Overview

• Gert-Uwe Mende, the SPD candidate and incumbent mayor, won the March 30 runoff election with 58.12% of the vote.
• Thilo von Debschitz, an independent candidate supported by CDU and FDP, garnered 41.88% of the vote in the runoff.
• Voter turnout declined significantly from 43.27% in the first round to 34.87% in the runoff election.
• Mende has served as Wiesbaden’s mayor since 2019 and will begin his second six-year term following this victory.
• The election highlighted contrasting profiles, with Mende's incumbency prevailing over von Debschitz's outsider campaign as an entrepreneur with no prior municipal political experience.