In the runoff election for the post of district administrator of the Offenbach district, incumbent Oliver Quilling (CDU) prevailed against his challenger, the full-time district councilor Carsten Müller of the SPD.

55.84 percent of the voters voted for Quilling and 44.16 percent for Müller.

The turnout was 31.1 percent.

Jochen Remmert

Airport editor and correspondent Rhein-Main-Süd.

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Correspondent for the Rhein-Main-Zeitung for Central Hesse and the Wetterau.

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In the first ballot on September 26th, the day on which the Bundestag was re-elected, Quilling had won 49.6 percent of the vote.

So he narrowly missed the absolute majority at the time.

Carsten Müller came second in September with 27.6 percent.

The Green candidate Robert Müller brought it to 22.8 percent.

Six years ago, Oliver Quilling won the competition with 59.2 percent of the vote in the first ballot.

Stitch selection with "Photo Finish"

In Neu-Isenburg, the runoff election for the office of mayor ended on Sunday with a “photo finish”: Dirk Gene Hagelstein, previously an honorary SPD city councilor, won the election for mayor by a wafer-thin margin. He received 50.24 percent of the vote. The First City Councilor Stefan Schmitt from the CDU came to 49.76 percent. The turnout was 34.08 percent. Hagelstein and Schmitt had applied to succeed the previous mayor Herbert Hunkel (independent), who no longer ran.

The future mayor of Büdingen is Benjamin Harris (photo) from the CDU. The forty-four year old won the second ballot on Sunday against his competitor Ulrich Majunke by a clear margin. Harris received 55.1 percent of the vote, 44.9 percent of the 17,000 eligible voters voted for the 44-year-old FWG parliamentary group leader, who had entered the race as a single applicant. The turnout was 49.1 percent, two weeks ago it was 69.1. At the beginning of March, Harris takes over from Erich Spamer (FWG), who initially wanted to run for a fourth term but then withdrew. For Harris it was the second attempt at the chief post in the town hall. Six years ago he also made it into the second ballot, but was narrowly defeated by incumbent Spamer. Although the SPD,whose applicant Rolf Kleta was eliminated after the first round of voting, who supported Majunke, the CDU politician Harris was considered the favorite. Because he had received 43.5 percent on September 26th and was around 15 percentage points ahead of Majunke.