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Status: 06.09.2020 8:05 pm
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Around 183,000 voters are called to vote.
In the district election in the Rostock district, after counting all the votes of the electoral districts, the former district administrator, Sebastian Constien (SPD), prevailed with an absolute majority on the first ballot. He received 54.6 percent. CDU candidate Stephan Meyer was just behind with 24.5 percent. Michael Noetzel of the Left Party received 11.8 percent. At 9.1 percent, Jürgen Dettmann received the fewest votes from Free Voters. A total of almost 180,000 eligible voters were called to elect the district administrator. Almost a third of them cast their vote. The Greens had asked for support for the CDU candidate, Stephan Meyer.
More than half of the votes are enough
The district administrator is the political head of the district administration. The Rostock district is one of a total of six districts in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. As an independent city, the Hanseatic city of Rostock does not belong to the Rostock district. The polling stations were open until 6 pm Whoever receives more than half of the valid votes is elected.
CDU strongest parliamentary group in the district assembly
Constien, 40, won the second ballot in 2013 with 50.7 percent of the vote against Katy Hoffmeister (CDU), who became Minister of Justice in Schwerin in 2016. At the district assembly, the CDU has 20 mandates, the left and the SPD eleven each and the AfD nine. The Greens are represented by six MPs, free voters with four, and an FDP / Free Horizon alliance and an individual applicant has six seats. The district council was elected for five years in 2019.
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