1997 Hamburg state election

1997 Hamburg state election

←  1993 21 September 1997 2001  →
All 121 seats in the Hamburg Parliament 61 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	822,511 (68.7%) 1.2%
First party Second party Third party   Leader Henning Voscherau Party SPD CDU Greens Last election 58 seats, 40.4% 36 seats, 25.1% 19 seats, 13.5% Seats won 54 46 21 Seat change 4 10 2 Popular vote 297,901 252,640 114,387 Percentage 36.2% 30.7% 13.9% Swing 4.2% 5.6% 0.4%
Mayor before election Henning Voscherau SPD Elected Mayor Ortwin Runde SPD

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
					Votes (%)	Seats
	SPD	Social Democratic Party of Germany Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands	Social democracy	Henning Voscherau	40.4%	58 / 121
	CDU	Christian Democratic Union of Germany Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands	Christian democracy		25.1%	36 / 121
	GAL	Green Alternative List Grün-Alternative-Liste Hamburg	Green politics		13.5%	19 / 121
	STATT	STATT - Party of Independents STATT - Partei Die Unabhängigen	Populism		5.6%	8 / 121

Election result

Summary of the 21 September 1997 election results for the Hamburg Parliament

Party		Votes	%	+/-	Seats	+/-	Seats %
	Social Democratic Party (SPD)	297,901	36.2	4.2	54	4	44.6
	Christian Democratic Union (CDU)	252,640	30.7	5.6	46	10	38.0
	Green Alternative List (GAL)	114,387	13.9	0.4	21	2	17.4
	German People's Union (DVU)	40,957	4.98	2.2	0	±0	0
	Statt Party (STATT)	31,401	3.8	1.8	0	8	0
	Free Democratic Party (FDP)	28,664	3.5	0.7	0	±0	0
	The Republicans (REP)	15,207	1.8	3.0	0	±0	0
	League of Citizens (BfB)	10,914	1.3	1.3	0	±0	0
	Others	30,440	3.7		0	±0	0
Total		822,511	100.0		121	±0
Voter turnout			68.7	1.2

Popular Vote SPD   36.22% CDU   30.72% GAL   13.91% DVU   4.98% STATT   3.82% FDP   3.48% REP   1.85% Other   5.03%

Bürgerschaft seats SPD   44.63% CDU   38.02% GAL   17.36%

See also

• Elections in Germany
• Elections in Hamburg
• Hamburg state elections in the Weimar Republic

References

1. 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