State elections in Rhineland-Palatinate
Overview
The Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament was elected every four years until 1987, and has been elected for five years since 1991. Since the 1991 election, voters have two votes. The field of the party that received the most votes and seats in the respective election is marked in color.
Share of votes of the parties in percent
election day | voter turnout | SPD | CDU | AfD | FDP | Green | left | KPD | Others over 2% | Others |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 18, 1947 (1) | 77.9 | 34.3 | 47.2 | (2) | 9.88.7 | - | ||||
04/29/1951 | 74.8 | 34.0 | 39.2 | 16.7 | 4.3 | Z 2.1 | 3.6 | |||
05/15/1955 | 76.0 | 31.7 | 46.8 | 12.7 | 3.2 | (3) | FWG 2.92.7 | |||
04/19/1959 | 77.2 | 34.9 | 48.4 | 9.7 | DRP 5.1 | 1.9 | ||||
March 31, 1963 | 75.5 | 40.7 | 44.4 | 10.1 | DRP 3.2 | 1.6 | ||||
04/23/1967 | 78.5 | 36.8 | 46.7 | 8.3 | NPD 6.9 | 1.2 | ||||
March 21, 1971 | 79.4 | 40.5 | 50.0 | 5.9 | NPD 2.7 | 0.9 | ||||
03/09/1975 | 80.8 | 38.5 | 53.9 | 5.6 | 2.0 | |||||
03/18/1979 | 81.4 | 42.3 | 50.1 | 6.4 | 1.2 | |||||
03/06/1983 | 90.4 | 39.6 | 51.9 | 3.5 | 4.5 | 0.5 | ||||
05/17/1987 | 77.0 | 38.8 | 45.1 | 7.3 | 5.9 | 2.9 | ||||
04/21/1991 | 73.9 | 44.8 | 38.7 | 6.9 | 6.5 | REP 2.0 | 1.1 | |||
03/24/1996 | 70.8 | 39.8 | 38.7 | 8.9 | 6.9 | REP 3.5 | 2.2 | |||
03/25/2001 | 62.1 | 44.7 | 35.3 | 7.8 | 5.2 |
FWG 2.5; REP 2.4 |
2.0 | |||
03/26/2006 | 58.2 | 45.6 | 32.8 | 8.0 | 4.6 | (4) | 2.66.4 | |||
03/27/2011 | 61.8 | 35.7 | 35.2 | 4.2 | 15.4 | 3.0 | FW 2.3 | 4.2 | ||
03/13/2016 | 70.4 | 36.2 | 31.8 | 12.6 | 6.2 | 5.3 | 2.8 | FW 2.3 | 2.8 |
Distribution of seats
year | total | SPD | CDU | AfD | FDP | Green | Others |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
(1) | 1947101 | 34 | 48 | (2) | 11KPD: 8 | ||
1951 | 100 | 38 | 43 | 19th | |||
1955 | 100 | 36 | 51 | 13 | |||
1959 | 100 | 37 | 52 | 10 | (3) | DRP: 1||
1963 | 100 | 43 | 46 | 11 | |||
1967 | 100 | 39 | 49 | 8th | NPD: 4 | ||
1971 | 100 | 42 | 52 | 6th | |||
1975 | 100 | 40 | 55 | 5 | |||
1979 | 100 | 43 | 51 | 6th | |||
1983 | 100 | 43 | 57 | ||||
1987 | 100 | 40 | 48 | 7th | 5 | ||
1991 | 101 | 47 | 40 | 7th | 7th | ||
1996 | 101 | 43 | 41 | 10 | 7th | ||
2001 | 101 | 49 | 38 | 8th | 6th | ||
2006 | 101 | 53 | 38 | 10 | |||
2011 | 101 | 42 | 41 | 18th | |||
2016 | 101 | 39 | 35 | 14th | 7th | 6th |
Electoral system
1947
The state ordinance on the election to the first state parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate provided for proportional representation according to the Hare-Niemeyer procedure in five constituencies that were congruent with the administrative districts of that time. There was no threshold clause.
1950 to 1972: electoral key procedure
The electoral law passed in 1950 introduced a 5% hurdle. The number of constituencies was increased to seven by dividing the administrative districts of Koblenz and Pfalz into two constituencies each. Between 8 and 19 MPs were to be elected in the constituencies. In 1970 the number of constituencies was reduced to six; they now had 13 to 22 seats. The distribution of seats was carried out according to the “key voting procedure”: The number of valid votes in the constituency was divided by the number of seats to be allocated in the constituency. This quotient was referred to in law as the “election key” (it corresponds to the Hare quota ). The list of every party or electoral association that had received 5% nationwide initially got as many seats in the constituency as the voting key was fully contained in its number of votes. The seats that have not yet been allocated (remaining seats) received the lists with the most remaining votes. Lists whose number of votes did not reach the voting key did not get a seat, not even a remaining seat. If not all seats could be allocated according to the procedure described, a new voting key was calculated and the seats allocated again; only the lists that had reached the first key were taken into account. So there was an additional electoral lock clause at constituency level in addition to the nationwide 5% hurdle. So were z. B. up to 1970 in the smallest constituency with eight seats 12.5% for one seat, in the largest constituency with 19 seats approx. 5.26%. This additional blocking clause led three times to a far disproportionate share of a smaller party that remained below the electoral code in several constituencies: in 1959 the DRP only got one of the 100 seats with 5.1% of the vote. The NPD received only four seats in 1967 with 6.9% of the vote and the FDP only three in 1971 with 5.9% of the vote. Three FDP applicants then sued the Federal Constitutional Court after unsuccessful election review complaints and were successful there. In 1972, the Federal Constitutional Court declared the provision unconstitutional that excluded lists from the allocation of seats that did not reach the voting key.
1972 to 1989
The 1972 electoral law was changed even before the Federal Constitutional Court's judgment. From now on there were four constituencies of almost the same size (24 to 26 seats, from 1978: 24 to 27 seats), in which the seats each after the D'Hondt procedure among the parties and electoral associations received at least 5% of the valid votes nationwide, were distributed proportionally.
Since 1989
In 1989 the current electoral system was introduced. It is very similar to the federal election law . The voters have two votes. The country is divided into 51 constituencies, in each of which one member is elected with the constituency vote (which corresponds to the first vote in the Bundestag election) with a relative majority. With the state vote (corresponds to the second vote in the Bundestag election), voters choose the list of a party or electoral association; the lists are still rigid. The parties and electoral associations can either draw up a list for the whole country or lists for four districts, which correspond to the constituencies that existed until 1989. The 101 seats are proportionally distributed according to the state votes using the Hare-Niemeyer method at state level among the parties and electoral associations that achieve at least 5% of the valid state votes. If district lists have been drawn up, the seats allocated at state level are distributed proportionally to the district lists using the Hare-Niemeyer procedure. From the state elections in 2011, the Sainte-Laguë procedure will be used instead of the Hare-Niemeyer procedure . The number of direct mandates won by this party or electoral association in the country or district is deducted from the seats allocated to the state or district list. The remaining seats will be allocated in the order of the list, whereby applicants who have already been elected in the constituency are not taken into account. Compensation mandates are available for overhang mandates . So far, there have been no overhang mandates.
For the development of constituencies since 1947, see the article List of Landtag constituencies in Rhineland-Palatinate
See also
- Results of the state elections in the Federal Republic of Germany
- List of the state electoral districts in Rhineland-Palatinate
Web links
- Results of the state elections and distribution of seats 1947 - 2011 The state returning officer
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of January 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) final result