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Bavaria’s 2026 Local Races Take Shape as Parties Unveil Slates and Mayoral Bids

Local groups moved from recruiting to messaging, putting bread-and-butter services plus fiscal restraint in focus.

Overview

  • Freie Wähler in Kempten nominated Christian Schoch unanimously for lord mayor and presented a 44-person council list, pledging transparent finances, support for business and more affordable housing.
  • Freie Wähler in Landkreis Ebersberg set their 32-name county council ticket and confirmed they will not field a candidate for Landrat.
  • In Weilheim, Freie Wähler named Johann (Hans) Ücker as their mayoral candidate with a unanimous vote after a nomination meeting that was closed to the press and communicated by press release.
  • The AfD in Freising voided Stefan Jahnel’s Moosburg mayoral nomination over an improper coin‑toss tiebreak and said the selection meeting will be repeated.
  • Additional slates were finalized across the state, including Vaterstetten with Sonja Kiran for mayor, Lengdorf with incumbent Michèle Forstmaier re-nominated, and new lists in Kreuth, Eichenau, Pöttmes, Schwabniederhofen and Gatterberg/Schönbrunn, with diversity a focus in some places as CSU Icking’s nearly all‑male list drew notice.