State election in Schleswig-Holstein 1983
- SPD : 34
- Week of pregnancy : 1
- CDU : 39
The election for the tenth state parliament of Schleswig-Holstein took place on March 13, 1983 .
Previous state election
In the state elections on April 29, 1979 , the CDU under Prime Minister Gerhard Stoltenberg was able to defend its absolute majority, while Klaus Matthiesen from the SPD was unsuccessful with his claim to replace Stoltenberg.
Prime Minister Stoltenberg resigned in October 1982 after the CDU / CSU and FDP formed a new government at the federal level and the new Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl appointed Stoltenberg as the new Federal Minister of Finance.
Stoltenberg's successor was his Interior Minister Uwe Barschel , who thus took office with the aim of defending the absolute majority for the CDU.
The former Federal Minister of Education Björn Engholm was the new SPD top candidate to succeed Matthiesen .
Election campaign
The election was still under the influence of federal political developments: the 1983 Bundestag election took place a week before the state elections . At this, the newly elected Chancellor Kohl in October 1982 was confirmed, the CDU / CSU achieved their second-best result so far at federal level with 48.8 percent of the votes. The FDP, which in the summer of 1982 initiated the change from the coalition with the SPD under Chancellor Helmut Schmidt to the Union, had to accept considerable losses of votes.
A comparable trend emerged for Schleswig-Holstein.
Result
Eligible voters: 1,965,881
Voters: 1,667,294 (turnout: 84.81%)
Valid votes: 1,662,472
| Political party | be right | Share in% |
Direct MAN date |
Seats |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CDU | 814,557 | 49.00 | 33 | 39 |
| SPD | 726.632 | 43.71 | 11 | 34 |
| GREEN | 59,358 | 3.57 | ||
| FDP | 35,832 | 2.16 | ||
| SSW | 21,807 | 1.31 | 1 | |
| DKP | 2,199 | 0.13 | ||
| Green Democrats | 1,506 | 0.09 | ||
| WOMEN | 409 | 0.02 | ||
| LLSH | 108 | 0.01 | ||
| FSU | 8th | 0.00 | ||
| Individual applicants | 56 | 0.00 | ||
| Total | 1,662,472 | 44 | 74 |
The CDU was able to slightly expand its absolute majority to 49.0 percent.
The SPD could therefore not take over the government despite slight votes.
This time the FDP clearly missed re-entry into the state parliament with 2.2 percent of the vote. The Greens were able to improve their result, overtook the FDP and became the third strongest force, but also remained outside the state parliament with 3.6 percent.
Only the SSW, as a party of the Danish minority exempted from the threshold clause, was able to continue to send a member, again Karl Otto Meyer , to the state parliament with 1.3 percent of the votes , so that only the CDU, SPD and the SSW were represented there.
result
Uwe Barschel was re-elected as Prime Minister. Björn Engholm resigned from the Bundestag and became opposition leader in the state parliament.
On February 24, 1983, an extension of the electoral term by half a year was inserted into the state constitution, so that the electoral term lasted from April 12, 1983 to October 2, 1987.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Eligible voters, voters and distribution of votes in% (PDF). Statistical Office for Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein.
- ↑ http://www.verfassungen.de/de/sh/schleswig-holstein49-index.htm
