Hamburg state election, 1993

Hamburg state election, 1993
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 September 19, 1993
 → 1997
All 121 seats of the Hamburg Parliament.
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Henning Voscherau
Party SPD CDU Green
Last election 48.0% 35.1% 7.2%
Seats before 61 44 9
Seats won 58 36 19
Seat change -3 -8 +10
Popular vote 341,688 212,186 114,263
  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Party STATT REP FDP
Last election — 1.2% 5.4%
Seats before — 0 7
Seats won 8 0 0
Seat change +8 0 -7
Popular vote 46,894 40,856 35,236
Percentage 5.6% 4.8% 4.2%
Swing +5.6% +3.6% -1.2%
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On September 19, 1993, Hamburg state elections for members of the 15th legislative period of the Hamburg Parliament after the Second World War were held in the German state of Hamburg.[1] There were 1,240,259 eligible voters.[2]

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Results

863,190 voters, meaning a turnout of 69.6%, gave 844,902 valid and 18,288 invalid votes.[2] The election threshold to send a member to the Hamburg Parliament is 5%.

Party Vote percentage Seats in parliament
Social Democratic Party (SPD) 40.4%[2] 58
Christian Democratic Union (CDU) 21.5%[2] 36
Green party/GAL 13.5%[2] 19
STATT 5.6%[2] 8
The Republicans (REP) 4.8%[2] –
Free Democratic Party (FDP) 4.2%[2] –
German People's Union (DVU) 2.8%[2] –

Post-election

First Mayor Henning Voscherau was elected to be the head of state by the Hamburg Parliament again, although he did not have an absolute majority. The SPD formed a coalition with the Statt party. Erhard Rittershaus, without party membership, became second mayor for the Statt party.

See also

References

  1. ^ (in German) Wahltermine in Hamburg seit 1946, The Federal Returning Officer (Bundeswahlleiter), 2008, http://www.bundeswahlleiter.de/de/landtagswahlen/wahltermine/hamburg.html, retrieved 2009-03-24 
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i (in German) Bürgerschaftswahl 1993, Statistical office Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein (Statistisches Amt für Hamburg und Schleswig-Holstein), http://www.statistik-nord.de/fileadmin/wahldb/results.php?action=tables&voteid=23, retrieved 2009-07-26