State election in Hesse 2013
(73.2% turnout - 2.7% invalid votes)
The election to the 19th Hessian state parliament took place on September 22, 2013, at the same time as the election to the 18th German Bundestag .
Result
As the strongest party, the CDU emerged from the elections with 38.3%. The SPD achieved 30.7% and was thus able to partially offset its 2009 election defeat. The Greens suffered slight losses, landing at 11.1%. The Left Party (5.2%) and FDP (5.0%) just managed to get back into the state parliament. The AfD, which is running for the first time in a state election, reached 4.1% and thus did not move into parliament. The coalition of the CDU and FDP that had ruled until then could not be continued due to the dramatic losses of the FDP; The SPD and the Greens also failed to achieve a majority. After lengthy negotiations, the CDU and the Greens agreed on the first black-green coalition in a federal German state, headed by Volker Bouffier as Prime Minister.
Starting position
Election date
According to § 1 of the Hessian state election law, the election must take place on a Sunday or public holiday. The election day is determined by the state government by ordinance.
In several interviews, the Secretary General of the Hessian SPD, Michael Roth , said in the summer of 2012 that the SPD favored a joint election date for state and federal elections. Both Sigrid Erfurth from the Greens and Die Linke followed suit. Christean Wagner explained for the CDU that they wanted to avoid an election campaign in the Advent days, which would speak for an election date in October or November. The SPD and the Greens had a legal opinion drawn up in November 2012; According to this report, an election date in 2014 was not permitted. However, an election in September, as demanded by The Left, is far too early. The state government announced through its spokesman Michael Bußer that the state government would deal with a possible election date at the beginning of 2013.
On January 22, 2013, Prime Minister Volker Bouffier and his deputy Jörg-Uwe Hahn announced that they had agreed on an election date. The election should take place on the same day as the general election. After Federal President Joachim Gauck had scheduled the 2013 federal election for September 22, 2013 on the proposal of the federal government in February 2013, the state government set the election date in Hesse on March 5, 2013 on the same date. Inconsistencies in the electoral regulations between the Bundestag and Landtag electoral law were resolved with the “Ordinance on the Simultaneous Conduct of State Elections with Bundestag Elections” of June 4, 2013 (GVBl. Hess. 12/2013 p. 378).
Parties
The following 18 parties and voter groups had submitted state lists and - if necessary - submitted the necessary support signatures:
- Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU)
- Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD)
- Free Democratic Party (FDP)
- Alliance 90 / The Greens (GREENS)
- The left
- Free voters
- National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD)
- The Republicans (REP)
- Pirate Party Germany (PIRATES)
- Civil rights movement Solidarity (BüSo)
- Active Democracy Direct (ADd)
- Alliance Gray Panthers (AGP)
- Alternative for Germany (AfD)
- Motorists and People's Interest Party (AVIP)
- Noise torture-environment-politics-honest (LUPe)
- Ecological Democratic Party (ÖDP)
- Party for Labor, Rule of Law, Animal Welfare, Promotion of Elites and grassroots initiative (Die PARTTEI)
- Party for Social Equality, Section of the Fourth International (PSG)
In addition, the Anarchist Pogo Party of Germany , Democracy Renew , Dierechte and the Ecological Left competed with direct candidates. The approval was decided on July 26, 2013, and complaints against the decision on August 1, 2013. After that, the electoral lists were final.
Top candidates
Volker Bouffier announced shortly after his election as prime minister in September 2010 that he wanted to run as the top candidate of the CDU . Former Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl announced on the occasion of Bouffier's 60th birthday in December 2011 that he would support Bouffier in the election campaign in this case.
In January 2010, one year after his election defeat in January 2009, opposition leader Thorsten Schäfer-Gümbel declared that he wanted to run again for the office of Prime Minister of the SPD . A state party conference of the SPD in Kassel elected him on October 8, 2011 with 94.6% of the votes cast as the top candidate. After the mayoral election won by the SPD candidate Peter Feldmann in Frankfurt am Main at the end of April 2012, SPD General Secretary Michael Roth announced the goal of becoming the strongest party again.
Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen Hessen ran for the state elections again in 2013 with a dual leadership. On April 20, 2013, Angela Dorn was elected to first place on the list with 81.95 percent at a state members' meeting. Tarek Al-Wazir was voted second on the list with 92.91 percent. A change of government was the declared aim of the Greens.
The FDP Hessen ran with Jörg-Uwe Hahn as the top candidate for the 2013 state election. Hahn was elected to number 1 on the state list with 73.6% at the state delegate assembly on April 14, 2013 in Bad Hersfeld .
The Hessian State Association of the Left Party, at its national delegates meeting on 13 and 14 April 2013, Kassel drawn up a national list for the state election which of the previous Presidents Janine Wissler (elected with 90.3%) and Willi van Ooyen with (elected 84.6%) was cited.
The alternative for Germany chose the Friedberg dentist Christiane Gleissner as the top candidate at their party conference in Giessen.
The state association FREIE VÖHLER Hessen entered the race again with state chairman Walter Öhlenschläger. At the party congress on May 18, 2013 in Weilburg, he was put back at the top of the state list with a large majority.
For Die PARTTEI, Oliver Maria Schmitt was elected top candidate with a dissenting vote at the state party conference on February 3, 2013.
For the Pirate Party (PIRATES) André Hoffmann was elected to list number 1 at the assembly meeting in Lollar with an approval of 73.63%.
Survey
For the Sunday question, the institutes for opinion polls gave the following results:
| Institute | date | CDU | SPD | FDP | GREEN | LEFT | PIRATES | AfD | Others |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Infratest dimap | 09/12/2013 | 40% | 32% | 6% | 12.5% | 3.5% | - | - | 6% |
| Research group elections | 09/12/2013 | 38% | 30% | 5.5% | 13.5% | 5% | - | 3% | 5% |
| Forsa | 03.09.2013 | 39% | 28% | 6% | 15% | 4% | 2% | 3% | 3% |
| Research group elections | 08/28/2013 | 38% | 30% | 5% | 15% | 4% | - | 3% | 5% |
| Infratest dimap | 08/21/2013 | 39% | 31% | 5% | 14% | 4% | - | - | 7% |
| Forsa | 07/17/2013 | 38% | 27% | 6% | 17% | 4% | - | 2% | 6% |
| Research group elections | 07/03/2013 | 38% | 30% | 5% | 15% | 4% | - | 3% | 5% |
| dimap | 05/21/2013 | 39% | 29% | 4% | 17% | 4% | 2% | 2% | 3% |
| Research group elections | 04/17/2013 | 36% | 33% | 5% | 16% | 4% | - | - | 6% |
| Infratest dimap | 05.12.2012 | 36% | 31% | 4% | 18% | 5% | 3% | - | 3% |
| Infratest dimap | January 18, 2012 | 33% | 31% | 3% | 21% | 4% | 4% | - | 4% |
| Research group elections | December 09, 2011 | 33% | 32% | 3% | 19% | 3% | 6% | - | 4% |
| Infratest dimap | December 08, 2011 | 34% | 30% | 4% | 20% | 3% | 6% | - | 3% |
| Research group elections | 11/13/2010 | 32% | 29% | 5% | 23% | 4% | - | - | 7% |
| Result of the state elections in 2009 | January 18, 2009 | 37.2% | 23.7% | 16.2% | 13.7% | 5.4% | 0.5% | - | 3.3% |
Detail result
4,392,213 people were entitled to vote in the state elections. The turnout was 73.2 percent and the number of voters was 3,216,206. Five parties moved into the new state parliament; all the others failed at the five percent hurdle . It was the last election of a German state parliament so far in which the AfD failed to meet this hurdle.
As the strongest party, the CDU emerged from the elections with 38.3%. The SPD got 30.7% and the Greens got 11.1%. Contrary to almost all opinion polls, the Left Party just managed to get back into the state parliament with 5.2%, as did the FDP (5.0%), which however lost almost two thirds of its voters.
| Constituency votes | National votes | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| agree completely |
% | Electoral kreisbe- tors |
Direct MAN date |
agree completely |
% | Seats | |
| Eligible voters | 4,392,213 | 4,392,213 | |||||
| Voters | 3.216.206 | 73.23 | 3.216.206 | 73.23 | |||
| Valid votes | 3,112,596 | 96.78 | 3,130,781 | 97.34 | |||
| CDU | 1,329,746 | 42.72 | 55 | 41 | 1,199,633 | 38.32 | 47 |
| SPD | 1,092,125 | 35.09 | 55 | 14th | 961.896 | 30.72 | 37 |
| GREEN | 289.830 | 9.31 | 55 | 348,661 | 11.14 | 14th | |
| THE LEFT | 160,531 | 5.16 | 55 | 161,488 | 5.16 | 6th | |
| FDP | 93,098 | 2.99 | 55 | 157.451 | 5.03 | 6th | |
| AfD | 42,721 | 1.37 | 21st | 126.906 | 4.05 | ||
| PIRATES | 62,986 | 2.02 | 45 | 60,159 | 1.92 | ||
| FREE VOTERS | 35,136 | 1.13 | 24 | 38,433 | 1.23 | ||
| NPD | - | 33,433 | 1.07 | ||||
| The party | 1,786 | 0.06 | 3 | 15,109 | 0.48 | ||
| REP | 1,930 | 0.06 | 4th | 9,360 | 0.30 | ||
| ADd | - | 4,498 | 0.14 | ||||
| ÖDP | - | 4,024 | 0.13 | ||||
| AGP | 606 | 0.02 | 2 | 2,546 | 0.08 | ||
| AVIP | - | 2,453 | 0.08 | ||||
| LUPe | 751 | 0.02 | 1 | 1,998 | 0.06 | ||
| BüSo | 261 | 0.01 | 2 | 1,422 | 0.05 | ||
| PSG | 62 | 0.00 | 1 | 1.311 | 0.04 | ||
| Renew democracy | 387 | 0.01 | 2 | - | |||
| APPD | 306 | 0.01 | 2 | - | |||
| THE RIGHT | 300 | 0.01 | 1 | - | |||
| ÖkoLinX | 34 | 0.00 | 1 | - | |||
| Total | 3,112,596 | 100 | 384 | 55 | 3,130,781 | 100 | 110 |
In its constituent session on January 18, 2014, the newly elected state parliament re-elected Volker Bouffier as Prime Minister of Hesse. He heads a black-green coalition.
See also
Web links
- Hessian state returning officer
- Election polls on the state elections in Hesse ( wahlrecht.de )
- hr-online for the state election
Individual evidence
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ Frankfurter Rundschau: Double pack in the voting booth
- ↑ State result of the state elections in 2009 ( memento of the original from March 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. The State Returning Officer for Hesse
- ↑ a b New version of the state election law (GVBl. II 16-04) of November 3, 1982 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1982 No. 19 , p. 247 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1.5 MB ]).
- ↑ a b c d Opposition for Super Election Sunday. In: hr-online.de. Hessischer Rundfunk , July 23, 2012, accessed on February 16, 2013 .
- ↑ a b c d Volker Schmidt: 2013 must be elected. In: fr-online.de. Frankfurter Rundschau , November 7, 2012, accessed on February 16, 2013 .
- ↑ Prime Minister Bouffier and Deputy Prime Minister Hahn propose a joint election date for state and federal elections in September 2013. (No longer available online.) In: hessen.de. Landesportal Hessen, January 22, 2013, formerly in the original ; Retrieved February 16, 2013 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.wahlrecht.de/termine.htm#termine-2013-03-05
- ↑ a b [2]
- ↑ Pitt von Bebenburg: State election in Hesse: Bouffier wants to run in 2013. In: fr-online.de. Frankfurter Rundschau , September 10, 2010, accessed on June 2, 2012 .
- ↑ State election 2013 in Hesse: Former Chancellor Kohl wants to appear again in the election campaign. In: focus.de. Focus Online , December 18, 2011, accessed June 2, 2012 .
- ↑ State election: Schäfer-Gümbel: I will be the top candidate in 2014. In: FAZ.NET . Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , January 22, 2010, accessed on June 2, 2012 .
- ↑ Schäfer-Gümbel elected as the top candidate. In: wetterauer-zeitung.de. Wetterauer Zeitung , October 8, 2011, accessed on February 16, 2013 .
- ↑ State election 2013: SPD wants to be the strongest party in Hesse. In: FAZ.NET . Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , April 30, 2012, accessed June 2, 2012 .
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from April 26, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Results of the LTW 2013 Representative Assembly. In: die-linke-hessen.de. THE LEFT. Hessen, February 11, 2013, accessed June 26, 2013 .
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento from September 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ http://www.journal-frankfurt.de/journal_news/Ppolitik-10/Spitzenkandidat-fuer-Die-Partei-Oliver-Maria-Schmitt-will-Ministerpraesident-haben-17933.html
- ↑ http://wiki.piratenpartei.de/HE:Landtagswahl/2013/Landesliste
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Wahlrecht.de : Election polls on the state elections in Hesse .
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