1997 Hamburg state election
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All 121 seats in the Hamburg Parliament 61 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Turnout | 822,511 (68.7%) 1.2% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1997 Hamburg state election was held on 21 September 1997 to elect the members of the 16th Hamburg Parliament.[1] The incumbent government of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and Statt Party under First Mayor Henning Voscherau was defeated as Statt lost all its seats. The SPD subsequently formed a coalition with the Green Alternative List (GAL). Voscherau declined to run for re-election as First Mayor due to the SPD's poor performance, and fellow SPD member Ortwin Runde succeeded him.
Parties
The table below lists parties represented in the 15th Hamburg Parliament.
| Name | Ideology | Leader(s) | 1993 result | |||
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| Votes (%) | Seats | |||||
| SPD | Social Democratic Party of Germany Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands |
Social democracy | Henning Voscherau | 40.4% | 58 / 121
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| CDU | Christian Democratic Union of Germany Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands |
Christian democracy | 25.1% | 36 / 121
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| GAL | Green Alternative List Grün-Alternative-Liste Hamburg |
Green politics | 13.5% | 19 / 121
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| STATT | STATT - Party of Independents STATT - Partei Die Unabhängigen |
Populism | 5.6% | 8 / 121
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Election result
| Party | Votes | % | +/- | Seats | +/- | Seats % | |
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| Social Democratic Party (SPD) | 297,901 | 36.2 | 4.2
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54 | 4
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44.6 | |
| Christian Democratic Union (CDU) | 252,640 | 30.7 |  5.6
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46 | 10
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38.0 | |
| Green Alternative List (GAL) | 114,387 | 13.9 | 0.4
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21 | 2
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17.4 | |
| German People's Union (DVU) | 40,957 | 5.0 | 2.2
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0 | ±0 | 0 | |
| Statt Party (STATT) | 31,401 | 3.8 | 1.8
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0 | 8
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0 | |
| Free Democratic Party (FDP) | 28,664 | 3.5 | 0.7
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0 | ±0 | 0 | |
| The Republicans (REP) | 15,207 | 1.8 | 3.0
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0 | ±0 | 0 | |
| League of Citizens (BfB) | 10,914 | 1.3 | 1.3
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0 | ±0 | 0 | |
| Others | 30,440 | 3.7 | 0 | ±0 | 0 | ||
| Total | 822,511 | 100.0 | 121 | ±0 | |||
| Voter turnout | 68.7 | 1.2
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See also
References
- ^ Wahltermine in Hamburg seit 1946 (in German), The Federal Returning Officer (Bundeswahlleiter), 2008, archived from the original on 2009-03-05, retrieved 2009-03-24
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