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The new Lord Mayor of Neumünster will be chosen in a runoff election on May 30th.
At the polls on Sunday, none of the candidates, including incumbent Olaf Tauras (CDU), achieved the required absolute majority, as the city announced on its website after the votes were counted.
In the runoff election, Tauras and the Hamburg management consultant Tobias Bergmann (SPD) will run, who received the most votes with 40.6 percent and 26.9 percent respectively.
Former "chamber rebel"
Lord Mayor Tauras has headed the administration of Schleswig-Holstein's fourth largest city with 80,000 inhabitants since 2009.
Bergmann made a name for himself a few years ago as a "chamber rebel" and was President of the Chamber of Commerce in the Hanseatic city from April 2017 to December 2018.
Neumünster is the only one of the four independent cities in Schleswig-Holstein whose head of administration does not have an SPD party book.
There were five candidates.
Sven Radestock (Greens / 22.3 percent) came up with a double-digit result.
The non-party Memet Celik received 7.1 percent of the votes cast, the NPD councilor Mark Proch 3.1 percent.
Around 64,000 people are entitled to vote.
Interest in the election in Neumünster is not particularly great: the turnout was 39.9 percent.