In the mayoral election in Dresden, incumbent Dirk Hilbert (FDP) is ahead – but he missed an absolute majority.
Hilbert received 32.5 percent of the votes, as the city announced on Sunday evening after counting all 538 polling stations.
Hilbert stood up for the alliance "Independent Citizens for Dresden", which is also supported by the CDU.
He clearly left the other candidates behind with a gap of more than 13 percentage points.
Because no candidate achieved an absolute majority in the first ballot, a second ballot is necessary.
This will take place in four weeks, on July 10th.
Only then will it be clear who will rule Dresden's town hall in the future.
It will be clear after June 25 who will stand again for the second ballot.
CDU politician Manuel once again district administrator in northern Saxony
In the other places are Dresden's environmental mayor Eva Jähningen (Greens) with 18.9 percent, SPD interior expert Albrecht Pallas (15.2 percent), the AfD MEP Maximilian Krah (14.2 percent) and the left candidate André Schollbach ( 10.3 percent).
Martin Schulte-Wissermann received significantly fewer votes for the Pirate Party (2.9 percent) and the individual candidates Marcus Fuchs (3.4 percent) - organizer of the Dresden "Querdenker" demos - and Sascha Wolff (1.3 percent).
According to the city, turnout was 47.4 percent on Sunday, slightly lower than in 2015. At that time, 51.1 percent of those entitled to vote went to the polls in the first ballot.
According to the first interim results, the CDU candidates were usually ahead in the district elections in Saxony.
In the district of North Saxony, Kai Emanuel remains district administrator after the preliminary final result.
The non-party graduate administrator, who ran for the CDU, immediately received 62.9 percent of the votes, as the State Statistical Office announced on Sunday evening on its website.
With that, Emanuel clearly left the candidate of the right-wing extremist Freie Sachsen, Uta Hesse, behind.
She received 20.0 percent of the votes.