State election in Schleswig-Holstein in 1992
- SPD : 45
- Week of pregnancy : 1
- FDP : 5
- CDU : 32
- DVU : 6
The state election in Schleswig-Holstein on April 5, 1992 took place parallel to the state election in Baden-Württemberg .
Previous state election
The previous state election of May 8, 1988 was completely influenced by the Barschel affair , as a result of which the CDU had lost the government majority after 38 years and went into the opposition. In contrast, the SPD under Björn Engholm achieved an absolute majority with 54.8 percent of the votes cast .
On May 31, 1988, Engholm was elected Schleswig-Holstein's first social democratic Prime Minister since 1950.
The FDP and the Greens missed entry into the state parliament with 4.4 and 2.9 percent respectively, only the SSW , who had been exempted from the five percent hurdle , was represented in the state parliament by one member, Karl Otto Meyer .
Top candidates
Prime Minister Björn Engholm, who was elected national chairman of his party in 1991, stood again for the SPD. The parliamentary state secretary in the Federal Ministry of Defense, Ottfried Hennig , ran for the CDU .
Result
Eligible voters: 2,091,342
Voters: 1,500,410 (turnout: 71.74%)
Valid votes: 1,487,909
| Political party | be right | Share in% |
Direct MAN date |
Seats |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SPD | 687.427 | 46.20 | 45 | 45 |
| CDU | 503.510 | 33.84 | 32 | |
| DVU | 93,295 | 6.27 | 6th | |
| FDP | 82,963 | 5.58 | 5 | |
| GREEN | 74,014 | 4.97 | ||
| SSW | 28,245 | 1.90 | 1 | |
| REP | 18,225 | 1.23 | ||
| Individual applicants | 230 | 0.02 | ||
| Total | 1,487,909 | 45 | 89 |
The SPD had 7 overhang seats . The CDU received 5, FDP and DVU each a compensation mandate . This increased the number of seats in the state parliament from 75 to 89.
The SPD fell by 8.6 percentage points, but with 46.2 percent of the votes cast, it achieved a wafer-thin absolute majority of the seats in the state parliament (45 of 89 mandates). This mandate majority was made possible, among other things, by the fact that the Greens narrowly missed entry into the state parliament with 4.97 percent of the vote. The CDU was unable to benefit from the SPD's losses: with a 33.8 percent share of the vote, it only gained half a percentage point. The FDP, not represented in the Landtag in 1988 with 4.4 percent of the votes, this time returned to the Landtag with 5.6 percent of the vote. As a party of the Danish minority, the SSW, exempted from the threshold clause, was still able to send one MP, again MP Meyer, to the state parliament with 1.9 percent of the votes.
The performance of the right-wing extremist DVU caused a nationwide sensation, with 6.3 percent of the vote as the third strongest force in the state parliament.
result
Due to the fact that the SPD was able to form a single government despite the losses , Björn Engholm was re-elected as Prime Minister.
See also
- List of members of the Schleswig-Holstein State Parliament (13th electoral term)
- Cabinet Engholm II
- Simonis I's cabinet
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Eligible voters, voters and distribution of votes in% (PDF), Statistical Office for Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein.
