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All 237 seats in the Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia, including 36 overhang and leveling seats 119 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Turnout | 9,353,712 (71.8% 0.5pp) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Results for the single-member constituencies. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1990 North Rhine-Westphalia state election was held on 13 May 1990 to elect the 11th Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia. The outgoing government was a majority of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), led by Minister-President Johannes Rau.
The SPD successfully retained their parliamentary majority with minor losses, taking slightly under 50% of the vote. The opposition Christian Democratic Union (CDU) failed to recover from their 1985 losses, recording 36.7%; the Free Democratic Party (FDP) likewise remained essentially level on 6% and 14 seats. The Greens narrowly passed the 5% electoral threshold and entered the Landtag for the first time with 12 seats. The margin of the SPD's victory saw them win 121 of the 151 single-member constituencies, resulting in overhang and leveling seats boosting the Landtag to 237 members. In February 1992, it gained two more due to an election review which reversed the result in the Märkischer Kreis IV constituency, resulting in an additional overhang seat for the SPD and a new leveling seat for the CDU. [1]
The Landtag was elected via mixed-member proportional representation. 151 members were elected in single-member constituencies via first-past-the-post voting, and fifty then allocated using compensatory proportional representation. A single ballot was used for both. The minimum size of the Landtag was 201 members, but if overhang seats were present, proportional leveling seats were added to ensure proportionality. An electoral threshold of 5% of valid votes is applied to the Landtag; parties that fall below this threshold are ineligible to receive seats.
In the previous election held on 12 May 1985, the SPD won a landslide victory, expanding their majority in the Landtag with 52.1% of votes while the CDU fell to 36.5% – a record high and low, respectively. The FDP returned to the Landtag with 6% and took 14 seats. Due to the magnitude of the SPD's victory, they took 125 of the 151 constituencies, necessitating the addition of leveling seats which boosted the Landtag to 227 members. The SPD again formed government alone and Johannes Rau continued as Minister-President.
The table below lists parties represented in the 9th Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia.
Name | Ideology | Lead candidate | 1985 result | |||
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Votes (%) | Seats | |||||
SPD | Social Democratic Party of Germany Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands | Social democracy | Johannes Rau | 52.1% | 125 / 227 | |
CDU | Christian Democratic Union of Germany Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands | Christian democracy | Norbert Blüm | 36.5% | 88 / 227 | |
FDP | Free Democratic Party Freie Demokratische Partei | Classical liberalism | Achim Rohde | 6.0% | 14 / 227 |
Party | Votes | % | +/– | Seats | |||||
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Con. | List | Total | +/– | ||||||
Social Democratic Party (SPD) | 4,644,431 | 49.98 | –2.16 | 121 | 1 | 122 | –3 | ||
Christian Democratic Union (CDU) | 3,409,953 | 36.70 | +0.16 | 30 | 59 | 89 | +1 | ||
Free Democratic Party (FDP) | 535,656 | 5.76 | –0.20 | 0 | 14 | 14 | ±0 | ||
The Greens (GRÜNE) | 469,098 | 5.05 | +0.50 | 0 | 12 | 12 | +12 | ||
The Republicans (REP) | 171,867 | 1.85 | New | 0 | 0 | 0 | New | ||
Ecological Democratic Party (ÖDP) | 46,650 | 0.50 | New | 0 | 0 | 0 | New | ||
National Democratic Party (NPD) | 3,370 | 0.04 | New | 0 | 0 | 0 | New | ||
German Communist Party (DKP) | 2,376 | 0.03 | New | 0 | 0 | 0 | New | ||
Patriots for Germany (Patrioten) | 1,742 | 0.02 | New | 0 | 0 | 0 | New | ||
Christian Centre (CM) | 1,161 | 0.01 | New | 0 | 0 | 0 | New | ||
Centre Party (ZENTRUM) | 717 | 0.01 | –0.03 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ±0 | ||
Family Party of Germany (FAMILIE) | 210 | 0.00 | ±0.00 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ±0 | ||
Social Reform Party (SRP) | 202 | 0.00 | New | 0 | 0 | 0 | New | ||
Free German Workers' Party (FAP) | 56 | 0.00 | –0.01 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ±0 | ||
Independents | 4,485 | 0.05 | +0.04 | 0 | – | 0 | ±0 | ||
Total | 9,291,974 | 100.00 | – | 151 | 86 | 237 | +10 | ||
Valid votes | 9,291,974 | 99.34 | |||||||
Invalid/blank votes | 61,738 | 0.66 | |||||||
Total votes | 9,353,712 | 100.00 | |||||||
Registered voters/turnout | 13,036,004 | 71.75 | |||||||
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Overhang seats are constituency seats won in an election under the traditional mixed member proportional (MMP) system, when a party's share of the nationwide votes would entitle it to fewer seats than the number of individual constituencies won.
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