Second round election in Wuppertal: The result of the mayoral election is here! Green-black candidate wins

Updated: 09/27/2020 at 9:30 pm

Grip OB second round election in Wuppertal: The green-black candidate, Professor Dr. Schneidewind and SPD Mayor Andreas Mucke fought a close race. Now there is a change of power in the city hall!

The result and reactions Wuppertal on the OB election news ticker.

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Second round election in Wuppertal: result of the 2020 OB elections

Interim result of OB run-off elections in Wuppertal (272/272 electoral districts counted)

Andreas Mucke (SPD): 46.5% (Result in the 1st vote: 37%)

Prof. Dr. Uwe Schneidewind (CDU / Greens): 53.5% (Result in the 1st vote: 40.8%)

Electoral participation: 37.2% (Turnout in the 1st vote: 46.9%)

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September 27, 2020: OB election in Wuppertal in the second round ticker

8:29 pm: Schneidewind achieved the clearest result in the Uellendahl-West constituency. Here she got a whopping 67.6 percent of the vote. HERE you can find out how your district voted ›

7:29 pm: Election victory for the CDU and the Greens! Ultimately, however, Professor Dr. Schneidewind, the joint black-green candidate, won with 53.5 percent. SPD-OB Mucke has lost the executive chair in the city council after just one term. Fridays for Future Wuppertal immediately sent a virtual congratulation to climate expert Schneidewind:

7:01 pm: It was ahead, but now it seems bitter for OB Mucke! The trend has changed and now CDU / Green candidate Schneidewind leads with five percentage points. Only a few constituencies remain to be counted.

6.42 pm: Trend change in Wuppertal? Now the CDU / Greens candidate Schneidewind is just ahead. But how it will turn out is still open.

6.30 pm: It’s getting very, very tight in Wuppertal. SPD incumbent Mucke is currently at the helm. But more than 100 electoral districts are still missing. It is still completely open how it will turn out.

5:05 pm: Wuppertal polling stations will close in less than an hour and the first results of the OB second round are eagerly awaited

4 pm: In Wuppertal there is a high turnout, as in many other NRW cities in the second round elections. By 2 pm, 30.5 percent of those eligible to vote had cast their ballot in the second round. In the last runoff of the 2015 election, it was just 24.1 percent at this time and a total of 33.5 percent.

Second round election in Wuppertal: this is the starting position after the 2020 local elections

Since November 2018, there has been a city council alliance between the CDU and the Greens. Jamaica’s negotiations with the FDP had failed. Now, Schwarz-Grün entered the 2020 local elections with a joint candidate, Professor Uwe Scheidewind. But above all the CDU had to yield in the election of the city council, almost five percentage points dropped to only 24.2 percent. The Greens, on the other hand, benefited almost as much and came to 19.6 percent.

The SPD remains the strongest force in the city hall with 28.9 percent and slight losses (-1.1 percent). The incumbent mayor Andreas Mucke won fewer votes than Schneidewind in the first ballot, but the race is not hopeless for him.

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Second round of the elections in Wuppertal: these are the two OB candidates Andreas Mucke and Uwe Schneidewind

Andreas Mucke (SPD): The current mayor of Wuppertal is shaking for his re-election. The 54-year-old graduate engineer for technical environmental protection previously worked as an energy consultant for Wuppertaler Stadtwerke and managing director of the Wuppertal district development company.

Prof. Dr. Uwe Schneidewind (CDU and Greens candidate): As a joint candidate of the Greens and the CDU, the economics professor wants to combine the environment and economics. He is considered one of the most influential economists in Germany and was president of the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy until 2020.

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