11	177,089	35.38	3.38	689	56
	Social Democratic Party (SPD)	150,395	30.03	4.68	65	12	154,908	30.94	5.12	591	92
	The Greens (Grüne)	63,083	12.60	6.47	28	18	55,189	11.02	5.41	160	88
	Alternative for Germany (AfD)	42,834	8.55	3.20	16	7	24,785	4.95	2.91	66	45
	Die Linke	37,452	7.48	0.18	13	1	32,446	6.48	0.82	95	11
	Free Democratic Party (FDP)	21,264	4.25	1.80	6	4	19,917	3.98	1.33	53	26
	Local voters' associations	4,844	0.97	0.32	1	0	30,494	6.09	0.61	84	8
	Family Party	2,848	0.57	0.02	1	0	1,197	0.24	0.22	3	3
	Pirate Party Germany	2,815	0.56	1.88	0	2	1,648	0.33	0.74	0	9
	Free Voters (FW)	2,270	0.45	New	1	1	–	–	–	–	–
	Ecological Democratic Party (ÖDP)	1,695	0.34	New	0	New	–	–	–	–	–
	National Democratic Party (NPD)	910	0.18	0.71	0	1	369	0.07	0.38	0	2
	Die PARTEI	–	–	–	–	–	2,250	0.45	New	2	New
Total		500,795	97.67	0.56	207	3	500,592	97.76	0.36	1743	21
Invalid votes		11,922	2.33	0.56			11,478	2.24	0.36
Voter turnout		512,717	63.58	11.09			512,070	63.71	11.18
Eligible voters		806,471					803,787

Mayoral results

Voters also directly elected mayors in 34 cities. If no candidate obtained more than 50% of the vote, a run-off took place on June 9th. Below are the results for the three cities with Lord Mayors (Oberbürgermeister):

2019 Neunkirchen mayoral election ^{[3] [4]}

Party		Candidate	Votes (First round)	%	Votes (Second round)	%	+/-
	Social Democratic Party (SPD)	Jörg Aumann	8,737	46.8	7,221	57.6	10.8
	Christian Democratic Union (CDU)	Dirk Käsbach	5,312	27.5	5,321	42.4	14.9
	The Greens	Tina Schöpfer	2,221	11.9
	Alternative for Germany	Christoph Schaufert	1,605	8.6
	Independent	Peter Habel	962	5.2
Total			18,837	98.2	12,542	98.7	0.5
Invalid votes			388	1.8	159	1.3	0.5
Voter turnout			19,225	51.5	12,701	34.3	17.2
Eligible voters			36,955		37,062

2019 Saarbrücken mayoral election ^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes (First round)	%	Votes (Second round)	%	+/-
	Christian Democratic Union (CDU)	Uwe Conradt	21,342	29.0	22,703	50.3	21.3
	Social Democratic Party (SPD)	Charlotte Britz	27,070	36.8	22,429	49.7	12.9
	The Greens	Barbara Meyer-Gluche	10,578	14.4
	Die Linke	Markus Lein	5,075	6.9
	Alternative for Germany (AfD)	Laleh Hadjimohamadvali	3,316	4.5
	Free Democratic Party (FDP)	Gerald Kallenborn	2,975	4.0
	Die PARTEI	Michael Franke	2,715	3.7
	National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD)	Otfried Best	469	0.6
Total			73,541	99.7	45,132	99.8	0.1
Invalid votes			997	1.3	570	1.2	0.1
Voter turnout			74,538	54.4	45,702	33.3	21.1
Eligible voters			136,949		137,071

2019 Sankt Ingbert mayoral election ^{[6] [7]}

Party		Candidate	Votes (First round)	%	Votes (Second round)	%	+/-
	Christian Democratic Union (CDU)	Ulli Meyer	8,022	41.40	8,794	55.27	13.87
	Independent	Hans Wagner	8,086	41.73	7,118	44.73	3.00
	Social Democratic Party (SPD)	Sven Meier	3,269	16.87
Total			19,377		15,912
Voter turnout				66.75		54.10	12.65
Eligible voters			29,634		29,650

References

1. Between February 2018 and September 2019, the post of chairman of Die Linke Saarland was vacant. Oskar Lafontaine was the leader of the Die Linke faction in the Landtag of Saarland, making him the de facto leader of the party at the time of the 2019 municipal elections

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