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Wiesbaden (dpa / lhe) - After the local elections in Hesse, the counting of votes continues on Monday.

So far, no nationwide trend result has been published because not all of the results required were available and the counting of votes in individual electoral districts was stopped during the night.

For example, not all of the results for the trend result were available from Hesse's largest city, Frankfurt.

The State Statistical Office did not expect to be able to publish the trend result before Monday noon.

Because of the complicated voting system, it takes days to get the final election results.

New district assemblies, city and municipal parliaments and local councils were elected on Sunday.

In the days before the vote, there was already a high number of postal votes.

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According to the State Statistical Office, the trend result is an interim result and only shows part of the counted votes: Only the ballot papers for which an election proposal was accepted without change are taken into account.

The ballot papers without a list cross are not included in the trend result.

It includes the district councils and the city councils of the independent cities.

The interim results were already available from individual cities.

For example, the CDU is ahead in the state capital Wiesbaden and Fulda, while the Greens can count on strong results in Kassel, Darmstadt and Gießen and are the strongest force there so far.

So far, the SPD has received the most votes in Offenbach.

Throughout Hesse, around 4.7 million men and women were eligible to vote - including 423,000 EU foreigners.

Candidates from a total of 20 parties and 585 groups of voters threw their hats into the ring for a place in the local parliaments.

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The number of votes depends on the seats in the respective municipal parliament.

The votes may be given individually or multiple times (accumulation) to candidates from different election proposals (variegation).

One can also cast all votes of a party or electoral community, combine both forms of voting and delete individual names.

This sometimes led to huge ballot papers.

In view of the corona pandemic, the usual hygiene rules with mask requirements and distance rules applied in the polling stations.

Voters should preferably bring their own ballpoint pen.

The country had also equipped the election workers with FFP2 masks, surgical masks and gloves.

The councils for foreigners were also re-elected on Sunday.

The basic requirement is that more than 1000 people with non-German citizenship live in a municipality.

At the same time, 34 (upper) mayor and five district administrator positions were voted on in Hesse.

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In Hanau, for example, the SPD politician Claus Kaminsky was confirmed as mayor.

In the direct election on Sunday, the 61-year-old received 56.17 percent of the votes.

Kaminsky, who has been in office since 2003, prevailed against a total of six opposing candidates.

After the racially motivated attack in Hanau, which resulted in nine deaths a good year ago, the mayor was challenged and became known nationwide.

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