“Election” refers to a procedure in which offices or mandates are assigned through decision-making. The following elections take place regularly in Hamburg:
- Citizenship election
- federal election
- European elections
- District assembly election
The election offices of the district offices are responsible for organizing elections in the districts.
The tasks include, among other things, organizing the polling stations and election assistants as well as processing applications for entry in the register of eligible voters.
- Election offices will be set up six weeks before election day to process postal votes and maintain the register of eligible voters.