South Schleswig Voters' Association
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South Schleswig Voters' Association minority interests | |
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European affiliation | European Free Alliance |
Colours | Blue Yellow |
Bundestag (Schleswig-Holstein seats) | 1 / 35 |
Landtag of Schleswig-Holstein | 4 / 69 |
Kiel City Council | 4 / 49 |
Flensburg City Council | 11 / 43 |
Party flag | |
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The South Schleswig Voters' Association[nb 1] (German: Südschleswigscher Wählerverband; SSW, Danish: Sydslesvigsk Vælgerforening; SSV) is a regionalist political party in Schleswig-Holstein in northern Germany. The party represents the Danish and Frisian minorities of the state.[3][4]
As a party representing a national minority, the SSW declines to identify itself with a scale of
As a party for the national Danish minority in Southern Schleswig, the SSW is not subject to the general requirement of passing a 5% vote threshold to gain proportional seats in either the state parliament (Landtag) or the federal German parliament (Bundestag).[3] In the most recent 2022 state election, the SSW received 5.7% of the votes and four seats. In the 2021 federal elections, the SSW stood in a federal election for the first time since 1961; the official final result gave them one seat, making Stefan Seidler a Member of Parliament, their first such member since the 1953 federal elections.[6]
History
In the
As the planned SPD-Greens coalition did not make it into office after the 2009 state election, a centre-right coalition was formed between the CDU and Free Democratic Party (FDP), and the SSW joined the opposition.
In the 2012 state election, the SSW gained 4.6% of all votes and three seats in the state Landtag.[7] A coalition of the SPD, Greens and SSW was concluded in June 2012, and the former parliamentary leader, Anke Spoorendonk, was appointed Minister for Culture, Justice and European Affairs.[8] This was the first time in German history that a minority party had participated in a state government. The new coalition government had plenty of nicknames, for instance "Dänen-Ampel" ("Dane-traffic light"), "Schleswig-Holstein-Ampel", "rot-grün-blaue Koalition" or "rød-grøn-blå koalition" (red–green–blue alliance), "Küstenkoalition" (Coastal alliance) and "Nord-Ampel" (North traffic light).
In the 2017 state election, the SSW backed to 3.3% of the votes, but retained three seats in the Landtag. However, since the government coalition parties lost their Landtag majority, a new government was formed without the SSW, which again joined the opposition.
Exempt from the threshold of 5%, it won a seat in the 2021 German federal election with 0.1% of the vote nationwide, its first federal seat since the inaugural 1949 West German federal election.[9][10] Though unlikely to change the balance of power in any way, Stefan Seidler sits as its Member of the German Bundestag.[11]
SSWUngdom
The
: Jugend im SSW) is the youth wing of the South Schleswig Voter Federation. The current chairman is Maylis Roßberg.Electoral results
Bundestag election results
Election | Leader | Constituency | Party list | Seats | +/– | Status | ||||
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Votes | % | Votes | % | |||||||
Germany | Schleswig- Holstein |
Germany | Schleswig- Holstein | |||||||
1949 | Hermann Clausen | 75,388 | 0.3 (#12) | 5.4 (#5) | 1 / 402
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Opposition | ||||
1953 | 44,339 | 0.2 (#13) | 3.3 (#6) | 44,585 | 0.2 (#13) | 3.3 (#6) | 0 / 509
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1 | Extra-parliamentary | |
1957 | 33,463 | 0.1 (#10) | 2.5 (#6) | 32,262 | 0.1 (#11) | 2.5 (#6) | 0 / 519
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0 | Extra-parliamentary | |
1961 | 24,951 | 0.1 (#8) | 1.8 (#5) | 25,449 | 0.1 (#9) | 1.9 (#5) | 0 / 521
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0 | Extra-parliamentary | |
did not run (1965–2017) | ||||||||||
2021 | Stefan Seidler | 35,027 | 0.1 (#17) | 2.0 (#7) | 55,578 | 0.1 (#17) | 3.2 (#7) | 1 / 735
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1 | Opposition |
Landtag election results
Election | Leader | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | Status |
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1947 | Samuel Münchow | 99,500 | 9.3% | 6 / 70
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6 | Opposition |
1950 | 71,864 | 5.5% | 4 / 69
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2 | Opposition | |
1954 | 42,242 | 3.5 % | 0 / 69
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4 | Opposition | |
1958 | Berthold Bahnsen | 34,136 | 2.8% | 2 / 69
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2 | Opposition |
1962 | 26,883 | 2.3% | 1 / 69
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1 | Opposition | |
1967 | 23,577 | 1.9% | 1 / 73
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0 | Opposition | |
1971 | 19,720 | 1.4% | 1 / 73
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0 | Opposition | |
1975 | Karl Otto Meyer | 20,703 | 1.4% | 1 / 73
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0 | Opposition |
1979 | 22,293 | 1.4% | 1 / 72
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0 | Opposition | |
1983 | 21,807 | 1.3% | 1 / 74
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0 | Opposition | |
1987 | 23,316 | 1.5% | 1 / 74
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0 | Opposition | |
1988 | 26,643 | 1.7% | 1 / 74
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0 | Opposition | |
1992 | 28,245 | 1.9% | 1 / 89
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0 | Opposition | |
1996 | Anke Spoorendonk | 38,285 | 2.5% | 2 / 75
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1 | Opposition |
2000 | 60,367 | 4.1% | 3 / 89
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1 | Opposition | |
2005 | 51,920 | 3.6% | 2 / 69
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1 | Opposition | |
2009 | 69,701 | 4.3% | 4 / 95
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2 | Opposition | |
2012 | 61,025 | 4.6% | 3 / 69
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1 | SPD-Greens-SSW | |
2017 | Lars Harms | 48,968 | 3.3% | 3 / 73
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0 | Opposition |
2022 | 78,969 | 5.7% | 4 / 69
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1 | Opposition |
Leadership
Leader of the SSW
Leader | Year | |
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1 | Svend Johannsen | 1948–1949 |
2 | Samuel Münchow | 1949–1950 |
3 | Hermann Clausen | 1950–1956 |
4 | Friedrich Mommsen | 1956–1960 |
5 | Karl Otto Meyer | 1960–1975 |
6 | Gerhard Wehlitz | 1975–1989 |
7 | Wilhelm Klüver | 1989–1997 |
8 | Gerda Eichhorn | 1997–2005 |
9 | Flemming Meyer | 2005–2021 |
10 | Christian Dirschauer | 2021–present |
Notes
- ^ Other translations include South Schleswig Voter Alliance, South Schleswig Voters' Committee, South Schleswig Voter Federation, South Schleswig Voters Group, South Schleswig Voters League, South Schleswig Voters List, South Schleswig Voters' Union, South Schleswig Electoral Association.
References
- Deutscher Bundestag. 20 December 2021. p. 44.
Am 31. Dezember des Rechnungsjahres waren 3.216 Personen Mitglieder der Partei. (On 31 December of the financial year, 3,216 people were members of the party.)
- ^ a b c José Magone (2011). Contemporary European Politics: A Comparative Introduction. Routledge. p. 392.
- ^ ISBN 978-3-319-10455-3.
- ISBN 978-0-230-36719-7.
- ^ "Der SSW will den Minderheiten und der Region eine Stimme in Berlin geben". ssw.de (in German). Retrieved 19 September 2020.
- ^ mdr.de. "Mit 0,1 Prozent: Dänen-Partei Südschleswigscher Wählerverband wieder im Bundestag". mdr.de (in German). Retrieved 22 October 2021.
- ^ "Landtagswahl in Schleswig-Holstein am 6. Mai 2012" (in German). Statistical Office for Schleswig-Holstein and Hamburg. 7 May 2012. Retrieved 14 May 2012.
- ^ "Dänen-Ampel steht – Albig regiert in Kiel". Die Welt (in German). 12 June 2012. Retrieved 18 June 2012.
- ^ "Social Democrats Narrowly Beat Merkel's Bloc In German Elections". NPR. The Associated Press. 26 September 2021. Retrieved 27 September 2021.
- ^ "Stefan Seidler (SSW): "Die ersten Zahlen sind sensationell"" (in German). NDR. 26 September 2021. Retrieved 27 September 2021.
- ^ "Danish minority gets representation in German parliament". The Local. 27 September 2021. Retrieved 27 September 2021.
External links
- Official website in German
- Youth in the SSW Website at the Wayback Machine (archived 2010-02-27)