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The 1991 Hamburg state election was held on 2 June 1991 to elect the members of the 14th Hamburg Parliament. The incumbent government was a coalition of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and Free Democratic Party (FDP) led by First Mayor Henning Voscherau. As the SPD won an absolute majority of seats, it formed government alone, and Voscherau continued in office.
The table below lists parties represented in the 13th Hamburg Parliament.
| Name | Ideology | Leader(s) | 1987 result | |||
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| Votes (%) | Seats | |||||
| SPD | Social Democratic Party of Germany Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands | Social democracy | Henning Voscherau | 45.0% | 55 / 120 | |
| CDU | Christian Democratic Union of Germany Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands | Christian democracy | Hartmut Perschau | 40.5% | 49 / 120 | |
| GAL | Green Alternative List Grün-Alternative-Liste Hamburg | Green politics | 7.0% | 8 / 120 | ||
| FDP | Free Democratic Party Freie Demokratische Partei | Classical liberalism | 6.5% | 8 / 120 | ||
| Party | Votes | % | +/- | Seats | +/- | Seats % | |
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| Social Democratic Party (SPD) | 393,414 | 48.0 |  3.0 | 61 | 6 | 50.4 | |
| Christian Democratic Union (CDU) | 287,467 | 35.1 | 5.4 | 44 | 5 | 36.4 | |
| Green Alternative List (GAL) | 59,262 | 7.2 | 0.2 | 9 | 1 | 7.4 | |
| Free Democratic Party (FDP) | 44,460 | 5.4 | 1.1 | 7 | 1 | 5.8 | |
| The Republicans (REP) | 9,959 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 0 | ±0 | 0 | |
| The Grays – Gray Panthers (GRAUE) | 7,219 | 0.9 | New | 0 | New | 0 | |
| Others | 17,992 | 2.2 | 0 | ±0 | 0 | ||
| Total | 819,773 | 100.0 | 121 | 1 | |||
| Voter turnout | 66.1 | 13.4 | |||||
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