After weeks of election campaigning, citizens in the Main-Kinzig district were also called to the polls on Sunday. The polling stations are open until 6 p.m. Who will win the race in the district and in the respective municipalities? You can find the first results and developments in the live ticker in this article in the evening.

Main-Kinzig district – Around 256,500 eligible voters in the Main-Kinzig district are called to decide on the future composition of the local parliaments on Sunday (March 15th). Take place throughout Hesse on this day Local elections instead of. In a statement from the district, District Administrator Thorsten Stolz (SPD) calls for people to vote. “We decide on the parliaments that will shape our cities, communities and the Main-Kinzig district in the next few years. We use our votes to decide the direction and give our support to those committed to our homeland. This good civic duty must be fulfilled,” said Stolz.

In addition to the local parliaments, the Main-Kinzig district will also decide who will sit in the executive chair in the town halls of Langenselbold and Linsengericht in the future. At the district level, it is the first local election after the Change of border between the district and the city of Hanau. Therefore, for the first time after the district election, there will be no politicians from Hanau into a new district council move in. For the As the district parliament is currently in office, this has been in effect since the turn of the yearthe message continues.

District Administrator Stolz is calling for local elections in the Main-Kinzig district

There are nine nominations on the district election list: In the order in which they are listed, these are CDU, AfD, SPD, Greens, FDP, Free Voters Main-Kinzig (FW), Die Linke, Volt and FREIE WÄHLER. On election evening, the Main-Kinzig Forum in Gelnhausen, Barbarossastraße 24, opens to interested citizens from 6 p.m. In the Barbarossa Hall, the current results from the 28 cities and communities in the district are presented on a large screen and several screens. Visitors can follow the counting directly.

Long election night – Main-Kinzig Forum open from 6 p.m

According to the announcement, a long election night is to be expected. A final trend result for the district council election – i.e. the evaluation of the ballot papers on which only a list cross was placed – will probably not be available until after midnight. Beforehand, the results of the mayoral elections in Langenselbold and Linsengericht as well as the numbers for the future municipal councils and city parliaments are counted, here too initially the ballot papers with only one list cross.

Following the counting of the district elections, the counting of the local council and foreign council elections follows. In the following days, the municipal administrations will evaluate the remaining ballot papers. According to the district, the official final result of the district election will be known after the last meeting of the district election committee on Friday, March 27th.