State election in North Rhine-Westphalia 1995

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A total of 221 seats

In the state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia on May 14, 1995, the SPD lost its absolute majority in the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia after 15 years of sole government . Nevertheless, Johannes Rau remained Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia . The CDU increased slightly by one percentage point. The Greens doubled their result and joined a red-green coalition . The FDP failed at the 5% hurdle and missed re-entry into the state parliament.

Election campaign

The state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia in 1995 took place against the background of the 1994 federal elections and the subsequent state elections in Hesse in 1995 . The governing constellation in office was confirmed by both of them: The Greens had clearly gained ground in both elections, while in Hesse the SPD achieved its worst result since 1946.

The decision on the Garzweiler II opencast mine was an outstanding political issue in the NRW election campaign . The Greens strictly rejected this plan. Other than this, the campaign was calm. The CDU addressed school policy, economic development and internal security, the SPD social security and job creation.

The CDU had chosen its top candidate Helmut Linssen in a ballot . 59.6% of the members preferred him to his opponent Norbert Lammert . For the CDU NRW it was the first ballot for the candidate election. The FDP's top candidate was Achim Rohde , the previous leader of the Liberals' parliamentary group.

Official end result

  • Eligible voters: 13,041,964
  • Voters: 8,353,056
  • Turnout: 64.05%
  • Valid votes: 8,294,235
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completely 		Share
in% 		Electoral
kreisbe-
tors 		Direct
MAN
date 		Seats
SPD 3,816,639 46.02 151 108 108
CDU 3,124,758 37.67 151 43 89
GREEN 830.861 10.02 151 24
FDP 332,634 4.01 151
REP 65,509 0.79 105
Gray ones 58,155 0.70 116
ÖDP 21,159 0.26 88
Natural law 12,948 0.16 68
Animal welfare 9,936 0.12 28
DKP 6.008 0.07 47
PBC 5,777 0.07 20th
Instead of 3,034 0.04 10
RP 2,757 0.03 5
BüSo 850 0.01 10
CM 556 0.01 3
APD 516 0.01 2
family 273 0.00 1
UAP 152 0.00 3
Awareness 103 0.00 2
HP 40 0.00 1
Individual applicants 1570 0.02 9
Total 8294235 1122 151 221

The SPD won 108 constituencies directly and received nine overhang seats. For this, the CDU received eight and the Greens three compensatory mandates, so that the total number of MPs increased to 221.

consequences

The new majority arrangement ended the sole government of the SPD and led to the first red-green state government in North Rhine-Westphalia , which was led by the previously incumbent Prime Minister Johannes Rau until the end of May 1998, then by Wolfgang Clement . The coalition agreement left the final decision on Garzweiler II open until 2000, thus establishing the status quo, despite opposition from the Greens to this project. There were also differences of opinion within the SPD on this topic: the then deputy chairman of the North Rhine-Westphalian SPD, Christoph Zöpel , opposed the project and said “Garzweiler II is an anachronism”, but the union wing was decidedly in favor. The Greens failed in 1997 with a constitutional complaint against the approval of Garzweiler II during this legislative period.

In retrospect, this red-green coalition was seen as a model for the coalition of the same color in the federal government from 1998 onwards.

See also

literature

  • Forschungsgruppe Wahlen: Election in North Rhine-Westphalia: an analysis of the state elections of May 14, 1995, issue 81 of reports of the Forschungsgruppe Wahlen, 1996.
  • Ursula Feist, Hans-Jürgen Hoffmann: The North Rhine-Westphalian state elections of May 14, 1995. In: Journal for Parliamentary Issues, 27th year (1996), Issue 2, pages 257-271.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Holger Kaiser, Frederik A. Petersohn: Opposition in the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia: the CDU parliamentary group and the "Garzweiler II" open-cast lignite mine in the 12th electoral period (1995-2000). 2007, ISBN 3825801675 , page 39 online
  2. ↑ Landtag internal 22, page 2, accessed on www.landtag.nrw.de on May 19, 2010
  3. ↑ "Garzweiler II" - Chronology of the approval process (PDF; 81 kB), accessed on www.bund-nrw.d on May 18, 2010
  4. ↑ Knut Bergmann: The Bundestag election campaign 1998: Prehistory, strategies, results, 2002, ISBN 3531137581 , page 224 ff. Online