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In the previous mayoral election in 2021, Ingo Klokemann won by around 300 votes. Even then, the result in Wennigsen was close.
The mayoral election in Wennigsen (Deister) was extremely close. With a lead of just eight votes, SPD candidate Ingo Klokemann won the election in the municipality in the Hanover region. This emerges from the provisional official final result.
Exactly 3,391 votes went to the incumbent, his challenger Daniel Stein from the Voters' Group For All Wennigsen! came to 3,383 votes. 29 votes were counted as invalid. It was already tight in the community in the previous mayoral election in 2021. At that time, Klokemann won by around 300 votes.
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