Election to the Berlin House of Representatives in 2001
The election to the Berlin House of Representatives on October 21, 2001 was the fifth early election in Berlin since 1945.
The election was preceded by the rupture of the grand coalition under the governing mayor Eberhard Diepgen ( CDU ), which had ruled since 1991 . In the context of the so-called bank affair , in which the long-time CDU parliamentary group leader Landowsky was involved, the state of Berlin had budget problems running into billions. When asked how these deficit problems could be resolved, the coalition broke up, with parts of the SPD relieved to be able to end the unloved coalition.
On June 16, 2001, at the request of the SPD and the Greens, with the support of the PDS , the House of Representatives voted down Eberhard Diepgen and the CDU Senators Christoph Stölzl , Wolfgang Branoner , Peter Kurth and Eckart Werthebach and elected Klaus Wowereit as the new governing mayor in a red green minority government under PDS tolerance. The merger with the PDS was controversial in the Berlin SPD, but was described by the state leadership as "not desirable, but also not to be ruled out".
The Senate Wowereit came with the declared aim of bringing about new elections. The House of Representatives then dissolved itself at the beginning of September.
The CDU started with its new parliamentary group leader, Frank Steffel , whose election campaign, however, quickly faltered due to several unfortunate appearances .
For the PDS, the former parliamentary group leader in the Bundestag , Gregor Gysi , for Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen Sibyll-Anka Klotz and for the FDP for the second time since 1995 the state chairman and former Federal Minister of Economics Günter Rexrodt stood .
Result
As a result, the SPD became the strongest parliamentary group for the first time since 1975: 29.7% (+7.3 percentage points). The CDU suffered severe losses of 17.0 percentage points and, with a share of the vote of 23.8%, ended up just ahead of the PDS, which came in at 22.6% (+4.9 percentage points). The FDP returned to the House of Representatives after six years with 9.9% (+7.7 percentage points) and ended up just ahead of the Greens (9.1%, -0.8 percentage points).
Since there was no red-green majority, the Greens did not want to join a coalition in view of the existing red-red majority, and the formation of a traffic light coalition failed, Klaus Wowereit formed a red-red Senate.
There were two notable election complaints from the ranks of the CDU. Candidates from Steglitz-Zehlendorf criticized the list of candidates. Here it was established that the CDU's district list could not be approved, but that the choice would still be valid. The candidate Carsten Wilke, on the other hand, criticized an error in the distribution of mandates in the official final result and successfully sued the House of Representatives.
| Election on October 21, 2001 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Eligible voters | 2,417,574 | ||
| voter turnout | 1,645,673 | 68.1% | Mandates |
| SPD | 481.772 | 29.7% | 44 |
| CDU | 385,692 | 23.8% | 35 |
| PDS | 366.292 | 22.6% | 33 |
| FDP | 160,953 | 9.9% | 15th |
| GREEN | 148.066 | 9.1% | 14th |
| GRAY | 22.093 | 1.4% | |
| REP | 21,836 | 1.3% | |
| NPD | 15.110 | 0.9% | |
| INSTEAD of party | 13,396 | 0.8% | |
| ödp | 3,304 | 0.2% | |
| BüSo | 1,889 | 0.1% | |
| DKP | 1,382 | 0.1% | |
| MLPD | 1,182 | 0.1% | |
| HP | 371 | <0.1% | |
| total | 1,623,338 | 100.0% | 141 |
The HP only competed in Pankow.
Results by district
The following table shows the proportions of the second votes cast, broken down by historical city halves and the administrative districts that existed for the first time at this election.
| No. | District / Region |
Wbt. |
SPD |
CDU |
PDS |
FDP |
GREEN |
Other | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Berlin as a whole
|
68.1% | 29.7% | 23.8% | 22.6% | 9.9% | 9.1% | 4.9% | |||
|
Berlin - West
|
70.6% | 33.7% | 30.8% | 6.9% | 12.8% | 11.1% | 4.7% | |||
|
Berlin - East
|
64.4% | 23.2% | 12.4% | 47.6% | 5.3% | 5.9% | 5.6% | |||
| 1 |
 center
|
63.9% | 31.2% | 21.8% | 21.2% | 8.1% | 12.5% | 9.1% | ||
| 2 |
 Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg
|
63.9% | 26.8% | 12.1% | 33.2% | 5.1% | 18.7% | 4.1% | ||
| 3 |
 Pankow
|
65.5% | 24.8% | 12.3% | 42.9% | 5.8% | 9.5% | 4.7% | ||
| 4th |
 Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf
|
72.9% | 32.9% | 27.2% | 6.6% | 15.7% | 14.2% | 3.4% | ||
| 5 |
 Spandau
|
69.2% | 35.9% | 34.4% | 5.8% | 12.5% | 6.0% | 5.4% | ||
| 6th |
 Steglitz-Zehlendorf
|
77.3% | 31.5% | 31.8% | 5.2% | 16.8% | 11.6% | 3.1% | ||
| 7th |
 Tempelhof-Schöneberg
|
72.7% | 36.2% | 30.3% | 6.2% | 11.9% | 11.4% | 4.0% | ||
| 8th |
 Neukölln
|
66.1% | 33.9% | 33.8% | 7.5% | 10.5% | 8.3% | 6.0% | ||
| 9 |
 Treptow-Koepenick
|
68.1% | 26.1% | 13.4% | 43.6% | 5.7% | 3.7% | 7.5% | ||
| 10 |
 Marzahn-Hellersdorf
|
60.2% | 20.1% | 14.2% | 52.9% | 4.7% | 2.2% | 5.9% | ||
| 11 |
 Lichtenberg
|
62.3% | 21.8% | 12.3% | 53.2% | 4.4% | 2.8% | 5.5% | ||
| 12 |
 Reinickendorf
|
72.7% | 32.3% | 36.9% | 5.0% | 13.4% | 6.5% | 5.9% | ||
| Colors of the district numbers: formerly West , formerly East , West / East fusion districts, all of Berlin | ||||||||||
Individual evidence
- ^ Election to the Berlin House of Representatives on October 21, 2001. Office for Statistics Berlin-Brandenburg
- ^ Election to the Berlin House of Representatives on October 10, 1999. Office for Statistics Berlin-Brandenburg
- ↑ Official final result of the head of state voting in Berlin (PDF; 4.2 MB)
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