Online Senate and Faculty Board elections 2026
Verification of the Voter Registry
Verification of voter eligibility is the responsibility of the members of the University of Münster themselves.
From April 21 to May 4, 2026, you can verify your eligibility to vote—that is, whether and, if so, for which departments or which constituencies within a department and the Senate you are eligible to vote according to the voter registry. Only those listed in the voter registry are eligible to vote. The electronic election notification is sent based on the data contained in the voter list. For these reasons, it is important that you verify your eligibility to vote yourself in order to participate in the elections.
You can check your voter eligibility online.
To do so, log in with your university ID and password, and review the departments/electoral districts for which you are registered as eligible to vote in the voter registry. You can find the key to the electoral districts at the bottom of this page.
You can access the online voter registry check on this page:
https://sso.uni-muenster.de/IT/wahlen/kabine/wahlverzeichnis_2026
You can also verify your eligibility to vote during the above-mentioned period at your dean’s office or the university’s election office by checking the voter lists maintained there—either in person, by phone, or by email. Please review the information listed in the voter registry, particularly your university ID number and your department/electoral district.
If you wish to request changes to your entry in the voter registry, please contact the Election Office at the University of Münster by May 4, 2026 (final deadline!) at wahlamt@uni-muenster.de or by phone at 0251/83-22107. As of May 5, 2026, the 2026 voter registry can no longer be amended. If eligibility is incorrectly recorded after the deadline has passed, the inaccuracy in the voter registry can no longer be challenged or corrected, not even through an election challenge.
If you don't know your username or password, go to the following page:
https://www.uni-muenster.de/IT/services/nutzerverwaltung/passwortvergessen.html
If you have any other questions about your ID and password, please contact
the CIT hotline:
https://www.uni-muenster.de/IT/ansprechpartner/index.html#id1
Security notice to all eligible voters:
You must handle the authentication credentials required to cast your vote (your university ID and the corresponding password) responsibly. It is the responsibility of each eligible voter to protect their authentication credentials from unauthorized access by third parties to ensure that electronic voting can only be conducted by authorized individuals. In particular, this data should not be shared with other (eligible) voters.
Election Results
At its meeting on 17.06.2025, the Central Election Committee confirmed the election results of the online elections for the Senate and the Faculty Boards 2025.
You can find the election results under the following link: Election results 2025
The voter turnout for online elections in the student group was 10.1 % in 2025.
Election Office opening hours:
If you have any questions regarding election matters, submitting forms, making changes or lodging objections to electoral registers, please contact the Election Office of the University of Münster by phone (+49 251 83-22107), in person by prior appointment (Mon - Thu, 9 am - 12 pm and 2 pm - 4 pm, and Fri, 9 am - 12 pm), electronically ([a22]wahlamt@uni-muenster.de) or by post (Election Office of the University of Münster, Schlossplatz 2 (Schloss, Rm. 109), 48149 Münster).
General information on the SuSe 2026 elections
The University Senate and Faculty Board elections will soon be held in the summer semester 2026, and all member groups (professors, academic staff, non-academic staff (MTV) and students) are eligible to vote. The elections will be conducted electronically (i.e. via Internet-based online voting) and supervised by the University Elections Office of the University of Münster. Voting instructions and further details are provided on this page.
Students can also elect representatives to the student government, the Foreign Students' Representation and the departmental student bodies. This election will be held at the ballot box and conducted by the AStA Student Election Office. For more information, visit the AStA website https://www.asta.ms/ or https://www.asta.ms/wahlen the StuPA Central Electoral Committee https://stupa.ms/ausschuesse
Ballot-box elections for student assistant representatives (SHK representation) were discontinued in 2022. These members are now appointed by the Senate in accordance with Art. 12 of the University Charter in the summer semester every year.
Information about the online election system
The online election system is comprised of three components:
The University of Münster maintains a register of all eligible voters (voter rolls). When the user accesses the election website, the system verifies their identity to confirm their eligibility to participate in the election. On the same page, the eligible voter must affirm that they are personally voting in the election (or a person specifically authorised by the voter to do so in their stead). Only then can the eligible voter enter the election portal (digital voting booth) operated by our service provider Electric Paper. The identity of the eligible voter is pseudonymised and all transmission of data to the site is encrypted.
Our service provider Electric Paper has only received a pseudonymised list of eligible voters. In a second system, it keeps track of which pseudonyms have already participated in the election. As long as the voter has not yet participated, they are able to submit their ballot. The service provider does not share information with the University regarding which pseudonyms participated in the election.
The submitted ballots are stored in a digital ballot box. The submission process is encrypted in several steps. There is no way to link the pseudonyms of the eligible voters with their submitted ballots. At the end of the election, the ballot box is decrypted, and the submitted ballots are tallied by authorised administrators at the University of Münster.
Any questions?
If you still have questions, please refer to our FAQs. For matters concerning voter eligibility or the ballots used in the election for the Senate and Faculty Boards, please contact the Election Office by email at wahlamt@uni-muenster.de or phone at +49 251 83-22017.
Do you have questions related to technical matters, user IDs or passwords?
Students should contact it@uni-muenster.de or call: +49 251 83-31600.
Employees should speak with their IT service provider or local administrator:
https://www.uni-muenster.de/de/en/zentraledienstleister/ivven.html