Hamburg state election, 1997

Hamburg state election, 1997
Hamburg
September 21, 1997
All 121 seats of the Hamburg Parliament.
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Henning Voscherau
Party SPD CDU Green
Last election 40.4% 25.1% 13.5%
Seats before 58 36 19
Seats won 54 46 21
Seat change -4 +10 +2
Popular vote 298,218 252,354 114,776
Percentage 36.2% 30.7% 13.9%
Swing -4.2% +5.6% +0.4%
  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Party DVU STATT FDP
Last election 2.8% 5.6% 4.2%
Seats before 0 8 0
Seats won 0 0 0
Seat change 0 -8 0
Popular vote 40,957 31,401 28,664
Percentage 4.9% 3.8% 3.5%
Swing +1.9% -1.6% -0.7%

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On September 21, 1997, Hamburg state elections for members of the 16th legislative period of the Hamburg Parliament after the Second World War were held in the German state of Hamburg.[1] There were 1,211,312 eligible voters.[2]

Results

831,913 voters, meaning a turnout of 68.7%, gave 822,931 valid and 8,982 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) 36.2%[2] 54
Christian Democratic Union (CDU) 30.7%[2] 46
Green party/GAL 13.9%[2] 21
German People's Union (DVU) 4.976%[2] –
Statt party (STATT) 3.8%[2] –
Free Democratic Party (FDP) 3.5%[2] –
The Republicans (REP) 1.8%[2] –
BFB 1.3%[2] –
PDS/Linke liste 0-7%[2] –

Post-election

Henning Voscherau continued to be the First Mayor of Hamburg, nevertheless on 12 November 1997 Ortwin Runde was elected as First Mayor by the Hamburg Parliament in an SPD-Green coalition.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Wahltermine in Hamburg seit 1946 (in German), The Federal Returning Officer (Bundeswahlleiter), 2008, retrieved 2009-03-24
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.9 2.10 Bürgerschaftswahl 1997 (in German), Statistical office Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein (Statistisches Amt für Hamburg und Schleswig-Holstein), retrieved 2009-07-25