2017 Schleswig-Holstein state election

2017 Schleswig-Holstein state election
All 73 seats in the Landtag of Schleswig-Holstein ; 37 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	1,474,508 (64.2%); 4.0%
	Results for the single-member constituencies
Government before election; Albig cabinet ; SPD–Green–SSW	Government after election; Günther cabinet ; CDU–Green–FDP

Last updated October 08, 2024

The 2017 Schleswig-Holstein state election was held on 7 May 2017 to elect the members of the Landtag of Schleswig-Holstein. The incumbent government was led by Minister-President Torsten Albig, and consisted of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), The Greens, and the South Schleswig Voters' Association (SSW). The government lost its majority in the election.

The result was a stalemate, with the incumbent left-wing government parties (SPD, Greens and SSW) being three seats short of a majority, and CDU and its usual coalition partner FDP also coming up three seats short due to the right-wing populist party Alternative for Germany (AfD) entering the Landtag. With no party willing to go into coalition with them, it necessitated cross-aisle cooperation.

FDP leader Wolfgang Kubicki ruled out a traffic light coalition (SPD-Greens-FDP),^[1] whilst CDU leader Daniel Günther ruled out a Grand coalition (CDU-SPD).^[2] The Christian Democratic Union (CDU) subsequently formed a Jamaica coalition with the Free Democratic Party (FDP) and Greens. Günther was elected Minister-President by the Landtag, and Günther cabinet was sworn into office.

Parties

The table below lists parties represented in the previous Landtag of Schleswig-Holstein.

Name			Ideology	Leader(s)	2012 result
Name			Ideology	Leader(s)	Votes (%)	Seats
	CDU	Christian Democratic Union of Germany Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands	Christian democracy	Daniel Günther	30.8%	22 / 69
	SPD	Social Democratic Party of Germany Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands	Social democracy	Torsten Albig	30.4%	22 / 69
	Grüne	Alliance 90/The Greens Bündnis 90/Die Grünen	Green politics	Monika Heinold	13.2%	10 / 69
	FDP	Free Democratic Party Freie Demokratische Partei	Classical liberalism	Wolfgang Kubicki	8.2%	6 / 69
	Piraten	Pirate Party Germany Piratenpartei Deutschland	Pirate politics	Patrick Breyer	8.2%	6 / 69
	SSW	South Schleswig Voters' Association Südschleswigscher Wählerverband	Danish and Frisian minority interests	Lars Harms	4.6%	3 / 69

Opinion polling

Polling firm	Fieldwork date	Sample size	CDU	SPD	Grüne	FDP	Piraten	SSW	Linke	AfD	Others	Lead
Polling firm	Fieldwork date	Sample size									Others	Lead
2017 state election	7 May 2017	–	32.0	27.3	12.9	11.5	1.2	3.3	3.8	5.9	2.3	4.7
Forschungsgruppe Wahlen	2–4 May 2017	1,814	32	29	12	11	–	3	4.5	6	2.5	3
INSA	26–28 Apr 2017	1,004	33	29	12	10	–	4	5	5	2	4
Infratest dimap	25–26 Apr 2017	1,003	32	31	12	8.5	–	3	4.5	6	3	1
Forschungsgruppe Wahlen	24–26 Apr 2017	1,001	32	30	12	9	–	3	5	6	3	2
Infratest dimap	18–19 Apr 2017	1,002	31	33	12	9	–	3	4	5	3	2
Infratest dimap	30 Mar–4 Apr 2017	1,002	30	33	12	9	–	3	4	7	2	3
Infratest dimap	9–14 Mar 2017	1,000	27	33	14	9	–	3	4	7	3	6
Infratest dimap	2–6 Dec 2016	1,001	34	26	15	9	–	3	5	6	2	8
INSA	6–14 Oct 2016	1,000	26	31	13	12	1	4	4	6	3	5
Forsa	6–12 Apr 2016	1,001	28	28	16	9	1	4	3	9	2	Tie
Infratest dimap	27–29 Oct 2014	1,002	34	29	15	3	2	3	5	7	2	5
Infratest dimap	2–5 May 2013	1,003	34	31	15	6	3	4	3	–	4	3
2012 state election	6 May 2012	–	30.8	30.4	13.2	8.2	8.2	4.6	2.3	–	2.4	0.4

Election result

Summary of the 7 May 2017 election results for the Landtag of Schleswig-Holstein
Party		Votes	%	+/-	Seats	+/-	Seats %

	Christian Democratic Union (CDU)	471,460	32.0	1.2	25	3	34.2
	Social Democratic Party (SPD)	401,806	27.3	3.1	21	1	28.8
	Alliance 90/The Greens (Grüne)	190,181	12.9	0.3	10	0	13.7
	Free Democratic Party (FDP)	169,037	11.5	3.3	9	3	12.3
	Alternative for Germany (AfD)	86,711	5.9	New	5	New	6.8
	South Schleswig Voters' Association (SSW)	48,968	3.3	1.3	3	0	4.1

	The Left (Linke)	56,018	3.8	1.5	0	±0	0
	Pirate Party Germany (Piraten)	17,091	1.2	7.0	0	6	0
	Others	33,236	2.3		0	±0	0
Total		1,474,508	100.0		73	4
Voter turnout			64.2	4.0

Popular Vote

CDU			31.97%
SPD			27.25%
B'90/GRÜNE			12.90%
FDP			11.46%
AfD			5.88%
DIE LINKE			3.80%
SSW			3.32%
PIRATEN			1.16%
Other			2.25%

Landtag seats

CDU			34.35%
SPD			28.77%
B'90/GRÜNE			13.70%
FDP			12.33%
AfD			6.85%
SSW			4.11%

Results by constituency

First votes ("Erststimmen") by constituency^[3]

Constituency ("Wahlkreis")	CDU	SPD	Grüne	FDP	AfD	SSW	Linke	Others	Lead	Elected candidate
Constituency ("Wahlkreis")								Others	Lead	Elected candidate
Dithmarschen-Schleswig	44.6	28.0	7.1	7.4	4.9	3.7	2.8	1.4	16.6	Andreas Hein
Dithmarschen-Süd	40.5	29.7	5.8	13.3	5.4	0.0	3.1	2.1	10.8	Volker Nielsen
Eckernförde	43.2	26.7	8.4	9.1	3.6	3.1	2.4	1.0	16.5	Daniel Günther
Elmshorn	35.6	37.6	8.5	6.9	5.8	0.0	4.0	1.5	2.0	Beate Raudies
Flensburg	26.2	31.6	12.0	7.9	0.0	12.4	6.7	2.3	5.4	Heiner Dunckel
Flensburg-Land	39.7	27.4	8.6	5.1	3.5	10.9	2.8	2.0	12.3	Petra Nicolaisen
Kiel-Nord	29.4	37.9	13.0	6.6	3.7	2.1	4.3	2.9	8.5	Torsten Albig
Kiel-Ost	27.8	40.4	9.0	6.4	0.0	4.0	6.8	5.6	12.6	Bernd Heinemann
Kiel-West	27.8	36.6	13.2	6.0	4.4	2.9	5.1	4.0	8.8	Özlem Ünsal
Lauenburg-Nord	39.5	31.3	8.4	7.7	6.5	0.0	3.0	3.6	8.2	Klaus Schlie
Lauenburg-Süd	35.6	36.0	7.8	8.1	7.7	0.0	3.4	1.4	0.4	Kathrin Wagner-Bockey
Lübeck-Ost	34.5	37.1	8.4	5.9	6.7	0.0	4.2	3.2	2.6	Thomas Rother
Lübeck-Süd	30.2	36.4	12.4	5.8	5.3	0.0	6.1	3.9	6.2	Wolfgang Baasch
Lübeck-West	29.0	38.7	8.8	6.7	7.5	0.0	5.8	3.5	9.7	Kerstin Metzner
Neumünster	36.8	34.9	8.8	6.7	7.2	0.0	3.1	2.5	1.9	Wolf Rüdiger Fehrs
Norderstedt	36.2	34.1	8.1	8.9	6.1	0.0	4.0	2.6	2.1	Katja Rathje-Hoffmann
Nordfriesland-Nord	45.3	26.1	8.7	6.4	0.0	6.8	2.4	4.3	19.2	Ingbert Liebing
Nordfriesland-Süd	41.3	31.3	7.2	6.2	0.0	8.4	3.1	2.5	10.0	Klaus-Dieter Jensen
Ostholstein-Nord	40.6	34.1	7.7	6.5	5.7	0.0	2.8	2.7	6.5	Peer Knöfler
Ostholstein-Süd	41.7	32.8	7.1	8.0	5.9	0.0	2.4	2.1	8.9	Hartmut Hamerich
Pinneberg	34.3	36.9	10.4	7.1	6.6	0.0	3.4	0.0	2.6	Kai-Oliver Vogel
Pinneberg-Elbmarschen	39.9	35.8	8.0	6.4	5.2	0.0	3.4	1.4	4.1	Barbara Ostmeier
Pinneberg-Nord	42.6	29.5	8.1	9.1	5.2	1.5	2.6	1.2	13.1	Peter Lehnert
Plön-Nord	39.9	33.9	11.2	8.9	0.0	0.0	3.4	2.7	6.0	Werner Kalinka
Plön-Ostholstein	41.5	32.2	9.6	6.9	5.1	0.0	3.0	1.7	9.3	Tim Brockmann
Rendsburg	40.0	32.2	8.2	5.3	5.0	3.9	2.9	2.4	7.8	Hans Hinrich Neve
Rendsburg-Ost	44.0	31.8	9.1	6.6	0.0	2.5	3.0	3.0	12.2	Hauke Göttsch
Schleswig	38.1	32.9	9.1	5.9	0.0	7.1	3.2	3.7	5.2	Johannes Callsen
Segeberg-Ost	43.1	30.1	8.9	6.2	5.9	0.0	2.7	3.0	13.0	Axel Bernstein
Segeberg-West	39.7	32.2	7.5	7.2	6.5	0.0	3.3	3.5	7.5	Ole-Christopher Plambeck
Steinburg-Ost	43.9	31.3	8.5	6.8	0.0	0.0	4.0	5.6	12.6	Heiner Rickers
Steinburg-West	45.8	30.3	10.4	8.4	0.0	0.0	3.8	1.2	15.5	Hans-Jörn Arp
Stormarn-Mitte	39.1	34.4	9.0	7.6	5.4	0.0	3.2	1.3	4.7	Tobias Koch
Stormarn-Nord	38.7	30.9	9.8	7.3	5.7	0.0	3.1	4.3	7.8	Claus Christian Claussen
Stormarn-Süd	41.2	34.8	7.1	6.6	6.5	0.0	2.8	1.1	6.4	Lukas Kilian
Total	25	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	15	-

Results by age group

Second votes ("Zweitstimmen") by age group^[4]

Age group	CDU	SPD	Grüne	FDP	AfD	SSW	Linke	Others	Lead
Age group								Others	Lead
16–24	22	27	18	10	5	3	8	7	5
25–34	24	25	12	10	8	5	7	9	1
35–44	31	23	13	11	7	5	4	6	8
45–59	30	28	15	11	7	4	3	2	2
60–69	32	30	12	13	5	3	4	1	2
70+	46	28	7	14	3	2	1	0	18
Total	32	27	13	12	6	3	4	3	5

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References

↑ Höver, Peter (2017-05-16). "Bereitschaft der FDP zu Ampelkoalition ist "vollständig erschöpft"". shz.de (in German). Retrieved 2023-11-28.
↑ "Schleswig-Holstein-Sieger schliesst grosse Koalition so gut wie aus". SWI swissinfo.ch (in German). 2017-05-08. Retrieved 2023-11-28.
↑ "Ergebnisse der Landtagswahl 2017". Welt. Retrieved 7 May 2017.
↑ "Stimmenanteile nach Altersgruppen". Tagesschau.

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[1] Höver, Peter (2017-05-16). "Bereitschaft der FDP zu Ampelkoalition ist "vollständig erschöpft"". shz.de (in German). Retrieved 2023-11-28.

[2] "Schleswig-Holstein-Sieger schliesst grosse Koalition so gut wie aus". SWI swissinfo.ch (in German). 2017-05-08. Retrieved 2023-11-28.

[3] "Ergebnisse der Landtagswahl 2017". Welt. Retrieved 7 May 2017.

[4] "Stimmenanteile nach Altersgruppen". Tagesschau.

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