A write-in candidate is a candidate whose name does not appear on the ballot but seeks election by asking voters to cast a vote for the candidate by physically writing in the person's name on the ballot. Depending on electoral law it may be possible to win an election by winning a sufficient number of such write-in votes,which count equally as if the person was formally listed on the ballot.
Alfred Gomolka was a German politician and member of the European Parliament for Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. He also served as the minister president of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
Harald Ringstorff was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and the 3rd Minister President of the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. He headed a coalition government of the SPD and PDS from 1998 until 2006,and subsequently headed a coalition between the SPD and CDU. He was the 61st President of the Bundesrat in 2006/07.
The Landtag of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania is the people's representative body or the state parliament of the German federal state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Thus it is also a constitutional body of the state.
Erwin Sellering is a German politician. From 2008 to 2017,he was the 4th Minister President of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
Stralsund –Nordvorpommern –Rügen was an electoral constituency represented in the German Bundestag from 1990 to 2013. Part of the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern,the constituency elected one representative under the mixed member proportional representation (MMP) system. Under the current constituency numbering system,it was designated as constituency 15. The constituency was abolished as part of the 2012 federal boundary review,which saw the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern lose one of its 7 geographic constituencies as a result of population change. It was largely replaced with the Vorpommern-Rügen –Vorpommern-Greifswald I constituency,which took its district number of 15.
Vorpommern-Greifswald is a district in the east of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern,Germany. It is bounded by the districts of Mecklenburgische Seenplatte and Vorpommern-Rügen,the Baltic Sea,Poland and the state of Brandenburg. The district seat is the University and Hanseatic City of Greifswald. A lake called Berliner See is found in the district.
Vorpommern-Rügen –Vorpommern-Greifswald I is an electoral constituency represented in the Bundestag. It elects one member via first-past-the-post voting. Under the current constituency numbering system,it is designated as constituency 15. It is located in northeast Mecklenburg-Vorpommern,comprising the Vorpommern-Rügen district and a small part of the Vorpommern-Greifswald district.
The 2015 Charlotte mayoral election took place on November 3,2015,to elect the Mayor of Charlotte,North Carolina. Mayoral elections in Charlotte are biennial,with the winner being sworn-in in December.
The 2016 Mecklenburg-Vorpommern state election was held on 4 September 2016 to elect the members of the 7th Landtag of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The incumbent grand coalition between the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and Christian Democratic Union (CDU) led by Minister-President Erwin Sellering retained its majority and continued in office.
Federal elections were held in Germany on 26 September 2021 to elect the members of the 20th Bundestag. State elections in Berlin and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern were also held. Incumbent chancellor Angela Merkel,first elected in 2005,chose not to run again,marking the first time that an incumbent Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany has not sought re-election.
The 2018–19 Phoenix mayoral special election was held to elect the new Mayor of Phoenix,Arizona. The election was officially nonpartisan;candidates ran on the same ballot. In the initial round of the election,since no candidate reached 50 percent plus one vote,a runoff election was held between the top two finishers.
The 2019 Social Democratic Party of Germany leadership election took place in the autumn of 2019 to elect the new leadership of the Social Democratic Party of Germany following the resignation of the Andrea Nahles on 3 June 2019. Although the leader(s) of the party are elected indirectly by a party convention,for the first time since 1993 the SPD held a vote by the membership to decide the candidate(s) which the party's executive board will propose to the party convention. Though the convention is not obliged to elect the proposed candidates,the membership vote is considered politically binding.
Philipp Amthor is a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag since the 2017 German federal election.
Eckhardt Rehberg is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern from 2005 until 2021.
The 2021 Mecklenburg-Vorpommern state election was held on 26 September 2021 to elect the 8th Landtag of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The incumbent government is a coalition of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and Christian Democratic Union (CDU) led by Minister President Manuela Schwesig.
Mecklenburgische Seenplatte I –Vorpommern-Greifswald II is an electoral constituency represented in the Bundestag. It elects one member via first-past-the-post voting. Under the current constituency numbering system,it is designated as constituency 16. It is located in southeast Mecklenburg-Vorpommern,comprising the most of the Vorpommern-Greifswald district and southeast parts of the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district.
Steffen Bockhahn is a German politician. He is the Senator for Social Affairs,Youth,Health and Schools of the Hanseatic City of Rostock. From October 24,2009,to November 5,2012,he was the state chairman of the Left Party in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania,and from 2009 to 2013 he was a member of the 17th German Bundestag,where he was elected as a direct candidate.
Christian Kleiminger is a German politician and member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). He was a member of The German Bundestag from 2005 until 2009.
Simone Oldenburg is a German politician and member of the Landtag of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern since 2011. She has served as parliamentary leader of The Left since September 2016. Since June 2018,she has also been co-deputy leader of the federal party. Oldenburg was The Left's lead candidate for the 2021 state election.
