State election in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania 2006

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A total of 71 seats

In the state elections in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in 2006 , the fifth state parliament of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania was elected. The election took place on September 17, 2006. The state parliament was elected for the first time for a period of five years. After the state elections in 1994, 1998 and 2002 had taken place at the same time as the federal elections, the election dates fell apart for the first time because of the early 2005 elections . The voter turnout therefore fell significantly from 70.6% to 59.2%, but not as much as previously feared and forecast.

Starting position

A red-red coalition under Prime Minister Harald Ringstorff ( Cabinet Ringstorff I ) has ruled Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania since 1998 , which was continued after the state elections in 2002 ( Cabinet Ringstorff II ). In the three-party system of SPD, CDU and PDS, the CDU was the only opposition party.

For the first time since 1990, the state elections were held separately from the federal elections. This resulted in a significant decline in voter turnout, which was almost 80 percent in 1998 and 70.6 percent in 2002. However, the extremely low participation that was feared compared to other federal states did not materialize. A strong voter mobilization was achieved in particular by a campaign against the entry of the NPD into parliament, which was also supported by all three regional newspapers and the state's radio stations in a nationwide unique campaign.

The simultaneity of the Landtag and the Bundestag elections favored an unusually stable three-party system made up of the SPD, CDU and PDS or Left Party from 1994 to 2006. The polarization effect in favor of the popular CDU and SPD parties as well as the high voter turnout tended to make it difficult for smaller parties to enter parliament, so that the FDP, Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen as well as the NPD and other right-wing extremist parties regularly failed to pass the five percent hurdle . Only in 1990 did the FDP just manage to get into the state parliament.

Top candidates

Harald Ringstorff, Prime Minister from 1998 and top candidate of the SPD

The SPD's top candidate was Prime Minister Harald Ringstorff . For the CDU came Jürgen Seidel as the leading candidate on the PDS nominated Environment Minister Wolfgang Methling and for the FDP joined Michael Roolf on. Ulrike Seemann-Katz and Hendrik Fulda competed for the Greens. Udo Pastörs ran for the NPD as the top candidate.

Election campaign

Due to the decoupling of the state and federal elections, state political issues were significantly upgraded and were no longer so strongly overlaid by federal politics. In 2002, federal or even foreign policy issues ( Elbe flood , Iraq war ) had determined the election in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

The economic problems in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania were the other dominant topic before the election. In a survey by Infratest dimap on behalf of ARD , 88 percent of those questioned named unemployment and 27 percent the economy as the most important problems in the country, followed by education (21 percent) and social injustice (10 percent). A controversial state political issue was the administrative and district reform . The CDU rejected this in the election campaign and filed a lawsuit against it. After the election, however, she occupied the interior ministry responsible for the district reform and continued the project in the grand coalition. The G8 summit in Heiligendamm in 2007 , against which the Left Party in particular campaigned, was also unpopular .

Election result and distribution of seats

16 parties competed in the election. The state election had the following result:

Direct mandates won according to parties in the constituencies (first votes). The SPD won 15 constituencies, the CDU 20 and the PDS one.
Eligible voters 1,415,321
Voters 837.018
voter turnout 59.2%
Valid first votes 816,088 (97.5%)
Invalid first votes 20,930 (2.5%)
Valid second votes 818,061 (97.7%)
Invalid second votes 18,957 (2.3%)
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SPD 245.370 30.1 247,312 30.2 15th 8th 23 -10
CDU 252,888 31.0 235.350 28.8 20th 2 22nd -3
PDS 146.772 18.0 137.253 16.8 1 12 13 ± 0
FDP 70,423 8.6 78,440 9.6 7th 7th +7
NPD 57.008 7.0 59,845 7.3 6th 6th +6
GREEN 26,991 3.3 27,642 3.4
FAMILY 9,463 1.2
GRAY 2,438 0.3 5,602 0.7
WASG 2,459 0.3 4,281 0.5
Alliance for MV 4,000 0.5 3,547 0.4
Germany 2,653 0.3 3.131 0.4
PBC 800 0.1 1,957 0.2
AGFG 666 0.1 1,882 0.2
FROM 951 0.1
APD 774 0.1
Offensive D 631 0.1
Individual applicants 3,620 0.4

According to the official final result, the SPD ruling with the PDS under Prime Minister Harald Ringstorff had to accept losses in the double-digit percentage range compared to the good result of 2002, which was shaped by the strong federal trend, but remained just the strongest force before the CDU. The CDU suffered losses of 2.5 percentage points, but received the majority of the direct mandates, while the PDS stabilized its result from 2002 (+0.4 percentage points). Wolfgang Methling (Left Party) won the only direct mandate in the Rostock II state constituency that did not go to a CDU or SPD candidate. The FDP moved back into the state parliament for the first time since the 1990 election , with a plus of 4.9 percentage points and a result of 9.6 percent . The largest gains (+6.5 percentage points) were achieved by the NPD, which was able to move into the state parliament for the first time with a result of 7.3 percent and six MPs, and in the eastern part of the country achieved a share of the votes of up to 15 percent. Despite a slight gain in votes (+0.8 percentage points), the Greens clearly failed to enter the state parliament with a result of 3.4 percent.

With the entry of the FDP and NPD into the state parliament, the spectrum of parties expanded from a three-party system to a five-party system. The performance of the right-wing extremist NPD caused a particular stir . With a mixture of criticism of capitalism , conspiracy theories , nationalism or National Socialism , populism and revanchist ties to the homeland, she served the widespread disenchantment of voters with parties during the election campaign . The voter migration in favor of the NPD compared to 2002 showed, in addition to 12,000 former non-voters, an influx of 12,000 CDU, 7,000 SPD and 4,000 PDS voters.

Government formation

The previous red-red coalition would still have had a narrow majority in the state parliament with 36 of 71 seats, but the SPD opted for a grand coalition with the CDU ( Cabinet Ringstorff III ). This was the third time after 1994 and 1998 in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania there was a half-change of government, in which a coalition partner remained in the government in order to form a coalition with a new partner. Harald Ringstorff was re-elected Prime Minister with 42 out of 71 possible votes, although the coalition had 45 seats. His opponent Udo Pastörs (NPD) received 6 votes, which corresponded to the number of NPD state parliament mandates. On October 3, 2008, Ringstorff (for reasons of age) and two other ministers resigned; the previous Minister for Social Affairs, Erwin Sellering (SPD), who has headed the Sellering I cabinet since then , became the new Prime Minister .

See also

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Election to the state parliament of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania on September 17, 2006. Final result The state returning officer of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
  2. ↑ Election to the state parliament of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania on September 22, 2002. Final result The state returning officer of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
  3. ^ Wahlrecht.de : Wahlrecht-News - State election 2006 in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania on September 17, 2006. Retrieved on July 27, 2010 .
  4. ↑ www.wahlrecht.de
  5. ↑ a b c Steffen Schoon: Voting behavior and structural patterns of party competition , in: Steffen Schoon, Nikolaus Werz (Ed.): The state elections in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania 2006 , Rostock 2006, p. 9.
  6. ↑ a b Nikolaus Werz: The Landtag Election 2006 in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , in: Steffen Schoon, Nikolaus Werz (Ed.): The State Parliament Election in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania 2006 , Rostock 2006, p. 7.
  7. ^ SPIEGEL ONLINE: Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania: Ringstorff attracts the Left Party and the CDU. Retrieved July 29, 2010 .
  8. ↑ Steffen Schoon: Voting behavior and structural patterns of party competition , in: Steffen Schoon, Nikolaus Werz (Ed.): The state elections in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania 2006 , Rostock 2006, p. 10.
  9. ↑ www.tagesschau.de  ( 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.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / wahlarchiv.tagesschau.de  
  10. ↑ a b Nikolaus Werz: The 2006 state elections in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , in: Steffen Schoon, Nikolaus Werz (Ed.): The state elections in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania 2006 , Rostock 2006, p. 8.
  11. ↑ Federal Agency for Civic Education: Information on the state elections - Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania state elections 2006. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on May 18, 2009 ; Retrieved July 27, 2010 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bpb.de
  12. ↑ State Parliament Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania: Final election results of the state elections 2006. In: Election results at the state level. Retrieved July 25, 2010 .
  13. ↑ SPIEGEL ONLINE: State election: NPD benefits from frustration in Western Pomerania. Retrieved July 27, 2010 .
  14. ↑ a b Karsten Grabow: The party system of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , in: Parties and party systems in the German states , edited by Uwe Jun, Melanie Haas and Oskar Niedermayer, GWV, Wiesbaden 2008, p. 274.
  15. ^ SPIEGEL ONLINE: Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania: Ringstorff re-elected as Prime Minister. Retrieved July 27, 2010 .