1993 Hamburg state election
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All 121 seats in the Hamburg Parliament 61 seats needed for a majority | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Turnout | 844,902 (69.9%) 3.8% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1993 Hamburg state election was held on 19 September 1993 to elect the members of the 15th Hamburg Parliament.[1][2]
After the 1991 election, a group of CDU members brought a complaint over deficiencies in the party's nomination process to the Constitutional Court of Hamburg. On 4 May 1993, the court declared the statewide election and five of the seven district elections to be invalid and ordered a repeat. It did not order by-elections for the remaining term, instead allowing the parliament to dissolve itself and hold new elections for a full term. The parliament voted nearly unanimously for dissolution on 22 June. Markus Wegner, one of the complaining CDU members, founded the Statt Party to contest this election.[3]
The incumbent government of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) lost its majority. The Statt Party succeeded in entering Parliament with 5.6% of the vote. The SPD did not enter into a formal coalition with them, but instead a "cooperation" agreement in which the Statt Party supported the SPD minority government and nominated two technocratic senators from outside the party. First Mayor Henning Voscherau continued in office.
Parties
[edit]The table below lists parties represented in the 14th Hamburg Parliament.
| Name | Ideology | Leader(s) | 1991 result | |||
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| Votes (%) | Seats | |||||
| SPD | Social Democratic Party of Germany Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands |
Social democracy | Henning Voscherau | 48.0% | 61 / 121
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| CDU | Christian Democratic Union of Germany Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands |
Christian democracy | 35.1% | 44 / 121
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| GAL | Green Alternative List Grün-Alternative-Liste Hamburg |
Green politics | 7.2% | 9 / 121
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| FDP | Free Democratic Party Freie Demokratische Partei |
Classical liberalism | 5.4% | 7 / 121
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Election result
[edit]| Party | Votes | % | +/- | Seats | +/- | Seats % | |
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| Social Democratic Party (SPD) | 341,688 | 40.4 |  7.6
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58 | 3
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47.9 | |
| Christian Democratic Union (CDU) | 212,186 | 25.1 | 10.0
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36 | 8
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29.8 | |
| Green Alternative List (GAL) | 114,261 | 13.5 | 6.3
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19 | 10
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6.6 | |
| Statt Party (STATT) | 46,894 | 5.6 | New | 8 | New | 6.6 | |
| The Republicans (REP) | 40,856 | 4.8 | 3.6
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0 | ±0 | 0 | |
| Free Democratic Party (FDP) | 35,236 | 4.2 | 1.2
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0 | 7
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0 | |
| German People's Union (DVU) | 23,618 | 2.8 | 2.8
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0 | ±0 | 0 | |
| The Grays – Gray Panthers (GRAUE) | 13,329 | 1.6 | 0.7
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0 | ±0 | 0 | |
| Others | 16,832 | 2.0 | 0 | ±0 | 0 | ||
| Total | 844,902 | 100.0 | 121 | ±0 | |||
| Voter turnout | 69.9 | 3.8
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See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Wahltermine in Hamburg seit 1946 (in German), The Federal Returning Officer (Bundeswahlleiter), 2008, archived from the original on 2009-03-05, retrieved 2009-03-24
- ^ Bürgerschaftswahl 1993 (in German), Statistical office Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein (Statistisches Amt für Hamburg und Schleswig-Holstein), archived from the original on 2011-07-18, retrieved 2009-07-26
- ^ Meyer, Peter Ulrich (4 May 2013). "Ein Urteil, das Schockwellen auslöste - WELT". Die Welt (in German).
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