State election in Schleswig-Holstein 1996
The state elections in Schleswig-Holstein on March 24, 1996 took place parallel to the state elections in Baden-Württemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate .
Previous state election
In the previous state election on April 5, 1992 , the SPD under Björn Engholm had narrowly defended the absolute majority it had won in 1988.
The CDU under Ottfried Hennig remained at a low level with 33.8 percent of the vote.
The FDP had just managed to get into the state parliament with 5.6 percent of the votes, whereas Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen was denied entry into the state parliament with 4.97 percent of the votes.
The third strongest force was the right-wing extremist DVU with 6.3 percent of the vote.
The SSW , exempted from the five percent threshold , was represented in the state parliament by a member, Karl Otto Meyer .
Top candidates
Heide Simonis competed for the SPD for the first time .
On May 19, 1993, Simonis succeeded Prime Minister Björn Engholm, who had resigned due to the so-called drawer affair. She was the first female prime minister of a German state. For the CDU, the former parliamentary state secretary in the Federal Ministry of Defense, Ottfried Hennig , stood again.
Result
Eligible voters: 2,112,522
Voters: 1,516,309 (turnout: 71.78%)
Valid votes: 1,502,088
| Political party | be right | Share in% |
Direct MAN date |
Seats |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SPD | 597.751 | 39.79 | 26th | 33 |
| CDU | 559.107 | 37.22 | 19th | 30th |
| GREEN | 121,939 | 8.12 | 6th | |
| FDP | 86,227 | 5.74 | 4th | |
| DVU | 64,335 | 4.28 | ||
| SSW | 38,285 | 2.55 | 2 | |
| WSH | 28.206 | 1.88 | ||
| DLVH | 3,144 | 0.21 | ||
| ÖDP | 1,581 | 0.11 | ||
| DKP | 437 | 0.03 | ||
| PBC | 231 | 0.02 | ||
| Individual applicants | 845 | 0.06 | ||
| Total | 1,502,088 | 45 | 75 |
The SPD dropped 6.4 percentage points and missed its absolute majority in the state parliament with 39.8 percent of the votes cast. However, it remained the strongest force ahead of the CDU, which gained 3.4 percentage points and now received 37.2 percent of the vote.
The FDP increased slightly to 5.7 percent of the vote.
Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen achieved an increase in votes of 3.13 percentage points and entered the state parliament of Schleswig-Holstein for the first time with a vote share of 8.1 percent.
The SSW, as a party of the Danish minority, exempted from the threshold clause, improved to 2.5 percent of the votes and this time was able to send two members to the state parliament. The Member of Parliament Meyer, who had been a member of the state parliament since 1971, had refused to run again and left the state parliament after 25 years.
The right-wing extremist DVU, which entered the state parliament as the third strongest force in 1992 with 6.3 percent of the vote, failed this time due to the five percent hurdle and achieved the highest result among the parties not represented in the state parliament with 4.3%.
result
The SPD formed a coalition government together with the Greens , so that Heide Simonis was re-elected as Prime Minister.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Eligible voters, voters and distribution of votes in% (PDF), Statistical Office for Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein.
