State election in Saxony 2004

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(in %)

%

50

40

30th

20th

10

0

41.1

23.6

9.8

9.2

5.9

5.1

1.6

3.7

NPD ^d

Otherwise.

Gains and losses

compared to 1999

% p

8th

6th

4th

2

0

-2

-4

-6

-8th

-10

-12

-14

-16

-15.8

+1.4

-0.9

+6.3

+4.8

+2.5

+1.6

+0.1

NPD ^d

Otherwise.

Remarks:

^d The Republicans , who reached 1.5% in 1999, supported the NPD

A total of 124 seats

PDS : 31
SPD : 13
Greens : 6
FDP : 7
CDU : 55
NPD : 12

The state election in Saxony in 2004 was the fourth election to the Saxon state parliament and took place on September 19, 2004.

With a vote loss of over 15 percentage points, the CDU lost the absolute majority for the first time since the re-establishment of the Free State of Saxony in 1990. Following the election, it formed a coalition government with the SPD . Georg Milbradt remained Prime Minister. After his resignation, Stanislaw Tillich was elected Prime Minister. In addition to the CDU and the PDS , the SPD managed to return directly to the Saxon state parliament. The SPD achieved the worst result in a state election since 1945 (until 2019). After the last time in 1990 , the Greens and the FDP also made it into the state parliament.

The right-wing extremist NPD moved into the Saxon state parliament for the first time and was thus represented in a German state parliament for the first time since 1972.

On November 25, 2005, the Constitutional Court of the Free State of Saxony granted an election review complaint by the PDS candidate in the Leipzig 7 constituency , whereupon a re-election took place in this constituency on January 22, 2006, although only the direct vote could be cast again. Since the CDU candidate was able to win his constituency again, this re-election did not result in any changes in the distribution of seats.

Final official result

The approximately 3.56 million citizens of Saxony who are eligible to vote voted for the candidate in their constituency with a direct vote and the party or political association with the list vote. With the list vote, the composition of the state parliament, which has 120 seats without overhang and compensatory mandates , is decided by proportional representation . With the direct vote, the respective direct mandate holder was elected in the 60 constituencies by majority vote. In order to move into the Saxon state parliament, a party had to unite at least five percent of the list votes or win two direct mandates.

List votes

Voter turnout list votes
State election 2004	number	proportion of
Eligible voters	3,554,542	-
Voters	2,118,792	59.6%
Invalid votes	38,657	1.8%

The final official state result of the state elections in Saxony on September 19, 2004 for the list votes is:

Official final result of the 2004 and 1999 list votes
Political party	List votes 2004 (absolute)	List votes 2004 in percent	List votes 1999 (absolute)	List votes 1999 in percent	Change in percent
CDU	855.203	41.1	1,231,254	56.9	−15.8
PDS	490.488	23.6	480.317	22.2	+1.4
SPD	204,438	9.8	232.311	10.7	−0.9
GREEN	106,771	5.1	55,609	2.6	+2.5
NPD	190.909	9.2	29,593	1.4	+7.8
FDP	122.605	5.9	23,369	1.1	+4.8
DSU	11,133	0.5	9,204	0.4	+0.1
PBC	13,880	0.7	6,935	0.3	+0.4
GRAY	19,377	0.9	6,876	0.3	+0.6
BüSo	11,299	0.5	2,440	0.1	+0.4
Animal welfare	34,068	1.6	-	-	+1.6
START	11,201	0.5	-	-	+0.5
DGG	8,763	0.4	-	-	+0.4
PER DM	-	-	46,469	2.1	−2.1
REP	-	-	32,793	1.5	−1.5

In addition, various voter associations (for example free voters ) competed . The state chairman of the republicans, Kerstin Lorenz , announced against the will of the federal leadership the withdrawal of the candidacy of her party in favor of the NPD.

According to the official election results, with 2,118,792 votes cast, the turnout was 59.6 percent. 3,554,542 people were eligible to vote. Of the list votes cast, 98.2 percent were valid.

Direct votes

Participation direct votes
State election 2004 including re-election in 2006	number	proportion of
Eligible voters	3,554,979	-
Voters	2,099,813	59.1%
Invalid votes	64.192	3.1%

The CDU won the direct mandate in 55 constituencies. In two constituencies of Leipzig (constituencies 27 and 29 ), constituency 15 ( Chemnitz 4) and constituency 55 ( Hoyerswerda ), the PDS succeeded in wresting a direct mandate from the CDU. The SPD only succeeded in doing this in constituency 28 (Leipzig 4).

With the direct mandates it won, the CDU received two overhang mandates . Therefore the PDS and SPD each received a compensation mandate . If the CDU had won one less direct mandate, it would only have been entitled to an overhang mandate. As a result, the PDS and SPD would not have received any compensation mandate, which would have meant that the CDU and FDP would have been able to form a government majority after the election.

Official final result of direct votes in 2004 (including re-election in 2006) and 1999
Political party	Mandates 2004	Number of votes in 2004	Share of votes 2004	Mandates 1999	Number of votes 1999	Share of votes in 1999	Change mandates	Change in percentage of votes
CDU	55	846,544	41.6%	60	1,147,041	53.6%	−5	−12.0%
Die Linke.PDS ¹⁾	4th	505,648	24.8%	0	524.177	24.5%	+4	+ 0.3%
SPD	1	229.356	11.3%	0	303,892	14.2%	+1	−2.9%

0¹⁾ The Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS for short) renamed itself Die Linkspartei.PDS (Die Linke.PDS) in July 2005 .

literature

Ulrich H. Brümmer: Party system and elections in Saxony , VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften / GWV Fachverlag GmbH, Wiesbaden 2006, ISBN 3-531-14835-4 .
Eckhard Jesse : The Saxon state election of September 19, 2004. Debacle for CDU and SPD alike , in: Journal for Parliamentary Questions, 1/2005, pp. 80-100.
Judith Maria Müller: Political staging in state election campaigns. An actor-oriented comparison of the campaign communication to the Saxon state election 2004 (= Nomos-Universitätsschriften, Politik . Vol. 174). Nomos, Baden-Baden 2011, ISBN 978-3-8329-6062-9 .

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Statistical Yearbook Saxony 2004 (PDF), State Statistical Office of the Free State of Saxony November 2004, p. 209 ff, accessed on January 9, 2016, print edition, ISBN 3-9809369-0-2 .
^ ^A ^b Wilko Zicht: Results of the state elections in Saxony. In: Wahlrecht.de . Retrieved September 3, 2009 .
^ Call for election by the President of the State Parliament for the State Parliament election on September 19, 2004. Saxon State Parliament, September 1, 2004, archived from the original on January 5, 2013 ; accessed on January 15, 2016 .
^ The National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD). In: Website of the Federal Agency for Civic Education . Federal Agency for Civic Education, March 22, 2007, accessed on September 3, 2009 : “In the state elections in Saxony in September 2004, the NPD gained 9.2% of the vote and, with 12 members, moved into a state parliament for the first time since 1968. "
↑ SächsVerfGH, judgment of November 25, 2005 - Vf. 45-V-05. (PDF; 38.7 kB) Retrieved September 3, 2009 .
↑ Re- election in constituency 31 - Leipzig 7 for the election to the 4th Saxon State Parliament on January 22, 2006. (PDF) In: Web presence of the State Statistical Office of the Free State of Saxony . Regional Returning Officer Irene Schneider-Böttcher, December 1, 2005, accessed on January 15, 2016 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f State election committee determines the final result of the 2004 state elections. In: Web presence of the State Statistical Office of the Free State of Saxony . Regional Returning Officer Irene Schneider-Böttcher, January 27, 2006, accessed on January 15, 2016 .
^ Election to the 4th Saxon State Parliament on September 19, 2004 in the city of Zwickau. Regional Returning Officer Irene Schneider-Böttcher, September 2, 2004, archived from the original on January 16, 2016 ; accessed on January 15, 2016 .
^ Wilko Zicht: Saxony - electoral system. In: Wahlrecht.de . Retrieved August 29, 2009 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Election to the 3rd Saxon State Parliament on September 19, 1999. State Statistical Office of the Free State of Saxony, accessed on September 3, 2009 .
^ Developments in the right spectrum in Saxony. (PDF; 4.5 MB) In: http://www.daksev.de/ . alias, November 2005, p. 7 , accessed on September 2, 2009 : “Through the alliance policy in the NBDD, the NPD managed to integrate part of the REP regional association into its own party. The REP state chairman Kerstin Lorenz withdrew the state list of the REP, the state executive resigned as a whole and called on the grassroots to vote the NPD for the state election. There were disagreements between the federal leadership and the state executive because of the demarcation course towards the NPD. Due to the work in the NBDD, party expulsion proceedings were initiated against some REPers. With the republicans' withdrawal for the state election, the NPD was able to finally manifest its claim to leadership in Saxony. "
↑ Kerstin Lorenz - architect of the right-wing scene. In: www.abendblatt.de . Hamburger Abendblatt, September 9, 2005, accessed on September 1, 2009 : “She caused a sensation when she joined the NPD one day before the state elections in September 2004, after she had previously held high offices with the Republicans in Saxony for ten years would have."
↑ Martin Fehndrich: state election in Saxony with the CDU, PDS, SPD, NPD, GREEN and FDP six parties in it. In: Wahlrecht.de . September 19, 2004, accessed on August 29, 2009 : “The CDU can be annoyed by having won too much direct mandate. Because if the CDU had only won 54 direct mandates and thus only one overhang mandate, no compensation mandates would be distributed (according to d'Hondt, the CDU is entitled to the 121st mandate, so there is no compensation). This means that the CDU + FDP would have 61 out of 121 seats, ie more than 50 percent of the seats, while there are now only 62 out of 124 seats, ie exactly 50 percent of the seats. "

[offiziellesErgebnis-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Statistical Yearbook Saxony 2004 (PDF), State Statistical Office of the Free State of Saxony November 2004, p. 209 ff, accessed on January 9, 2016, print edition, ISBN 3-9809369-0-2 .

[Ergebnisvergleich-2] A ^b Wilko Zicht: Results of the state elections in Saxony. In: Wahlrecht.de . Retrieved September 3, 2009 .

[Wahlaufruf-3] Call for election by the President of the State Parliament for the State Parliament election on September 19, 2004. Saxon State Parliament, September 1, 2004, archived from the original on January 5, 2013 ; accessed on January 15, 2016 .

[npd1-4] The National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD). In: Website of the Federal Agency for Civic Education . Federal Agency for Civic Education, March 22, 2007, accessed on September 3, 2009 : “In the state elections in Saxony in September 2004, the NPD gained 9.2% of the vote and, with 12 members, moved into a state parliament for the first time since 1968. "

[Urteil-5] SächsVerfGH, judgment of November 25, 2005 - Vf. 45-V-05. (PDF; 38.7 kB) Retrieved September 3, 2009 .

[AnkWiederholung-6] Re- election in constituency 31 - Leipzig 7 for the election to the 4th Saxon State Parliament on January 22, 2006. (PDF) In: Web presence of the State Statistical Office of the Free State of Saxony . Regional Returning Officer Irene Schneider-Böttcher, December 1, 2005, accessed on January 15, 2016 .

[ErgWiederholung-7] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f State election committee determines the final result of the 2004 state elections. In: Web presence of the State Statistical Office of the Free State of Saxony . Regional Returning Officer Irene Schneider-Böttcher, January 27, 2006, accessed on January 15, 2016 .

[Wahlberechtigte-8] Election to the 4th Saxon State Parliament on September 19, 2004 in the city of Zwickau. Regional Returning Officer Irene Schneider-Böttcher, September 2, 2004, archived from the original on January 16, 2016 ; accessed on January 15, 2016 .

[9] Wilko Zicht: Saxony - electoral system. In: Wahlrecht.de . Retrieved August 29, 2009 .

[Ergebnis1999-10] Election to the 3rd Saxon State Parliament on September 19, 1999. State Statistical Office of the Free State of Saxony, accessed on September 3, 2009 .

[11] Developments in the right spectrum in Saxony. (PDF; 4.5 MB) In: http://www.daksev.de/ . alias, November 2005, p. 7 , accessed on September 2, 2009 : “Through the alliance policy in the NBDD, the NPD managed to integrate part of the REP regional association into its own party. The REP state chairman Kerstin Lorenz withdrew the state list of the REP, the state executive resigned as a whole and called on the grassroots to vote the NPD for the state election. There were disagreements between the federal leadership and the state executive because of the demarcation course towards the NPD. Due to the work in the NBDD, party expulsion proceedings were initiated against some REPers. With the republicans' withdrawal for the state election, the NPD was able to finally manifest its claim to leadership in Saxony. "

[12] Kerstin Lorenz - architect of the right-wing scene. In: www.abendblatt.de . Hamburger Abendblatt, September 9, 2005, accessed on September 1, 2009 : “She caused a sensation when she joined the NPD one day before the state elections in September 2004, after she had previously held high offices with the Republicans in Saxony for ten years would have."

[13] Martin Fehndrich: state election in Saxony with the CDU, PDS, SPD, NPD, GREEN and FDP six parties in it. In: Wahlrecht.de . September 19, 2004, accessed on August 29, 2009 : “The CDU can be annoyed by having won too much direct mandate. Because if the CDU had only won 54 direct mandates and thus only one overhang mandate, no compensation mandates would be distributed (according to d'Hondt, the CDU is entitled to the 121st mandate, so there is no compensation). This means that the CDU + FDP would have 61 out of 121 seats, ie more than 50 percent of the seats, while there are now only 62 out of 124 seats, ie exactly 50 percent of the seats. "