State election in Lower Saxony in 1990
The election for the 12th Lower Saxony state parliament took place on May 13, 1990, parallel to the state election in North Rhine-Westphalia . For the first time in a Lower Saxony state election, there were first and second votes as in federal elections.
initial situation
In the 1986 state elections , the CDU under Prime Minister Ernst Albrecht received only 44.6 percent of the vote (after 50.2% in the 1982 election) and formed a coalition alliance with the Lower Saxony FDP .
The SPD, led by Gerhard Schröder , had received 42.1 percent of the vote in the 1986 election (after 36.5 percent in the 1982 election). In the 1986 election, the Greens received 7.1 percent (after 6.5 percent in 1982). The SPD and the Greens received a total of 49.2 percent of the vote, the CDU and FDP together 50.3 percent. Albrecht remained Prime Minister (→ Albrecht V cabinet ).
Schröder resigned his parliamentary mandate in 1986 and became the opposition leader in Lower Saxony's 11th state parliament .
Result
The SPD received 71 out of 155 seats, the CDU 67. The SPD and the Greens formed a red-green coalition and replaced the Albrecht government .
Eligible voters: 5,712,613
Voters: 4,263,215 (turnout: 74.63%)
Valid first votes: 4,204,232
Valid second votes: 4,216,296
| Political party | First votes | Second votes | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| number | Share in% |
Direct MAN date |
number | Share in% |
Seats | |
| SPD | 1,943,278 | 46.22 | 61 | 1,865,267 | 44.24 | 71 |
| CDU | 1,811,352 | 43.08 | 39 | 1,771,974 | 42.03 | 67 |
| FDP | 213.425 | 5.08 | 252,615 | 5.99 | 9 | |
| GREEN | 213.114 | 5.07 | 229,846 | 5.45 | 8th | |
| REP | 6,022 | 0.14 | 62,054 | 1.47 | ||
| NPD | 9,396 | 0.22 | 8,255 | 0.20 | ||
| family | 531 | 0.01 | 4,529 | 0.11 | ||
| PBC | 3,858 | 0.09 | ||||
| Eco union | 3,682 | 0.09 | ||||
| ÖDP | 577 | 0.01 | 3,603 | 0.09 | ||
| The independents | 5,737 | 0.14 | 2,739 | 0.06 | ||
| DRD | 2,705 | 0.06 | ||||
| CM | 90 | 0.00 | 1,367 | 0.03 | ||
| DDD | 1,126 | 0.03 | ||||
| Patriots | 421 | 0.01 | 650 | 0.02 | ||
| Awareness | 632 | 0.01 | ||||
| DP | 560 | 0.01 | ||||
| DS | 525 | 0.01 | ||||
| FVP | 309 | 0.01 | ||||
| FBPD | 81 | 0.00 | ||||
| Individual applicants | 208 | 0.00 | ||||
| Total | 4,204,232 | 100 | 4,216,296 | 155 | ||
Schröder was elected Prime Minister on June 21, 1990 and formed a cabinet that included two Green Ministers (including Jürgen Trittin , who later became Federal Environment Minister during Schröder's Chancellorship from 1998 to 2005).
Federal political aspects
With this election result, the SPD-governed states gained a majority in the Bundesrat. After the state elections in the new federal states, however, the Union-led states were able to recapture the majority.
See also
literature
- Research Group Elections : Election in Lower Saxony. An analysis of the state elections of May 13, 1990 . Mannheim 1990.
- Institute for Applied Social Science (Ed.): Lower Saxony 1990. State election on May 13, 1990; Analyzes and documents , Bad Godesberg 1990.
