State election in Brandenburg 2009
The state elections in Brandenburg in 2009 determined the composition of the 5th parliamentary term of the Brandenburg state parliament on the basis of the results from the 44 constituencies . It took place on September 27, 2009, together with the election to the German Bundestag .
initial situation
→ Main article: State election in Brandenburg 2004
The fourth election to the Brandenburg state parliament took place on September 19, 2004 . The governing parties of the grand coalition , the SPD (−7.42 percentage points) and the CDU (−7.12 percentage points) were the losers in the election. PDS (+4.62 percentage points) and DVU (+0.80 percentage points) increased and were represented in the state parliament. The Greens (+1.66 percentage points) and the FDP (+1.47 percentage points) did not manage to do this despite having won votes.
Despite the significant losses suffered by the governing parties, the SPD and CDU, both parties re-entered a coalition. Matthias Platzeck was able to form his second cabinet .
Candidates
Parties
On August 14, 2009, the state election committee approved the following state lists for election:
- SPD
- THE LEFT.
- CDU
- DVU
- B'90 / Greens
- FDP
- 50plus
- DKP
- REP
- Die-Volksinitiative (Die-Volksinitiative against the mass development of Brandenburg with wind turbines and the failed water policy )
- NPD
- RRP
- FREE VOTERS : Association of lists from BVB and FW
A total of 443 candidates (including 113 women) applied for one of the 88 seats in the Brandenburg state parliament. The youngest candidate was 19 years old, the oldest 76 years old.
The Pirate Party Germany was not admitted to the state election. The Free Union did not reach the required 2,000 support signatures, but ran with a direct candidate for election.
For the first time since 2004 the NPD and DVU competed against each other in an election. The DVU then accused the NPD of breaching its so-called Germany Pact, while the NPD stated that this pact, which was due to expire at the end of 2009, “no longer had a business basis”. That one of the parties would jump the five percent hurdle was considered unlikely due to this circumstance and long-term survey results below the threshold.
Top candidates of the state parliament parties
The incumbent Prime Minister Matthias Platzeck ran for the SPD , while the then Science Minister Johanna Wanka took over the top candidacy for the CDU . The top candidate of the left was the parliamentary group leader at the time, Kerstin Kaiser . For the DVU , the parliamentary group leader Liane Hesselbarth ran as the top candidate, while the Greens entered the election campaign with Marie Luise von Halem and Axel Vogel as a double head. The FDP nominated the Teltower attorney Hans-Peter Goetz as a top candidate.
Survey
The opinion polls did not predict any major changes in terms of the SPD, Left and CDU parties. The FDP and the Greens were seen near the five percent hurdle , while the DVU, which was represented in the state parliament by six MPs, and the NPD, received less than five percent of the votes.
Institute | date | SPD | THE LEFT | CDU | GREEN | FDP | right | Others |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Research group elections | 09/18/2009 | 32% | 27% | 22% | 5% | 7% | k. A. 1 | 7% |
Infratest dimap | 09/16/2009 | 34% | 28% | 21% | 4% | 7% | 1 % | 5% |
Infratest dimap | 09/09/2009 | 31% | 28% | 22% | 4% | 8th % | 4% | 3% |
Infratest dimap | 05/12/2009 | 34% | 27% | 22% | 5% | 6% | 4% | 2% |
GESS | 04/03/2009 | 34% | 25% | 21% | 5% | 7% | 4% | 4% |
Infratest | 05.03.2009 | 35% | 26% | 22% | 5% | 6% | k. A. 1 | 6% |
Emnid | 02/12/2009 | 36% | 26% | 21% | 5% | 7% | 3% | 2% |
Infratest dimap | 09/17/2008 | 36% | 27% | 20% | 4% | 6% | 4% | 3% |
1 not specified: included in other
Constituencies
In the state elections in 2009 there were a total of 44 constituencies. Compared to the 2004 state elections, there were no changes in the layout of the constituencies.
Result
State election 2009 | First votes | % | Direct mandates |
Second votes | % | Seats 2009 |
Seats 2004 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SPD | 417.701 | 30.3 | 19th | 458.840 | 33.0 | 31 | 33 |
THE LEFT. | 406.973 | 29.5 | 21st | 377.112 | 27.2 | 26th | 29 |
CDU | 307.685 | 22.3 | 4th | 274.825 | 19.8 | 19th | 20th |
FDP | 87,268 | 6.3 | - | 100.123 | 7.2 | 7th | - |
B'90 / Greens | 81,066 | 5.9 | - | 78,550 | 5.7 | 5 | - |
NPD | 36,247 | 2.6 | - | 35,544 | 2.6 | - | - |
FREE VOTERS | 32,498 | 2.4 | - | 23,296 | 1.7 | - | - |
DVU | - | - | - | 15,903 | 1.1 | - | 6th |
50plus | 3,938 | 0.3 | - | 7,905 | 0.6 | - | - |
RRP | 350 | 0.0 | - | 6,896 | 0.5 | - | - |
The popular initiative | - | - | - | 4,452 | 0.3 | - | - |
REP | - | - | - | 3.132 | 0.2 | - | - |
DKP | - | - | - | 2.144 | 0.2 | - | - |
family | 452 | 0.0 | - | - | - | - | - |
Free Union | 150 | 0.0 | - | - | - | - | - |
Individual applicants | 5,528 | 0.4 | - | - | - | - | - |
valid votes |
1,379,851 |
100.0 96.8 |
44 |
1,388,722 |
100.0 97.4 |
88 |
88 |
invalid votes | 45.218 | 3.2 | 36,347 | 2.6 | |||
votes cast voter turnout |
1,425,069 |
100.0 67.0 |
1,425,069 |
100.0 67.0 |
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Non-voters | 701.288 | 33.0 | 701.288 | 33.0 | |||
Eligible voters | 2,126,357 | 100.0 | 2,126,357 | 100.0 |
Compared to the state elections in 2004, the SPD was able to gain the constituencies of Ostprignitz-Ruppin I , Uckermark I , Dahme-Spreewald III and Spree-Neisse I , but in return lost the constituencies of Potsdam II and Cottbus II to the left.
consequences
The SPD could form a coalition with either the Left (together 57 of the 88 seats) or the CDU (together 50 of the 88 seats). On October 12, 2009, Prime Minister Matthias Platzeck proposed to the SPD's regional executive committee that coalition negotiations should be conducted with the left. On the same evening, the committee approved the start of coalition negotiations with nine votes in favor and five abstentions.
On November 5, 2009, Matthias Platzeck signed the coalition agreement for the SPD and Kerstin Kaiser for the Left.
On November 6th, Platzeck received 54 of 86 votes from the MPs present in the election for Prime Minister. After the election, the ministers of the Platzeck III cabinet were sworn in.
Web links
- Information from the Brandenburg State Returning Officer on the 2009 state election
- Electoral system of the state elections in Brandenburg on wahlrecht.de
- Information from the Brandenburg State Center for Civic Education ( Memento from August 26, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ^ Election report also statistical report B VII 2 - 2 - 5j / 09 Election to the 5th Brandenburg State Parliament on September 27, 2009 The State Returning Officer
- ↑ 13 state lists approved for state elections ( memento of August 19, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) , August 14, 2009
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of July 26, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ http://www.wahlen.brandenburg.de/cms/detail.php/bb1.c.172199.de
- ↑ ad-hoc-news.de ( Memento from July 18, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento from September 13, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ a b c d e f g h Election polls on the state elections in Brandenburg
- ↑ Constituency allocation in the 2009 state elections
- ↑ https://www.statistik-berlin-brandenburg.de/Publikationen/Stat_Berichte/2009/SB_B7-2-3-j05-09_BB.pdf
- ↑ Focus: Brandenburg - Left and CDU vie for Platzeck
- ↑ http://www.rbb-online.de/nachrichten/politik/2009_10/wahl_brandenburg/entscheid.html
- ↑ SPD state executive approves coalition negotiations with the Left Party ( memento from October 17, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), MAZ from October 13, 2009
- ↑ http://www.rbb-online.de/nachrichten/politik/2009_11/wahl_brandenburg/entscheid_ueber.html
- ↑ http://www.moz.de/index.php/Moz/Article/category/Berlin_Brandenburg/id/303063