[1][2] All EU citizens aged 18 or over on election day were eligible to vote if they had lived in a municipality for at least six weeks.
[4] Direct elections for a number of mayors and district administrators were originally scheduled to take place between April and October 2020.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany, these were postponed on 24 March 2020 by the Hessian state parliament, and were scheduled to take place on 1 November 2021 at the earliest.
However, city and district councils were permitted to hold alongside the regular local elections if they choose to do so.
[5] As a result, the district administrators of Bergstraße, Odenwaldkreis, Schwalm-Eder-Kreis, Kassel, and Hersfeld-Rotenburg and the mayors of Hanau, Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, Fulda, Marburg, and Wetzlar were elected alongside the local elections on 14 March 2021, with runoffs held as necessary.