Bremen state election, 2011

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Bremen state election, 2011
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All 83 seats of the Bürgerschaft of Bremen
42 seats needed for a majority

  First party Second party Third party
  Portrait Buergermeister Boehrnsen.jpg Karoline Linnert.jpg
Leader Jens Böhrnsen Karoline Linnert Rita Mohr-Lüllmann
Party SPD Green CDU
Last election 36.8% 16.4% 25.7%
Seats before 33 14 23
Seats won 36 21 20
Seat change +3 +7 -3
  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Kristina Vogt Jan Timke Oliver Möllenstädt
Party Left BIW FDP
Last election 8.4% 0.8% 6.0%
Seats before 7 1 5
Seats won 5 1 0
Seat change -2 0 -5
Mayor before election

Jens Böhrnsen
SPD

Elected Mayor

Jens Böhrnsen
SPD

A Bremen state election was held on 22 May 2011, [1] to elect the Bürgerschaft (city and state legislature). [2] The Christian Democratic Union's slogan was "Now do the right thing." [3] The Social Democratic Party and the Green Party wanted to continue their coalition. [3] Nineteen parties and political associations were authorized to participate in the election. [4] The Citizens' Party, German People's Union and Free Voters were the parties not eligible to be in the election. [4]

Bürgerschaft of Bremen parliament of the state of Bremen, Germany

The Bremische Bürgerschaft is the legislative branch of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen in Germany. The state parliament elects the members of the Senate (executive), exercises oversight of the executive, and passes legislation. It currently consists of 83 members from eight parties. The current majority is a coalition of the Social Democratic Party and the Alliance '90/The Greens, supporting Mayor and Senate president Carsten Sieling. The 68 delegates of the city of Bremen also form the Stadtbürgerschaft, while Bremerhaven has its own local parliament.

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Contents

Sixteen- and seventeen-year-olds were able to vote for the first time in this election. [5] There had also been a major change in the voting system: whereas until the 2007 election, Bremen voters had only one vote, and only had a choice between closed party lists, the new electoral law gave them five votes which they were able to distribute freely between party lists and individual candidates. [5]

Closed list describes the variant of party-list proportional representation where voters can (effectively) only vote for political parties as a whole and thus have no influence on the party-supplied order in which party candidates are elected. If voters have at least some influence then it is called an open list.

Post-election

Overview

The Social Democrats and the Greens remained as the governing coalition. [6] The Greens overtook the Christian Democrats for second place for the first time in the history of the West German states. [6]

Issues and campaign

The Christian Democratic Union campaign focused on economic growth and Town Hall security policies. [5]

Illegal drugs

A new study has shown that "nearly all children living with methadone substituted parents have drugs in her hair". [7] CDU leader Rita Mohr-Lüllmann stated that recent studies showed that parents in Bremen consume illegal drugs in addition to methadone and how their children are "exposed to enormous risks". [7] She goes on to say that the state will remove the children from their homes if traces of illegal drugs are found in the children's hair. [7]

Methadone group of stereoisomers

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Bremen Place in Germany

The City Municipality of Bremen is a Hanseatic city in northwestern Germany, which belongs to the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, a federal state of Germany.

Results

Party Votes % +/– Seats +/– %
Social Democratic Party (SPD)38.6+1.936+4
Alliance '90/The Greens 22.5+5.721+7
Christian Democratic Union (CDU)20.4-5.120-3
The Left 5.6-2.85-2
Citizens in Rage (BIW)3.7+2.910
Free Democratic Party (FDP)2.4-3.80-5
Pirate Party Germany (PIRATEN)1.9+1.900
National Democratic Party (NPD)1.6-1.100
Others3.4+2.700
Totals100.0%—83—100.0%

These are the final results. [8]

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  2. ↑ "Wahlen". Bremen. Retrieved December 3, 2010.
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  4. 1 2 "19 Parteien und Vereinigungen zugelassen". Weser-Kurier. March 25, 2011. Retrieved March 30, 2011.
  5. 1 2 3 "Wahlen". Weser Kurier. February 4, 2011. Retrieved March 10, 2011.
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