Overview

• Preliminary official results show Renner at 58.5%, René Jurisch at 30.4% and Martin Bahrmann at 11.1%, with turnout around 52.3% among 22,752 eligible voters.
• The count is described as preliminary and requires formal confirmation by the municipal election committee (Gemeindewahlausschuss).
• Renner, Meißens finance mayor since 2016 and deputy to outgoing Olaf Raschke, ran as a nonpartisan candidate.
• CDU, SPD, Linke, Unabhängige Liste Meißen and Bürger für Meißen publicly backed Renner in an effort to prevent an AfD-backed mayoralty.
• Jurisch drew scrutiny over a brief NPD membership and a group invoking the 'Schwarze Sonne' symbol, and his campaign was criticized after an unauthorized Compact video was filmed at Schloss Proschwitz.