State election in Saxony-Anhalt 2006

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A total of 97 seats

In the state elections in Saxony-Anhalt in 2006 , the 5th state parliament in Saxony-Anhalt was elected on March 26, 2006 .

530 candidates, including 133 women, ran on 17 state lists of the parties and list associations or in one of the 45 constituencies.

2,078,671 people were eligible to vote; 44.4 percent of them voted. This voter turnout is (as of May 2019) historically low for a state election, both in the history of Saxony-Anhalt and nationwide. After the election, another government under Prime Minister Wolfgang Böhmer (CDU) was formed with the Böhmer II cabinet . Due to a changed majority, the CDU formed a coalition with the SPD .

Starting position

Election poster of the CDU with Wolfgang Böhmer

After the state elections in Saxony-Anhalt in 2002 , a coalition of CDU and FDP replaced the previous minority government of the SPD, which was tolerated by the PDS . The former Prime Minister Reinhard Höppner (SPD) was succeeded by Wolfgang Böhmer (CDU).

Surveys before the elections indicated that the previous coalition of CDU and FDP would no longer receive a majority of the seats in the state parliament . For example , a survey commissioned by the MDR and published on March 16 found 36% for the CDU, 6% for the FDP , 26% for the SPD and 23% for the Linkspartei.PDS . The SPD said that it would rather form a grand coalition with the CDU than with the Left Party.PDS.

The Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen party , which was 4% in surveys and was represented in the Saxony-Anhalt state parliament until 1998 , was also given a chance of entering the state parliament . A coalition of the SPD and the Greens was ruled out in view of the majority situation. An alliance between the SPD, the Left Party and the Greens was not discussed in public before the election.

The DVU , which is supported by the NPD , was also given the opportunity to win a parliamentary group in the state parliament. Polls put the party at 3.5 to 4%. The DVU was already represented in the state parliament from 1998 to 2002, but did not stand again in 2002 due to internal quarrels.

The election researchers gave other parties and list connections no chance of success.

Accompanying parties and list connections

14 parties and 3 list connections ran for election. In detail these were:

CDU, Linkspartei, PDS, SPD, FDP and Greens put up candidates across the board in the constituencies. In addition, 17 individual applicants also competed .

Election campaign

Winter election campaign - snow on a Green election stand

The election campaign was described by observers as rather tired. In particular, there was a lack of substantive disputes on factual issues. The larger parties had brought their top candidates to the fore. The CDU presented the 70-year-old Prime Minister Wolfgang Böhmer as a reliable father of the country. In an MDR survey on March 16, 44% of those questioned said they wanted to vote for Böhmer if the Prime Minister was directly elected. The 45-year-old SPD top candidate Jens Bullerjahn was able to catch up, but remained well behind Böhmer with 25%. The top candidate of the Left Party, PDS, Wulf Gallert , only got 7%. The FDP's top candidate was Karl-Heinz Paqué . The green top candidate was Inés Brock . The smaller parties tried to sharpen their own issues. The FDP primarily addressed the increase in value added tax which it had rejected but was planned by the federal government. The Greens put jobs in the renewable energies sector, education policy and their rejection of genetic engineering in the foreground.

The right-wing DVU led its election campaign mainly through extensive nationwide billposting. In addition to the poster themes already used by the DVU in the past, which dealt aggressively with the issues of foreigners and internal security, attempts were made to portray the top candidate Ingmar Knop , a lawyer from Dessau , as a serious personality. The DVU tried to improve its image, which had suffered greatly in view of the chaotic conditions of the DVU parliamentary group that existed from 1998 to 2002.

Ordnungsamt Magdeburg removes wrongly placed poster, here the FDP

The number of posters hung up during the election campaign was criticized by sections of the population. A mayor from a village in the Altmark had supposedly wrongly hung posters removed and illegally burned. In some large cities, the municipal regulatory authorities took down posters whose location violated local regulations.

For excitement in the election campaign ( Bild-Zeitung : "Naughty poster of Germany") caused a poster of the alliance greens on the satirical alienation of the image campaign of the country We get up earlier. the pictures of the sleeping top candidates Böhmer, Bullerjahn and Gallert with the sentence We go to sleep earlier. were shown.

Boehmer's first groundbreaking ceremony for the northern extension of the A 14 also caused a stir , which was celebrated 6 days before the election, although there was no building permit for the entire project and the financing was unclear. Federal Transport Minister Wolfgang Tiefensee (SPD), who was in Magdeburg at the same time , demonstratively stayed away from the event.

Electoral process

Each eligible voter had two votes. With the first vote, the person was elected who should represent the respective constituency in the Magdeburg state parliament. The second vote determined the composition of the state parliament according to party affiliation. A 5% clause applied . Only parties that achieve at least 5% of the second vote can move into the state parliament.

Election result

A total of 923,278 eligible voters made use of their right to vote. The turnout was therefore only 44.4% (-12.2% compared to 2002), the lowest value recorded in a state election in the Federal Republic of Germany.

A total of 902,254 valid party votes were cast by these voters . The proportion of invalid votes was thus 2.3% (-0.2%). Of the valid party votes, which were often referred to as second votes, the following values ​​were allotted to the individual state lists according to the official final result (sorted by list number):

Political party Personal
voices 		% Direct
mandates 		Overhang
compensation 		Party
votes 		% Seats
2006 		Seats
2002
CDU 318,550 35.56 40 3 nights 326.721 36.21 40 48
Linke.PDS 225,797 25.21 3 1 A 217.295 24.08 26th 25th
SPD 209.185 23.35 2 2 A 192.754 21.36 24 25th
FDP 67,973 7.59 - - 60.209 6.67 7th 17th
B'90 / Greens 39,569 4.42 - - 32,117 3.56 - -
DVU - - - - 26,905 2.98 - -
parents - - - - 14,499 1.61 - -
G U T 3,086 0.34 - - 7,325 0.81 - -
The Republicans - - - - 4,323 0.48 - -
BBW 11,368 1.27 - - 4.125 0.46 - -
MLPD 2,079 0.23 - - 4,060 0.45 - -
future! - - - - 3,363 0.37 - -
AGFG 2,738 0.31 - - 3,356 0.37 - -
Off D - INSTEAD - DSU 9,062 1.01 - - 2,562 0.29 - -
Per DM - - - - 991 0.11 - -
Bü - DKP / KPD 757 0.08 - - 957 0.11 - -
FP of Germany - - - - 692 0.08 - -
Individual applicants 5,605 0.63 - - - - - -
valid votes
  		895.769
 		 100.00
97.02		 45
 		 6th
  		902.254
 		 100.00
97.72		 97
 		 115
 
invalid votes 27,509 2.98 21,024 2.28  
votes cast
voter turnout 		923.278
 		 100.00
44.42		 923.278
 		 100.00
44.42
Non-voters 1,155,381 55.58 1,155,381 55.58
eligible to vote 2,078,659 100.00   2,078,659 100.00

In the 2002 state elections, parties that did not stand for this election achieved a total of 1.8%.

As predicted by the election polls, this made the CDU the strongest party. Surprisingly, the SPD received slightly fewer votes than the Left Party. The FDP lost significantly and halved its result in 2002. The Greens gained (3.6% after 3.0% in 2002). The DVU received 3.0%. As expected, the other parties remained insignificant.

40 of the 45 direct mandates awarded went to the CDU, which had won 48 constituencies in 2002. 3 constituencies went to Die Linke (2002: 0) and 2 constituencies to the SPD (2002: 1).

In the state parliament, which was reduced from 115 to 97 seats, the previous CDU / FDP coalition only had 47 seats. The previous government thus lost its majority. Since the SPD had clearly ruled out a coalition with the Left Party before the election, the only practicable formation of a government remained a CDU / SPD government under the leadership of the previous Prime Minister Böhmer, which was based on 64 seats. This government took office in April 2006; the coalition was continued after the state elections in 2011 under the leadership of the new Prime Minister Reiner Haseloff (CDU) ( Cabinet Haseloff I ).

See also

literature

  • Klaus Detterbeck: The state elections in Saxony-Anhalt 2006. The state political party competition and the (unusually small) shadow of federal politics , in: Jens Tenscher (ed.): 100 days grace period. Federal politics and state elections in the shadow of the grand coalition , VS Verlag , Wiesbaden 2008, ISBN 978-3-531-15197-7 , pp. 177-195.

Web links

Commons : Saxony-Anhalt state election 2006  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ^ Election of the 5th State Parliament of Saxony-Anhalt on March 26, 2006. State of Saxony-Anhalt as a whole, State Statistical Office of Saxony-Anhalt