State election in Thuringia 2019

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A total of 90 seats

The state election in Thuringia 2019 took place on October 27, 2019 and was the seventh election to the Thuringian state parliament since the re-establishment of the Free State of Thuringia in  1990. There were around 1.73 million eligible voters, including 75,000 first-time voters. The turnout was 64.9%.

On February 5, 2020, the state parliament elected Thomas Kemmerich ( FDP ) as Prime Minister with votes from the FDP , CDU and AfD , which led to a government crisis in Thuringia . On February 8, Kemmerich announced his resignation in writing to the President of the State Parliament with immediate effect and was acting Prime Minister until Bodo Ramelow ( Die Linke ) was elected on March 4 .

Election date

According to Section 18 of the Thuringian Election Act for the Landtag , the Landtag election on a Sunday or public holiday had to take place at the earliest 57 months after the start of the current electoral period on October 14, 2014 and at the latest in its 61st month, i.e. no earlier than July 21, 2019 and at the latest on November 10, 2019.

On August 28, 2018, the Thuringian state government announced that the election would take place on October 27, 2019.

Election result

Direct mandates in the constituencies
Political party Constituency votes National votes
number % Direct
MAN
date 		number % Seats
THE LEFT 283,589 25.8 11 343.780 31.0 29
AfD 242.221 22.0 11 259,382 23.4 22nd
CDU 299,438 27.2 21st 241.049 21.7 21st
SPD 119.185 10.8 1 90,987 8.2 8th
GREEN 71,682 6.5 57,474 5.2 5
FDP 59,047 5.4 55,493 5.0 5
The party - - 12,524 1.1
Animal protection here! - - 11,936 1.1
NPD - - 6,044 0.5
Gray panthers - - 5,916 0.5
Health research - - 5,339 0.5
ÖDP / family 1,084 0.1 4,833 0.4
PIRATES 436 0.0 4,044 0.4
MLPD 2,354 0.2 2,945 0.3
UBI - - 2,700 0.2
THE DIRECT! - - 2,362 0.2
Blue #TeamPetry Thuringia - - 856 0.1
KPD - - 724 0.1
Others 21.004 1.9
Total 1 100 44 100 90
Valid votes 1.100.040 98.0 1,108,388 98.8
Voters 1,121,814 64.9 1,121,814 64.9
Eligible voters 1,729,242 1,729,242
1 The totaling of the pure percentages deviating from 100% is based on the rounding of the individual results of the parties.

The party Die Linke of the incumbent Prime Minister Bodo Ramelow gained in votes and became the strongest party with 31% for the first time in a state election in reunified Germany. For the first time it also received over 30% of the votes.

The AFD has seen the biggest increase in votes among all parties with an increase of 12.8 percentage points and was 23.4% second largest party, followed by the CDU worst, which was the biggest loser of the election with 21.7% of the vote and her Imported result in the Free State.

The parties involved in the government, the SPD and the Greens , also suffered losses, so that the previous red-red-green state government with 42 out of 90 seats does not have a majority in the new state parliament.

With 73 votes above the 5 percent hurdle (5.0066 percent), the FDP succeeded in re-entering the Thuringian state parliament after five years.

Since the CDU directly won one constituency more than it was entitled to according to the state vote, it received an overhang mandate; According to the Hare-Niemeyer process , a compensation mandate was calculated that went to the SPD. This means that 90 instead of 88 members sit in the state parliament.

Possible coalitions

The election produced the following results for the coalitions previously considered (see section Coalition statements ); the state parliament has 90 seats, so 46 members are required for a majority:

  • Red-red-green (Left, SPD, Greens): 42 MPs (29 + 8 + 5)
  • Jamaica-Red (CDU, FDP, SPD, Greens): 39 MPs (21 + 5 + 5 + 8) (The CDU excluded coalitions with AfD (22 MPs) and the Left (29 MPs).)

Elected MPs

Starting position

Election 2014

In the 2014 state elections , Prime Minister Christine Lieberknecht's CDU was again the strongest force in the Thuringian state parliament with 33.5%. The left was able to increase its result slightly to 28.2%. The SPD lost 6.1 percentage points and achieved its lowest result to date in Thuringia with 12.4%. The FDP only got 2.5% and left the state parliament with a loss of 5.2 percentage points. The Greens lost 0.5 percentage points to 5.7%.

The AfD succeeded in entering the Thuringian state parliament with 10.6%. During the legislative period , the AfD parliamentary group lost four of the original eleven mandates due to resignations and exclusions. The CDU also lost a deputy when it left. A former AfD member later joined the SPD parliamentary group, another of the German family party . One SPD member switched to the CDU during the legislative period. The NPD missed entry into the Thuringian state parliament with 3.6%.

The Left , SPD and Greens replaced the black-red state government under the new Prime Minister Bodo Ramelow . For the first time, the party Die Linke provided a prime minister .

Coalition statements

Prime Minister Bodo Ramelow said he would fight with the Left Party for a continuation of the red-red-green coalition . He is not aiming for a minority government , but such a "no end of the world" would be.

CDU top candidate Mike Mohring concluded coalitions with the AfD and the Left Party for the CDU Thuringia. Mohring therefore spoke out in favor of a four-party coalition of Christian Democrats with the SPD, Greens and FDP and warned of a possible minority government by Ramelow. The SPD spoke out in favor of the continuation of the red-red-green coalition. The FDP state chairman Thomas Kemmerich closed coalitions with the Left and the AfD.

Parties

Top candidates of the parties represented in the state parliament from 2014 to 2019

Applicants

A total of 322 applicants ran for a direct mandate in the 44 constituencies, as well as 399 applicants on 18 approved state lists.

Political party Short name Number of applicants Number 1 on the
state list
electoral
circles 		Country
list
Christian Democratic Union of Germany CDU 44 88 Mike Mohring
The left THE LEFT 44 42 Bodo Ramelow
Social Democratic Party of Germany SPD 43 47 Wolfgang Tiefensee
Alternative for Germany AfD 40 35 Bjorn Höcke
Alliance 90 / The Greens GREEN 44 19th Anja Siegesmund
National Democratic Party of Germany NPD - 15th Antje Vogt
Free Democratic Party FDP 44 41 Thomas Kemmerich
Pirate Party Germany PIRATES 1 12 Bernd Schreiner
Party for work, the rule of law, animal welfare, elite support and grassroots initiative The party - 16 Eggs gildo
Communist Party of Germany KPD - 6th Torsten Schöwitz
Action party for animal welfare - the original ANIMAL WELFARE here! - 3 Andi Biernatowski
Basic Income Alliance - the basic income party UBI - 4th Sebastian Schirmer
Democracy Direct ! Thuringia THE DIRECT! - 9 Christian Rombeck
The blue party of Thuringia Blue #TeamPetry Thuringia - 14th Nicole Tantz-Anding
Gray panthers Gray panthers - 3 Uwe Held
Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany MLPD 19th 33 Tassilo Timm
Ecological Democratic Party / Family, Justice, Environment ÖDP / family 2 7th Martin Truckenbrodt
Health Research Party Health research - 5 Kai Liebing
Free voters in Thuringia FREE VOTERS 18th - -
Human world HUMAN WORLD 1 - -
Individual applicants 22nd - -

The Free Voters did not run with a state list because they did not submit the list in time.

Surveys and Forecasts

Sunday question

Institute date CDU left SPD AfD Green FDP Otherwise.
Research group elections October 24, 2019 26% 28% 9% 21% 7% 5% 4%
INSA October 24, 2019 24% 28% 9% 24% 8th % 5% 2%
Infratest dimap October 17, 2019 24% 29% 8th % 24% 7% 4% 4%
Research group elections October 17, 2019 26% 27% 9% 20% 8th % 5% 5%
INSA 09/26/2019 23% 29% 9% 24% 9% 4% 2%
Infratest dimap 16.09.2019 22% 28% 7% 25% 8th % 5% 5%
INSA 08/22/2019 24% 26% 9% 21% 11% 4% 5%
Infratest dimap 07/30/2019 21% 25% 8th % 24% 11% 5% 6%
INSA 06/27/2019 26% 24% 10% 20% 10% 5% 5%
INSA 05/30/2019 26% 25% 11% 20% 8th % 5% 5%
INSA 04/25/2019 27% 25% 10% 19% 7% 6% 6%
Infratest dimap March 26, 2019 28% 24% 11% 20% 8th % 5% 4%
INSA March 26, 2019 27% 24% 10% 20% 8th % 5% 6%
State election 2014 09/14/2014 33.5% 28.2% 12.4% 10.6% 5.7% 2.5% 7.3%

Older polls

2015 - 2018
Institute date CDU left SPD AfD Green NPD FDP Otherwise.
INSA 11/09/2018 23% 22% 12% 22% 12% - 6% 3%
Infratest dimap 08/28/2018 30% 22% 10% 23% 6% - 5% 4%
INSA 02.06.2018 31% 26% 10% 18% 6% - 5% 4%
INSA 02/23/2018 32% 24% 10% 18% 7% - 5% 4%
INSA 23.10.2017 31% 20% 13% 20% 4% - 7% 5%
INSA 08/04/2017 37% 22% 11% 18% 4% - 5% 3%
Infratest dimap 06/22/2017 37% 27% 10% 13% 5% - 4% 4%
INSA 04/14/2017 33% 22% 15% 19% 5% - 4% 2%
INSA 12/02/2016 31% 23% 13% 20% 6% - 4% 3%
Infratest dimap 11/22/2016 32% 23% 12% 21% 6% - 3% 3%
INSA 06/22/2016 31.5% 26% 11.5% 17.5% 7% - 3.5% 3%
Infratest dimap 06/17/2016 32% 25% 11% 19% 7% - - 6%
INSA 04/20/2016 31% 26.5% 13% 15% 8.5% - 4% 2%
INSA January 15, 2016 33.5% 27% 14.5% 13.5% 7% - - 4.5%
INSA 10/16/2015 35.5% 24.5% 15.5% 12% 6.5% - - 6%
Infratest dimap 09/17/2015 35% 27% 13% 9% 7% 4% - 5%
INSA 07/08/2015 38% 30% 11% 8th % 6% 2% 2% 3%
Infratest dimap 06/05/2015 34% 27% 14% 8th % 7% 3% 2% 5%
INSA 04/01/2015 38% 28% 11% 7% 7% - 3% 6%
INSA 02/03/2015 40% 29% 11% 10% 6% - - 4%
State election 2014 09/14/2014 33.5% 28.2% 12.4% 10.6% 5.7% 3.6% 2.5% 3.6%

course

Sunday questions on the state election of Infratest Dimap (D) and INSA (I) and the result of the 2014 election.

Hypothetical direct election Prime Minister

Institute date Bodo Ramelow ( left ) Mike Mohring ( CDU ) Wolfgang Tiefensee ( SPD ) Andreas Bausewein (SPD) Björn Höcke ( AfD )
Research group elections October 27, 2019 53% 32% - - -
72% - - - 14%
Infratest dimap October 27, 2019 52% 31% - - -
Research group elections October 24, 2019 54% 29% - - -
76% - - - 8th %
Research group elections October 17, 2019 50% 31% - - -
76% - - - 6%
INSA 08/22/2019 41% 15% - - 8th %
Infratest dimap 07/30/2019 52% 28% - - -
INSA 06/27/2019 39% 17% - - 9%
INSA 05/30/2019 39% 13% - - 7%
INSA 04/25/2019 42% 15% - - 8th %
Infratest dimap March 26, 2019 52% 20% - - 9%
Infratest dimap 08/28/2018 49% 29% - - -
INSA 02/23/2018 50% 23% 18% - 9%
INSA 23.10.2017 33% 24% - 13% 8th %

Controversial Prime Minister election on February 5, 2020

Thomas Kemmerich after the third ballot on February 5, 2020

On February 5, 2020, the members of the Thuringian state parliament elected the FDP state chairman Thomas Kemmerich as the new prime minister in the third ballot with 45 to 44 votes , as expected, Bodo Ramelow. Kemmerich only ran in the third ballot. Apparently he received votes not only from the FDP and CDU, but also from the AfD, because no one voted for their nomination, Christoph Kindervater , in the decisive ballot. It was a novelty in the history of the Federal Republic that the smallest parliamentary group provided the head of government, and the FDP had no contractual coalition partner on whose reliability Kemmerich could have built.

Ramelow announced on February 6th that he still intends to become prime minister. On February 8, Kemmerich resigned and subsequently became executive prime minister. His resignation paved the way to elect a new head of government without the state parliament having to dissolve or other ways to change the head of government, e.g. B. a vote of no confidence were necessary. At the end of February, the next election of the Prime Minister was scheduled for March 4, from which Ramelow emerged as the new Prime Minister in the third ballot, and at the same time it was agreed that the citizens entitled to vote will elect a new state parliament in April 2021.

literature

Web links

Commons : State Election in Thuringia 2019  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Around 1.73 million eligible voters for the state elections in October 2019; 75,000 first-time voters. (PDF; 243.14 kB) In: statistik.thueringen.de . September 12, 2019, accessed September 12, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Kemmerich elected Prime Minister. In: thueringer-landtag.de . February 5, 2020, accessed February 8, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Letter of resignation arrived in the state parliament. In: thueringer-landtag.de . February 8, 2020, accessed February 11, 2020 .
  5. ↑ insuedthueringen.de: Kemmerich resigns immediately - coalition for quick new elections ( Memento of February 8, 2020 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ Ramelow Prime Minister again at the second attempt. In: reuters.com . March 4, 2020, accessed March 4, 2020 .
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