State election in Lower Saxony in 1994
The election for the 13th Lower Saxony State Parliament took place on March 13, 1994.
initial situation
In the state elections in 1990 , the SPD, under the leadership of its parliamentary group chairman Gerhard Schröder, and the Greens won a majority and succeeded Prime Minister Ernst Albrecht (CDU).
Albrecht, Prime Minister since 1976, handed over his office to Schröder on June 21, 1990.
Schröder's coalition was the third red-green government at the state level after Hesse (1985) and Berlin (1989), but it was the first red-green coalition to exist for a full electoral term and thus to stand for re-election.
Gerhard Schröder ran again for the SPD, and Christian Wulff ran for the CDU for the first time .
Result
The SPD only gained 0.02 percentage points; Nevertheless, it received a wafer-thin (81 of 161) absolute majority of the state parliament mandates, because a total of 11.9 percent of the votes cast were not taken into account because of the five percent hurdle. The SPD formed a sole government; Gerhard Schröder was re-elected as Prime Minister.
Christian Wulff, the CDU candidate for the post of Prime Minister, became opposition leader in the state parliament.
Eligible voters: 5,851,720
Voters: 4,316,428 (turnout: 73.76%)
Valid first votes: 4,231,001
Valid second votes: 4,249,021
| Political party | First votes | Second votes | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First votes |
Share in% |
Direct MAN date |
Second votes |
Share in% |
Seats | |
| SPD | 1,971,557 | 46.60 | 81 | 1,880,623 | 44.26 | 81 |
| CDU | 1,610,098 | 38.05 | 19th | 1,547,610 | 36.42 | 67 |
| GREEN | 293,837 | 6.94 | 314,344 | 7.40 | 13 | |
| FDP | 174,743 | 4.13 | 188,691 | 4.44 | ||
| REP | 95.902 | 2.27 | 159.026 | 3.74 | ||
| Instead of party | 43,803 | 1.04 | 55.605 | 1.31 | ||
| Gray ones | 2,304 | 0.05 | 20,581 | 0.48 | ||
| New instead of party | 19,361 | 0.46 | ||||
| NPD | 2,562 | 0.06 | 9,430 | 0.22 | ||
| UWN | 11,140 | 0.26 | 8,819 | 0.21 | ||
| LLN | 1,429 | 0.03 | 8,176 | 0.19 | ||
| PBC | 908 | 0.02 | 8,152 | 0.19 | ||
| Eco union | 1,541 | 0.04 | 7.902 | 0.19 | ||
| Natural law | 431 | 0.01 | 7,325 | 0.17 | ||
| The independents | 4,000 | 0.09 | 4,906 | 0.12 | ||
| ÖDP | 3,093 | 0.07 | 4,347 | 0.10 | ||
| center | 5,155 | 0.12 | 4.123 | 0.10 | ||
| DP | 2.263 | 0.05 | ||||
| CM | 1,232 | 0.03 | ||||
| BüSo | 456 | 0.01 | ||||
| WE | 136 | 0.00 | ||||
| Individual applicants | 4,411 | 0.10 | ||||
| Total | 4,231,001 | 100 | 4,249,021 | 161 | ||
The SPD had three overhang seats, the CDU three compensation seats.
See also
- List of members of the Lower Saxony state parliament (13th electoral term)
- Schröder II cabinet (Lower Saxony)
