Election to the Berlin House of Representatives in 1990
The election to the Berlin House of Representatives on December 2, 1990 took place parallel to the 1990 Bundestag election and was the first all-Berlin election since 1946.
This election was the only election to the House of Representatives so far in which the district council assemblies were not elected at the same time . The background to this was the fact that the East Berlin district parliaments were only elected in June 1990 and were to be given the opportunity to build up the structures of local self-government without early elections.
initial situation
In the elections to the Berlin House of Representatives on January 29, 1989 , the SPD and Alternative List (AL) achieved a surprising election victory. The FDP had clearly missed entry into the House of Representatives, on the other hand, the right-wing Republicans who stood for the first time had made the jump over the five percent hurdle right away.
Thus a red-green coalition had surprisingly replaced the black-yellow coalition under Eberhard Diepgen . Mayor was Walter Momper . However, the Alternative List got out of the coalition in November 1990 after differences of opinion with the SPD over the eviction of occupied houses in Mainzer Strasse . The date for early elections had long been fixed at this point.
In East Berlin ruled after the first free local elections on 6 May 1990, a grand coalition under Tino Schwierzina (SPD). According to Article 16 of the Unification Treaty between the GDR and the Federal Republic of Germany, the West Berlin Senate and the East Berlin Magistrate governed from the day of reunification on October 3, 1990 until the electoral vote for a joint city government.
The SPD ran with Walter Momper as the top candidate , the CDU again with the former mayor Eberhard Diepgen.
Result
| Election of December 2, 1990 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Eligible voters | 2,524,553 | ||
| voter turnout | 2,040,709 | 80.8% | |
| valid votes | 2,019,198 | 98.9% | Mandates |
| CDU | 815,382 | 40.4% | 101 |
| SPD | 614.075 | 30.4% | 76 |
| PDS | 184,820 | 9.2% | 23 |
| FDP | 143.080 | 7.1% | 18th |
| Green / AL | 100,839 | 4.99% | 12 |
| Bü90 / Greens / UFV | 87,891 | 4.4% | 11 |
| REP | 62,041 | 3.1% | |
| ödp | 5,160 | 0.3% | |
| DSU | 4,539 | 0.2% | |
| DDD | 1,371 | 0.1% | |
| total | 100.0% | 241 | |
The West German Greens / AL, founded in 1978, and a list association of Bündnis 90 , Greens (East) and UFV that had recently emerged from the Peaceful Revolution competed separately. While the Alternative List concentrated its election campaign on the western part of the city, Alliance 90 / Greens / UFV mainly appeared in the eastern part. They got 4.99 and 4.4% of the vote, but both moved into the House of Representatives because they achieved more than 5 percent in the respective half of the city (Alliance 90 / Greens in the eastern part 9.8% and AL in the western part 6.9% %). This was made possible because in this election the city of Berlin was divided into two electoral areas, each with a separate 5 percent threshold. So it was enough to overcome this hurdle in just one of the electoral areas to be represented in the House of Representatives. This peculiarity of a divided electoral area was also applied to the federal election that was held at the same time.
The SPD dropped to 30.4% (-6.9 percentage points), the CDU received 40.4% (+2.7 percentage points), and the FDP returned to the House of Representatives with 7.1% (+3.2 percentage points) , the two green groups together received 9.4% of the vote (–2.4 percentage points). The PDS entered the House of Representatives with 9.2% of the votes. The Republicans did not get into parliament with 3.1% (–4.4 percentage points).
Eberhard Diepgen was re-elected to the office of head of government ( Senate Diepgen III ), a rare occurrence in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany that a de-elected head of government managed to return to office. Before Eberhard Diepgen, only Wilhelm Hoegner managed this in 1954 in Bavaria , Max Brauer in Hamburg in 1957 and Hinrich Wilhelm Kopf in Lower Saxony in 1959 . Karl Arnold died in 1958 a week before the state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia , which would have made this possible for him.
Due to the fact that neither the CDU and FDP on the one hand (with only two missing seats), nor the SPD and the Greens on the other side had a majority and the implementation of the existing left majority was unthinkable, since the PDS shortly after At the end of the GDR was not considered capable of governing, the CDU and SPD formed a grand coalition .
The Greens / AL and Alliance 90 / Greens / UFV formed a joint parliamentary group in the House of Representatives. In the course of the legislative period, the respective state parties Alternative List and Bündnis 90, as well as the federal parties, merged in 1993 to form the state association Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen Berlin .
The district council assemblies were re-elected separately in May 1992. The subsequent local elections have since taken place parallel to the House of Representatives elections.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Election to the Berlin House of Representatives on December 2, 1990 , Statistical Office Berlin-Brandenburg
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