State election in Bavaria 1998
The election for the 14th Bavarian State Parliament took place on September 13, 1998, with a turnout of 69.8%. Three referendums were held along with the election . Two of them came about due to the amendment of the constitution of the Free State of Bavaria by the state parliament ( mandatory referendums ), the third as part of the successful referendum for a lean state without a senate , for which the state parliament submitted its own proposal for senate reform for competitive voting. In addition, the elections for the Bavarian district days took place.
To the context
This was the second election under Prime Minister Edmund Stoiber , who has been in office since May 1993 . Renate Schmidt also stood for the SPD for the second time .
Result and consequences
| Political party | First votes |
Second votes |
total | Sum in percent |
Seats |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CSU | 3,168,996 | 3,278,768 | 6,447,764 | 52.91% | 123 |
| SPD | 1,800,732 | 1,701,168 | 3,501,900 | 28.73% | 67 |
| GREEN | 335,679 | 356,777 | 692.456 | 5.68% | 14th |
| FW | 251,742 | 194.373 | 446.115 | 3.66% | - |
| REP | 226,385 | 211,759 | 438.144 | 3.60% | - |
| ödp | 117.154 | 100,686 | 217.840 | 1.79% | - |
| FDP | 103,727 | 98.061 | 201,788 | 1.66% | - |
| BP | 47,936 | 40,644 | 88,580 | 0.73% | - |
| BfB | 25,795 | 24,541 | 50,336 | 0.41% | - |
| FBU | 13,535 | 10,427 | 23,962 | 0.20% | - |
| NPD | 11,543 | 12,174 | 23,717 | 0.19% | - |
| PBC | 5,783 | 11,526 | 17.309 | 0.14% | - |
| ASP | 5,028 | 6,409 | 11,437 | 0.09% | - |
| 6th party | 5,292 | 5,061 | 10,353 | 0.08% | - |
| Natural law | 2,091 | 6,301 | 8,392 | 0.07% | - |
| Instead of party | 1,484 | 1.003 | 2,487 | 0.02% | - |
| Free Francs | 333 | 1,633 | 1,966 | 0.02% | - |
| DKP | 722 | 903 | 1,625 | 0.01% | - |
| HP | 74 | 664 | 738 | 0.01% | - |
In the 1974 state elections , the CSU received 62.1% of the vote; The top candidate at the time was the long-time Prime Minister Alfons Goppel . Since this historically best election result, the CSU has always lost slightly in the state elections and was finally able to stop this trend in the 1998 state elections. The CSU was able to maintain its absolute majority and came to 52.91% (+0.1 percentage points), but received only 47.7% in the federal election two weeks later . This led to Edmund Stoiber being elected as the new CSU chairman.
The SPD's hopes for a change of power were not fulfilled. Instead, it lost 1.3 percentage points after 30.0 percent in the 1994 election. The Greens achieved their election target and entered the state parliament for the fourth time, but lost 0.4 percentage points.
Edmund Stoiber was confirmed in his office as Prime Minister after this election and led his third cabinet .
After her second defeat, opposition leader Renate Schmidt (SPD) waived a potential third top candidate in 2003.
Referendums
At the same time as the state elections, two referendums were held in Bavaria on changes to the state constitution approved by the state parliament. The first proposal provided for the adaptation of the constitutional fundamental rights and state goals. The second draft contained adjustments to the articles on the state parliament and state government. Furthermore, a referendum on the referendum “Lean State without Senate” was held, for which the Landtag submitted a Senate Reform Act as a competing proposal. In a referendum, a majority of the voters approved the two changes to the state constitution. The slender state without a Senate proposal was also adopted and won the vote against the parliamentary proposal.
| template | Participation (absolute) | Participation (in%) | "Yes" votes (absolute) | "Yes" votes (in%) | "No" votes (absolute) | "No" votes (in%) | Invalid (absolute) | Invalid (in%) | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fundamental rights and state goals | 3,527,633 | 39.9% | 2,567,247 | 75.0% | 856.344 | 25.0% | 100.164 | 2.8% |
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| Landtag and state government | 3,527,633 | 39.9% | 2,532,323 | 73.9% | 892.340 | 26.1% | 99.196 | 2.8% |
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| "Lean state without a Senate" | 3,527,633 | 39.9% | 2,412,944 | 69.2% | 249.141 | 7.1% | 40,610 | 1.2% |
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| Senate Reform Act | 823,462 | 23.6% |
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See also
- List of members of the Bavarian State Parliament (14th electoral term)
- Cabinet Stoiber III
- State elections in Bavaria
Individual evidence
- ↑ State elections in Bavaria since 1946. Total votes (first and second votes) in Bavaria , Bavarian State Office for Statistics and Data Processing.
- ↑ Bavarian State Office for Statistics and Data Processing : Official final results of the referendums on February 8, 1998
