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Success for the SPD and CDU: In the second round of the mayoral elections in North Rhine-Westphalia, both parties won a victory in the most competitive cities. While the SPD defended the city of Dortmund, which was important to them, the CDU reconquered the city hall of Düsseldorf. The Christian Democrats now return to provide the mayor of the capital of a great German state. The CDU candidates also won in Oberhausen and Münster.
In Dortmund SPD candidate Thomas Westphal won with 52 percent of the vote. The duel in the largest city in the Ruhr area was enthusiastically followed: CDU man Andreas Hollstein was around ten percentage points behind Westphal in the first vote. But the Greens clearly strengthened in Dortmund – in the first vote still with their own candidate – had given an election recommendation for Hollstein for this Sunday. The party justified it with its desire for a policy change in the City Council. Since 1946, the SPD definitively appointed the mayor of the so-called “chamber of the heart of social democracy.”
In Düsseldorf CDU politician Stephan Keller won the second round of the election against SPD incumbent Thomas Geisel. The 50-year-old Cologne city director was after counting 438 of the 454 electoral districts on Sunday night, nearly 55.4 percent. Hostages reached 44.6 percent. He admitted defeat and congratulated his rival. Six years after the SPD took office, the office of the mayor of the state capital of North Rhine-Westphalia is once again in the hands of the CDU.
Reker performs in Cologne
In the only megacity in North Rhine-Westphalia Suburb Henriette Reker is still Mayor. Non-partisan politics were behind the tally of almost all electoral districts, according to the city, with more than 60 percent of the vote, unattainable against her SPD rival, Andreas Kossiski. Reker was supported by the Greens and the CDU in the election campaign.
Green candidate Sibylle Keupen won the mayoral election in Aachen. It prevailed 67.4 percent over CDU competitor Harald Baal, who came in at 32.6 percent, as the city announced Sunday night after counting all constituencies on its website.
Green politician Uwe Schneidewind became the new mayor of Wuppertal chosen one. The 54-year-old joint candidate of the Greens and the CDU prevailed against incumbent Andreas Mucke (SPD) with 53.5 percent of the vote.
The CDU recorded more successes in the city of the Ruhr area Oberhausen and in the Westphalian city of Münster: the mayor of Oberhausen, Daniel Schranz, received 62.1 percent of the votes, his challenger Thorsten Berg (SPD) only 37.9 percent. Oberhausen was a stronghold of the SPD for decades.
The student city Münster It will also continue to be governed by a CDU politician: Markus Lewe (CDU) asserted himself in the second round with 52.6 percent of the vote against the green candidate Peter Todeskino.
