Election to the Berlin House of Representatives in 2006
The election for the Berlin House of Representatives took place on September 17, 2006 . Nine weeks after the election, the red-red Senate Wowereit III took office.
Starting position
The Senate Wowereit II , a red-red Senate ( SPD and Left Party ) stood for re-election for the first time. The main topics of the legislative period from 2002 to 2006 and the election campaign were the massive budget problems in the city of Berlin, the situation at Berlin's schools, integration problems and the weak labor market.
The SPD entered the election campaign again with Klaus Wowereit at the helm. The Left Party came up with Senator for Economic Affairs Harald Wolf , Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen with Franziska Eichstädt-Bohlig and the FDP with its parliamentary group leader Martin Lindner .
In the CDU Berlin , the question of the top candidate was long unresolved. After the preferred candidate, the former Federal Environment and Building Minister Klaus Töpfer , had rejected a candidacy, Friedbert Pflüger , a member of the Bundestag and Parliamentary State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Defense , declared himself ready to run.
The candidacy of the regional association of the WASG against the merger partner Left Party was controversial and was rejected mainly by the federal WASG. The Federal WASG declared the board of the WASG Berlin to be deposed; The latter, on the other hand, obtained a temporary court order and ran for the 2006 state elections with top candidate Lucy Redler , an SAV member.
Result
| Election on September 17, 2006 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Eligible voters | 2,425,480 | ||
| voter turnout | 1,407,754 | 58.0% | Mandates |
| SPD | 424.054 | 30.8% | 53 |
| CDU | 294.026 | 21.3% | 37 |
| Die Linke.PDS | 185.185 | 13.4% | 23 |
| Bü90 / Greens | 180.865 | 13.1% | 23 |
| FDP | 104,584 | 7.6% | 13 |
| Gray ones | 52,884 | 3.8% | |
| WASG | 40.504 | 2.9% | |
| NPD | 35,229 | 2.6% | |
| REP | 11,922 | 0.9% | |
| Animal welfare | 11,707 | 0.8% | |
| parents | 10,066 | 0.7% | |
| education | 4,601 | 0.3% | |
| THE WOMEN | 3,797 | 0.3% | |
| APPD | 3,476 | 0.3% | |
| PASSPORT | 2,578 | 0.2% | |
| AGFG | 2,375 | 0.2% | |
| BüSo | 2,335 | 0.2% | |
| Offensive D | 1,846 | 0.1% | |
| DAP | 1,748 | 0.1% | |
| HUMAN ECONOMY | 1,390 | 0.1% | |
| ödp | 986 | 0.1% | |
| FORUM | 632 | <0.1% | |
| PSG | 565 | <0.1% | |
| total | 100.0% | 149 | |
According to an initial analysis, the preliminary final result particularly expresses the satisfaction of Berliners with the work of the Governing Mayor Wowereit, whose SPD improved by 1.1 percentage points and for the first time since 1990 exceeded the 30 percent mark (30.8%).
With Friedbert Pflüger, the CDU was obviously unable to counter this with a convincing opponent; with a result of 21.3% and a loss of 2.5 percentage points, it lagged behind its low result of 2001 and thus achieved its second-worst result since the end of the war.
Overall, the Union and the SPD only received 52.1% of the votes cast, a low that has not yet been reached in Berlin.
The Linke.PDS also suffered severe losses, falling 9.2 percentage points to 13.4% of the vote and only barely able to defend its place as the third strongest party. As the third largest group, it had to share its position with the Greens, who drew level with the Left Party in terms of number of seats. The reasons for this include the conflict with the WASG, the fact that the PDS has lost its opposition bonus after five years of government activity, and that this time it had to compete without its "draft horse" Gregor Gysi .
With a vote increase of 4 percentage points, the Alliance Greens achieved the second-best result ever in Berlin (13.1%) and were able to catch up with the Left Party in terms of number of seats, whereas the FDP with 7.6% and a loss of 2.3 Percentage points this time again behind the Greens.
The proportion of parties that failed to pass the five percent hurdle was unusually high . A total of 13.8% of the voters voted for them, with the Grays standing out with 3.8%, the WASG with 2.9% and the NPD with 2.6%.
The election result would have made it possible for the SPD to form an alliance with both the Left Party and the Greens . On November 6, 2006, the coalition negotiations between the SPD and the Left Party were successfully concluded. On November 23, 2006 Klaus Wowereit was re-elected in the second ballot, and the third Senate Wowereit was sworn in afterwards.
With the re-election of Wowereit, the amendment to the Berlin constitution was applied for the first time: for the first time, only the governing mayor had to stand for election to the House of Representatives.
After his re-election, he was able to appoint the members of the Senate without having to propose them individually to parliament for a vote on the basis of the guideline authority he had now been granted.
Legislative period
On May 5, 2009, the SPD MP Canan Bayram announced her resignation from the SPD and the SPD parliamentary group. In the short term, the red-red coalition only had a majority of 75 seats compared to 74 seats for the opposition. By switching to the Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen parliamentary group, Bayram's new parliamentary group briefly became the third-strongest force, ahead of the Left Party.
However, since MP Bilkay Öney went the other way on May 12, 2009 and switched from the Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen parliamentary group to the SPD parliamentary group, the original majority was restored.
During the legislative period, there were further changes in parliamentary groups and withdrawals:
In March 2010 the FDP MP Rainer-Michael Lehmann switched to the SPD parliamentary group, while the SPD MP Ralf Hillenberg left the SPD parliamentary group and became non-attached.
Rainer Ueckert also resigned from the CDU parliamentary group. Further, René Stadtkewitz from the CDU group excluded. On September 6, 2010, the FDP MP Albert Weingartner switched to the CDU.
There were therefore three non-attached MPs, whereas the CDU parliamentary group shrank to 36 members and the FDP parliamentary group to eleven members.
| No. | District / Region |
Choice% |
SPD |
CDU |
PDS |
GREEN |
FDP |
5%> |
Gray ones |
WASG |
NPD | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Berlin as a whole
|
58.0% | 30.8% | 21.3% | 13.4% | 13.1% | 7.6% | 13.7% | 3.8% | 2.9% | 2.6% | ||
|
Berlin - West
|
61.1% | 31.4% | 27.7% | 4.2% | 14.8% | 9.3% | 12.6% | 4.4% | 2.7% | 1.7% | ||
|
Berlin - East
|
53.8% | 29.8% | 11.4% | 28.1% | 10.5% | 4.9% | 15.4% | 3.0% | 3.3% | 4.0% | ||
| 1 |
 center
|
54.4% | 32.5% | 17.1% | 12.7% | 17.1% | 6.9% | 13.8% | 4.0% | 3.5% | 1.7% | |
| 2 |
 Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg
|
55.9% | 30.1% | 8.7% | 16.8% | 26.6% | 4.1% | 13.7% | 1.8% | 5.8% | 1.3% | |
| 3 |
 Pankow
|
55.9% | 30.4% | 11.7% | 22.3% | 15.9% | 5.0% | 14.8% | 3.2% | 3.3% | 3.1% | |
| 4th |
 Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf
|
64.5% | 34.1% | 26.3% | 3.7% | 16.4% | 10.4% | 9.1% | 3.1% | 2.0% | 1.1% | |
| 5 |
 Spandau
|
58.6% | 33.4% | 31.2% | 3.8% | 8.3% | 8.5% | 14.9% | 6.4% | 2.3% | 1.9% | |
| 6th |
 Steglitz-Zehlendorf
|
68.7% | 27.8% | 31.7% | 3.0% | 15.7% | 12.7% | 8.9% | 2.4% | 2.1% | 1.0% | |
| 7th |
 Tempelhof-Schöneberg
|
62.8% | 31.1% | 27.0% | 4.0% | 16.9% | 9.2% | 11.9% | 3.8% | 2.7% | 1.7% | |
| 8th |
 Neukölln
|
55.5% | 31.4% | 28.6% | 5.0% | 11.3% | 7.7% | 15.9% | 5.4% | 3.2% | 3.0% | |
| 9 |
 Treptow-Koepenick
|
57.5% | 31.7% | 12.6% | 27.5% | 6.9% | 5.0% | 16.3% | 3.9% | 2.8% | 4.6% | |
| 10 |
 Marzahn-Hellersdorf
|
49.3% | 27.5% | 13.1% | 32.5% | 4.3% | 4.8% | 17.9% | 2.9% | 3.3% | 5.4% | |
| 11 |
 Lichtenberg
|
49.7% | 29.4% | 9.6% | 35.6% | 5.2% | 4.2% | 15.9% | 2.7% | 3.2% | 5.1% | |
| 12 |
 Reinickendorf
|
62.3% | 30.2% | 33.1% | 3.2% | 8.9% | 9.6% | 15.0% | 7.2% | 1.9% | 1.8% | |
| Colors of the district numbers: formerly West , formerly East , West / East fusion districts, all of Berlin | ||||||||||||
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Elections for the Berlin House of Representatives and the District Council Assemblies on September 17, 2006 . The regional returning officer for Berlin
- ↑ Elections to the Berlin House of Representatives and the District Assembly on September 17, 2006 . The regional returning officer for Berlin
- ^ Spiegel Online January 16, 2006: Pflüger wants to be the top candidate of the CDU
- ↑ Official final result of the head of the state voting in Berlin (PDF; 5.8 MB) under "Overview of the second votes"
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