State election in Rhineland-Palatinate 1996
The state elections in Rhineland-Palatinate in 1996 took place on March 24th at the same time as the state elections in Baden-Württemberg and Schleswig-Holstein . Despite the loss of votes by the SPD , the social-liberal coalition led by Prime Minister Kurt Beck was able to continue.
Starting position
A social-liberal coalition made up of the SPD and FDP has ruled Rhineland-Palatinate since 1991. 1991 to 1994 with Rudolf Scharping and since 1994 with Kurt Beck (SPD) as Prime Minister. After the lost election in 1991, the CDU voted out Hans-Otto Wilhelm as chairman in 1992 . His successor Werner Langen stayed in office for only one year. The CDU's top candidate was now the party chairman Johannes Gerster, who was elected in 1993 .
Election result
The elections to the 13th state parliament resulted in the following result (final result):
Eligible voters: 2,987,099
Voters: 2,114,933 (turnout: 70.80%)
Valid constituency votes: 2,047,309
Valid national votes: 2,063,726
| Political party | Constituency votes |
Share in% |
Direct mandates |
National voices |
Share in% |
Seats |
Seats 1991 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SPD | 846507 | 41.35 | 24 | 821539 | 39.81 | 43 | 47 |
| CDU | 860847 | 42.05 | 27 | 798166 | 38.68 | 41 | 40 |
| FDP | 137730 | 6.73 | 184426 | 8.94 | 10 | 7th | |
| GREEN | 134173 | 6.55 | 142665 | 6.91 | 7th | 7th | |
| REP | 42103 | 2.06 | 71499 | 3.46 | |||
| Gray ones | 1959 | 0.10 | 14338 | 0.69 | |||
| ÖDP | 13641 | 0.67 | 10879 | 0.53 | |||
| NPD | 1099 | 0.05 | 7633 | 0.37 | |||
| Natural law | 3010 | 0.15 | 6201 | 0.30 | |||
| PBC | 1355 | 0.07 | 3402 | 0.16 | |||
| Instead of | 1154 | 0.06 | 2608 | 0.13 | |||
| BüSo | 370 | 0.02 | |||||
| FAL | 594 | 0.03 | |||||
| GPD | 525 | 0.03 | |||||
| CM | 241 | 0.01 | |||||
| Individual applicants | 2965 | 0.14 | |||||
| Total | 2047309 | 51 | 2063726 | 101 | 101 |
→ List of members of the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament (13th electoral term)
After this election, a black-yellow coalition again had a majority in the state parliament. Nevertheless, the FDP decided to continue the social-liberal coalition.
