State election in Lower Saxony 2017
The state election in Lower Saxony 2017 was the election for the 18th Lower Saxony state parliament and took place on October 15, 2017 .
Starting position
On October 11, 2016, the Weil I cabinet decided in an ordinance to set January 14, 2018 as the election date. According to Article 9 (2) of the Lower Saxony Constitution , a new election must take place at the earliest 56 and at the latest 59 months after the start of an electoral term. The constituent meeting of the incumbent state parliament took place on February 19, 2013. Election Sundays between October 22, 2017 and January 14, 2018 were therefore eligible.
Early election
After Elke Twesten, the former Green MP, left the parliamentary group on August 4, 2017, the governing coalition of the SPD and the Greens lost its one-vote majority. Prime Minister Stephan Weil (SPD) then spoke out in favor of quick new elections. Resignation was out of the question for him.
According to Article 10 of the Constitution of Lower Saxony , the state parliament can dissolve itself with a two-thirds majority if at least one third of the members of the state parliament apply for dissolution. A new state parliament must then be elected within two months. A constructive vote of no confidence in the incumbent Prime Minister is also possible, which at least a third of the members must support in order to get a vote. The successor to be elected must achieve an absolute majority of the members of the state parliament, i.e. 69 votes.
On August 7, 2017, Weil announced that it would seek a resolution by the state parliament on early elections on October 15, 2017. Previously, a move to September 24, 2017 and thus a merger with the date of the 2017 federal election had been discussed. The Regional Returning Officer Ulrike Sachs expressed the opinion that this was out of the question for constitutional and organizational reasons. On August 21, the Lower Saxony state parliament decided to dissolve itself with 135 votes out of 137. The quorum required for this was 91 votes.
Parties and candidates
A total of 15 state lists and 544 district election nominations were approved:
Parties that are not represented in the federal or state parliament or obtained at least 5 percent of the valid votes in Lower Saxony in the last federal election had to submit at least 2,000 supporters 'signatures for a state list and 100 supporters' signatures for each district election proposal by September 11th. Individual applicants also required 100 support signatures each. Some parties complained about the deadline and the high expenditure, also because the period fell into the election campaign for the federal election. NPD and DKP told NDR Info that they would not compete for this reason. The AfD , which would not have needed any more signatures at the regular election date with a move into the Bundestag, fell under this rule.
Top candidates from parties regularly mentioned in surveys
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| Bernd Althusmann | Stephan Weil | Anja Piel | Stefan Birkner | Anja Stoeck | Dana Guth |
| CDU | SPD | GREEN | FDP | The left | AfD |
- CDU
On September 17, 2016, Bernd Althusmann was nominated as CDU state chairman and top candidate for the state elections in a joint meeting of the CDU state executive and state parliamentary group. The state party conference of the CDU Lower Saxony elected him on November 26, 2016 in Hameln as state chairman and unanimously confirmed his election as the top candidate. On May 6, 2017, Althusmann was elected number 1 on the state list at the state representative assembly in Hanover.
- SPD
Prime Minister Stephan Weil announced on August 7, 2017, when he announced an early election, that he would run again as the SPD's top candidate. On September 3, 2017, he was unanimously elected as the top candidate at a party conference in Hanover.
- Alliance 90 / The Greens
On August 11, 2017, the parliamentary group leader Anja Piel was elected as the top candidate at the state delegates' conference in Göttingen .
- FDP
The FDP state chairman, Stefan Birkner , was elected as the top candidate at a party congress in Hanover on August 13, 2017.
- The left
At a party conference in Braunschweig on May 20, 2017, state chairwoman Anja Stoeck was elected the left's top candidate with 72 percent of the vote.
- AfD
At a two-day party congress on 5./6. August 2017, the Göttingen AfD district chairwoman Dana Guth was elected as the top candidate for the state election. On September 29, 2017, the AfD parliamentary group decided in the Göttingen district assembly to immediately expel Guth due to “differences in cooperation”. The state chairman Armin-Paul Hampel criticized the decision as counterproductive with regard to the state election.
Surveys and Forecasts
Sunday question
| Institute | date | CDU | SPD | Green | FDP | left | AfD | Otherwise. |
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| State election 2017 | October 15, 2017 | 33.6% | 36.9% | 8.7% | 7.5% | 4.6% | 6.2% | 2.4% |
| Research group elections | October 12, 2017 | 33% | 34.5% | 9% | 9% | 5% | 7% | 2.5% |
| INSA | 09.10.2017 | 32% | 33% | 10% | 10% | 5% | 7% | 3% |
| Research group elections | 06.10.2017 | 33% | 33% | 9% | 10% | 5% | 7% | 3% |
| Infratest dimap | 05.10.2017 | 34% | 34% | 8.5% | 8th % | 4.5% | 8th % | 3% |
| Infratest dimap | 09/28/2017 | 35% | 34% | 9% | 8th % | 5% | 6% | 3% |
| Infratest dimap | 07.09.2017 | 37% | 32% | 10% | 6% | 5% | 7% | 3% |
| dimap | 08/30/2017 | 39% | 31% | 8th % | 8th % | 4% | 8th % | 2% |
| Infratest dimap | 08/10/2017 | 40% | 32% | 9% | 7% | 3% | 6% | 3% |
| INSA | 08/09/2017 | 40% | 28% | 9% | 9% | 5% | 7% | 2% |
| INSA | May 27, 2017 | 41% | 27% | 8th % | 9% | 5% | 6% | 4% |
| Forsa | 05/06/2017 | 35% | 36% | 8th % | 6% | 4% | 6% | 5% |
| Infratest dimap | 01/20/2017 | 35% | 31% | 14% | 6% | 4% | 8th % | 2% |
| Forsa | 11/01/2017 | 34% | 32% | 12% | 6% | 4% | 7% | 5% |
| INSA | October 19, 2016 | 33% | 31% | 12% | 8th % | 5% | 7% | 4% |
| Forsa | 11/28/2015 | 35% | 33% | 14% | 6% | 4% | 4% | 4% |
| INSA | 07.09.2015 | 37% | 29% | 14% | 6% | 6% | 3% | 5% |
| Infratest dimap | 07/03/2015 | 40% | 29% | 14% | 5% | 5% | 2% | 3% |
| GMS | 01/24/2015 | 41% | 30% | 14% | 3% | 4% | 4% | 4% |
| Research group elections | 01/20/2014 | 40% | 32% | 13% | 4% | 5% | 3% | 3% |
| State election 2013 | 01/20/2013 | 36.0% | 32.6% | 13.7% | 9.9% | 3.1% | - | 4.7% |
Prime Minister Survey
When asked who the citizens would directly elect to be prime minister, the polling institutes gave the following values:
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| Research group elections | October 15, 2017 | 50% | 32% |
| Infratest dimap | October 15, 2017 | 50% | 35% |
| Research group elections | October 12, 2017 | 49% | 31% |
| Research group elections | 06.10.2017 | 49% | 29% |
| Infratest dimap | 05.10.2017 | 45% | 24% |
| Infratest dimap | 09/28/2017 | 48% | 25% |
| Infratest dimap | 07.09.2017 | 47% | 24% |
| Infratest dimap | 08/10/2017 | 45% | 34% |
| Infratest dimap | 01/20/2017 | 51% | 26% |
Coalition statements and negotiations
The previous red-green coalition was missing two seats after the election to continue its alliance, which is why new constellations had to be negotiated. The FDP ruled out a coalition with the SPD and the Greens , while the Greens ruled out a coalition with the CDU and FDP . Therefore, at the end of October 2017, the SPD and CDU agreed on exploratory talks about the formation of a grand coalition . On November 16, 2017, the SPD and CDU announced in Hanover that they had agreed to form a grand coalition ( Weil II cabinet ). An extraordinary state party congress of the SPD approved the coalition agreement on November 18, 2017 with a large majority. The CDU state committee voted unanimously on November 20 for the coalition agreement. The coalition agreement was signed on November 21, 2017. Stephan Weil was elected Prime Minister by the Lower Saxony state parliament on November 22, 2017. He received 104 of 137 votes, one vote less than the SPD and CDU coalition groups in the state parliament.
Official end result
- Eligible voters: 6,098,379
- Voters: 3,849,017
- Turnout: 63.1%
- Valid first votes: 3,811,125
- Valid second votes: 3,828,003
- 137 seats
For the elected representatives, see the list of members of the Lower Saxony state parliament (18th electoral term) .
The provisional official result was announced late on the evening of the election, the final result on October 26, 2017. The final official result on election evening:
| Political party | First votes | proportion of | Second votes | proportion of | Seats |
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| SPD | 1,508,830 | 39.6% | 1,413,990 | 36.9% | 55 |
| CDU | 1,420,083 | 37.3% | 1,287,191 | 33.6% | 50 |
| GREEN | 283,327 | 7.4% | 334.130 | 8.7% | 12 |
| FDP | 226,554 | 5.9% | 287,957 | 7.5% | 11 |
| AfD | 174,521 | 4.6% | 235.863 | 6.2% | 9 |
| THE LEFT | 170,660 | 4.5% | 177.118 | 4.6% | - |
| Animal welfare party | - | - | 27,108 | 0.7% | - |
| THE PARTY | 9.097 | 0.2% | 22,578 | 0.6% | - |
| FREE VOTERS | 11,348 | 0.3% | 14,869 | 0.4% | - |
| PIRATES | 2,350 | 0.1% | 8,449 | 0.2% | - |
| UBI | - | - | 5.125 | 0.1% | - |
| DM | - | - | 4,482 | 0.1% | - |
| V party³ | - | - | 4.151 | 0.1% | - |
| ÖDP | 735 | 0.0% | 4,042 | 0.1% | - |
| LKR | 488 | 0.0% | 950 | 0.0% | - |
| Alliance C | 425 | 0.0% | - | - | - |
| DG | 260 | 0.0% | - | - | - |
| Individual applicants | 2,447 | 0.1% | - | - | - |
See also
- List of elected MPs
- Weil II cabinet
- State elections in Lower Saxony
- List of Prime Ministers of Lower Saxony
- List of future election dates in Germany
Web links
- Information from the Regional Returning Officer on the 2017 state election
- Results at Wahlrecht.de
- Jasper von Altenbockum : Bad loser . In: faz.net. August 7, 2017 (comment).
- Coalition agreement of November 21, 2017 Online at Stephanweil.de and for download from the CDU regional association CDU Lower Saxony
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b The result of the state elections is finally certain ( memento of the original from October 27, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Regional Returning Officer, accessed on November 18, 2017.
- ↑ New Lower Saxony State Parliament will be elected on January 14, 2018 . In: Lower Saxony State Chancellery . October 11, 2016, accessed October 15, 2017.
- ^ Next state election on January 14, 2018 . In: New Osnabrück Newspaper . June 29, 2015, accessed October 15, 2017.
- ↑ Weil is in favor of quick new elections . In: NDR.de . 4th August 2017.
- ↑ New elections, no-confidence vote, what's next? . In: ndr.de . August 4, 2017. Retrieved October 15, 2017.
- ↑ Lower Saxony election on October 15th . In: Welt Online . 7th August 2017.
- ↑ Weil announces new election for October 15th . In: Spiegel Online . 7th August 2017.
- ^ Reinhard Bingener, Timo Steppat: New election in Lower Saxony on October 15 . In: faz.net . August 7, 2017. Retrieved October 16, 2017.
- ↑ The Lower Saxony State Parliament has dissolved . In: NDR.de . August 21, 2017.
- ↑ https://www.landeswahlleiter.niedersachsen.de/presse_service/presseinformationen/landtagswahl-2017-verzeichnis-der-bewerberinnen-und-bewerber-158339.html
- ↑ a b c Are the ballot papers getting shorter in Lower Saxony? In: NDR. Retrieved September 18, 2017 .
- ↑ State election 2018 Althusmann becomes CDU top candidate. In: Spiegel Online , September 17, 2016 (agency reports).
- ↑ Bernd Althusmann leads the CDU in Lower Saxony as the top candidate for the state election. In: CDU in Lower Saxony , November 26, 2016.
- ↑ CDU state list state elections 2018. (PDF) In: Decision of the state representative assembly on May 6, 2017 in Hanover. CDU Lower Saxony, May 6, 2017, pp. 1–4 , accessed on August 10, 2017 .
- ↑ Weil wants to run again in the new election in Lower Saxony . In: FinanzNachrichten.de . 7th August 2017.
- ↑ SPD names Weil the top candidate in Lower Saxony ( memento of the original from October 9, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: Zeit Online . 3rd September 2017.
- ↑ Green against the "black and yellow horror cabinet". In: NDR. Retrieved August 12, 2017 .
- ↑ FDP elects Birkner as the top candidate . In: HAZ.de . 13th August 2017.
- ↑ Anja Stoeck is the top candidate of the left . In: rundblick-niedersachsen.de . 20th May 2017.
- ↑ Dana Guth is the top candidate of the AfD. In: haz.de. August 5, 2017. Retrieved August 12, 2017 .
- ↑ Guth not good enough anymore? . In: Göttinger Tageblatt . 3rd October 2017.
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s http://www.wahlrecht.de/umfragen/landtage/niedersachsen.htm
- ^ The SPD and CDU agree on exploratory talks. October 26, 2017. Retrieved October 28, 2017 .
- ^ SPD and CDU form "Coalition of Reason". November 16, 2017. Retrieved November 16, 2017 .
- ↑ Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung No. 270 of November 20, 2017, p. 1
- ↑ Rundblick report from November 21, 2017
- ↑ Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung No. 272 of November 22, 2017, p. 6
