State election in Thuringia 1999
The 1999 state parliament election in Thuringia was the third election to the Thuringian state parliament since the state was re-established in 1990. It took place on September 12, 1999; the turnout was 59.9%.
The CDU under Prime Minister Bernhard Vogel , who had been in office for seven years and ruled in a grand coalition with the SPD since the state election in 1994 , achieved a landslide victory and was henceforth able to govern with an absolute majority.
Result
| Constituency votes | National votes | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| number | % | Electoral kreisbe- tors |
Direct MAN date |
number | % | Seats | |
| Eligible voters | 1,965,937 | 1,965,937 | |||||
| Voters | 1,176,803 | 59.86 | 1,176,803 | 59.86 | |||
| Valid votes | 1,155,491 | 98.19 | 1,161,181 | 98.67 | |||
| CDU | 569,887 | 49.32 | 44 | 44 | 592.474 | 51.02 | 49 |
| PDS | 257.860 | 22.32 | 44 | 247.906 | 21.35 | 21st | |
| SPD | 250.015 | 21.64 | 44 | 214,801 | 18.50 | 18th | |
| DVU | - | - | 36,386 | 3.13 | |||
| Green | 19,930 | 1.72 | 27 | 21,617 | 1.86 | ||
| FDP | 22,583 | 1.95 | 41 | 13.001 | 1.12 | ||
| VIBT | 9,574 | 0.83 | 8th | 9,983 | 0.86 | ||
| REP | 24,306 | 2.10 | 40 | 8,766 | 0.75 | ||
| The women | - | - | 6,099 | 0.53 | |||
| Forum | 326 | 0.03 | 1 | 3,574 | 0.31 | ||
| NPD | - | - | 2,751 | 0.24 | |||
| PBC | - | - | 1.918 | 0.17 | |||
| DSU | 392 | 0.03 | 2 | 1,905 | 0.16 | ||
| Individual applicants | 618 | 0.05 | 2 | - | |||
| total | 1,155,491 | 100 | 253 | 44 | 1,161,181 | 100 | 88 |
| Political party | Highest result |
Lowest Score |
|---|---|---|
| CDU | Eichsfeld district (68.4%) | Jena (41.1%) |
| PDS | Gera (32.0%) | District of Eichsfeld (11.1%) |
| SPD | Nordhausen district (23.1%) | District of Eichsfeld (13.8%) |
| DVU | District of Sömmerda (4.0%) |
Erfurt (2.0%) Jena (2.0%) |
| GREEN | Jena (5.4%) | District of Sonneberg (0.9%) |
| FDP | Jena (2.0%) | Suhl (0.6%) |
| VIBT | Saale-Orla district (3.1%) | Nordhausen district (0.1%) |
| REP | Altenburger Land (1.4%) | Suhl (0.3%) |
| The women |
Gera (0.7%) Altenburger Land (0.7%) |
4 circles with 0.4% each |
| FORUM | Erfurt (0.7%) | 3 circles with 0.1% each |
| NPD | Gera (0.8%) | 9 circles with 0.1% each |
| PBC | 4 circles with 0.3% each | Suhl (0.0%) |
| DSU | District of Sömmerda (0.4%) | 12 circles with 0.1% each |
The CDU won all 44 direct mandates; their share of second votes was in none of the constituencies below 40% and with the exception of the cities of Gera and Jena at least 45% everywhere.
The PDS exceeded the mark of 20 percent for the first time and thus became the second strongest force in the state parliament for the first time, while the SPD - which had ruled for a year under Gerhard Schröder at the federal level - was currently in a phase of poor results at the state level; she had just lost just a week earlier in Saarland and did poorly in Saxony and Berlin in the following weeks .
The DVU, which had moved into the state parliament of Saxony-Anhalt in the previous year with over 12 percent of the vote and also to the state parliament of Brandenburg a week earlier , became the fourth strongest force in Thuringia and received more votes than the Greens and FDP together, but failed with one result of 3.1% at the five percent hurdle.
Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen and FDP did very badly with less than 2% each and, as in 1994, did not make it into the state parliament. The FDP also went through a phase of poor state election results at this time and was represented nationwide in only four state parliaments from 1995 to 2000.
consequences
Bernhard Vogel opened the Thuringian state parliament for the second time on October 1, 1999 as senior president . Christine Lieberknecht (CDU), who had previously been the Thuringian minister of education and most recently minister for federal affairs in the state chancellery, became the new president of the state parliament .
Bernhard Vogel was elected Prime Minister for the third time with 49 votes to 36 against (with three abstentions). He appointed the Vogel III cabinet .
On June 5, 2003, Bernhard Vogel, now 70 years old, handed over the post of Prime Minister to Dieter Althaus , who narrowly defended the absolute majority of the CDU in the 2004 state elections .
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ State election 1999 in Thuringia - final result. State result Thuringian State Office for Statistics
- ↑ Landtag elections Free State of Thuringia, second vote elections in Germany
- ^ Thuringian regional returning officer: State elections - election results
