State elections in Rhineland-Palatinate

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State election 2016
(Second votes in%)
 %
40
30th
20th
10
0
36.2
31.8
12.6
6.2
5.3
2.8
2.3
2.8
Otherwise.
Gains and losses
compared to 2011
 % p
 14th
 12
 10
   8th
   6th
   4th
   2
   0
  -2
  -4
  -6
  -8th
-10
-12
+0.5
-3.4
+12.6
+2.0
-10.1
-0.2
± 0.0
-1.4
Otherwise.

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
(1)May 18, 1947 (1) 77.9 34.3 47.2 (2)9.8 (2) 8.7 -
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 2.9 (3) 2.7
04/19/1959 77.2 34.9 48.4 09.7 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 08.3 NPD 6.9 1.2
March 21, 1971 79.4 40.5 50.0 05.9 NPD 2.7 0.9
03/09/1975 80.8 38.5 53.9 05.6 2.0
03/18/1979 81.4 42.3 50.1 06.4 1.2
03/06/1983 90.4 39.6 51.9 03.5 04.5 0.5
05/17/1987 77.0 38.8 45.1 07.3 05.9 2.9
04/21/1991 73.9 44.8 38.7 06.9 06.5 REP 2.0 1.1
03/24/1996 70.8 39.8 38.7 08.9 06.9 REP 3.5 2.2
03/25/2001 62.1 44.7 35.3 07.8 05.2 ;FWG 2.5;
REP 2.4 		2.0
03/26/2006 58.2 45.6 32.8 08.0 04.6 (4)2.6 (4) 6.4
03/27/2011 61.8 35.7 35.2 04.2 15.4 3.0 FW 2.3 4.2
03/13/2016 70.4 36.2 31.8 12.6 06.2 05.3 2.8 FW 2.3 2.8

Distribution of seats

year total SPD CDU AfD FDP Green Others
(1)1947 (1) 101 34 48 (2)11 (2) KPD: 8
1951 100 38 43 19th
1955 100 36 51 13
1959 100 37 52 10 (3)DRP: 1 (3)
1963 100 43 46 11
1967 100 39 49 08th NPD: 4
1971 100 42 52 06th
1975 100 40 55 05
1979 100 43 51 06th
1983 100 43 57
1987 100 40 48 07th 05
1991 101 47 40 07th 07th
1996 101 43 41 10 07th
2001 101 49 38 08th 06th
2006 101 53 38 10
2011 101 42 41 18th
2016 101 39 35 14th 07th 06th
(1)Including by-election on September 21, 1947 in the Saarburg district
(2) Liberal Party (5.7%, 7 seats) and Sozialer Volksbund (3.9%, 4 seats) merged in the summer of 1947 to form the Democratic Party of Rhineland-Palatinate (0.2% in by-elections), which was renamed the FDP in 1948
(3)The German Reich Party ran with some applicants from the German Party as the Free Voting Community of Rhineland-Palatinate .

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

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of January 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) final result