State election in North Rhine-Westphalia 1990
The elections to the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia for the 11th electoral period took place on May 13, 1990, parallel to the state elections in Lower Saxony .
In this state election, the SPD sole government under Prime Minister Johannes Rau ( Rau III cabinet ) stood for re-election. Rau had been Prime Minister since 1978 ; he ran for re-election for the third time in 1990 (after the 1980 and 1985 elections). For the CDU , Norbert Blüm (Federal Minister of Labor since 1982) took on Johannes Rau's challenge. The CDU received a slightly higher share of the vote than in the previous election. The SPD's share fell by 2.1 percentage points, but the party maintained its absolute majority of seats with 50.0 percent of the vote.
The FDP lost slightly to 5.8 percent. The Greens got exactly 5.0 percent; with this they overcame the five percent threshold for the first time and entered the state parliament.
Result
| Eligible voters: | 13,036,004 |
| Voters: | 9,353,712 |
| Voter turnout: | 71.75% |
| Valid votes: | 9,291,974 |
| Political party | agree completely |
Share in% |
Electoral kreisbe- tors |
Direct MAN date |
Seats 1990 |
Seats 1992 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SPD | 4,644,431 | 49.98 | 151 | 122 | 122 | 123 |
| CDU | 3,409,953 | 36.70 | 151 | 29 | 89 | 90 |
| FDP | 535.656 | 5.76 | 151 | 14th | 14th | |
| GREEN | 469.098 | 5.05 | 151 | 12 | 12 | |
| REP | 171,867 | 1.85 | 135 | |||
| ÖDP | 46,650 | 0.50 | 136 | |||
| NPD | 3,370 | 0.04 | 24 | |||
| DKP | 2,376 | 0.03 | 18th | |||
| Patriots | 1,742 | 0.02 | 26th | |||
| CM | 1,161 | 0.01 | 5 | |||
| center | 717 | 0.01 | 3 | |||
| family | 210 | 0.00 | 1 | |||
| SRP | 202 | 0.00 | 3 | |||
| FAP | 56 | 0.00 | 1 | |||
| Individual applicants | 4,485 | 0.05 | 7th | |||
| Total | 9,291,974 | 963 | 151 | 237 | 239 |
By means of a decision in the electoral review process , Hagen Müller (SPD) entered the state parliament as directly elected member of parliament for constituency 151 (Märkischer Kreis IV) on March 5, 1992 , while the originally determined winner in the constituency, Petra Böckelmann (CDU), was eliminated. This increased the number of direct mandates of the SPD from 121 to 122. The CDU received an additional compensatory mandate. The total number of seats increased from 237 to 239.
Distribution of seats at the end of the electoral term: SPD 122, CDU 89, FDP 14, Greens 12, non-attached 2
Cabinet Rau IV
After the election, Rau formed the Rau IV cabinet . He filled many posts with the same ministers as in the previous cabinet.
Rau took over the 'Federal Affairs' department himself (previously: Günther Einert ; Einert became Minister for Economics, SMEs and Technology, succeeding Reimut Jochimsen (1933–1999)); For the first time, Rau appointed a minister for 'equality between women and men' ( Ilse Ridder-Melchers ); As successor to Christoph Zöpel ('Urban Development, Housing and Transport') he appointed Franz-Josef Kniola ('Urban Development and Transport') and Ilse Brusis for 'Building and Housing' .
See also
- List of state electoral districts in North Rhine-Westphalia 1990
- List of members of the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia (11th electoral term)
