State election in Baden-Württemberg 1996

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A total of 155 seats

The state elections in Baden-Württemberg in 1996 took place on March 24th. The state parliament was elected for the first time for a period of five years. Due to slight gains in votes in the CDU and strong gains in the FDP / DVP , a black-yellow coalition was subsequently formed. The SPD suffered heavy losses. The Republicans unexpectedly returned to the state parliament.

initial situation

After the state elections in 1992 , neither a black-yellow nor a red-green coalition had a majority. Despite heavy losses, the CDU remained the strongest party. The Republicans made it into the state parliament for the first time and immediately became the third strongest force. After the election, a grand coalition of CDU and SPD was formed under the leadership of CDU Prime Minister Erwin Teufel .

Election campaign

During the election campaign, the FDP / DVP clearly offered itself to the CDU as a “better” coalition partner than the SPD. As in 1992, Prime Minister Erwin Teufel was the top candidate of the CDU and Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economics Dieter Spöri was the top candidate of the SPD. Part of the SPD election campaign was taken over by the federal chairman and Saarland Prime Minister Oskar Lafontaine . On his initiative, the SPD demanded massive immigration restrictions for emigrants , which the Republicans also adopted as an issue. Before the European elections in 1994, the SPD had already tried to score points with right-wing issues and lost each time.

78 percent of the voters named unemployment as one of the two biggest problems in the country, old age / care and environmental protection were named by 18 percent, foreigners problems by 14 percent and school / education by 2 percent. 55 percent were satisfied with the economic situation in the state, 72 percent considered the economic situation in Baden-Württemberg to be the best in West Germany.

Election result

Prime Minister before and after the election: Erwin Teufel (CDU)

The result was the following:

Eligible voters 7,189,906
Voters 4,859,305
voter turnout 67.6%
Valid votes 4,784,129 (98.5%)
Invalid votes 75,176 (1.5%)
Political party agree
completely 		Votes
in% 		County
election
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proposals 		First
mandates 		Second
mandates
Total seats		 Seats
1992 		differ-
ence
CDU 1,974,619 41.3 70 69 69 64 +5
SPD 1.199.123 25.1 70 1 38 39 46 −7
GREEN 580,801 12.1 70 19th 19th 13 +6
FDP / DVP 458.478 9.6 70 14th 14th 8th +6
REP 437.228 9.1 70 14th 14th 15th −1
ÖDP 69,775 1.5 70
PBC 23,250 0.5 42
GRAY 12,171 0.3 19th
Animal welfare party 10,512 0.2 12
NATURAL LAW 6,184 0.1 16
NOT VOTERS 1,863 0.0 2
DKP 1,794 0.0 7th
CM 1,146 0.0 3
APD 571 0.0 1
BüSo 551 0.0 4th
DPD 440 0.0 3
BGD 416 0.0 1
CPD 310 0.0 1
Individual applicants 4,897 0.1 8th
Results by district

Stuttgart administrative district 		Region of
Karlsruhe
Freiburg administrative district 		Administrative region of
Tübingen
Number /
votes 		% County
election
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proposals 		Direct
MAN
date 		Seats Number /
votes 		% County
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date 		Seats Number /
votes 		% County
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date 		Seats Number /
votes 		% County
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MAN
date 		Seats
Eligible voters 2,633,008 1,864,340 1,490,483 1,202,075
Voters 1,841,741 69.9 1,238,303 66.4 966.010 64.8 813.251 67.7
Valid votes 1,816,856 98.6 1,216,784 98.3 949,520 98.3 800,969 98.5
CDU 688.812 37.9 26th 26th 26th 509.238 41.9 19th 18th 18th 414.980 43.7 14th 14th 14th 361,589 45.1 11 11 11
SPD 469,666 25.9 26th 17th 328,566 27.0 19th 1 11 236.919 25.0 14th 7th 163.972 20.5 11 4th
Green 216,461 11.9 26th 8th 140.974 11.6 19th 4th 123,594 13.0 14th 4th 99,772 12.5 11 3
FDP / DVP 199.027 11.0 26th 7th 103.960 8.5 19th 3 81,451 8.6 14th 2 74.040 9.2 11 2
REP 195.208 10.7 26th 7th 109.134 9.0 19th 3 61,475 6.5 14th 2 71,411 8.9 11 2
ÖDP 21,805 1.2 26th 13,821 1.1 19th 14,242 1.5 14th 19,907 2.5 11
PBC 9,081 0.5 17th 5,104 0.4 7th 6,303 0.7 12 2,762 0.3 6th
Gray ones 6,173 0.3 10 1,812 0.1 3 739 0.1 1 3,447 0.4 5
Animal welfare party 3,942 0.2 5 - 5,411 0.6 6th 1,159 0.1 1
Natural law 3.131 0.2 9 298 0.0 1 497 0.1 1 2,258 0.3 5
Non-voters - - 1,863 0.2 2 -
DKP 831 0.0 4th 963 0.1 3 - -
CM 663 0.0 2 - 483 0.1 1 -
APD 571 0.0 1 - - -
BüSo 551 0.0 4th - - -
DPD 237 0.0 2 - 203 0.0 1 -
BGD - - 416 0.0 1 -
CPD - 310 0.0 1 - -
Individual applicants 697 0.0 3 2,604 0.2 3 944 0.1 1 652 0.1 1
Overhang and
compensation mandates		 CDU: 8 overhang mandates
SPD: 5 compensation mandates
Greens: 2 compensation mandates
FDP: 2 compensation mandates
REP: 2 compensation mandates		 CDU: 5 overhang seats.
SPD: 2 compensation seats		 CDU: 3 overhang mandates
SPD: 1 compensation mandate
Greens: 1 compensation mandate
REP: 1 compensation mandate 		CDU: 2 overhang seats
Greens: 1 compensation seat

The CDU remained by far the strongest party, was able to improve its result for the first time since 1976 and came back over 40 percent with an increase of 1.7 percentage points. The SPD continued its downward trend since 1972 and suffered heavy losses with a minus of 4.3%. The Greens clearly won with 2.6 percentage points. The FDP / DVP won the most, achieving an increase of 3.7 percentage points compared to 1992. The Republicans, which entered the state parliament as the third largest party in 1992, lost 1.8 percentage points and thus only became the fifth strongest party, but managed to return to the state parliament and with 14 seats had the same number of seats as the FDP / DVP. The state parliament of Baden-Württemberg was the only state parliament in which the republicans were represented; therefore the election was of great importance both for the party and for the federal party chairman and parliamentary group leader Rolf Schlierer .

The CDU was able to expand its strongholds again compared to 1992, while the SPD strongholds remained unchanged. The SPD did best in densely populated areas. The FDP / DVP was strongest in the Stuttgart region and in Schwäbisch Hall and achieved far higher results in Protestant areas than in Catholic areas. The green strongholds traditionally remained the university towns, in which the CDU and REP achieved particularly low results, while conversely in the CDU strongholds the Greens performed particularly poorly. As in 1992, the Republicans had their strongholds in the northern Black Forest and in the Heilbronn area, and achieved far higher results in Protestant areas than in Catholic areas, especially in regions with a high proportion of foreigners.

Government formation

Thanks to the gains made by both parties, a black-yellow coalition received a clear majority 30 years after the last government in this form. Subsequently, the CDU and FDP / DVP formed the Teufel III cabinet .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c State Statistical Office: Final results of the election to the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg on March 24, 1996 (PDF; 11.6 MB)
  2. ↑ Open up, close your eyes . In: Der Spiegel . No. 10 , 1996 ( online ). Quote: “Oskar Lafontaine's failure against the Russian Germans triggered outrage in the country. Truths at the regulars' table replace political actions, not only by Lafontaine, not only during the election campaign. The parties capitulate to the complicated problems and take refuge in populism. "
  3. ^ Großbongardt: SPD: Success in the people . In: Der Spiegel . No. 31 , 1997 ( online ).
  4. ^ Fred Ludwig Sepaintner: Formation of political will in the southwest - 50 years of state elections in Baden-Württemberg. Retrieved December 18, 2010 .
  5. ↑ Steffen Kailitz : Political Extremism in the Federal Republic of Germany . An introduction. 1st edition. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-531-14193-7 , 3.4, p. 50 f . ( books.google.de ).