Eight political parties and one independent candidate will be represented on the City Council elected for the next five years. Just under 75,000 eligible voters were called upon to cast their ballots. Voter turnout was around 57 percent.
The 46 seats on the council are distributed as follows:
AfD Lower Saxony (13)
Patricia Mair, Dimitri Sosinov, Karsten Berg, Andreas Knopp, Patrick Kahs, Andreas Plättner, Sofia Friemel, Frank Ulrich Wenzel, Erhard Bekurts, Michael Beene, Jonatan Mosler, Wolfgang Helmut Reupke, Maik Oskar Andre Tänzer
SPD (12)
Tobias Bey, Doris Holletzek, Sabine Reinecke, Tim Lolies, Thorsten Schleining, Muzaffer Perik, Linus-Noah Slomka, Regina Blechner, Frank Miska, Laura Letter, Dincer Dinc, Michael Letter
CDU (11)
Clemens Heinrich Löcke, Bastian Brylla, Markus Mustafa Büyükaltay, Steven Maik Walter Mohrmann, Christian Striese, Thomas Lothar Huppertz, Sylvia Lange-Nosseck, Inge Lisbeth Pelzer, Sabine Hella Thiele, Philipp Johannes Manfred Stolze, Andreas Triebe
Greens (3)
Claudia Hertha Carolina Bautz, Birgit Bosch, Wolfgang Rosenthal
Die Linke (3)
Hamit Cem Ince, Henrik Bernard Torbecke, Cemal Ince
BSW Lower Saxony (1)
Selahettin Ince
The Party (1)
Lars Walter Tietjen
FDP (1)
Doreen Hopert
Independent candidate Westphal (1)
Björn Westphal
The city council will convene for the first time for its constituent session on November 4. As the formation of the new council—the city’s highest political governing body—takes place, this will be a public session.