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The CDU candidate Frank Nopper won the mayoral election in Stuttgart.
The 59-year-old received 42.3 percent of the votes in the second ballot on Sunday, as the city of Stuttgart announced in the evening.
Nopper becomes the successor of the Green politician Fritz Kuhn, who no longer ran for election.
His strongest competitor Marian Schreier won 36.7 percent of the vote - a remarkable success for the 30-year-old, who ran as an independent candidate.
Stuttgart's city councilor Hannes Rockenbauch from the SÖS / Linke parliamentary group followed in third place with 17.7 percent.
A total of 450,000 eligible voters were able to vote.
The mayor of Backnang, Nopper, was the clear favorite for Kuhn's successor.
The 59-year-old was able to clearly win the first run.
However, none of the applicants received an absolute majority of votes in the first ballot three weeks ago.
In the second vote, a simple majority is sufficient: whoever gets the most votes wins.
There are no classic runoff elections in mayoral elections in Baden-Württemberg.
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He wishes Nopper all the best for the design of the city in the next few years, said Schreier in the evening on the Stuggi.TV station before the end of the vote count.
He was happy to catch up.
His result shows that politics can also be done outside of the deadlocked structures and independently of the support of a party.
Up until now, Stuttgart was considered a city with a strong green electorate, the Greens make up the largest parliamentary group in the local council, the district president belongs to the party and all four direct mandates for the state parliament in the city went to the Greens.
The Green Party OB candidate was no longer on the ballot paper: After a disappointing performance in the first round and failed discussions with the other applicants from the center-left camp, the representative of the eco-party, Veronika Kienzle, withdrew her candidacy.
The CDU state chairman Thomas Strobl said after the result became known: "The state capital is not just any city - and that's why this victory is something very special for us."